Gyeongseong Creature

December 22, 2023

Jang Tae-sang (Park Seo-joon) runs a pawnshop in the old Okseon-dong district of Japanese-occupied Seoul. A desperate young woman arrives asking for help finding someone who has disappeared into a Japanese military hospital.

December 22, 2023

Yoon Chae Ok (Han So-hee) is an independence activist and skilled tracker. Her search for a missing person has led her to Gyeongseong — and to the same military hospital.

December 22, 2023

The Japanese military hospital's secret basement is glimpsed. The biological experiments being conducted there are worse than anything the drama initially suggested.

December 22, 2023

The creature created by the hospital's experiments is revealed. The drama shifts from historical thriller to horror without losing its period authenticity.

December 22, 2023

Tae-sang and Chae Ok are forced into alliance. Their different motivations — his pragmatism, her idealism — create productive friction.

December 22, 2023

Extended scenes across the purpose-built 1940s colonial-era set show the full scale of the production's historical reconstruction.

December 29, 2023

The full scope of the experiments is revealed. The creature's connection to someone Tae-sang knows makes everything personal.

December 29, 2023

Tae-sang and Chae Ok work with the underground resistance to expose the hospital. The drama's historical and horror elements fuse completely.