Breaking Down the Ending of Spooky in Love

Park Eun-bin and Yang Se-jong in Spooky in Love —Courtesy of TvN 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 .

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.

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.