Are you alive?
Or are you dead?
I'm just...
here.
I'm neither alive
nor dead.
I'm just stuck.
I'm confined in a time zone
that can't ever be turned back.
Let's go!
No!
You're the one that led the group, aren't you?
You're the ringleader.
Hey.
You guys are thieves from Gaori Village, aren't you?
That means you're a nomad from Goguryeo.
You get what I'm saying, don't you?
Hey!
Shut it.
I'm also from the same place. Hello, brother.
Or should I call you "sister"?
"Sister"?
Sister.
Why don't you let me free now?
I'm just a low-class officer in charge of escorting his superiors.
So you won't get much money by holding me hostage.
I know how I'm going to get money.
What?
The noble lady who didn't even care about losing her silk bundle
seemed to care very dearly about something else.
I guess guarding the young lady wasn't the only thing in your job description.
All I did was talk with her a few times so she wouldn't be bored on her way.
I guess she couldn't help
but fall for me because of this pretty face.
Then your face must be worth quite a bit.
Can I persuade you to let me go?
If my hands and feet were free,
I'm sure I would be even more persuasive.
If I cut off your tongue for talking nonsense,
will the price for your face fall?
How can you say such a scary thing?
Darn.
Pull me up.
What are you doing? Can't you hear me?
How can I help you when I'm like this?
If my hands and feet were free, I could help you better.
Throw me your sword.
Don't move. If you move, you'll be sucked in faster.
Throw me your sword.
Where are you going?
Come back!
Grab it.
Quickly!
You're my hostage now.
The price on my head would be much higher
than the price on a low-class warrior's face.
Actually, I'm not a low-class warrior.
The lady I was escorting is the princess of Yeongju Castle.
And I'm the captain of her guards.
Are you looking at the moon that has come up today?
Or the moon that came up a thousand years ago?
They are all one and the same.
The flowers in the garden have blossomed brightly.
You must have taken good care of your guests so far
at the Guest House of the Moon.
I told you I changed the name of this place.
It's not a guest house. It's Hotel del Luna.
Stop calling me a landlady.
I'm the president.
They are the same thing.
I saw that the human who had served you for a while left you.
Well, from death comes a new life.
I also died.
Why don't they take me?
You didn't die.
You are tied to the Moon Tree,
and the flow of life and death has stopped for you. I told you that.
How long will you keep me tied up?
It's you who is not budging.
I shriveled up and died.
If you cut it up and burn it,
I will be on my way.
The leaves sprout, and the flowers bloom and wither.
The time of life and death will flow once again.
Don't you think you should leave something pretty like this behind before you go?
I have nothing pretty and colorful like that to leave behind.
Why don't you pick the bright flowers
and give them to pitiful spirits when you see them off?
That child is still
filled to the brim...
I can't leave you like this forever.
Thank you for saving me earlier.
Consider yourself lucky.
I wouldn't have saved you if you had been wearing other shoes.
They are so much better than the tacky poop colored shoes.
You waited for me, wearing the shoes that I chose for you.
I never waited for you.
Come on.
You sent me a text on the pretext of that tiger, and waited for me.
I was just curious.
Of course you were curious.
Because you've been thinking about me all along.
Did you
cast a spell on me or something?
Is that why I dreamed about you?
You dreamed about me?
Seeing ghosts like this is already too much for me.
I don't want to see you in my dream.
Why? Did I eat you up in your dream or something?
Forget it.
I don't think it was you in my dream.
If she were you, she wouldn't have done that.
I forgive you.
You are an adult, so you can have a dream like that.
What?
It's not that kind of dream!
Koo Chan-sung. I thought you were weak,
but you are actually very healthy.
Yes, I am very healthy.
Okay, you stay healthy.
If you faint like earlier again, it will be too troublesome for me.
How did you bring me here?
Did you teleport me or something?
It was nothing.
Just like you brought a handcart the other day,
I brought something to carry you here.
Get in there.
Let's move him.
Ms. Jang, I'm in him.
Let's go.
Wait for me.
Come on, Ms. Jang.
Come out of there.
Now that I'm in a human body,
may I go out and party a little?
Come out.
I really don't want to get out of this body.
Ms. Jang. Please.
Come out!
That must have hurt.
Go.
