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Aug 24, 2026 6:48 PM UTC [_Extraordinary Attorney Woo_’s](https://time.com/7221413/best-romantic-k-dramas-netflix/) Park Eun-bin and [_Doona!_](https://time.com/6326170/doona-netflix-k-drama-bae-suzy-girl-downstairs/)’s Yang Se-jong star as ghost-whispering hotel heiress Cheon Yeo-ri and ace prosecutor Ma Gang-uk, respectively, in the supernatural romance series _Spooky in Love_. In the [Korean drama](https://time.com/7340988/best-k-dramas-2025/), which broadcast domestically on tvN and was distributed globally by [Netflix](https://time.com/7221413/best-romantic-k-dramas-netflix/), Yeo-ri and Gang-uk are initially brought together by their shared desire for justice. For Yeo-ri, this takes the form of helping the ghosts she alone can see. For Gang-uk, it means doing a good, by-the-book job as an investigator. But when Gang-uk learns Yeo-ri’s secret, the two grow closer. While _Spooky in Love_ starts out with a strong, ghost-of-the-week format, the second half of the drama leans more into corporate in-fighting and family drama as context for Yeo-ri and Gang-uk’s romance. When Chairwoman Baek insists that Yeo-ri get engaged in order to secure a more stable future for the hotel and resort company, Yeo-ri side-steps the advances of family friend and fellow chaebol Kang Min-hwan (Ong Seong-wu) to announce she is engaged to Gang-uk. What starts as a fake relationship to keep Yeo-ri’s grandmother off of her back soon develops into the real thing. But can Yeo-ri and Gang-uk’s love survive Min-hwan’s machinations to take control of both Yeo-ri and her company? Here’s everything that happens in the _Spooky in Love_ finale. ## **Yeo-ri’s supernatural powers, explained**  Park Eun-bin as Yeo-ri Courtesy of TvN Yeo-ri wasn’t born with the ability to see ghosts. She developed it 12 years prior to the start of the series, when she nearly died in the mysterious yacht accident that killed her boyfriend and Min-hwan’s little brother, Kang Ji-hwan (Kim Min-chul). The condition has ghosts constantly nagging Yeo-ri for help, and also keeps her isolated from the land of the living. If she touches hands with someone else, they will temporarily gain the ability to see ghosts for a month. As a result, she wears gloves constantly, and keeps a physical distance from her friends, family, and co-workers. The stakes of Yeo-ri’s secret are intensified due to the power her family holds. Yeo-ri is the heir to the Reina Group, a corporate hotel chain that wields immense wealth. Yeo-ri’s grandmother, Baek Kyung-ja (Ye Soo-jung), plans to pass the baton to Yeo-ri—rather than step-daughter Ok Gye-hui (Baek Ji-won) or her adult children, Ha-ri (Cho Hye-joo) and Don-jun (Lee Dal). However, if Chairwoman Baek, or the larger public, finds out that Yeo-ri is haunted by ghosts, it could call her ability to run the family corporation into question. Still, Yeo-ri’s sense of justice runs deep. In _Spooky in Love_’s early episodes, Yeo-ri is visited by the ghost of Jang Eun-ju (Yoon Hye-rim), a young woman who was murdered by her boyfriend, Park Seung-jae (Kim Do-wan), after she becomes pregnant with their child. Seung-jae is well-connected. Not only is he a rich pro golfer, but his father is one of the leading contenders in the next presidential race. When he is initially tried for murder, with Gang-uk acting as prosecutor, he is acquitted due to his father’s immense influence. It is only when Gang-uk and Yeo-ri team up that they are able to gather more evidence, and definitively pin the murder on Seung-jae. ## **What happened on the yacht?** Yeo-ri grew up close to Kang Ji-hwan and Kang Min-hwan, brothers poised to inherit ownership of CL Raymond Group. Though both brothers had feelings for Yeo-ri, Ji-hwan was the first to ask her out. For Min-hwan, this intensified the jealousy he had long felt of his little brother. Jin-hwan, who looked up to his brother, didn’t realize that he was often treated better by some members of the family compared to Min-hwan, who was adopted. When Jin-hwan started dating Yeo-ri, it was the final straw for Min-hwan. On the day of the accident, the brothers are out on a yacht with their friends, including Yeo-ri and fellow rich kid Park Seung-jae. We learn in the penultimate episode that when the yacht hit a rock and Jin-hwan was thrown over the side, Min-hwan had the chance to pull his brother back onboard, but let the pleading Jin-hwan fall into the water below instead. Jin-hwan dies, and Yeo-ri, who also went overboard in the accident, is rescued from the water. She is wearing a protective pendant gifted to Jin-hwan by his grandmother. He asked her to wear it while they were on the boat, joking that, if something should happen, she should live and he will die. Later, Yeo-ri and Gang-uk seek