Missing: The Other Side

October 12, 2020

Con artist Kim Wook (Go Soo) stumbles into a hidden village in the Gapyeong countryside — a place where missing persons whose bodies were never found exist as ghosts, unable to cross over until their physical remains are located.

October 12, 2020

Wook and shaman Jang Pan-seok (Heo Joon-ho) work together to find the body of the village's first ghost — so their soul can rest.

October 19, 2020

The hidden village's residents — each with their own story of how they came to be missing — are introduced as the drama's ensemble.

October 19, 2020

The living-world Seoul streets where Wook investigates the missing persons' cases from the outside.

October 26, 2020

The families of the missing — in the Seoul urban world — whose grief the drama's resolutions address.

October 26, 2020

Extended sequences in the Gapyeong countryside — the landscape of the hidden village's forest and fields.

November 2, 2020

Wook's initial selfishness — his original reasons for wanting access to the hidden village — complicates his relationship with the village's residents.

November 2, 2020

The shaman's accumulated knowledge about the hidden village and its history.

November 9, 2020

Cases involving people who have been missing for many years — their stories requiring longer investigation.

November 9, 2020

Wook's character development — from reluctant participant to genuine advocate for the missing — tracked without melodrama.

November 16, 2020

The contrast between the hidden village's intense investment in being found and the living world's practical forgetting of the missing.

November 16, 2020

A pattern connecting several of the missing persons' cases is identified.

November 23, 2020

The person responsible for multiple disappearances is identified.

November 23, 2020

The hidden village's own deepest secret — why it exists, who maintains it — is revealed.

November 30, 2020

The drama's most emotionally concentrated episode — multiple missing persons found simultaneously.

November 30, 2020

The finale. A fantasy mystery that used its missing persons premise to examine grief, closure, and the difference between disappearing and being found.