Extraordinary Attorney Woo’s Park Eun-bin and Doona!’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.
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In the Korean drama, which broadcast domestically on tvN and was distributed globally by Netflix, Yeo-ri and Gang-uk are initially brought together by their shared desire for justice.
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For Yeo-ri, this takes the form of helping the ghosts she alone can see.
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For Gang-uk, it means doing a good, by-the-book job as an investigator.
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But when Gang-uk learns Yeo-ri’s secret, the two grow closer.
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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.
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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.
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What starts as a fake relationship to keep Yeo-ri’s grandmother off of her back soon develops into the real thing.
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But can Yeo-ri and Gang-uk’s love survive Min-hwan’s machinations to take control of both Yeo-ri and her company?
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Here’s everything that happens in the Spooky in Love finale.
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Yeo-ri’s supernatural powers, explained
Yeo-ri wasn’t born with the ability to see ghosts.
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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).
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The condition has ghosts constantly nagging Yeo-ri for help, and also keeps her isolated from the land of the living.
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If she touches hands with someone else, they will temporarily gain the ability to see ghosts for a month.
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As a result, she wears gloves constantly, and keeps a physical distance from her friends, family, and co-workers.
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The stakes of Yeo-ri’s secret are intensified due to the power her family holds.
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Yeo-ri is the heir to the Reina Group, a corporate hotel chain that wields immense wealth.
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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).
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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.
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Still, Yeo-ri’s sense of justice runs deep.
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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.
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Seung-jae is well-connected.
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Not only is he a rich pro golfer, but his father is one of the leading contenders in the next presidential race.
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When he is initially tried for murder, with Gang-uk acting as prosecutor, he is acquitted due to his father’s immense influence.
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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.
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What happened on the yacht?
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Yeo-ri grew up close to Kang Ji-hwan and Kang Min-hwan, brothers poised to inherit ownership of CL Raymond Group.
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Though both brothers had feelings for Yeo-ri, Ji-hwan was the first to ask her out.
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For Min-hwan, this intensified the jealousy he had long felt of his little brother.
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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.
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When Jin-hwan started dating Yeo-ri, it was the final straw for Min-hwan.
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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.
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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.
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Jin-hwan dies, and Yeo-ri, who also went overboard in the accident, is rescued from the water.
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She is wearing a protective pendant gifted to Jin-hwan by his grandmother.
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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.
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Later, Yeo-ri and Gang-uk seek out the shaman who made the pendant.
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The original maker is dead, but her daughter informs them that the power of the pendant changed Yeo-ri and Jin-hwan’s fates.
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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.
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The shaman tells Gang-uk and Yeo-ri that, in order for Yeo-ri to stop seeing ghosts, she owes the afterlife a life.
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…and 40 more, not listed.
