Ghost Doctor

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Ghost Doctor

고스트 닥터 (Goseuteu Dakteo) · 2022 · South Korea

WriterKim Seon-soo

DirectorBoo Seong-cheol

Episodes16 eps · ~60 min each

⏱️ Binge Time16h 0m

AiredJan 3 – Feb 22, 2022

GenreFantasy · Medical · Comedy

Content RatingTV-14

Netflix
Viki

Ghost
Spirit Possession
Bromance
Hospital Conspiracy
Supernatural
Arrogant Male Lead

One box. Everything you need to decide.

Twelve performances that bring the ghost world and the operating room to life.

Rain

Cha Young-min

Lead

Kim Bum

Go Seung-tak

Lead

Uee

Jang Se-jin

Lead

Son Na-eun

Oh Soo-jeong

Supporting

Kim Jae-yong

Lee Seon-ho

Supporting

Seo Ji-young

Ko Sung-hye

Supporting

Sung Dong-il

Tes

Supporting

Son Ji-na

Sung Mi-ran

Supporting

Ahn Tae-hwan

Kim Jae-won

Supporting

Tan

Hoon Gil

Supporting

Tae In-ho

Han Seung-won

Villain

Park Cheol-min

Ban Tae-sik

Supporting

Spoiler-light recaps for all 16 episodes — follow the ghost, the resident, and the conspiracy unraveling beneath them.

EP 01

The Best and the Worst

Jan 3, 2022 · tvN

Cha Young-min is the god of Eunsang Hospital’s operating room — untouchable, brilliant, and insufferable. Go Seung-tak is his exact opposite: rich, coasting, and terrified of blood. When Young-min is struck by a motorcycle on the way home and rushed to an OR he usually commands, the power dynamic between these two men shifts in ways neither could have imagined.

EP 02

First Possession

Jan 4, 2022 · tvN

Young-min discovers he is a ghost — and that in moments of intense need, he can slip inside Seung-tak’s body and take the wheel. The first accidental possession during an emergency surgery is simultaneously terrifying for Seung-tak and revelatory for Young-min, who finds his golden hands still work — just not in his own body. The comedic fallout is immediate and spectacular.

EP 03

Cohabitation Rules

Jan 10, 2022 · tvN

With Young-min still comatose, Seung-tak finds himself pressed into procedures far above his level. The two negotiate an uneasy truce: Seung-tak provides the body, Young-min provides the surgical genius. Their bickering through the possession — one voice external, one internal — is the show’s comedic engine firing on all cylinders. Suspicions about what caused Young-min’s accident begin to emerge.

EP 04

The Chairman Arrives

Jan 11, 2022 · tvN

A high-profile VIP patient — Chairman Jang of the Chunmyung Group — arrives at Eunsang needing critical cardiac surgery. Young-min, now ghosting around the hospital at will, begins to suspect his accident was not random. He uses his invisible vantage point to quietly investigate the people in power, while Seung-tak’s complicated connections to the hospital’s ownership structure come into focus.

EP 05

The Ghost Investigates

Jan 17, 2022 · tvN

Young-min grows more certain his accident was engineered. He begins using Seung-tak as an unwilling vessel to gather information about the hospital’s power players. Seung-tak cooperates — partly out of fear of what happens if he doesn’t, partly out of a growing curiosity about the man he’s now sharing a body with. Young-min’s cold professionalism begins to show the first hairline cracks.

EP 06

Almost Exposed

Jan 18, 2022 · tvN

The possession secret nearly unravels as colleagues notice Seung-tak’s behavioral inconsistencies — surgical confidence that doesn’t match his resume, knowledge that shouldn’t exist. Meanwhile, Young-min encounters Tes (Sung Dong-il), a legendary former surgeon who has been haunting the hospital as a coma ghost for twenty years. Their first meeting is anything but warm.

EP 07

Welcome to the Ghost World

Jan 24, 2022 · tvN

Tes formally introduces Young-min to the rules of the coma ghost world — including the alarming one that says staying in ghost form too long risks losing the ability to return to his own body. Young-min refuses guidance from anyone, dead or alive, but cannot ignore what he’s learning. The ghost community subplot expands, adding warmth and unexpected comedy to the supernatural ensemble.

EP 08

The Ex Returns

Jan 25, 2022 · tvN

Young-min’s ex-girlfriend Jang Se-jin (Uee) — a genius neurosurgeon — arrives at the hospital and stirs up everything Young-min thought he’d left behind. Watching her from a ghostly distance while Seung-tak interacts with her is a new kind of torment. The episode peels back the real reason their relationship ended twelve years ago, and what it cost them both.

EP 09

Someone Is Watching

Jan 31, 2022 · tvN

Executive Director Han Seung-won (Tae In-ho), Seung-tak’s older cousin and the drama’s central antagonist, begins to notice that something is deeply wrong with his younger relative. He sets subtle traps designed to confirm his suspicions. Young-min, sensing the net tightening, pushes Seung-tak to be more careful — but Seung-tak’s impulsive nature keeps creating new holes in their cover.

