Spooky in Love

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Spooky in Love

오싹한 연애 (Ossakhan Yeonae) · 2026 · South Korea

WriterChoi Jung Mi

DirectorLee Min Soo

Episodes12 eps · ~70 min each

Where to Watch✅ Netflix

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Binge Time14h 0m

AiredJul 18 – Aug 23, 2026

GenreHorror · Comedy · Romance

Content Rating15+

tvNNetflix

Ghost-Seeing HeroineOccult InvestigationProsecutorUnsolved MurdersHorror-Comedy

Skip the scroll — here’s the verdict in one glance.

A hotel heiress who sees the dead and a prosecutor who really wishes he didn’t.

Park Eun-bin

Cheon Yeo-ri

Lead

Yang Se-jong

Ma Gang-uk

Lead

Ong Seong-wu

Kang Min-hwan

Supporting

Jo Hye-joo

Cheon Ha-ri

Supporting

Baek Ji-won

Ok Gye-hui

Supporting

Lee Chang-hoon

Ko Pil-dong

Supporting

Kim Min-ho

Son Hyeong-min

Supporting

Cha Mi-kyeong

Paeng Myo-sun

Supporting

Kim Min-chul

Kang Ji-hwan

Supporting

Lee Dal

Cheon Dong-jun

Supporting

Lee Ho-young

Nam Sang-ho

Supporting

Ha Mheen

Fortune Teller

Supporting

Quick recaps per episode — just enough to stay caught up.

EP 01

Coincidences Can Happen

Jul 18, 2026

Touching someone by accident has never been small for Cheon Yeo-ri — her curse spreads through skin, so she lives in gloves and keeps everyone at arm’s length. A body turns up at a scene she has no business investigating, a ghost pointing the way only she can see, and prosecutor Ma Gang-uk mistakes her for a suspect before mistaking her for anything else. Then he grabs her bare wrist to keep her from falling, and the rules he thought governed reality stop applying right there in the street.

EP 02

The Wrong Kind of Proof

Jul 19, 2026

A hotel booking mix-up puts Gang-uk and Yeo-ri in the same room, then the same bed, and it’s exactly the wrong kind of evidence to hand a prosecutor already suspicious of her. Cornered by his questioning, she finally admits she sees ghosts, and his rational worldview cracks open in real time. The dead woman’s ghost leads Yeo-ri straight to the truth, Gang-uk finds the body in the hotel’s water tank himself, and Park Seung-jae goes to prison for her murder. Kang Min-hwan’s arrival as Yeo-ri’s childhood friend adds a rival neither of them asked for.

EP 03

The Curse Finds a New Host

Jul 25, 2026

The sea gives up Da-mi’s body before Gang-uk can find a reason not to believe Yeo-ri again — she led him straight to it, the way she always does, and his prosecutor’s instinct for hard evidence keeps losing to results he can’t explain away. He protects her anyway. Later, drunk and careless, her bare hand brushes his skin, and Gang-uk starts seeing a child’s ghost — the curse has a new host now. Ha-ri starts asking her own questions about Yeo-ri’s track record, with the hotel succession riding on the answer.

EP 04

A Crash Course in Ghosts

Jul 26, 2026

Gang-uk gets his first real taste of what Yeo-ri’s been living with, and it’s worse than any deposition he’s ever sat through — the ghosts don’t stop at crime scenes, they follow him straight into his office. Yeo-ri, who’s spent years managing exactly this kind of haunting, ends up coaching her own prosecutor through improvised warding rituals that are equal parts desperate and ridiculous. The curse he caught from her touch is turning into the thing that finally makes him understand her.

EP 05

A Shared Curse

Aug 1, 2026

Yeo-ri finally admits to herself what she’s been dodging all season — she’s in love with Gang-uk — right as his near-fatal accident makes it feel like a curse of its own. Media chaos outside Reina Hotel turns Min-hwan’s protectiveness into fresh romance rumors, while Gang-uk comes back changed, now sharing Yeo-ri’s ability to see ghosts, which finally lets her stop guarding herself around him. Their museum reunion becomes a joint case — a money-laundering scheme tied to Chang Gallery — that puts Yeo-ri face to face with someone willing to kill to keep it buried.

EP 06

Danger From Both Sides

Aug 2, 2026

Ha-ri’s jealousy turns strategic, working to torch Yeo-ri’s standing at Reina Hotel right as dating rumors with Kang Min-hwan turn the hotel into a media siege, rumors Min-hwan is happy to exploit. A new ghost pulls Yeo-ri into a genuinely dangerous confrontation with a violent stranger, and Gang-uk, still recovering from his own near-fatal injury, steps in to protect her anyway. With corporate sabotage and supernatural danger closing in from both directions, Yeo-ri is left improvising a plan nobody saw coming.

EP 07

The Sabotage Alliance

Aug 8, 2026

The surprise engagement barely survives its own announcement — grandmother Baek Gyeong-ja suspects business calculation over real feeling, no matter how sincerely Gang-uk pushes back, while Yeo-ri plays her own guardedness off as “hard to get.” A mistaken-identity bit with his very-alive grandmother, Paeng Myo-sun, gives the episode its best laugh before the tone turns serious: Min-hwan corners Gang-uk and demands he call it off, finding a ready co-conspirator in Ha-ri. Old scandal from Yeo-ri’s last broken engagement resurfaces right on cue, handing the conspiracy exactly what it needs.

