The Guest (TV series)

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The Guest
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Promotional poster
Hangul 손: The Guest
Literal meaning Hand: The Guest
Revised Romanization Son the guest
Genre
Created by Jinnie Choi
for Studio Dragon
Written by
  • Kwon So-ra
  • Seo Jae-won
Directed by Kim Hong-seon[1]
Starring
Composer(s) Kim Tae-seong
Country of origin South Korea
Original language(s) Korean
No. of episodes 16
Production
Executive producer(s)
  • Jinnie Choi
  • Kim Gun-hong
Producer(s) Kim Ryun-hee
Camera setup Single-camera
Running time 60 minutes
Production company(s) Studio Dragon
Release
Original network OCN
Original release September 12 (2018-09-12) –
November 1, 2018 (2018-11-01)
External links
[{{#property:P856}} Website]

The Guest[2][3] (Hangul: 손 the guest; RR: Son the guest) is a 2018 South Korean television series about exorcism and shamanism that stars Kim Dong-wook, Kim Jae-wook, and Jung Eun-chae. It aired from September 12 to November 1, 2018 as OCN's first series on the newly created Wednesdays and Thursdays at 23:00 (KST) time slot.[4][5][6][7]

Despite not airing in prime time, the series received a peak rating of 4% nationwide.[8]

Plot

Yoon Hwa-pyung, the young son of a shaman family, is psychic and can see ghosts. After a villager is possessed and makes eye contact with him, he too is possessed by a powerful spirit called Park Il-do. His mother is then mysteriously killed and his grandmother commits suicide. His father blames him for the deaths. Priest Yang is invited to perform an exorcism on the boy, along with the young priest-in-training, Priest Choi. Hwa-pyung whispers that he has something to tell Priest Choi, who leans in and is subsequently possessed, with the spirit leaving Hwa-pyung's body.

Priest Choi returns home and brutally murders his parents before finding his younger brother, Choi Yoon, hiding under his bed. At the same time, Hwa-pyung runs away from home after his father tries to strangle him. Having Priest Choi's address, he decides to go to his house but stops at the entrance, sensing an evil spirit inside. A policewoman and her daughter, Kang Gil-young, drive by and see Hwa-pyung; the policewoman investigates the house and finds Yoon; she tells him to run before being murdered by Priest Choi. Yoon flees the house, joining Gil-young and Hwa-pyung outside. As Gil-young moves to go into the house to find her mother, Hwa-pyung stops her, saying she shouldn't go in. As the police arrive, he sees the possessed Priest Choi, standing eerily in the field, staring at him.

In 2018, 20 years after the incident, Hwa-pyung is now a taxi driver who uses his psychic abilities to help those who are possessed, with his ultimate goal being to find Priest Choi in order to exorcise Park Il-do from his body. Hwa-pyung has a wall devoted to news articles about families being brutally killed and has been tracking deaths all over the country that are suspiciously similar to those committed by Priest Choi. With his powers, he is able to see through the eyes of the possessed and find out who they have killed, which results in his entanglement with Gil-Young, who followed her mother's footsteps and became a police detective. Yoon is now a priest, also determined to find his possessed brother, while reluctantly exorcising those who are possessed with the help of Hwa-pyung. Unbeknownst to the three of them, they were the three children from the incident 20 years ago, though they do not recognize each other now all these years later.

Park Il-do orders the weaker spirits to possess people who are emotionally weak. Hwa-pyung and Yoon work together to expel demons while, Gil-young works to bring justice to the victims while being skeptical of spirits.

Cast

Main

  • Kim Dong-wook as Yoon Hwa-pyung, a shaman who was born with psychic powers.[9]
  • Kim Jae-wook as Choi Yoon / Matthew, a cynical and cold priest who alienates people but is recognized by his abilities as an exorcist.[11]
    • Jung Yoo-geun as young Choi Yoon
  • Jung Eun-chae as Kang Gil-young, a passionate and tough but easygoing detective who does not believe in the supernatural.[12]

Supporting

Special appearance

Original soundtrack

The Guest
Original Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by Various Artists
Recorded 2018
Genre Soundtrack
Language
Label

Part 1

Released on October 4, 2018 (2018-10-04)[28]
No. Title Artist Length
1. "Somewhere"   O3ohn (오존) 02:55
2. "Somewhere (Memory Ver.)"   Ha Jin (하진) 03:30
3. "Somewhere" (Inst.)   02:55
4. "Somewhere (Memory Ver.)" (Inst.)   03:30
Total length:
 12:50

Part 2

Released on October 11, 2018 (2018-10-11)[29]
No. Title Artist Length
1. "Bad Dream" (나쁜 꿈) Son Seung-yeon 04:00
2. "Bad Dream" (Inst.)   04:00
Total length:
 8:00

Viewership

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Average TV viewership ratings
Ep. Original broadcast date Average audience share
Nielsen Korea[31] TNmS
Nationwide Seoul Nationwide Seoul
1 September 12, 2018 1.575% (5th) 1.846% (6th) 2.2% (4th)[32] N/A
2 September 13, 2018 2.902% (3rd) 3.488% (3rd) N/A
3 September 19, 2018 2.572% (3rd) 2.857% (3rd) 2.7%[33]
4 September 20, 2018 3.207% (3rd) 3.917% (3rd) 3.0%[33]
5 September 26, 2018 2.899% (7th) 3.390% (7th) 3.6%[34]
6 September 27, 2018 2.960% (3rd) 3.176% (3rd) N/A 4.0%[35]
7 October 3, 2018 3.025% (4th) 2.974% (5th) 4.0%[36] 4.3%[36]
8 October 4, 2018 3.151% (3rd) 3.339% (3rd) 3.9%[36] 4.5%[36]
9 October 10, 2018 2.887% (3rd) 3.534% (1st) N/A N/A
10 October 11, 2018 3.054% (2nd) 3.396% (3rd) 4.2%[37]
11 October 17, 2018 2.616% (4th) 2.875% (4th) 4.4%[37]
12 October 18, 2018 3.297% (2nd) 3.700% (2nd) 4.6%[38] 5.0%[39]
13 October 24, 2018 3.328% (2nd) 3.618% (2nd) N/A
14 October 25, 2018 3.378% (2nd) 3.498% (2nd) 5.0%[40] 5.5%[40]
15 October 31, 2018 3.399% (1st) 3.766% (1st) N/A
16 November 1, 2018 4.073% (2nd) 4.808% (2nd) 5.6%[41] 6.3%[41]
Average 3.020% 3.386% —[lower-alpha 1] —[lower-alpha 1]
  • In the table above, the blue numbers represent the lowest published ratings and the red numbers represent the highest published ratings.
  • N/A denotes that the rating is not known.
  • This series aired 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).

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Due to some unpublished ratings, the exact average rating is unknown.

References

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External links

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