Bring It On, Ghost

Bring It On, Ghost is a South Korean television series starring Ok Taec-yeon, Kim So-hyun and Kwon Yul. It is adapted from webtoon of the same name which was serialised on Naver from 2007 to 2010. The series aired on cable network tvN on Mondays and Tuesdays at 23:00 (KST) for 16 episodes from 11 July to 30 August 2016. The series was well-received domestically and internationally. It was ranked as the ninth most watched cable drama in Korea during 2016.

Synopsis
Park Bong-pal (Ok Taec-yeon) has grown up with the ability to see ghosts. He uses his power to work as an exorcist, banishing ghosts in order to make enough money to undergo a procedure that will take his ability away. At a haunted high school, he encounters Kim Hyun-ji (Kim So-hyun) a feisty high school student who, because of a traffic accident, became a wandering spirit. Hyun-ji believes that Bong-pal might hold the secret as to why she is a spirit. In order to be freed from endlessly wandering the earth and be able to ascend to the next life, Hyun-ji convinces Bong-pal to let her move in, and the two become ghost fighting partners.

With Hyun-ji, Bong-pal finds that he can fight even stronger ghosts, but also learns that not all ghosts are malevolent. Working and living together, Bong-pal, a long time loner, finds himself falling in love with Hyun-ji, who returns his feelings. However, both are unaware that they are being stalked by an evil spirit that was the cause of Hyun-ji's accident, and is the reason Bong-pal can see ghosts.

Main

 * Ok Taec-yeon as Park Bong-pal
 * Lee Seung-woo as young Bong-pal
 * The male protagonist. Bong-pal is a 23-year-old Economics student and he lived with an exorcist. He can see and interact with ghosts, whom he beats up into leaving their haunts. Due to his ability, he grew up avoiding people and was always a loner before he met and fell in love with Hyun-ji.


 * Kim So-hyun as Kim Hyun-ji
 * The female protagonist. A middle high-school student who, since a car accident when she was 19, has roamed the earth for five years as a wandering spirit. With no memory of her past, she is unable to move on. Discovering that Bong-pal may hold the secret to her past, she moves in with him and becomes his ghost-fighting partner. She can see how ghosts were killed, allowing her to help Bong-pal in dispelling them. Living and fighting, together and against each other, she falls in love with Bong-pal.


 * Kwon Yul as Joo Hye-sung
 * Jang Ho-joon as young Hye-sung
 * The main antagonist. At 31, he is the youngest professor of veterinary medicine at Bong-pal's university. He has been possessed by a powerful evil spirit for so long that it is almost impossible to discern the difference between the two. Before possessing Hye-sung, the spirit had tried to possess the young Bong-pal, and the fragment of the spirit that remains in Bong-pal is the reason he can see ghosts. Fearing a ritual weapon that can destroy him and the spirit that possesses him, Hye-sung has stalked Bong-pal for years and was responsible for the death of his mother, a medium.

People around Park Bong-pal

 * Kim Sang-ho as Monk Myung-cheol
 * A 55-year-old Buddhist monk, he has been Bong-pal's spiritual protector since childhood.


 * Kim Min-sang as Park Ji-hoon
 * Bong-pal's father. Bong-pal is estranged from his father, unaware that he has been trying to protect him.


 * Son Eun-seo as Hong Myung-hee
 * Bong-pal's mother, a powerful medium, who died when Bong-pal was quite young.

Ghosts

 * Lee Do-yeon as Oh Kyung-ja
 * The ghost of 32-year-old woman. Hyun-ji's friend, the two being ghosts together. Kyung-ja appears to be a "virgin ghost" common in Korean mythology, and follows handsome men around. We later on find out more about her back story.

Myungsung University

 * Kang Ki-young as Choi Cheon-sang
 * A 26-year-old 3rd-year Physical Education student and the president of the university ghost-hunting club "Ghost Net".


 * Lee David as Kim In-rang
 * A 25-year-old 3rd-year Computer and Information Science student and the vice-president of "Ghost Net".


 * Baek Seo-yi as Lim Seo-yeon
 * A 25-year-old, she is a 4th-year Economics student on whom Bong-pal has a crush.

Extended

 * Nam Kyung-min as Nurse Jung
 * A 27-year-old woman


 * Yeon Ji-hae as Nurse Kim
 * A 24-year-old woman


 * Yoon Seo-hyun as Detective Yang
 * A 46-year-old man, he is a sergeant of Mapo Police Station criminal case, who is highly suspicious of Hye-sung for his connections of multiple murder cases.