Go!
All you need to know is that I moved you here safely.
Is your neck all right?
Sure.
Why?
As long as you're fine.
Let's go.
Now that you're at my hotel, I'll give you a tour.
Does this place really exist in the real world?
Like I said last time,
our hotel is officially registered at the Jung-gu District Office,
and we pay all the taxes too.
It does exist in the real world,
but its presence is very vague,
so the living do not notice it.
But it can sometimes be seen
when the weather is bad or if the person has a good sixth sense.
I didn't know there was a hotel here.
You're right.
But it looks kind of scary. Let's just go.
But three to four times a year, there are people who come in to check.
My goodness.
Our rooms are very expensive.
What do you do with the people who insist on coming in?
I will check in.
We have a special room we use for people like them.
Please go inside.
Sure.
A number of people have checked into this room,
but no one has ever checked out.
What did you do to them?
Do you want to know?
Do you want to go in?
I still have many places to show you.
Okay. Then let's move on to the next one.
Why do you need sunglasses in the middle of the night?
I don't come out here very often.
The sun is too bright.
It's nighttime in the middle of Seoul. What is this place?
The inside of the hotel isn't the real world.
The time and space here
are different from the world you live in.
Maps and watches are absolutely useless here.
So this isn't the real world as well?
No.
Nothing in this hotel exists in the real world.
No matter how pretty it is, it's not in the real world.
You don't exist
in the real world too?
No,
I don't.
Then I wouldn't die if I fell from here?
Be careful. You're still alive.
If a living human falls down, he'll die because the human body is too weak.
This was what it was like to have a warm body
with a beating heart.
You need to be alive. You have many things to do for me.
Stay by my side from now on, Koo Chan-sung.
If I say no,
are you going to push me over?
It may be a surreal place,
but I demand realistic benefits.
And I am going to wear whatever shoes I like.
You thought I might push you over?
Is that why you have changed your mind?
I've come this far.
What's the use of running away now?
To be honest, I got curious.
And it looks kind of fun too.
I want to know more
about you and this hotel.
Good.
I was going to let it slide even if you tried to run away
a few more times.
Like I told you before, you are my cup of tea.
It was her.
That woman.
May I get a refill on my coffee?
Yes.
-Oh, right. Honey. -Yes?
Let's stop by the grocery store on the way.
We'd have to take a detour.
Let's just go next time.
What happened?
-What should we do? -Hello?
-What do we do? Is she dead? -Is this 911?
Someone got hit by a car.
No, it wasn't me.
She suddenly fell from an overpass.
Yes, can you please come quickly?
Oh, right. The location?
We're currently at...
911 EMERGENCY SERVICE
That darn loser.
This is driving me crazy.
Whatever!
What's going on?
What happened to me?
Who are you?
This is mine.
We have a new human hotel manager.
I brought him from one of the best hotels named by Forbes.
So he'll do a good job.
I know he graduated from Harvard,
but the work we do here isn't based on knowledge.
He needs to have some guts.
But he seems very weak-hearted, and that worries me.
How about we leave the position vacant for a while
and hire someone from the two candidates you had in mind?
There were two other candidates?
Of course.
The top candidate even knows how to perform an exorcism, right?
What's the point?
He left to catch some useless ghost.
I ask you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Why are you here? What is your name?
-That's enough! -Do not interfere!
I can't go there before I catch this ghost.
You should leave.
I ask you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
What is your name?
Answer me!
-I'm more scared of him. -Tell me your name!
I gave him the ability to see ghosts only to see him leave to catch some ghost.
Won't he come back once he catches it?
That'll be impossible. The ghost is really strong.
Park Il-do, that punk.
Who was the second candidate?
He was a fighter pilot.
She went all the way to the States to find him.
But he eventually left in that thing.
In what thing?
I don't need the top two candidates.
Koo Chan-sung is here, so we're good.
His office is ready.
Mr. No knew he was going to leave and had the office cleaned up beforehand.
He worked here for 30 years, but he didn't leave a single trace behind.
Yes, he did.
That over there.
Mr. No took that photo.
So many humans worked here,
but they're all so vague to me.
How many people were here including Mr. No?
Ms. Jang is the only one who knows that.
There's been no one special. What's the point of counting?
