The East Palace (Season 1)

Two outsiders walk into a haunted royal court in The East Palace (2026), a Korean mystery drama you can watch online on iFILM. Genre-wise it sits between action, fantasy and detective fiction — ghosts talk more than the living do here.

A king's order sends a man who can cross into the spirit world and a court lady who hears the dead straight into the Crown Prince's residence, the palace the title refers to. Nam Joo-hyuk and No Yoon-seo lead the investigation, backed by Jo Seung-woo, Park Soo-yeon and Jang Young-nam, while director Choi Jung-gyu keeps the Joseon-era court etiquette as tense as the ghost sightings.

What sets it apart from the usual sageuk romance is that the case comes first and the chemistry second, closer to a period procedural than a costume melodrama. Catch every episode of The East Palace streaming on iFILM.