Korean drama "Bring it on Ghost" episode five recap and screenshots

 This series also goes by the name of "Let's Fight Ghost", if you look this show up either way you'll get the same results.

 Start Date: July 11, 2016.... airs Mondays and Tuesdays at 11:00 pm pm tvN

Rating: 3.5%

Main Cast:

Taec Yeon as Park Bong-Pal

Kim So-Hyun as Kim Hyun-Ji

Kwon Yool as Joo Hye-Sung

Kim Sang-Ho as Monk Myung

Lee Do-Yeon as Oh Kyung-Ja

Kang Ki-Young as Choi Chun-Sang

David Lee as Kim In-Ranger 
Baek Seo-E as Im Seo-yeon

 Watched the first four episodes a day after they were released, there was a total of 16 of them. However stopped at that point and said I would finish the series once it stopped airing. It stopped airing a few weeks ago but had been a bit lax on picking it back up but just started viewing it again and hopefully can zip right through the remaining episodes. What's difficult is that I forgot so much of what happened, luckily it is somewhat of a simple drama which also hopefully means some short recaps as there's still twelve shows to go.
 Briefly, first four shows mainly revolve around Park and Kim. Park is a superb college student who lives by himself, he makes his income by beating up ghosts(!) as for some reason which hasn't been said he's able to see them. One day he somehow met up with Kim who is a 17 year old ghost who was killed five years ago, she would have been 22 had she lived. She's unsure how she died and for the most part can't remember anything about her past though she can get brief glimpses by kissing Park. Kim eventually moves in with Park and helps him in his quest to beat up ghosts, that's mainly a nutshell of what the plot is.

 As mentioned I did forget quite a bit of what happened but this picks up where the fourth episode ended which had Kim getting very drunk for the first time in her life. Like Park says above how can a ghost get drunk but somehow Kim did and she put many veteran drinkers to shame with how much she consumed.
 In one of Park's classes is a senior named Seo-Yeon who is quite a knockout and Kim is jealous of her. The pair have been working on a project for their class, Kim often sits unnoticed in the background stewing. To Kim's dismay it appears the two are going to get even closer as Seo-Yoon joined a ghost hunting college cub Ghostnet. The goofball pair running the club had tried for so long to get Park to join with no success, they're the only ones who know about his special ghost powers.
 Convincing Seo-Yeon to join their club was enough to sway Park as he joined the minute he heard about her being in the club. That happened towards the end of the show so not sure what's going to happen as it didn't appear she has any interest in ghost hunting but it's sure to make Kim even more jealous of the pair.

 Many viewers seemed to like those goofballs in the Ghostnet club, they're okay at times but for the most part they can get a bit tiring. The pair, Choi and Kim, even tried changing their name of the club to 'Sundae Soup' to get Park to join and that flopped miserably for them but least for them he eventually did join. That also created a bit of a team as Choi and Kim try to find 'ghost beating' jobs for Park and they end up taking a cut.
 Not always a good idea taking a break from doing a recap, started this yesterday and stopped after the above paragraph. Now obviously I'm back but you loose that train of thought that was going but on second thought that could be a good thing for you readers.
 Few of the other recaps have brought up Professor Joo, what I had brought up is that we knew so little about him and that continued with this episode. He's an evil character but so far his part hasn't been that huge but have a feeling that'll be changing soon. Joo has his evil sights set on Park, for what reason we don't know why but he has some connection to Park's past and has a picture of his family hidden away at this home.

 Some of the best parts of the first four episodes were the ghost fighting scenes, the one in this show was a bit disappointing. It happened late in the episode, almost at the very end, it also wasn't a long fight scene plus it was so dark it was kind of difficult to see what was happening. In an apartment building there was a constant sound of a child running around and crying, that had been going on for a while yet the apartment was empty.
 Not quite empty as it was possessed by a boy ghost who had been about seven years old when he was murdered. His murderer was his drunken stepfather, shortly after he killed the boy he had a tussle with his wife. In that tussle he ended up going through a glass case, wasn't a case of murder but he was killed by a piece of glass in his neck. The mother didn't go to jail as it was an accident but her life was destroyed and she ended up weeping her days away as she felt guilty not protecting her son.
 That was Park's next case as he and Kim went to the apartment to kill the boy ghost as they didn't know the true story yet. When they get to the building they do find the boy however he wasn't alone as the stepfather was still alive, he was also continuing his abuse of the boy ghost.

 Not much help from Kim in the fight but Park didn't need it as he absolutely pummeled the stepfather. There's some secret from Park's past, perhaps he was abused too(?), but he went a bit overboard on the beating and couldn't stop himself in beating the stepfather up or should I say in killing him. As I said that scene took place very close to the end of the episode so very little happened after that.
 Monk Myung-Chul made an appearance right at the end, we saw quite a bit of him in the first few shows but not these last two. The monk stays with Park often as he's a bit down on his luck, he too has a connection to Park's past but once again there are many secrets we haven't learned yet. Some of those secrets should be coming out soon as we're now at the 1/3 point of this series.

 About the last ten Korean dramas I've viewed have been very serious shows, kind of nice to watch a lighthearted one like this. Haven't read other recaps but this series is supposed to become so much more serious in the second half of it's run, think that'll help as too much lightheartedness can bore me.
 So far so good for this show, no must watch but it's quite enjoyable especially the budding romance between Kim and Park. Think this is a better drama to view instead of reading about, there's a lot of scenes where there isn't much dialogue as our two main characters use so many facial expressions instead of words, especially Kim.
 Like to do two recaps in a row so episode six is right after this one, haven't viewed it yet so have no idea what's going to happen as this show didn't end on a cliffhanger. May take a break again after the next recap as i really want to watch and review the last few episodes of "W" which just ended it's run on Wednesday. There's also a few new shows which are starting up in the next few weeks which I'll be recapping but do plan on posting about all sixteen episodes of this enjoyable drama.

