Where can I watch Behind Your Touch (2023)?

Behind Your Touch is available on Netflix for international viewers. It originally aired on JTBC in South Korea from August 12 to October 1, 2023.

How many episodes does Behind Your Touch have?

Behind Your Touch has 16 episodes, each approximately 65 minutes long. The series aired from August 12 to October 1, 2023 on JTBC.

Is Behind Your Touch worth watching?

Yes — especially if quirky comedy paired with a genuine mystery sounds appealing. Han Ji-min delivers one of her most physically playful performances, and the mystery has a technically clever solution. Tonal shifts in the middle episodes require patience, but the final arc pays off the setup.

Who are the lead actors in Behind Your Touch (2023)?

Behind Your Touch stars Han Ji-min as Bong Ye-bun, a veterinarian with psychometric powers, and Lee Min-ki as Moon Jang-yeol, a demoted Seoul detective. Suho (EXO) also stars as Kim Seon-woo in a key supporting role.

📺 K-Drama Guide · Comedy · Mystery

Behind Your Touch

힙하게 · 2023

✅ Completed · 16 eps
🎬 Netflix
⭐ 7.9 MDL
📺 TV-14

⚡ Updated · Jun 19, 2026

📋 Drama Overview

Everything you need to know before you hit play.

Completed
😂 Mystery Comedy Pick

Behind Your Touch

힙하게 (Hiphage) · 2023 · South Korea

WriterLee Nam-kyu · Oh Bo-hyun · Kim Da-hee

DirectorKim Suk-yoon · Choi Bo-yoon

Episodes16 eps · ~65 min each

⏱️ Binge Time17h 20m

AiredAug 12 – Oct 1, 2023

NetworkJTBC

Content RatingTV-14

Netflix

Supernatural Comedy
Small Town Mystery
Psychometry
Unlikely Partners
Dark Comedy

Bong Ye-bun is a small-town veterinarian in Mujin who gains psychometric abilities during a meteor shower — specifically, touching someone’s rear end allows her to see their memories. It is, by any measure, a strange gift. Bong Ye-bun treats it as a professional responsibility. Moon Jang-yeol, a Seoul detective freshly demoted to Mujin after a botched investigation, has no interest in strange gifts or their implications — until he realizes hers is actually useful, and starts treating her as an asset he can deploy for the cases that might get him transferred back to the city.

What begins as a contentious and largely comedic arrangement — she reads, he arrests, they bicker — shifts register when the first body surfaces in Mujin. The serial killer hiding among the town’s residents turns out to know exactly how psychometry works and has been engineering their crimes around it from the beginning. Behind Your Touch is a show about an unconventional power that keeps encountering its own limits, and two people who have to become more than their original agreement to deal with what’s actually in front of them.

Episode Progress
16 / 16 ✅ Completed

⚡ Quick Verdict

One box. Everything you need to decide.

⭐ Worth it?✅ Yes — if comedy + whodunnit is your combination

⏱️ CommitmentMedium — ~17 hours total

😂 VibeQuirky · Suspenseful · Warm

📺 Skip if…You need consistent tone — comedy and serial killer don’t always coexist cleanly here

7.9 / 10
MDL Score · Check MyDramaList for updated community rating

▶ Official Trailer

🎭 Cast & Characters

Han Ji-min leads a quirky ensemble built around Mujin’s most unusual police-vet partnership.

Han Ji-min

Bong Ye-bun

Lead

Lee Min-ki

Moon Jang-yeol

Lead

Suho

Kim Seon-woo

Lead

Joo Min-kyung

Bae Ok-hee

Supporting

Yang Jae-seong

Jung Eui-hwan

Supporting

Park Seong-yeon

Jung Hyeon-ok

Supporting

Kim Hie-won

Won Jong-muk

Supporting

Jung Yi-rang

Na Mi-ran

Supporting

Cho Min-guk

Bae Deok-hee

Supporting

Lee Seung-joon

Cha Joo-man

Supporting

Park Hyuk-kwon

Park Jong-bae

Supporting

Park No-shik

Jeon Kwang-shik

Supporting

🍿 Where to Watch

Stream Behind Your Touch on these platforms.

