Not just older Li Zi Wei! Korean netizens criticized "A Time Called You" as having too many bugs in 1998, and the biggest failure of the entire drama was the lack of passion.

The Taiwanese drama "Someday or One Day," starring Ko Chia Yen, Greg Hsu, and Patrick Shih, gained many fans in China, Japan, and Korea after its broadcast in 2019. This year, Korean Netflix released a remake called "A Time Called You," starring Ahn Hyo-seop, Jeon Yeo-been, and Kang Hoon.

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However, after the remake, it didn't seem to garner a response, and there were even many fans who felt a stark difference in the characterization of 'older Li Zi Wei' in the drama, believing that the actor failed to capture the essence of the character. Furthermore, the lack of 'school vibe' and 'youthfulness' was iconic in the original text and was also brought up for discussion by numerous netizens.

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Recently, sharp-eyed netizens have noticed that the historical accuracy of "A Time Called You" is not entirely correct. They pointed out that the 1998 setting in the drama does not quite match the South Korean society of that time, sparking another round of discussion among netizens.

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Netizens have pointed out many inconsistencies in the setting of "A Time Called You" with the actual situation in Korea in 1998. For example, the main characters from the high school that attend look like an upscale private school, and the laboratories use whiteboards rather than blackboards. Moreover, at that time in Korea, there were almost no high school students riding motorcycles to and from school, as considered to be hooligans.

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In addition, scenes like the protagonists wearing school uniforms to the amusement park have been criticized by netizens, saying that the school uniforms at the time did not have that big bow ties, and going to the amusement park wearing them was like wearing rented school uniforms near the Lotte World. Even the scene under the beautiful cherry blossom tree was pointed out, with comments like "The peak of cherry blossoms isn't appropriate for summer uniforms. what's going on?" the netizens think that the remade version was not careful enough in changes and research.

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It immediately sparked a discussion on the Korean web. Some netizens said, "At that time, there were indeed some new-style schools, so the laboratories started to use whiteboards", "I was in high school in 1998, there were whiteboards, but the scene under the cherry blossom tree was really shocking, it was unreasonable", "I don't know if I haven't read the original, but Korea in 1998 didn't look like that", "You would know that Korea was not like that at the time if you watch the 'Reply' series."

Some netizens have commented, "They only cared about making the picture look good, but didn't accurately represent the era." "They didn't do their research." "This isn't 1998! It wouldn't be an overstatement to say it's 2018." "The male lead's style is the most distracting." "I found it quite amusing, but they don't look like high school students." "They put no effort into this?" "I want to question the director." The discussion is getting quite heated.