K-drama The Haunted Palace: Bona, Yook Sung-jae lead spirited period drama
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Lead cast: Bona, Yook Sung-jae, Kim Ji-hoon
Latest Nielsen rating: 9.2 per cent
In The Haunted Palace, a period drama with shades of horror, comedy and romance, Bona (
Twenty-Five Twenty-One ) and Yook Sung-jae (
The Golden Spoon ) play a spectacles maker and a dragon in human form who find themselves within the walls of the royal palace, where they tackle a mystery.
That sounds like a lot to take in, but the set-up is even more complicated than that, as we discover through the show's opening episodes, which bring us up to speed on the many events that led the protagonists to that point.
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Yet it is to the show's credit that it pulls off a heady mix of disparate genres and dense plotting with relative aplomb.
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