Spooky in Love Expands Its Occult Romance World With New Supporting Cast Stills

tvN’s upcoming series Spooky in Love is widening its world ahead of premiere, with newly released stills placing a sharper focus on the supporting characters who will complicate its occult romance. The drama, a remake of the 2011 film Spellbound, centers on the chaotic partnership between a hotel heiress who can see ghosts and a prosecutor who is frightened by the supernatural.

The core story already has a high-concept hook: Cheon Yeo Ri, played by Park Eun Bin, becomes entangled with Ma Gang Wook, played by Yang Se Jong, while Ong Seong Wu’s Kang Min Hwan adds another point of tension to the central relationship. The new preview suggests that the romance will not unfold in isolation. Instead, family ambition, workplace alliances, old grudges, and carefully guarded secrets appear set to push the leads into a broader network of conflict.

A Haunted Romance With Corporate Pressure

Among the newly highlighted figures is Jo Hye Joo’s Cheon Ha Ri, a member of the Reina Hotel & Resort Group family. The character is described as Cheon Yeo Ri’s cousin from a collateral branch, a position that leaves her at a disadvantage in the succession race. That detail gives the drama a corporate-family edge, turning Yeo Ri’s supernatural burden into only one part of a larger pressure system.

Ha Ri’s resentment toward Yeo Ri is positioned as more than simple rivalry. Her sense of inferiority and her desire to replace Yeo Ri give the story an internal family conflict that can collide directly with the main romance. In a drama built around ghosts, fear, and emotional chaos, a succession battle inside a powerful hotel group adds a grounded source of danger: people with public status, private wounds, and something to gain.

Kim Do Wan plays Park Seung Jae, Ha Ri’s fiance and a professional golfer from one of South Korea’s elite families. His connection to Ma Gang Wook comes through a past legal dispute, which gives the prosecutor another adversarial thread before the romance even fully begins. Seung Jae’s grudge also means Ha Ri’s ambitions may not be the only force pushing against Yeo Ri and Gang Wook.

Secrets, Allies, And Tension Around The Leads

The stills also introduce Kim Seo Ra as Song Hee Won, the vice chairwoman of CL Hotel & Resort Group. Her outwardly gentle image is paired with a determined personality, while the source material points to a secret connected to her son, Kang Min Hwan. That detail could make Min Hwan’s role in the love triangle more complicated than a straightforward romantic obstacle.

Lee Joon Hyuk appears as Bong Ji Wook, the general manager of Reina Hotel. As someone responsible for the hotel’s operations and closely assisting Cheon Yeo Ri, he brings a workplace dimension to the story. His growing sense of closeness with Yeo Ri may create another quiet emotional layer around a character who is already caught between romance, family expectation, and the eerie reality of seeing ghosts.

Baek Ji Won’s Ok Gye Hee adds another strategic player to the hotel-family conflict. As Cheon Ha Ri’s mother, she is described as someone carefully planning for the group to pass to her own children rather than Yeo Ri. Years of navigating family hierarchy have made her socially sharp, which suggests she may become one of the drama’s most calculating forces.

On the legal side, Lee Chang Hoon plays Go Pil Dong, an investigator at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office. His intuition and close, brotherly bond with Ma Gang Wook give the prosecutor a grounded ally as the story moves between romance, mystery, and supernatural incidents. In a show where fear is part of the premise, that kind of dependable partnership could help balance the more chaotic emotional beats.

Why The Ensemble Matters

The latest preview makes clear that Spooky in Love is aiming for more than a simple opposites-attract romance. The ghost-seeing heiress and frightened prosecutor remain the hook, but the supporting cast gives the drama multiple pressure points: an inheritance struggle, elite family alliances, a professional grudge, hidden parent-child history, and the everyday machinery of a luxury hotel.

That layered setup may be especially important for a remake. Viewers familiar with Spellbound will already know the broad appeal of mixing romance with supernatural fear, so the television version needs enough room to expand its emotional and dramatic stakes over multiple episodes. By foregrounding the ensemble before premiere, tvN appears to be signaling that the series will use its side characters to deepen both the mystery and the romance.

Spooky in Love is scheduled to premiere on July 18 at 9:10 p.m. KST. With Park Eun Bin, Yang Se Jong, Ong Seong Wu, and a newly emphasized supporting lineup, the drama is positioning itself as a summer series where haunted comedy, romantic tension, and corporate-family rivalry all meet under one roof.