What are you doing? Get back to work.
He was nothing more than the 48th human to work here.
And Koo Chan-sung
will just be the 49th human to work here. Nothing more.
MANAGER KOO CHAN-SUNG
I caved in way too easily. That was so not like me.
Why did I do that?
This was what it was like to have a warm body
with a beating heart.
I got too carried away.
Ms. Jang told us to say hello to the new manager.
If you all work here,
that means you're all ghosts, right?
I died about 500 years ago.
She died 200 years ago.
And he died 70 years ago. He's the youngest among us.
I was a scholar who studied very hard when I was alive.
After a long period of studying,
I passed the National State Exam with the highest score.
But I suddenly died right before achieving my lifelong dream.
And while I was wandering around, I found Man-wol Inn.
I've been here the longest.
You said you used to study. Then what do you do here?
I used to be very bright when it came to writing poems.
And now,
I'm a bartender.
So you're the bartender who's in charge of the food and beverages.
I was the eldest daughter-in-law of a prestigious family.
But I ended up getting murdered by my own family.
While staying here,
I'll make sure I see the last member of that loathful family die
with my own eyes before I leave for the afterlife.
You must have a deep grudge.
I'm in charge of the rooms.
I see, ma'am.
I died during the Korean War.
This was called Man-wol Hostel at that time.
It wasn't doing so well back then.
I'm waiting to go with my sister who's still alive.
All of us have long stories to tell.
As for me--
We all came here as guests at first. But now
we're working here, extending our stays.
Aside from Ms. Jang, the three of us have been here
the longest.
Then did Ms. Jang come here as a guest like you,
and ended up staying for a long term?
No.
Ms. Jang is the owner of Hotel del Luna.
Owner of what?
She's just tied down here for a punishment from that crone.
She's being tied down?
There's a huge tree in our garden, but--
Do we have a garden?
I think we left the front desk and the bar unattended for too long.
We better go.
I can't be lazy at work, or I'll be sent to the other world.
I'll tell you my long story at the bar while treating you to a martini.
I think you're done for the day. You can go home now.
Where is the garden with the huge tree?
I didn't get to see it today.
She probably didn't show it to you because it's unnecessary.
Is there some kind of tie between Ms. Jang
and that tree?
Mr. Koo.
How long do you want to work here?
As short as possible since I didn't come here out of choice.
Then, it'd be best to keep your curiosity to a minimum.
You must mean the more I know, the longer I'll be tied to this place.
The rest of us will take care of hosting the guests.
All you have to do is do the work
related to the humans.
I'll do that.
Hey, are you going to work already?
No, I just got off work.
Did you have a night shift?
No.
I have to quit the hotel I'm working at.
-Why? -I'm going to work at a different one.
Which hotel?
Why quit the best hotel in Seoul?
The hotel I'll work at
has a private beach and a soaring rooftop bar.
Is there such a hotel in Seoul?
I want to go there too.
You can't.
If you come, you'll be in Room 404.
What's in Room 404?
Is it a suite?
I'm so tired.
Hurray!
Yes.
This is the real world.
I have a place to stay, and I have a friend.
I have lots of other hotels asking me to come.
Don't get confused.
I'm finally calming down.
This really helps.
Something strange followed me to the real world.
It's a moon.
It's to show that it's mine.
Man...
Wol.
This is how you write it.
MAN-WOL
I'm paying you back for giving me good wine.
DEL LUNA
She was in my dream, and now she's calling me.
It's getting me confused.
What took you so long to pick up?
What is it?
I have your first job for you.
What is it?
I want to sell the painting of Baekdu Mountain.
What?
The soul of the mythical creature
made the aura of this painting even better.
I'll be able to get twice its original price.
If we sell this,
what about the tiger inside?
The tiger has just left.
This is an empty painting.
The tiger has left?
The tiger lived in a zoo all his life.
He got sick of living in Baekdu Mountain in a couple of days.
He went to the afterlife after playing there for a few days.
I'm sure he'll be reborn in blessing.
Is this why you asked me to get the painting?
To sell it?
Not because you cared about the tiger.
Of course I care about the tiger.
I even wore this for him.
Hey!
Make sure you get a good price for this.
Then as a reward,
I'll get you a tiger print suit like this.