out the shaman who made the pendant. The original maker is dead, but her daughter informs them that the power of the pendant changed Yeo-ri and Jin-hwan’s fates. That power, paired with Yeo-ri’s inability to let Jin-hwan move on in the immediate aftermath of the accident, led to Yeo-ri’s ability to see ghosts. The shaman tells Gang-uk and Yeo-ri that, in order for Yeo-ri to stop seeing ghosts, she owes the afterlife a life. ## **Gang-uk’s connection to Jin-hwan** Gang-uk, who was raised by his grandmother, did not grow up in the same social circles as Yeo-ri, Min-hwan, and the other members of the chaebol class. However, he shares a unique connection to Jin-hwan. When Jin-hwan died, a sick Gang-uk was given Jin-hwan’s heart. The transplant allowed him to live on. Ever since, Jin-hwan and Min-hwan’s mother, Song Hee-won (Kim Seo-ra) has kept tabs on Gang-uk through his grandmother. Though she lost one of her sons, it makes her happy to see Gang-uk doing well. ## **Min-hwan’s crimes escalate**  Kim Do-wan as Park Seung-jae, a victim of Min-hwan's scheming Courtesy of TvN This truth of Jin-hwan’s death is known only by Min-hwan for more than a decade. Yeo-ri doesn’t remember what happened during the accident and, even if she did, she didn’t witness what occurred between the brothers that day. However, when Seung-jae temporarily gets out of jail to attend his father’s funeral, he happens to stumble upon a camcorder memory card with footage of Min-hwan choosing not to save Jin-hwan. Seung-jae attempts to blackmail Min-hwan with the evidence. When the two meet up in an abandoned warehouse, Min-hwan kills him for it. Gang-uk finds Min-hwan’s cufflink at the scene of the crime, but Min-hwan counters. He hires someone to hit Gang-uk with a truck. Yeo-ri pushes the man she loves out of the way at the last second, saving his life and putting her own in grave danger. She is hit by the truck, and ends up in a coma. As Yeo-ri’s life hangs in the balance, we see her traverse a beautiful kind of purgatory. The ghosts she has helped in the past 12 years, including Eun-ju, are waiting for her there. They lend her some of their warmth to keep her from crossing to the other side. ## **Yeo-ri and Jin-hwan balance the scales** Still, Yeo-ri finally does make it to a Styx-like river, a boundary between the world of the living and the world of the dead. Before she can step onto the boat that would bring her across, the ghost of Jin-hwan appears to take her place. The two share a teary conversation in which they process Jin-hwan’s death. Yeo-ri apologizes for living instead of him, but Jin-hwan doesn’t see it that way. He says she still has so much to live for, and that the ghosts she has helped are rooting for her. When Yeo-ri wakes back up, she no longer has the power to see ghosts. Jin-hwan has crossed to the other side; the afterlife has been given the soul it was robbed of 12 years prior. ## **Min-hwan is brought to justice** Unbeknownst to Min-hwan, Seung-jae has hidden the memory card in a hollow golf ball at the warehouse. When Yeo-ri and Gang-uk are investigating, they find the card and have the evidence to take Min-hwan down. In the most dramatic way possible, Yeo-ri reveals the evidence to Min-hwan’s mother and the other people gathered at Jin-hwan’s memorial service. More than losing his power or going to jail, Min-hwan seems most distraught at the idea of his mother discovering his betrayal. A year later, when she visits her remorseful son in jail, she tells him that after he has finished serving his time, she will be waiting for him. Min-hwan, who always thought his mother’s love for her biological son diminished her love for her adopted son, can perhaps finally see otherwise. ## **Does** **_Spooky in Love_** **have a happy ending?** _Spooky in Love_ has the happiest of endings. A year following the main events of the series finale, Yeo-ri is announced as the new chairwoman of Reina. Yeo-ri and Gang-uk are happily together. Gang-uk, who had been transferred out of Seoul after reporting internal corruption at the prosecutor’s office, has just received a promotion back in the capital city where Yeo-ri lives. The two visit Siena Hall, the Reina wedding property that symbolizes Yeo-ri’s late parents’ love for one another, and walk together, hand in hand. When the two first started falling for one another, Yeo-ri had said that her greatest wish was to walk hand-in-hand with the person she liked. Then, she was too afraid to touch anyone, burdened by the certainty she would pass her curse onto them. Now, she does so, unafraid. The simple scene doesn’t just demonstrate the love between Yeo-ri and Gang-uk; it demonstrates the intimacy and warmth Yeo-ri is able to let into her life more broadly. 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