 * Jung Ji-soon as Detective Kim
 * A 41-year-old man, he is the chief of Mapo Police Station criminal case


 * Choi Min-geum
 * Oh Ha-nui
 * Seo Yoon-ah as Noh Hyun-joo
 * Yoon Joo
 * Kim Choo-wol
 * Lee Jeong-hyuk
 * Kwon Ban-seok
 * Hyun Jeong-cheol
 * Kim Ji-eun as Freshman Kim Ji-eun
 * Yoon Sung-won
 * Yeom Ji-hye
 * Son Seung-hee
 * Kim Hyo-myung as union club president
 * Seo Kwang-jae as monk Myung-cheol's acupuncturist friend
 * Seo Jeong-ha
 * Lee Ye-rim
 * Son Young-soon as dead child's grandmother
 * Park Gyu-young as Lee Se-in
 * Oh Eun-byul
 * Kwon Ji-hwan
 * Kim Sang-woo
 * Lee Jin-mok
 * Lee Min-sung
 * Kwon Soon-joon
 * Kang Min-ah as Kim Eun-sung
 * Joo Boo-jin as guest house's grandmother
 * Kim Do-yoon
 * Park Geon-rak
 * Choi Yoon-joon
 * Kim Joon-won as detective
 * Choi Soo-im as Hyun-min's younger brother
 * Son Seon-geun
 * Yook Mi-ra
 * Park Geon
 * Park Gwi-soon as monk
 * Park Hyung-joon (actor) as doctor
 * Yoon Hee-won as Hyun-ji's father
 * Park Jae-hong
 * Ha Min
 * Yoo An
 * Ahn Soo-bin
 * Lee Han-joo
 * Han Ji-woon
 * Im Jae-geun
 * Ri Min
 * Jung Jong-hyun
 * Kim Mi-hye
 * Kim Hye-rim
 * Jo Seon-mook
 * Go Jin-young
 * Lee Jae-soo
 * Shin Dong-hoon
 * Ahn Sung-geon
 * Kang Ji-woo
 * Lee Ho
 * Choi Hyo-eun
 * Kim So-yi
 * Park Sung-gyun
 * Kim Joo-young
 * Park Dae-won
 * Lee Dong-hee
 * Jo Ah-jin
 * Cha Min-hyuk
 * Lee Jae-won
 * Ahn Ye-eun
 * Kim Soo-jeong
 * Yang Ha-young

Special appearances

 * Lee Se-young as ghost (Ep. 1)
 * Choi Hong-man as ghost (Ep. 1)
 * Shim Hyung-tak as teacher (Ep. 1, 5, 16)
 * Woo Hyun as ghost (Ep. 1)
 * Choi Go as a boy on the bus (Ep. 1)
 * Lee Jung-eun as apartment's woman president (Ep. 2)
 * Han Bo-reum as Miz (Ep. 3)
 * Choi Dae-sung as sauna's owner (Ep. 4)
 * Goo Bon-im as monk Myung-cheol's acquaintance (Ep. 5, 10–11, 15)
 * Park Hyun-sook as Kim Eun-sung's mother (Ep. 7)
 * Kim Ji-young as Kim In-rang's grandmother (Ep. 7)
 * Choi Ji-na as Seo Jeong-geum – 48-year-old, Hyun-ji's mother (Ep. 7, 11)
 * Park Choong-seon as national CSI's autopsy staff (Ep. 7, 10)
 * Jin Yi-han as Hyun-min (Ep. 9, 10)
 * Lee Soo-kyung as Shin Soo-kyung (Ep. 9, 10)
 * Yoon Bong-gil (actor) as union club's secretary (Ep. 10)
 * Kim Hee-won as detective (Ep. 12)
 * Seo Hyun-jin as department store clerk (Ep. 13)
 * Kwon Hyuk-soo as client (Ep. 16)
 * Yoon Doo-joon as Goo Dae-young (Ep. 16)
 * Kim Hyun-sook as shaman (Ep. 16)

Production
In March 2016, tvN announced that they would be adapting and producing a drama version of Hey Ghost, Let's Fight, a popular 2007–2010 manhwa by Im In-seu, under the same title. On April 27, Kim So-hyun's agency confirmed that she would join the drama, with male lead Ok Taec-yeon and Kwon Yul joining on May 4.

The first script reading was held on May 18, 2016, at CJ E&M Center in Sangam-dong, Seoul, South Korea. Episode 1 was aired on July 11, 2016, on tvN channel.

Ratings
In this table, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest.


 * This drama airs on a cable channel/pay TV which normally has a relatively smaller audience compared to free-to-air TV/public broadcasters (KBS, SBS, MBC and EBS).

Adaptations
A Thai remake, titled Let's Fight Ghost was broadcast in Thailand in the first half of 2021 by True Asian Series, True4U, and NETFLIX; it stars Suppapong Udomkaewkanjana and Patchanan Jiajirachote of BNK48.