Hotel del Luna


Hotel del Luna is a South Korean television series starring Lee Ji-eun and Yeo Jin-goo as the owner and manager, respectively, of the eponymous hotel that caters only to ghosts. Produced by GTist, written by the Hong sisters and directed by Oh Chung-hwan, it aired on tvN from July 13 to September 1, 2019.

Synopsis

Hotel del Luna is not like any other hotel. A supernatural place, the hotel is not visible in its true form during the daytime and humans can only come across the hotel under special circumstances. Its staff and clients are all ghosts coming to terms with unfinished business in their former lives before they pass on to the afterlife and cycle of reincarnation; the staff, in particular, have been there for decades or centuries as they have not settled their grudges. The exception to this is the hotel's general manager, a post that has been filled by a succession of human "passersby" since they need to interact normally with the real world in certain instances, like paying bills or fulfilling ghosts' requests with still-living relatives/friends.
Jang Man-wol is the owner of this hotel, which is located in Myeong-dong, Seoul. Due to a huge sin committed more than a millennium ago, the hotel catering to the dead has been bound to her soul.
As a result of manipulation by the deity Magu, Man-wol meets Gu Chan-sung's father and makes a deal: in exchange for his life, his son will work for her 20 years later.
Desperate to save his son, the father takes Chan-sung abroad. The young man grows up to be a sincere, level-headed perfectionist with a soft heart. 21 years later, after his father's death, he comes back to South Korea to be an assistant manager at a multinational hotel corporation, only to face Man-wol and end up fulfilling the agreement by becoming the general manager of Hotel del Luna.
Through Chan-sung, the mysteries and the secrets behind the hotel and its owner are revealed.

Cast

Main

  • Lee Ji-eun as Jang Man-wol
  • * Kim Gyu-ri as young Jang Man-wol
  • Yeo Jin-goo as Gu Chan-sung
  • * Kim Kang-hoon as young Gu Chan-sung

    Supporting

At the Hotel del Luna

Original soundtrack

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Chart performance

Viewership

The series aired on tvN, a cable channel/pay TV which normally has a relatively smaller audience compared to free-to-air TV/public broadcasters.

Awards and nominations

Adaptations

On June 24, 2020, Studio Dragon announced that it would co-produce an American remake of Hotel del Luna with Skydance. Alison Schapker will be in charge of developing and producing the series. She will be working with Miky Lee, Jinnie Choi and Hyun Park of Studio Dragon, and David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Bill Bost of Skydance Television.
On January 27, 2021, the theater company Showplay announced that Hotel del Luna would be adapted into a stage musical that premiered in South Korea in 2022.