EP 08

The Wedding That Forced His Hand

Aug 9, 2026

Yeo-ri and Gang-uk officially team up on the centuries-old mystery haunting the art gallery, dragging their destinies even closer together as family pressure spikes. Chairwoman Baek pushes to move Yeo-ri’s wedding up — not sentiment, strategy, meant to shut out relatives like Gye-hee, Ha-ri, and Dong-jun who want her out of the succession line while her health declines. The deadline backs Gang-uk into confessing feelings he can’t keep pretending are part of the con, even as Min-hwan makes one more desperate play. This is the episode the fake engagement stopped being fake for at least one of them.

EP 09

The Vote to Oust Her

Aug 15, 2026

The engagement barely gets a day to breathe before Ok Gye-hee and Ha-ri turn it into an emergency shareholders’ meeting aimed at ousting Yeo-ri as CEO. Rather than let anyone else fight that battle, she shows up to face the shareholders herself. Gang-uk’s support turns direct — surprising her at the hotel to insist the ghosts that brought them together were a blessing, not a burden, easing a guilt she’d been carrying quietly. With a Singapore investment summit looming and Min-hwan turning up at the airport, Gang-uk decides to go with her.

EP 10

The Question About His Heart

Aug 16, 2026

Gang-uk shows up in Singapore uninvited, telling Yeo-ri that carrying her ghosts is easier than carrying nothing with her — engagement prep moves forward for real now, and even his grandmother starts softening on a match she’d been dead set against. Min-hwan isn’t done, though: he’s quietly working Reina’s shareholders behind Yeo-ri’s back while an unexpected overseas transfer order threatens to pull Gang-uk away entirely. Underneath it all sits the question neither of them says out loud — whether Gang-uk’s transplanted heart, once Yeo-ri’s late friend Ji-hwan’s, is the real reason he can suddenly see what she sees.

EP 11

For His Own Good

Aug 22, 2026

The breakup finally gets explained, and it’s worse than either of them let on — Gang-uk corners his grandmother over her insistence that ending things was for his own good, and gets a heart transplant and a shaman’s birth-year warning in return, the facts Yeo-ri had been protecting him from all along. Reina Hotel isn’t giving her the same grace, with reporters questioning her leadership outright, and she turns that same directness on Kang Min-hwan, who dodges every question about his intentions. Then Ji-hwan’s pendant turns up in Min-hwan’s office, proof his story was a lie from the start, right as Park Seung-jae walks free from prison.

EP 12

A Truck, a Coma, and a Confession

Aug 23, 2026

Yeo-ri shoves Gang-uk out of the path of an oncoming truck and takes the hit herself, leaving him wrecked with guilt while doctors tell her family to prepare for the worst. Min-hwan wastes no time — erasing the CCTV footage that could implicate him and moving to seize control of CL Group while she’s incapacitated. Gang-uk visits Ji-hwan’s grave to return his pendant and apologize for the delay, a quiet act of grief that becomes the episode’s turning point. Yeo-ri wakes up right as Min-hwan’s takeover is about to close, and Seung-jae’s recovered camera footage finally proves what he did to Ji-hwan on that yacht.

Everything that happens in the finale, explained in full — spoilers ahead.

How Spooky in Love actually ends Yeo-ri survives. She pushes Gang-uk out of the path of an oncoming truck, takes the hit herself, and spends the finale’s opening stretch in a coma doctors don’t expect her to wake up from — then wakes up anyway, right as Kang Min-hwan’s hostile takeover of CL Group is about to close. Park Seung-jae’s recovered camera footage finally proves what Min-hwan did years earlier: deliberately letting Ji-hwan fall from the yacht that killed him. Min-hwan is exposed, his takeover collapses, and Yeo-ri walks out of the hospital with both her company and her name intact.

What the truck accident was really about The accident isn’t random — it’s the culmination of the season’s central tension between protecting someone and actually being with them. Yeo-ri spent episode 11 breaking up with Gang-uk specifically to keep him safe from the danger her curse and her enemies both represent. The truck forces the opposite lesson: pulling away from him didn’t protect either of them, it just left them both more exposed. Her choosing to take the hit for him in the finale is the show’s answer to its own question — protection built on distance was never the point.

Kang Min-hwan and the pendant Min-hwan’s guilt was seeded all season — the pendant found in his office in episode 11, his evasiveness whenever Yeo-ri pushed him on his intentions, his convenient timing whenever tragedy struck the people around her. The finale confirms all of it: he let Ji-hwan die on that yacht years ago and spent the show’s entire runtime managing the fallout, first by inserting himself into Yeo-ri’s life and finally by trying to seize her company outright once she was too weak to stop him. Erasing the CCTV footage was his last move; Seung-jae’s recovered camera is what undoes it.

The heart, the curse, and what Gang-uk’s ability really meant The season kept circling one question without answering it outright: was Gang-uk’s growing ability to see ghosts a side effect of Ji-hwan’s transplanted heart, or something that grew out of his bond with Yeo-ri regardless of the transplant. The finale doesn’t resolve it with a clean scientific answer, and that’s deliberate — Gang-uk visiting Ji-hwan’s grave to return his pendant and apologize plays as closure either way. Whether the heart made the connection possible or just happened to carry it, the show treats the bond itself, not its mechanism, as the thing that actually mattered.

The KDW verdict With Min-hwan exposed and Reina Hotel no longer under threat, Yeo-ri stops hiding what she is — the gloves, the isolation, the years of treating her ability as something to manage alone all fall away by the final scene. She and Gang-uk end the series with nothing left to hide from each other, curse included. Spooky in Love spends twelve episodes arguing that the things that make you strange to other people are also the things that let the right person actually find you, and it never once undercuts that argument for a cheap scare or an easy laugh.