The audience's favorite Korean drama, The Haunted Palace, finally ended with the airing of the last episode on Saturday June 7, 2025 night. Bye-bye Yoon Gab and Yeo Ri! Hiks... Airing since April 18, 2025, The Haunted Palace closed its season in episode 16.
Until the end, this Korean drama starring BtoB's Yook Sungjae and Bona continued to steal the hearts of the audience and achieved the highest ratings. Nielsen Korea reported that The Haunted Place episode 16's ratings reached their highest point throughout their season.
The Korean drama, written by Yoon Soo Jung, achieved a rating of 11 percent throughout South Korea. This figure makes The Haunted Palace the number 1 Korean drama in its broadcast time slot on Saturday night.
Superior to a number of TV series titles that are currently airing on various other channels. Obtaining this high rating adds to the feeling of happiness at the end of the story, OK? On Netflix, this SBS drama is also still in the top 5 most watched TV series throughout the weekend.
Viewed Sunday June 8, 2025, The Haunted Palace is in the #4 most popular position (one place lower than Losmen Bu Broto), and the third most popular if the Indonesian series is not included in the calculation.
Since its first broadcast, The Haunted Palace has been immediately glanced at by domestic South Korean audiences. There is a reason why this drama really sticks, namely the combination of various genres that are currently popular, including exorcism.
The exorcism theme in the Korean drama The Haunted Palace was greatly influenced by the success of the film Exhuma (2024). Did you know that the film starring Kim Go Eun was a big hit last year?
It turns out that when a similar theme was brought to the screen and produced well, the result was also a success. "The public is interested in shamanism and folklore traditions after the popularity of Exhuma. That's why The Haunted Palace was made like this.
Previously, the occult genre (featuring exorcisms) was also popular, such as Revenant (2023) and The Judge from Hell (2024), so we believe that productions like this are still worth exploring," SBS was quoted as saying by Korea JoongAng Daily.
Cultural critic Jeong Dok Hyun said that more and more imaginative Korean sageuk (set in the past royal era) dramas are emerging. Of course, this is an attempt by producers to differentiate themselves from similar dramas.
He also feels that the effectiveness of combining various genres in sageuk drama is still okay until now. So it's no wonder that there will be many new sageuk drama projects emerging this year. Do you think it will be able to beat The Haunted Palace?
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