Bona helps a possessed Yook Sung-jae in Haunted Palace

8 March 21, 2025April 12, 2025

Bona helps a possessed Yook Sung-jae in Haunted Palace

by lovepark

SBS has dropped the first teaser for its fantasy sageuk Haunted Palace. Starring Yook Sung-jae (The Golden Spoon) and Bona (Pyramid Game), the show revolves around our two heroes and the supernatural love story that unfolds between them.

The teaser begins with a narration about Kangcheol the dragon, or more accurately, the soon-to-be dragon. After a thousand years, he was finally able to ascend, yet luck was not on his side. He plummeted from the skies, destined to remain an imoogi (a mythological creature that tries to become a dragon).

In the human world, a young lady named Yeo-ri (Bona) harbors a crush on nobleman Yoon Gab (Yook Sung-jae). They seem to share a history together, and though Yeo-ri longs to see him, their reunion isn’t quite what she imagined. The mild-mannered gentleman roughly tells her that he isn’t him, and in fact, this is Kangcheol possessing Yoon Gab.

The haughty imoogi inhabits his new body without a care in the world, drinking and eating to his heart’s content. Soon, rumors circulate that Yoon Gab has finally lost it as the palace workers find him cramming food into his face in the middle of the night.

Even when the king Kim Ji-hoon (Death’s Game) calls Yoon Gab to the palace, our imoogi trips over his feet as he enters and barely heeds his orders. He even tells the king that he refuses and threatens to punch the leader of the nation. The animosity is reciprocated by the king, but before Yoon Gab loses his head, Yeo-ri shuts his mouth and asks for forgiveness.

As the spirit-sensitive Yeo-ri gets entangled with the imoogi-possessed Yoon Gab, romantic tension builds between them, and our otherworldly being starts to wonder why he can’t take his eyes off of her. Does his human body like her, or does his imoogi side want to eat her? As for Yeo-ri, the confusion is mutual as she reminds herself that the man in front of her isn’t the actual Yoon Gab she loves.

Directed by PD Yoon Sung-shik (Cleaning Up, Mr. Queen) with scripts penned by Yoon Soo-jung (Sassy Go Go), SBS’s Haunted Palace is slated for sixteen episodes and premieres in April after Buried Hearts.

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1 🌸 Seeker 🌸

March 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM

Yook Sung-jae sure seems to be having fun, no. 😂 Let us see how long the Imoogi can get away with these antics. 🫣

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2 Dylan [My Dearest Undercover Potato]

March 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM

the mythology aspects sound really interesting and the plot seems fun!

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3 Kurama

March 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM

It looks fun but what is the plot beside an Imoogi enjoying human life?

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hacja

March 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM

Don't tell me you need more plot than that!

Actually, the twist I'd like to see would be that Yeo-ri was possessed by a gumiho, so then you'd have an inter-mythical creature romance, answering the question that has long preoccupied Korean folklore--what happens when a Gumiho and an Imoogi fall in love? And if they have a baby, is it a Gummoogi, or a Moogigum?