While You Were Sleeping

September 27, 2017

Nam Hong-joo (Bae Suzy) wakes from a nightmare of a man's death and tries to prevent it — and fails. Jung Jae-chan (Lee Jong-suk), a new prosecutor who moves next door, appears in her next dream. The Gangwon-do neighbourhood establishes the drama's world.

September 27, 2017

Jae-chan begins sharing Hong-joo's prophetic dreams. The mechanism of their connection — that they dream the same future — is established.

September 28, 2017

Their first attempt to prevent a death they have both dreamed. The race against a future they have already seen.

September 28, 2017

Jae-chan's professional world in the Seocho prosecutors' office — the institutional constraints on his ability to act on what he dreams.

October 4, 2017

Lee Yoo-bum (Lee Sang-yeob), a corrupt lawyer whose path intersects with Jae-chan's at every turn, is introduced as the drama's most complex figure.

October 4, 2017

The full weight of what Hong-joo's ability has cost her — every death she has seen and failed to prevent.

October 11, 2017

Their first successful prevention of a dreamed death — and what it means that the future can be changed.

October 11, 2017

Hong-joo and Jae-chan at their midpoint — the connection between them now inseparable from the shared dreams.

October 18, 2017

Han Woo-tak (Jung Hae-in), a police officer who also begins sharing the dreams, is introduced — the drama's third perspective on the prophetic connection.

October 18, 2017

The legal corruption that Jae-chan is investigating and its connection to Hong-joo's past dreams.

October 25, 2017

A dream that shows a future so terrible that both characters must choose how far they will go to prevent it.

October 25, 2017

Jae-chan's connection to Hong-joo's past — the death she tried and failed to prevent years before they met.

November 1, 2017

Jae-chan's legal battle against the corruption — using the prosecutor's tools against the system's own rot.

November 1, 2017

A dream that puts Hong-joo herself at the centre of the danger she has always tried to prevent for others.

November 8, 2017

The final prophetic dream — and what both characters choose when they know what is coming.

November 8, 2017

The finale. 10% nationwide. Bae Suzy and Lee Jong-suk's chemistry and the drama's elegant use of its prophetic premise. Winner of Top Excellence Award at the Seoul International Drama Awards.