Park Eun Bin and Yang Se Jong Preview an Uneasy Alliance in Spooky in Love

Park Eun Bin and Yang Se Jong are set to meet in a new tvN drama that blends romance, comedy, cold-case investigation, and the supernatural. The network’s upcoming series Spooky in Love has released new preview material highlighting the uneasy partnership at the center of the story, giving viewers a clearer look at how its two leads will be pushed into the same strange world.

The drama is described as an investigative occult romance and is based on the 2011 film Spellbound. It follows Cheon Yeo Ri, a hotel heiress played by Park Eun Bin, and Ma Gang Wook, a prosecutor played by Yang Se Jong. Their connection begins less like a conventional love story than a forced collaboration between two people whose lives operate by very different rules.

A ghost-seeing heiress meets a ghost-fearing prosecutor

Cheon Yeo Ri is not simply a wealthy heroine with an unusual secret. She can see and hear ghosts, and the ability has shaped the way she moves through the world. According to the drama’s setup, she can also open another person’s spiritual sight with a single touch, a power that makes ordinary contact potentially disruptive and explains why she keeps a careful distance from others.

That isolation gives the character a practical role in the drama’s mystery structure. Yeo Ri helps resolve the lingering grievances of the dead, listening to victims who can no longer speak through normal channels. Their accounts become clues, but they are not enough on their own. The series positions her information as the beginning of an investigation rather than a shortcut to justice.

Ma Gang Wook brings the other half of that process. He is a tenacious prosecutor who pursues cases to the end, especially cold cases, but he is also deeply afraid of ghosts. That contradiction is the engine of the partnership: he needs evidence that will stand in the world of the living, while Yeo Ri can access voices and memories that others cannot. Together, they are expected to connect supernatural testimony with concrete proof.

Why the partnership matters

The appeal of Spooky in Love will likely depend on how well the drama balances its genres. A ghost-focused premise can easily tilt toward horror or fantasy, while a prosecutor-led story can become a procedural. The new preview suggests tvN is aiming for something lighter and more character-driven, using cases to bring two guarded people into repeated contact until their assumptions about each other begin to soften.

The newly released stills point directly at that shift. The characters are first framed as wary of one another, but later images show them smiling together, hinting that the early tension will not stay fixed. That is a familiar romance structure, but the supernatural element gives it a different emotional route: Gang Wook has to face the very thing he fears, while Yeo Ri has to let someone else into a life she has carefully protected.

Park Eun Bin’s role also gives the series a potentially layered lead character. Yeo Ri is powerful because she can hear the dead, but that same gift separates her from ordinary intimacy. The drama can use that contrast to make her more than a quirky occult heroine. Her ability may help solve cases, yet it also raises a more personal question about what it costs to live constantly between the living and the dead.

What to watch before the premiere

For Yang Se Jong, Ma Gang Wook offers a complementary challenge. A prosecutor who is passionate about justice but terrified of ghosts gives the actor room to move between determination, panic, comedy, and sincerity. If the drama leans into that contrast without turning the character into a one-note coward, his fear could become an effective way to measure how much he changes through working with Yeo Ri.

The remake connection to Spellbound will also draw attention. Viewers familiar with the film may watch to see which elements are preserved and which are updated for a serialized drama format. A television version has more time to build case-of-the-week tension, deepen the leads’ emotional history, and stretch the romance across multiple investigations rather than compressing everything into one film arc.

Spooky in Love is scheduled to premiere on July 18 at 9:10 p.m. KST. For now, the confirmed picture is straightforward: Park Eun Bin plays a ghost-seeing heiress who helps the dead speak, Yang Se Jong plays a prosecutor who fears the supernatural but cannot ignore a case, and tvN is betting that their uneasy alliance can become both an investigation hook and a romance worth following.