About The Haunted Palace
The Haunted Palace is a Korean fantasy romance set in a Joseon-era court where the boundary between the human world and the realm of spirits has worn thin. The story centers on Yeo-ri, a shaman with the rare ability to see and commune with the dead, who becomes entangled with the affairs of the royal household after a string of unexplained deaths draws her into the palace. What begins as a single exorcism quickly expands into a larger investigation of a curse that reaches the throne itself.
Opposite Yeo-ri is Gang-cheol, an imugi, a serpent-like being from Korean folklore who has lived for centuries while waiting to ascend into a dragon. Bound to Yeo-ri through a centuries-old promise and a debt neither fully understands, he is pulled out of his solitary existence and into a partnership that is by turns combative, comic, and tender. Their uneasy alliance forms the emotional core of the series as they confront vengeful ghosts, grasping officials, and the secrets buried beneath the palace.
Across sixteen episodes the show braids supernatural case-of-the-week storytelling with a slow-burning central romance and a court intrigue plot. Themes of grief, memory, and the cost of immortality run throughout, as the leads learn that laying the dead to rest often means reckoning with the living. The blend of shamanistic folklore, period costume drama, and fantasy spectacle places The Haunted Palace within a lineage of Korean dramas that reimagine traditional myth for a modern streaming audience.
