With the end of Vampire Prosecutor airing recently (and here’s to hoping there will be a second season) and the success of the Padam Padam, the supernatural genre of k-dramas deserves to have the spotlight shined on it. I have always enjoyed shows with supernatural story lines to it; vampires, werewolves, and witches oh my! Before Padam Padam and before Vampire Prosecutor, I tried watching the drama Soul. To be honest, I thought it wasn’t going to be bad so I waited until late in the evening before I started watching it.  I didn’t make it through the first episode. I started jumping at every shadow in my house and every sound I would hear. It took a few days but I was able to rewatch the first episode and complete the show, in the daylight of course. 

Soul, also called Hon or Possessed, is a story about twin girls in high school, Yoon Hana and Yoon Doona. Hana witnesses a classmate kill herself and starts to see the girl’s ghost everywhere. Things get even more bizarre when her twin sister is murdered and decides to the best way to get revenge is to possess her sister. If you’ve ever seen the movie The Grudge or The Ring, you can kind of get the idea of how they create their ghosts, complete with the creepy sound that I’d rather not even think about. A criminal psychologist, Ryu Jin, meets her and begins to use her while she’s in her possessed state, to track down and punish criminals that have escaped the system. He doesn’t have as much control over her as he thinks and the resulting outcome was something most viewers probably saw coming a mile away, or at least from episode 5.
The drama only ran for ten episodes back in 2009 and ended about as dark as it started but I truly enjoyed every bit of it, so long as I watched it with all the lights on. Oh and if the actress that plays Hana looks familiar, it’s because she is currently starring in the musical drama What’s Up. 

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