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3.5/5 stars
Lead cast: Bona, Yook Sung-jae, Kim Ji-hoon
Latest Nielsen rating: 11 per cent
With stories that bounce around palace walls, regal dramas set in the era of Korea’s Joseon dynasty have a tendency to bite their own tails, but The Haunted Palace bucks that trend with a satisfying story that avoids such confines.
The series began with a bit of mythmaking, describing a dragon’s attempted ascent to the heavens a century before the main events of the story. This is Kang-cheol, an imugi – a creature that must endure 1,000 years in a cold pond before becoming a true dragon.
