Director: Jeong Yong-ki
An interview subject who turns out to have died before the interview even happened sets the tone for The Ghost Station, a 2023 South Korean mystery-horror film directed by Jeong Yong-ki.
What is The Ghost Station about?
Reporter Na-yeong and her partner are chasing a story on a string of unexplained deaths tied to an abandoned subway stop when a routine lead stops making sense: the person they interviewed for the piece was already dead at the time the conversation supposedly took place. Rather than dropping the assignment, the pair keeps digging, following the trail deeper into the station's history and the deaths connected to it. What starts as an investigative piece slowly tips into something the two journalists cannot explain away with facts or footage, and the film uses the enclosed, echoing space of the station itself to build dread without relying on jump-scare overload. At eighty minutes, it stays lean, moving from clue to clue at a brisk pace that suits its urban-legend premise.
Cast & crew
Kim Bo-ra leads as Na-yeong, playing the investigation with a reporter's skepticism that erodes scene by scene as the evidence turns stranger. Kim Jae-hyun plays her partner in the fieldwork, and Shin So-yul and Oh Jin-seok appear in supporting roles connected to the station's past.
Context & significance
The Ghost Station draws on a long tradition of Korean horror set in ordinary urban infrastructure, taking a familiar piece of city life, an old subway platform, and turning it into the site of something unresolved. Director Jeong Yong-ki keeps the scope small and grounded, favoring atmosphere and procedural detail over large-scale spectacle.
Where & how to watch
The Ghost Station streams on K-Time with a Persian-dubbed audio track alongside the original Korean version, and viewers can watch it after logging into a free account. K-Time's Farsi-language interface is built for Persian-speaking audiences looking for genre titles like this one alongside the rest of the catalog.