WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS

Spooky in Love – Netflix (Ep5: Aug 1 & Ep6: Aug 2)

A modern remake of the 2011 film Spellbound, it stars Park Eun-bin as Cheon Yeo-ri, heir to one of Korea’s largest luxury hotel chains, who’s been seeing ghosts since a boating accident in college. Yang Se-jong plays Ma Gang-uk, a prosecutor who initially treats her like a murder suspect before realising her ability might solve cases nobody else can crack. The show plays its horror and its romance completely straight against each other while quietly building a mystery around deaths nobody investigated properly the first time.

The Apartment Job – Netflix (Ep7: Aug 1 & Ep8: Aug 2)

Ji Sung, a former gang boss who suddenly needs a lot of money, fast, to help someone from his past, runs for president of his own apartment complex’s residents’ association, planning to quietly skim the building’s hidden funds. Instead, he stumbles into real corruption inside the complex and, despite himself, starts turning into the neighborhood’s unlikely protector. The premiere was the most-watched cable broadcast in Korea on the day it aired. Episodes 7 and 8 this week.

The Husband – Disney (Ep9: Aug 1 & Ep10: Aug 2)

Neurosurgeon Kang Tae-ju, played by Namkoong Min, and his wife, hospital chairwoman Ko Se-yun (Lee Seol), disagree about divorce, and the very next day, she’s kidnapped. Tae-ju instantly becomes both a fugitive suspected of taking his own wife and the only person actually trying to find her. He gets help from a man whose own wife was taken by the same kidnapper six years earlier.

Worth watching alone for Namkoong Min’s quiet portrayal of a man engulfed in tragedy with seemingly, no way out.

Still running throughout August.