Oh My Ghost! [Kdrama Review]
Take all your favorite Kdramas, shake them up, and get the best of all worlds
Dear Nora Ephron — I watched a 2015 Korean drama and I just think everyone should watch it. It’s sheer delight, and fun, and oh look there’s cooking in it too!
When I first heard of Oh My Ghost (also titled Oh My Ghostess), I was thrilled. Here was a new drama that promised to combine the best parts of Pasta (the kitchen drama), The Master’s Sun (the crazy-but-loveable woman who can see ghosts), and Arrang and the Magistrate (the amnesiac ghost trying to discover who she was in life and the truth of her death, complete with shaman frenemy) — AND IT DELIVERED! On all these promises and more.
Set in a contemporary restaurant that seems vaguely Italian in nature — who knows? it’s not specified — Na Bong Sun is a lowly prep-chef and all around go-for, whose self-confidence is so piddling it’s through the floorboards. Her response to anything that happens, whether she’s at fault or not, is to apologize. Argh! A fault that is compounded by the fact that she often is at fault — or more truthfully, the ghosts that only she can see are at fault.
The ghosts harass her at night, keeping her from sleep, and causing her to doze off at work. The ghosts pop up around the kitchen, scaring her, causing her…
