Featuring an amusing plot and a fantastic cast, the historical fantasy series The Haunted Palace Kdrama is coming soon to create a space in our hearts! Contending for the top Korean dramas of 2025, the series will be a hoot to watch if the trailer is to be believed! Bringing forth a ton of mysticism and hilarious situations, the Kdrama promises to leave viewers in splits as it also features some more arresting and serious moments featuring shamans and terrifying ghosts who want revenge and will stop at nothing to get it! There’s also going to be romance brewing between the leads so will this also be the contender for the best romance Kdramas of the year? We will just have to wait and watch.
The Haunted Palace Kdrama Plot
In this new Korean drama series, we exist in a land of mysticism and fantasy. Yun Gap is a government officer whose dedication to his job and his appearance are both appealing and impactful. He’s dedicated to the life he has created for himself but things come crashing down when he gets possessed by an Imoogi, a large serpentine creature from Korean folklore. Of course, odd things soon start to happen with him as he acts more and more erratic, scaring those around him and leaving them shocked with his behaviour.
The only person who can cure him, of course, is Yeo Ri, the only granddaughter of a famous shaman, who has refused to take up the family business and instead has chosen to work as a glass craftswoman. Yun Gap’s Imoogi is related to Yeo Ri because it initially wanted to attain peace through Yeo Ri but with that road closed, it possessed Yun Gap, who was her first love. All this, however, is actually tied to the palace itself, which holds many dangerous secrets. The ghosts that haunt the palace are powerful and vengeful and as Yeo Ri enters the palace, which starts to showcase odd situations and incidents, she realises that the only way to solve Yun Gap’s problems is to solve the problems of the palace as a whole!
The Haunted Palace Kdrama Cast
The series showcases a host of talented actors including Yook Sung-jae, Bona, Kim Ji-hoon, Kim Sang-ho, Kil Hae-yeon and Shin Seul-ki. Yook Sung-jae was last seen in 2022’s The Golden Spoon and 2020’s Mystic Pop-Up Bar, while Bona was last seen in 2024’s Pyramid Game and 2022’s Twenty-Five, Twenty-One. Actor Kim Ji-hoon, who seems to be playing the Imoogi according to the trailer, was last seen in 2023’s uber-popular series Celebrity and Love to Hate You along with Netflix series Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area Part 1 and Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area Part 2. Lastly, Kim Sang-ho was last seen in 2024’s Blood Free and Shin Seul-gi was in 2024’s Pyramid Game with Bona and shot to fame via Netflix’s Single’s Inferno.
The new Korean drama is directed by Yoon Sung-shik and written by Yoon Soo-jung and is also known as 귀궁.
The Haunted Palace Release Date
The drama is all set to release on Apr 18, 2025, and will run till Jun 7, 2025. Featuring the usual runtime of 16 episodes, the series will be released at 10 PM KST on SBS.
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