No, thanks. Who would wear such a thing?
Why not? You love the poop color.
I even got the new car in that color, just for you.
-A new car? -Make sure to sell this by today.
I have to pick up the new car.
You bought a car?
The car I drove the other day was also a new one.
You're right. I'm broke now because I bought another new car.
Make sure you get a good price for this painting.
At least twice its original price.
Let's go pick up my new car
I must've been crazy.
What more is there to know? She's nothing but a money chaser.
Is he really gone? Is he not in there?
Roar.
Roar!
KIM YU-NA
That's not who you are. You died right here!
Give my body back to me!
Yes, Director. Thank you for introducing me to him.
Yes, I'm heading to the gallery right now.
I'll see you soon.
Give my body back to me!
Seems like Mr. Third Choice brought in a very annoying guest.
She must have some issues. She keeps saying she's not dead.
This isn't our first time seeing the dead saying they're alive.
They always say that they're alive, they can't die or ask why they died.
We hear that all the time.
Ms. Jang will handle it, right?
I told you to go sell a painting.
Why did you bring in an unwanted guest?
Are you a tout or what?
What did you say?
You said that you comfort souls here.
She seems like she has issues. Why don't you come up with a solution?
You said you saw her other self wandering around?
She said she was robbed of her body. If it's true, we should get it back.
What you've brought is a soul that came out of her living body.
So you're saying that her body is out there without a soul?
You said she was robbed of her body.
Her body must be taken over by another ghost.
What's wrong with Yu-na?
Yu-na bullied her the most.
Maybe she feels guilty for everything she did to her.
She's acting like she actually feels bad.
Is this the girl's house?
Yes, Yu-na is the only child of this household.
Their one and only daughter's body is taken over by a ghost.
Of course we should get it back.
I think I already know the answer,
but are you going to force them pay you?
This isn't just a rich house.
That's the poop colored car that I'm in love with.
It's very difficult to buy that car now, but they already bought it before I did.
That means that they're filthy rich.
We need to find out why this is happening, right?
It's because of a necklace.
It belongs to the dead friend who took her body.
The ghost's deep grudge followed her, stuck to the necklace.
Then it took over her body.
I thought they were friends. Why would she do that?
Stop asking questions. You said we need to get the body back.
Then that's all we need to do.
Go after her.
Hey!
Let me go!
I'm going to kill her body.
This isn't even your body. Why are you doing this to a friend?
She's not a friend.
She's the one who killed me.
JEONG SU-JEONG
Give it back to me.
You live on social assistance,
and you waste your money on something like this?
Do you have no conscience?
The money you get is for your meals.
This is what we call a waste of tax money.
Give it back.
Give it back!
Take it if you can.
-Here you go. -Give it back to me!
Give it back!
Give it to me.
You little!
Let go of me!
I can't remember anything after falling off the bridge.
When I came to consciousness,
I realized that I'm in her body...
with my necklace in her hand.
Are you here to give Yu-na her body back?
She killed me!
That's it.
Get me my body back with that now.
The grudge in here...
doesn't disappear that easily.
Just tell my parents.
They'll do anything for me.
Of course they should.
They're the ones who made you after all.
What is it that you wanted to talk about our daughter?
Yu-na murdered someone.
Did you know
that one of Yu-na's classmates committed suicide on an overpass?
That's not entirely true.
Your daughter killed her.
This necklace is the evidence.
What is it that you want?
I came to collect the price.
Do you think it's wrong of me to kill Yu-na?
Let's find another way.
What way?
No matter what I do, I can't come back to life.
I wanted to live!
Even when they called me a parasite,
I still wanted to live on.
Let go of me!
Please let go of me.
I can't let her return to this body
and live like nothing happened.
Please let go of me.
Wait, just a second.
I'll go get the necklace.
You should just live in this body, okay?
Where is the necklace?
We can't let her return to her body yet!
It'd be too unfair for that girl!
I already returned the necklace.
It's in the hands of her parents.
So this necklace belonged to that dead girl, right?
That woman told us this is the only evidence.
There are two ways to pay for what she did.
One, take this necklace as evidence
to prove your daughter's wrongdoing and punish her.
She should also apologize to the dead girl's soul.
Two,
you buy my silence and get rid of this necklace.