EP 10

The Informant

Feb 1, 2022 · tvN

Young-min’s most trusted junior turns out to have been leaking sensitive information to the conspiracy’s other players. The betrayal hits hard — a direct consequence of Young-min’s lifelong coldness, which left him with no true allies and therefore no buffer against exactly this kind of exposure. Seung-tak, watching this unfold from the inside, begins to understand both what made Young-min great and what it cost him.

EP 11

The Surgical Trap

Feb 7, 2022 · tvN

Han Seung-won devises a surgical trap designed to prove that Seung-tak is being externally controlled. Young-min and Seung-tak must execute their most demanding synchronized performance yet — every micro-decision scrutinized, every reaction potentially exposing them. Meanwhile, Im Bo-mi’s worsening infection raises the stakes for the ghost world subplot in parallel.

EP 12

The Conspiracy Surfaces

Feb 8, 2022 · tvN

The shape of the conspiracy against Young-min becomes clear: his accident was deliberately engineered to remove him before he could perform Chairman Jang’s high-risk surgery — a surgery whose outcome has major implications for hospital ownership and succession. Se-jin draws closer to uncovering the full truth. Young-min’s ghost form grows visibly weaker, and the clock on his survival is now unmistakable.

EP 13

What Loneliness Built

Feb 14, 2022 · tvN

Seung-tak’s complicated family history within the hospital’s ownership comes to the surface. More movingly, Young-min — facing the real possibility that he won’t make it back — begins to change. Not dramatically, but genuinely: moments of care for patients as people rather than survival statistics, a softening around the edges. The bond between the two men deepens into something neither has a name for.

EP 14

Operation: Save the Chairman

Feb 15, 2022 · tvN

Chairman Jang’s critical surgery becomes the flashpoint the entire conspiracy has been building toward. Han Seung-won and Jang Min-ho are actively working to sabotage the operation for corporate gain. Young-min and Seung-tak execute the most daring plan of their shared existence — using the possession mechanics in a way that pushes both of them to their absolute limits inside the operating room.

EP 15

Everything at Stake

Feb 21, 2022 · tvN

The coma ghost subplot reaches its crisis point as Hoon Gil’s complicated backstory — tied to an influential assemblyman — threatens his chances of ever waking up. Meanwhile, the criminal conspiracy against Young-min is fully exposed, and the confrontations that have been building since episode one finally begin. The penultimate episode sets every piece in position for a finale that has to pay off all of it.

EP 16

The Return

Feb 22, 2022 · tvN

The finale delivers exactly what it promises — and earns it. Young-min wakes from his coma, every major storyline finds resolution, and the two men who spent sixteen episodes sharing one body finally get to stand in the same room as themselves. It’s a finale that trusts the journey it took to get here, and the result is genuinely satisfying in all the ways the show set out to be.

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

The conspiracy is dismantled. In the finale, Seung-tak and Se-jin work in tandem to stabilize Young-min’s deteriorating condition and simultaneously expose the criminal scheme that put him in the coma in the first place. Han Seung-won’s orchestration of Young-min’s near-fatal accident is fully unmasked — not through a single dramatic confrontation but through the accumulation of evidence that Se-jin’s medical expertise and Seung-tak’s inside access make possible together. Seung-won faces legal consequences; his bid to seize control of Eunsang Foundation Hospital collapses entirely.

Jang Min-ho’s corporate scheme fails, and Chairman Jang survives. The attempt to exploit the Chairman’s illness for succession purposes is dismantled in parallel with Seung-won’s exposure. Chairman Jang makes it through surgery — the surgery that Young-min and Seung-tak’s impossible partnership was always building toward. The operating room sequence is the show’s thesis statement: that two wildly incompatible people can, through genuine necessity, become something greater than either could be alone.

The coma ghosts wake up. Im Bo-mi’s infection is successfully treated and she regains consciousness. Hoon Gil, whose complicated backstory threatened to trap him permanently in the ghost world, also wakes — reuniting in reality the two people who had found unexpected connection while floating between life and death. Their arc, which ran quietly alongside the main story for sixteen episodes, closes with a genuinely warm resolution that the show’s tone had been quietly promising all along.

Young-min wakes, transformed. His spirit returns to his own body — not because the show performs a miracle, but because the people around him earned it for him. He comes back different: not soft, but changed. The twelve-year misunderstanding between him and Se-jin is finally addressed and resolved. Seung-tak, standing across from Young-min for the first time as an actual peer rather than an unwilling host, has become a doctor in every real sense — not the golden-spoon resident who coasted through years on family connections, but someone who learned what medicine actually requires from the most unlikely teacher possible.

The golden hands return to the OR. The final scenes show Young-min back where he belongs — scalpel in hand, operating room under his authority — with Seung-tak beside him not as a vessel, but as a genuine colleague and friend. It’s a quiet ending for a show that was never really about supernatural mechanics. Ghost Doctor was always about what happens when an unreachable man is forced to let someone else in. Young-min didn’t just survive — he learned how to be alive.