While You Were Sleeping

While You Were Sleeping, 당신이 잠든 사이에 Burdened with visions of the future in their dreams, a young woman and two men try to prevent horrible events before they actually happen.

A young woman with dreams of bad premonitions meets two people who suddenly develop the same ability.

Nam Hong Joo (Suzy) lives with her mother, Yoon Moon Sun (Hwang Young Hee), a widow who runs a small restaurant. Jung Jae Chan (Lee Jong Suk), a rookie prosecutor and his younger brother, Seung Won (Shin Jae Ha), move across the street. Since she was young, Hong Joo has had the ability to see bad events before they happen, but she is often unable to do anything about them.

One day, Jae Chan has a strange premonitory dream about an accident involving Hong Joo and Lee Yoo Beom (Lee Sang Yeob), a ruthless lawyer who used to be Jae Chan’s guardian. Jae Chan decides to interfere in the course of events and ends up saving the lives of Hong Joo and Han Woo Tak (Jung Hae In), a young police officer. When Jae Chan, Hong Joo, and Woo Tak start dreaming about each other, they realize that now their lives are somehow intertwined.

But can the three of them discover the reason they were reunited and can they prevent the people closest to them from getting hurt?

«While You Were Sleeping» is a 2017 South Korean drama series directed by Oh Choong Hwan. It is not related to the 1995 American film of the same title that Sandra Bullock stars in. The script was written by Park Hye Ryun, who previously worked with Suzy on her debut in the television drama “Dream Big” (2011) and with Lee Jong Suk in the dramas “I hear your voice” (2013) and “Pinocchio” ( 2014).