Arang And The Magistrate -2012- Complete Series !exclusive! (Best)

(Korean title: 아랑 사또전, Arang Sattajeon ) aired on MBC from August 15 to October 18, 2012. It runs for 20 episodes and stars Lee Joon-gi (now Lee Joon-gi) as Eun-oh, the magistrate, and Shin Min-a as Arang, a amnesiac ghost. The series is loosely based on the classic Korean folktale "The Legend of Arang," which originates from the Miryang area. In the original folklore, Arang was a virgin magistrate’s daughter who was murdered by a servant; her ghost appears to subsequent magistrates to demand justice.

K-dramas often try to blend genres, but few swing this wildly. One scene has Arang comically trying to eat human food (which passes through her possessed body) and the next has Eun-oh weeping over his mother’s skeleton. It is scary, romantic, tragic, and absurdly funny—often within the same episode. Arang and the Magistrate -2012- Complete Series

The story opens with Arang (Shin Min-a), a ghost who has wandered the earth for 200 years. She has no memory of her own death or identity. Frustrated by her limbo state and hunted by underworld messengers (the Joseon equivalent of grim reapers), she decides to possess a human body to find answers. She inadvertently possesses the body of a dead noblewoman. (Korean title: 아랑 사또전, Arang Sattajeon ) aired

No retrospective is complete without critique. The middle episodes (roughly 9–14) suffer from : Arang runs off alone, gets captured, Eun-oh rescues her, repeat. The secondary romance between the village head’s daughter (Hwang Bo-ra) and Eun-oh’s manservant (Kwon Oh-joong) is delightful but undercooked. In the original folklore, Arang was a virgin

For anyone watching the complete series, the ending is the biggest topic of debate.