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Mystic Pop-up Bar

★ 7.9 4K votes 2020–2020 1 season · 12 episodes Ended JTBC
K-dramaKorean drama storytelling: emotional arcs, romance beats and format traditions.This show: 9/10SupernaturalGhosts, demons and powers beyond nature in our own world.This show: 8/10WhimsicalPlayful, fanciful and lightly magical in sensibility.This show: 7/10BittersweetJoy and loss mixed so thoroughly they can't be separated.This show: 7/10EpisodicSelf-contained episodes you can watch in almost any order.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Hwang Jeong-eumYook Sung-jaeChoi Won-youngLee Joon-hyukBaek Do GyumKim Young-ah
Starring
Hwang Jeong-eumYook Sung-jaeChoi Won-youngLee Joon-hyukBaek Do GyumKim Young-ah
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
020406080

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About

"Bittersweet ghost-therapy sessions disguised as sitcom comedy"

A centuries-old, perpetually irritable woman runs a hidden pop-up bar that only appears to people burdened by regret. Her secret ingredient is a drink that forces customers to relive a buried memory, letting her intervene and settle their unfinished business as payment toward lifting her own ancient curse. It's an episodic K-drama, each installment its own bittersweet mini-story of grief, guilt, or missed chances, wrapped in broad comedy and a growing central mystery. The tone shifts fast between silly slapstick and genuine tearjerker, carried almost entirely by its lead's sharp, weary charisma.

Watch it for

the case-of-the-week format delivering surprisingly moving emotional payoffs inside broad comedic packaging.

Maybe skip if

you want a tightly serialized plot rather than loosely connected standalone stories each week.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12020
8.374212
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Episode #1.18.0
77—
▶2Episode #1.28.4
70—
▶3Episode #1.38.4
61—
▶4Episode #1.48.2
61—
▶5Episode #1.58.5
60—
▶6Episode #1.68.0
62—
▶7Episode #1.78.4
58—
▶8Episode #1.88.3
57—
▶9Episode #1.98.2
57—
▶10Episode #1.108.4
58—
▶11Episode #1.118.5
59—
▶12Episode #1.128.6
62—

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Hwang Jeong-eum Wol-joo
Yook Sung-jae Han Kang Bae
Choi Won-young Chief Gwi
Lee Joon-hyuk Department Head Yeom
Baek Do Gyum Head Yeoms Assistant
Kim Young-ah Hang Sang-gung
Park Si-eun Weol Joo (young)
Lee Sang-hoon
Baek Soo-hee Kim Da-bin
Jung Da-Eun Kang Yeo-rin

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