Netflix

📺 Episode Guide

Spoiler-light recaps — enough to remember where you left off, nothing that ruins the ride.

EP 1
EP 2
EP 3
EP 4
EP 5
EP 6
EP 7
EP 8
EP 9
EP 10
EP 11
EP 12
EP 13
EP 14
EP 15
EP 16 · Final
🏁 Ending

EP 01

The Touch That Started Everything

August 12, 2023

The show earns exactly one premise in its first 10 minutes and commits to it without hesitation. Bong Ye-bun gains psychometric abilities during a meteor shower while examining livestock — touching someone’s rear gives her access to their memories. Moon Jang-yeol, freshly demoted from Seoul’s major crimes unit and furious about it, arrests her for public indecency on a bus before he understands what she is. The contentious partnership that will define the next sixteen episodes begins with handcuffs.

EP 02

Onions and Infatuations

August 13, 2023

Bong Ye-bun discovers her ability extends to animals, which turns a neighbor dispute about an onion field into something stranger and more useful than the local police expected. Moon Jang-yeol begins to notice she’s not eccentric — she’s inconveniently accurate. And then Kim Seon-woo walks into town and, for the first time in two episodes, Bong Ye-bun stops thinking about the power at all.

EP 03

Darker Than It Looks

August 19, 2023

Moon Jang-yeol starts using Bong Ye-bun systematically — she reads, he arrests, he gets closer to his Seoul transfer. Then she discovers an abusive relationship buried inside a case he’d written off as minor. The moment the show signals it won’t stay entirely in comedy.

EP 04

Hair Today

August 20, 2023

Severe hair loss from psychometric overuse arrives as the episode’s central joke and lands as something else. The streamer who vanishes mid-episode was supposed to be another small-town oddity. Moon Jang-yeol ends this episode less certain that it is.

EP 05

The Question of Kim Seon-woo

August 26, 2023

Bong Ye-bun and Moon Jang-yeol split on the same evidence. His background is too clean to be real; her experience of him is warm, present, and genuine. Both readings are accurate. The show isn’t ready to resolve it — and that restraint is the right call.

EP 06

What the Dog Saw

August 27, 2023

A stray dog’s memories contain evidence of a political conspiracy buried in Mujin’s institutional history. Bong Ye-bun extracts it in a parking lot, wearing rubber gloves, communicating with an animal. The information is genuinely damning. The show’s best structural joke is that its silliest scenes carry its most serious plot.

EP 07

Two Psychics Are Worse Than One

September 2, 2023

Jeon Gwang-shik survived the same meteor shower. His ability requires touching legs, not rears. The show acknowledges this distinction with the same deadpan commitment that made the original premise land — which means the humor works, but so does the implication: the anomaly was broader than Bong Ye-bun, and a killer operating in Mujin already knows this.

EP 08

The First Body

September 3, 2023

Everything the show has been managing — the comic scaffolding, the serial-killer dread building since episode four — tips over here. A murder is confirmed. Moon Jang-yeol stops planning his return to Seoul. Bong Ye-bun stops searching for evidence that clears Kim Seon-woo and starts looking for what they’re actually hunting.

EP 09

What We Don’t Say

September 9, 2023

Both leads stop performing competence. Bong Ye-bun’s mother’s death resurfaces through a case detail; Moon Jang-yeol names his botched Seoul investigation out loud for the first time. Nothing is solved. But the episode earns the partnership it’s been building because it finally shows what that partnership costs each of them.

EP 10

Eyes Closed

September 10, 2023

The killer keeps their eyes closed during attacks. Not a habit, not a spiritual practice — a countermeasure. A killer who fully understands that psychometry exists in Mujin and has been engineering their crimes around it from the beginning. The episode that reframes everything that came before.

