SEOUL - A hit South Korean feature film has been turned into a K-drama, with Park Eun-bin - one of the local industry’s most bankable stars - leading the charge.

Spooky In Love, starring the South Korean actress and actor Yang Se-jong, reimagines the hit 2011 romantic comedy Spellbound as a 12-episode series, expanding the original supernatural love story for the television format.

It follows Yeo-ri (Park), a chaebol heiress cursed with the ability to see ghosts, who finds herself falling for headstrong prosecutor Ma Kang-wook (Yang).

While the tvN project shares the same Korean title as the original film, which starred Lee Min-ki and Son Ye-jin, this adaptation significantly overhauls the narrative, characters and overall world.

For Park, on a hot streak that includes Netflix’s The Wonderfools (2026) and Disney+’s Hyper Knife (2025), Spooky In Love offered a prime opportunity to explore what she described as a “transmedia” adaptation.

Speaking at a press conference in Seoul on July 14, she expressed her excitement about stretching the boundaries of the original.

“The idea of turning a film into a drama series really struck me as an exciting new challenge,” Park said. “While the original film runs for about two hours, a 12-episode series gives us at least six times...