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My Favorite Supernatural K-Dramas for the Spooky Season

Spooky season is coming up and I wanted to make a list of my personal favorite K-Dramas with Halloween vibes.

Sorry for any zombie lovers out there who may happen to stumble on this list, I’m afraid that I’m not a fan of zombie movies/shows, so you’re literally not going to find any on this list.💔

Hotel Del Luna

I’m going to start this list off with the 2nd K-drama that I ever watched and it’s chocked full of ghosts (a whole hotel full!)

This is a K-Drama about Jang Man-wol, a female not-quite-ghost who is bound to a supernatural hotel for ghosts. At this hotel, the ghosts are taken care of so that they can eventually move on. One day, a living man ends up stumbling his way in to the hotel and attempts to steal from it. Man-wol catches him and ultimately spares his life, for a price. He has to give her his son when he reaches a certain age. Said son eventually gets brought in as the new manager for Hotel Del Luna and he eventually falls in love with Man-wol.

This drama can be a bit slow in places, but it’s really interesting and enjoyable in my opinion. You’ll definitely fall in love with all of the ghosts who work at Hotel Del Luna!

I found this drama hilarious at times and sad at other times, I 100% recommend having a box of tissues ready for the end of the show though, I know that I cried a lot after watching it for the first time. I was an emotional wreck and hid out in my room for a day because I didn’t want my family to know that I had cried that much.

Blood

This is a vampire K-Drama and the only vampire one I’ve seen so far lol To be honest, I don’t even know if I’ve even ever heard of any other vampire K-Dramas. I found this drama’s take on vampires to be very interesting and I rather liked the creativity. Disclaimer though: I still have 7 episodes left to go of this show, but I still recommend it!

This drama is a rom-com medical drama that is about Jisang, a doctor who was born a vampire in a world in which a virus is what turns people into vampires. Jisang doesn’t drink blood and he has a good heart & moral compass, he and his friend/roommate are trying to find a cure for his vampirism. The female lead, Rita, is intrigued by him and wants to learn more about him as she suspects that something about him isn't normal.

I feel like this drama isn’t really well known, I certainly can’t find too many gifs for it here on tumblr and I don't see it used a lot in K-Drama edits on YouTube either lol The tiny blurb you find for this show on Viki and Kocowa really don’t help much in terms of getting attention or interest since they literally just say "A medical drama about a vampire doctor." Which, is true, but is very basic and bare-bones lol

This drama came out in 2015, so it probably seems like it was trying to get in on the vampire craze that swept the world after the hype of Twilight, but it’s definitely better than Twilight (it also has a better love story!). It also has one of my favorite tropes where the romantic leads met as kids.

Happiness

Quite possibly the only zombie-esque show that will ever wind up on any of my list since I don’t like zombies lol

This wonderful show is about a fake married battle couple who scored a sweet sweet deal on an apartment just before the zombie pandemic breaks out because the female lead Yoon Sae Bom got enough points due to her job performance and also getting fake married to her friend since high school, Jung Yi Hyun (who has been in love with her since literally falling for her in high school).

Honestly, someone experienced the pandemic and was like: This, but zombies.

Anyway, this show has just the right mix of slight horror elements, social commentary, fluff, humor, heart, found family elements, capped off with a delicious slow-burn friends to lovers story arc.

My Roommate Is A Gumiho

Making a return appearance on one of my lists, is this show. Can you tell that I love it?

On top of the supernatural element already present in this drama with there being a Gumiho as the first male lead and an ex-Gumiho as the second female lead, there's also some horror-y scenes early on in this show which feel perfect for the spooky season.

Overall though, this drama is pretty light and extremely funny, so if you're looking for something softer to enjoy during spooky season, this drama could fit the bill!

Goblin: The Great & Lonely God

This drama is considered a classic for anyone to watch I think. This show has great autumn vibes that are perfect for the season and it’s a cute, funny show, also heartwarming and heartbreaking.

You’ve got ghosts, grim reapers, some gods(?) and our Goblin.

The Sound of Magic

This is potentially a weird drama to add on this, but since my lists are limited to what I have seen so far, this is getting added for reasons lol

This drama is a musical and is available on Netflix. To really briefly summarize this show, it's about a girl who had to grow up too quickly because she has to support both herself and her younger sister, who were abandoned by her dad who is running away from loan sharks. She happens to meet a magician who never really grew up (and likes it that way) and appears to perform real magic!

It's an interesting drama which is definitely worth the watch! It's got some scary/horror-y elements to it, so that's why I'm including it on this list. The show only has 6 episodes, each at an hour long, so you could finish this show in less than a day.

Doom At Your Service

I'm gonna say that I'm including this because Doom is essentially like the grim reaper, but more? He’s the embodiment of death and destruction and he can be pretty scary. He's especially scary in episode 12.

Some Supernatural K-Dramas On My List To Watch:

Adding this section just to highlight some dramas that I know of that also fit this list. While I haven’t seen them yet, I am interested in seeing them over the course of this spooky season!

Bring It On, Ghost

A drama about a college student who can see and communicate with ghosts and decides to use those skills to work as a exorcist to earn some extra money.

Oh My Ghostess

I would be lying if I said that this wasn’t on my list because of a bias’s cameo in the show (that bias is Seo In Guk).

Anyway, this show is about a “painfully shy and timid” woman who has the ability to see ghosts and works as an assistant chef at a restaurant whose star chef she happens to have a crush on. She ends up being possessed by the ghost of a young woman who died without ever having experienced any romance in her short life, so she basically wants to live vicariously through the female lead.

Master’s Sun

A K-Drama that is very basically about a woman who can see ghosts, but suddenly can’t whenever she happens to touch this one rich guy. Due to this, she tries to stick around him so she doesn’t have to see ghosts.

I’ll be honest, I have only considered watching this show because of Seo In Guk. I made it a goal to watch as much of my bias’ filmographies as humanly possible.

The Guest

Something that was suggested to me, it’s a little out of my comfort zone, but it seems pretty interesting, so I’m willing to give it a go! This K-Drama is about three people who are bound together by a tragic past: a psychic, a priest and a detective. Together, they work to bring down a powerful, bloodthirsty spirit.

Kissable Lips

I came across this K-Drama on Viki, it’s a short 8 episode long BL drama about a vampire who is tired of being a vampire, but the only way to bring an end to his immortal existence is to drink the blood of a pure human in order to become human himself. Apparently, pure blood humans are incredibly rare, but he manages to find one, who is clueless about the fact that he is one.

Apparently there’s also a love triangle (I guess I’ll just have to grin and bear it), but otherwise this seems like a pretty interesting show and I’m willing to kill like an hour and a half watching it for the sake of the spooky season lol You can watch it as episodes or as a movie apparently.

Sell Your Haunted House

This is a K-Drama about a woman who is the owner of a realtor company that specializes in selling haunted houses as she happens to have inherited exorcism abilities from her mother. She ends up teaming up some conman who suggests that they start exclusively selling houses which are haunted by vengeful spirits and lingering ghosts.

This is a romantic comedy with what sounds like an interesting premise, so I’m willing to give it a go!

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