‘The Haunted Palace’ Ends on a High Note, Breaks Own Ratings Record

By Minjeong, Cho

Jun 18, 2025

‘The Haunted Palace’ Ends on a High Note, Breaks Own Ratings Record



‘The Haunted Palace’ Ends on a High Note, Breaks Own Ratings Record


‘The Haunted Palace’ Ends on a High Note, Breaks Own Ratings Record
While SBS's Friday-Saturday drama 「"Going Palace" ended its grand finale by breaking its own highest ratings, director Yoon Sung-sik, who directed it, and writer Yoon Soo-jung, who wrote it, expressed their position on the secret of the popularity of"Going Palace" and the possibility of season 2.

Writer Yoon Soo-jung analyzed the secret of 'Going Palace's overseas popularity, saying that the story of Korean shamanism seems to have stimulated universal sentiment in Asian countries. "Shamanism was once ostracized, but recently it has been re-examined."I thought that if I made it well while keeping the universal sensibility, overseas viewers would be able to sympathize with it."




Director Yoon Sung-sik explained, `It seems that the design of ghost characters based on the Korean sentiment of 'Han' and the real-life expression without CG came to me anew.' `The approach that ghosts also have personalities and emotions led to empathy.' "Kang Chul's cheerful charm and the traditional consciousness of a shaman were also unique to the global audience."," he added.

Thanks to its hot popularity, requests for season 2 are flooding in, but the production team said, `It was not planned on the premise of season 2 in the first placeemphasized that " Writer Yoon Soo-jung said, "The ending of the 16th part is not with season 2 in mind. However, there seems to be a possibility of expansion in the remaining stories of Kang Cheol-i. Director Yoon also said that Korean characters such as "Palchukgui" and "Susalgui" are well worth expanding into the K-Occult world view"If conditions are possible, we will be able to think about season 2."

Meanwhile, the final episode of 'Going Palace', which aired on the 7th, recorded 12.3% of the metropolitan area and 11.0% of the country based on Nielsen Korea, and ranked first in the Saturday miniseries with a 2.7% viewer rating.








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