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The last kdrama we finished was Mystic Pop-Up Bar, which I initially described to genarti and tenillypo after we'd finished the first few episodes as 'like Hotel Del Luna, but everyone is 3x ditzier.'

In fact Mystic Pop-Up Bar turned out to be really thematically distinct from Hotel del Luna in a number of ways, but the starting premise is similar: after some extremely dramatic historical backstory tragedy, Our Antisocial Heroine Weol-ju is cursed to spend her afterlife in the supernatural hospitality industry until an earnest and bright-eyed new employee helps her come to terms with her long-term trauma!

Here's our main cast:



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I don't think this quite is as luminous or indeed thematically coherent a show as Hotel del Luna but it was an extremely fun twelve episodes and I would absolutely recommend (although warning for the fact that the cases-of-the-week generally involve people grappling with quite serious topics like sexual harassment, infertility, death of a partner, dementia, etc. -- happy to provide any specific warnings if requested.)