EP 11

The Rally

September 16, 2023

Moon Jang-yeol has the location, the timing, the crowd. He still loses the killer at the assembly rally. It’s not a failure of preparation — it’s a demonstration of how completely the killer has anticipated the investigators’ methods. The show stops being a cozy mystery here. What’s left of the run has edges.

EP 12

The Grandfather’s Shadow

September 17, 2023

Financial records tie Jung Eui-hwan to the political corruption running through Mujin’s history. Bong Ye-bun has to hold both truths simultaneously — the grandfather she knows and the evidence she can’t unread. The episode doesn’t settle it. It just makes her carry it.

EP 13

The Cost

September 23, 2023

Jung Eui-hwan is dead. What Bong Ye-bun loses isn’t just family — it’s the person who existed before the powers, before the murders, before any of this began. The investigation continues. But what she’s investigating has changed.

EP 14

Kim Seon-woo’s Last Move

September 24, 2023

The drama spent nine episodes making Kim Seon-woo a suspect and five making him someone worth mourning — the sacrifice that finally clears his name is the same act that ends his story. Moon Jang-yeol arrives seconds too late but recovers what Kim Seon-woo left behind. The killer is named: Park Jong-bae, the local shaman.

EP 15

The Whole Town Shows Up

September 30, 2023

Park Jong-bae kidnaps Bae Ok-hee. The biker squad mobilizes. This episode shouldn’t work — deploying the show’s most comedic ensemble energy at its darkest moment — but it does, because Mujin’s community has been made real enough across fifteen episodes that watching them refuse to let the killer win means something.

Behind Your Touch Episode 16 — Mujin, Goodbye

EP 16

Mujin, Goodbye · Finale

October 1, 2023

Park Jong-bae is cornered at the harbor and arrested. Life sentence. The secondary couples find their footings. Bong Ye-bun relocates to Seoul as a celebrity pet psychic — and finds Moon Jang-yeol, promoted, already there with a case file between them. The show doesn’t declare anything about what that means. It doesn’t need to.

🏁 Ending Explained

Full spoilers ahead — everything that happens in the finale and what it all means.

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Spoiler Warning — This section covers the full finale of Behind Your Touch. Stop here if you haven’t finished the series.

The Shaman Who Saw the Trap Coming. Park Jong-bae’s arrest closes the most technically interesting problem the show constructed. He wasn’t just operating in a town that happened to have a psychic — he was designing his crimes around her. The closed-eyes strategy wasn’t superstition; it was a deliberate operational decision made by someone who understood psychometry’s mechanics well enough to engineer around them. His conviction in the finale is double-layered: justice for the victims, yes, but also the collapse of the authority structure that allowed someone this methodical to move freely through a community that trusted him completely. Mujin watched him for years. He watched back.

Behind Your Touch (2023) — Ending Explained

What Clearing a Name Actually Costs. The resolution of Kim Seon-woo’s arc does something the drama couldn’t have done while he was alive: it proves what he wasn’t. Twelve episodes of circling him as a suspect — the too-clean background, the convenient arrival, the effortless warmth — ends not with a revelation about hidden motives but with the demonstration that there were none. He didn’t get a romance. What he got is clarity: he knew who the killer was, moved to protect Bong Ye-bun, and left enough evidence to finish what he couldn’t. That’s a different kind of justice. It’s the right one for this character.

What She Carries Forward. What Bong Ye-bun takes into the Seoul chapter isn’t a healed version of herself. Her grandfather is gone. The possibility of Kim Seon-woo is gone. The show doesn’t offer a clean emotional transaction — grief absorbed, something better offered in return. She’s not fixed. She’s open, which is harder and more honest. What she has is her ability, sharpened by everything it’s been asked to do; a partnership that survived more than she expected; and the memory of two people who were, in very different ways, trying to keep her safe.