Korean drama "Bring it on Ghost" episode six recap and screenshots

 This series also goes by the name of "Let's Fight Ghost", if you look this show up either way you'll get the same results.

 Start Date: July 11, 2016.... airs Mondays and Tuesdays at 11:00 pm pm tvN

Rating: 3.4%

Main Cast:

Taec Yeon as Park Bong-Pal

Kim So-Hyun as Kim Hyun-Ji

Kwon Yool as Joo Hye-Sung

Kim Sang-Ho as Monk Myung

Lee Do-Yeon as Oh Kyung-Ja

Kang Ki-Young as Choi Chun-Sang

David Lee as Kim In-Ranger 
Baek Seo-E as Im Seo-yeon

 Been saying all along this is an enjoyable series which it is but keep hoping the pace would pick up a bit, seems to be going down a bit. Not that a slower show is bad but too many episodes that are slow kind of make me nod but from what I've heard this drama does pick it up quite a bit after this show.
 It's not boring but some of the things that made the show interesting in the beginning have been phased out a bit such as the hunt for ghosts and then killing them. Don't take any of these criticisms the wrong way as this was actually a fairly good episode, nice rebound from the previous few shows. I mainly wish the plot would develop a bit quicker along with having some questions answered.

 This episode opens up on June 4th which is the anniversary for the death of Park's mother. Park attended a small memorial for her along with the monk, we still need to know what connection Park has with him. That small opening scene was it for the anniversary as it was never mentioned again.
 Meanwhile Kim is having a hard time with her feeling towards Park, we've known for a while she's been in love with him and now she's realizing it. Have to remember Kim still is just 17 as she had died five years ago so from what we know she never had any kind of love interest before her death. Park does care about her but seems like he's starting to care about Seo-Yeon so much more now that they've gotten to know each other better.
 Plus both have joined the Ghostnet club which now goes by the name of 'Sundae Soup'. To celebrate the club reforming Choi and Kim have scheduled a trip for the four person club, make that five as Kim the ghost also tags along unknown to everyone but Park. Yes there are two Kim's in the show but rarely talk about the one in the Sundae Soup club.
 Most of the episode takes place at a cottage where the four are spending two days, actually from about the ten minute mark until the end. At the cottage the foursome do what most people on vacation do which is to have a barbecue and go swimming. Choi also keeps trying to get Park and Seo-Yeon closer as he sends them to the store and tries various other tricks to get the pair alone.

 Think most viewers including me are starting to feel a bit sorry for Kim during this episode. She's fallen for Park and at times it looks like he also may have fallen for her. However now that he's getting closer to Seo-Yeon Kim is starting to get pushed aside as he's spending so much time with her. Also on this trip there's three others besides Park so Kim can never spend any time alone with him. There was a scene near the end where the foursome were drinking and playing some games, Kim wanted to join in so bad but couldn't and she retreated to a corner of the living room. She just looked so down it's really hard not to feel for her.
 Prior to that scene there was a brief one where the Sundae Soup club Kim was going up the stairs and fell. He hit his head on the wall and his vision was quite hazy after that but what he saw in that hazy vision was something that may play a part in the story. He saw the ghost Kim as she went to see if he was okay, he was and when he came to his senses he could no longer see her. That happened once again when he as drinking, no one realizes that he's seeing a ghost and that'll be something that will need to be explained.
 For the most part the last fifty minutes were spent at the cottage with the foursome drinking, playing and eating with Kim the ghost looking on as she's a bit of an outcast. Perhaps not an outcast but there's no way she can join in on the activities, think this may continue on in the next episode.

 As far as the ghost hunting goes there was zero this show but unknown to the group at the time their outing was held at a haunted lake. We didn't see any ghosts until the last few minutes, the one we saw at the end was one who could live underwater. Don't know anything about this female ghost yet but she lives in the haunted lake, no one knew about her until she dragged Seo-Yeon into the lake. She was fighting for her life and Kim who was nearby was no help for some reason.
 Luckily Park happened to stumble upon the scene, he dove into the lake and was able to rescue her but the ghost was able to flee. Park was furious with Kim, he believes her jealousy made her push Seo-Yeon into the lake which was obviously not true but then again she didn't try to save her. This is the first major spat the pair have had as Park storms off to get some medicine for Seo-Yeon. On his way back he passed by Kim who was sitting on a dock so he didn't see what was about to happen.
 At the conclusion of the show, finally a cliffhanger, Kim was dragged into the lake by the female ghost. She struggled for a while but to no avail as the other ghost was much stronger and at the show's conclusion we see Kim sinking slowly to her death.

 Perhaps Kim didn't try to save Seo-Yeon because she can't swim or is scared of water, we'll learn the reason in the next show which will be part two of this 'two-parter'. Granted all sixteen episodes blend into each other but this seems like a 'two-parter' to me. One other thing which I've been mentioning is what is Professor Joo up to, we don't see enough of him but keep thinking we will.
 One of his students has been found dead deep in the woods, her death was courtesy of Joo but now the police are suspicious of him and think he may have had a hand in the murder. He also invaded Park's apartment while he was on the trip, it appears he didn't take anything but was checking out some unknown details about Park's life. When he left the apartment he passed by the monk, the pair knew each other from some past event which is another mystery in this show.
 Like I mentioned above this was a nice rebound from the previous few shows and it has set things up well for the seventh episode. So far would recommend viewing this series, not a strong one yet but if the intensity picks up a bit then this will really become a highly recommended drama. Unsure when the next recaps will be, hopefully next week but first I need to watch the last five episodes of the "W" drama and will also have recaps for those shows coming up soon.