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The Korean BL mini-drama Romancing the Ghost has just wrapped up its 6-episode run, and fans are left with plenty of mixed emotions.
It’s short, it’s bittersweet, and it doesn’t exactly give us the fairytale ending some were hoping for.
Cast
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Kang Dong-min as Dongmin
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Lee Seung-hun as Seunghoon
Since childhood, Dongmin has had the strange gift—or curse—of seeing ghosts.
While house-hunting, he stumbles into an old place that comes with more than creaky floorboards: Seunghoon, a striking spirit who flat-out refuses to leave.
Seunghoon claims the house is his, but as the two end up sharing the same space, their wary cohabitation slowly turns into something much softer.
Between the living and the supernatural, a delicate romance starts to take shape—though the rules of their worlds don’t make things simple.
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Let’s be real: Romancing the Ghost is a tiny series, so expectations weren’t sky high.
The pacing is brisk, the acting feels young and sometimes more like line-reciting than full-on immersion, but it’s not unwatchable.
The subtitles on LIKIE are decent (a blessing in the low-budget BL world).
The chemistry, however, is where opinions split. While the NC scene tried to crank up intimacy, it felt oddly disconnected.
Some viewers thought Seunghoon’s sudden advances didn’t line up with his backstory of waiting for a lost lover—leaving parts of the romance feeling rushed instead of heartfelt.
Still, there’s a certain charm in the concept: a haunted love story that tries to explore longing and loneliness across worlds.
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In the last stretch, Dongmin starts questioning what it really means to love someone who doesn’t belong to the world of the living.
His bond with Seunghoon grows stronger, but it also brings a heavier awareness: there’s no future that allows them to simply live like any ordinary couple.
By the end, Seunghoon’s existence as a ghost can’t be ignored. Their moments together are real in feeling but fleeting in reality.
The finale closes on a bittersweet note—love that’s sincere, but doomed to remain out of sync between two worlds.
The drama sticks to the classic ghost-romance trope: you can have intimacy, you can have love, but you can’t have permanence.
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Dongmin finally accepts that Seunghoon can’t cross into his world the way he wants.
The “ending” is not about them living happily ever after—it’s about cherishing the fragile connections that life (and death) throw our way.
The NC scene, while divisive, symbolises that thin line between desire and despair.
Seunghoon’s closeness to Dongmin was less about physical chemistry and more about desperately clinging to the last chance of being “felt” by someone in the living world.
Ultimately, the conclusion reminds us: ghost romances don’t tie things up neatly.
The show asks whether love is about lasting presence or simply about the depth of moments shared, however brief. For Romancing the Ghost, it’s the latter—short, haunting, and not quite satisfying, but memorable in its own quiet way.