The Secondary Endings. Bae Ok-hee and Kim Yong-myeong — who were obviously in love far longer than either wanted to admit — arrive at something solid. Jung Hyeon-ok and Won Jong-muk settle into each other without fanfare. These resolutions exist beside the heavier ones, and the show is right to let them. Not everything in Mujin was tragic. That’s the point.

Seoul, and What Comes Next. The final image is Bong Ye-bun and Moon Jang-yeol in Seoul — a promoted detective and a nationally recognized pet psychic, and a case file between them. They don’t declare anything about what they are to each other. Sixteen episodes of building a working partnership between two people who were both completely wrong about what they were looking for when they arrived in Mujin — and this is what they found instead. Seoul isn’t a resolution. It’s just where they go next.

✍️ KDramaWorlds Editor’s Take

Our honest read on why this drama is worth your time — and who it’s for.

😂 Dark Comedy
🕵️ Whodunnit
🌿 Small Town Warmth
😱 Creeping Dread
💫 Unlikely Partners

Han Ji-min built her career on emotional precision — Familiar Wife, One Spring Night — roles that required carrying immense internal complexity through restraint. Bong Ye-bun asks for something almost structurally opposite: physical comedy, transparent emotional reactions, and a premise that puts her in contact with strangers at their most undignified. What’s remarkable about her performance isn’t that she commits to it — that’s a baseline — it’s that she brings specific intelligence to it. Her comedy isn’t broad; there’s a difference between an actor who plays silly and one who understands exactly why a particular form of silliness is the most honest response to an absurd situation. Ji-min operates on the second level consistently. That specificity is what makes the shift into grief — when it arrives in episodes 12 and 13 — feel continuous rather than contradictory. If this flavor of supernatural-ability-meets-investigation appeals, My Lovely Liar (2023) covers adjacent territory with its own psychometric twist, though it stays closer to romance than mystery.

Behind Your Touch (2023) — Editor's Pick

Lee Min-ki’s Moon Jang-yeol is built around a single sustained tension: a capable man who is exactly where he didn’t want to be, being proven right to be there. The physical performance is in the reluctance — a calibrated spatial distance between him and Bong Ye-bun that decreases, almost imperceptibly, over eight episodes. The moment the annoyance begins to shift into something else is not announced; it’s visible in how much room he allows her in a scene. Suho, in his most dramatically demanding TV role, handles Kim Seon-woo’s impossible brief — a character who must read as a credible suspect without actually being suspicious — with a warmth that makes the sacrifice in episode 14 land harder than it otherwise would. The ensemble community they operate within gives the show a texture that The Killer’s Shopping List (2022) also understood: the comedy of people who know everything about each other, living next to something they somehow failed to see.

The middle section — episodes 10 through 12 — is where the tonal management struggles. The stakes go up; the comic register doesn’t fully give way; the viewer isn’t always sure which register to inhabit. Stick with it. The final arc earns what the first three episodes promised by having built everything so patiently, and the choice to let Kim Seon-woo’s story end the way it does is the structural decision that makes the finale coherent. Behind Your Touch is a smarter show than its premise suggests — which is, ultimately, what you want from a mystery that started with a cow.

👍👍👍 BEST FOR 👍👍👍

🕵️ Mystery fans who want their whodunnit delivered with comedy
😂 Han Ji-min fans seeing her at her most physically playful
🌿 Small-town ensemble drama lovers who want real community stakes

⚖️ Final Verdict

What works

•Han Ji-min’s comedic precision — physically specific, never cheap

•A mystery with a technically clever solution built on psychometric logic

•Small-town ensemble that makes the stakes feel real

What to know first

•Tonal management uneven in episodes 10–12

•Kim Seon-woo’s arc pays off — but not happily

•65-minute episodes — pace yourself

7.8 / 10
A smart mystery wrapped in a genuinely funny comic premise, held together by Han Ji-min doing something she’s rarely been asked to do and making it look effortless.

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