I'll pay as much as you want.
Please...
give it to us and keep it a secret.
So you made your decision.
You'll have to pay a big price.
Everything will go back to normal, right?
Of course.
Once that necklace is gone,
no one will know that you killed her.
No one will know, right?
I told you that her grudge is very deep, didn't I?
Once that necklace is burned,
your chance to be forgiven for what you did will be gone for good too.
It doesn't matter.
It does.
You won't ever be able to go back.
Pardon?
I'm saying that your soul
will really die without anyone realizing.
Darn it.
What's done is done, she's already dead.
Our Yu-na should continue to have a good life.
Yes, she should.
None of this happened.
But what do you think...
that woman meant by the last comment?
Right.
You should know that the choice you made will kill your daughter's soul.
No!
No! What do I do?
Mom, take it out! Mom! Please!
Please take it out, Mom!
I said, take it out! Take it out!
You should live in that body now.
Although you're parasitic on the body,
try your best to survive again.
DEATH
She has become a true parasite.
However,
she found herself a golden host.
I bet they'll spoil her not knowing she's only their daughter's shell.
That young girl
will be tortured while watching her own shell.
I feel bad for her.
She's only paying for what she did.
She's just tied down here for a punishment from that crone.
Are you also paying for what you did?
I heard you're being punished.
I am.
Someone told me that I'm arrogant and foolish.
Although I don't agree with it.
Right.
What was that? Did you just say, "Right"?
Are you mocking me?
No, I'm not.
Sometimes. No, very rarely,
I feel bad for you.
TEXT MESSAGE
What is this?
They cancelled the car I pre-ordered.
What kind of bullshit is this?
How is this possible? Are they looking down on me?
They're dead meat.
Do you take me for a fool?
Forget it.
Give me the one in charge.
I said, the one in charge!
When Ms. Jang gets angry, she drinks champagne in bulk.
Mr. No always prepared it for her.
I didn't know I'd be required to serve Ms. Jang alcohol.
You're so unlucky.
You were the third choice,
so we didn't expect you'd end up as our manager.
I was the third choice?
They told me not to tell you about that.
Are you saying I was the third choice for the job?
-No. -This means
there were two other candidates before me.
You're here now, so you're the winner.
It's a feat that I'm not happy about.
Here it is.
What is this?
This sign shows that it belongs to Ms. Jang.
Anything with this means it's Ms. Jang's.
It's a moon.
It's to show that it's mine.
Come this way.
Ms. Choe.
Do you know what Ms. Jang was like when she was alive?
What does it mean that she's tied down for a punishment?
You're just a passer-by here.
Like these people who stopped by over the many years,
just consider you're only visiting for a moment,
and leave this place as soon as possible as you wish.
MAN-WOL HOSTEL
Why are you enduring like that for such a long time?
MAN-WOL INN
Is this that tree?
There are no leaves.
What are you doing here?
You didn't show me the garden, so I came by myself.
Guests cannot come here. So you don't need to see this.
Is this that tree?
The tree that my father touched.
The reason why I was sold here.
You're right.
You're paying the price too.
But it didn't have to be me.
I heard I was the third one on the list.
I really thought it had to be me.
You said I am your cup of tea, so I made a huge decision to come here.
But I wasn't your first or second choice.
Yes, there were first and second candidates before you.
Was I really the third choice?
Wasn't I the fourth, or the fifth one by any chance?
Who said you were the third choice?
-There were more before me? -You're
the zeroth choice.
The zeroth choice.
You're right. It has to be you because you are my cup of tea.
Do you want some champagne?
You said you'll sell the Baekdu Mountain painting for a good price. So have some.
Do you think the tiger saw what he wanted to see in the painting?
He probably left without complaining because he did.
He saw the past like a dream, a time where he could never go back.
He got pretty lucky.
I'm sure you too have things you miss in the past
that you can never go back to.
I think I saw that.
I told you that I saw you in a dream.
In a dream?
You were smiling
under a huge tree.
When someone said he'd build you a house, you said mean things just as you do now,
but you were happy.
The moon shined above the wilderness where you were drinking,
and it was filled with sounds of instruments,
along with your laughter.
You were full of joy and happiness.
You weren't alone like you are now. You had someone by your side.
The man who taught you how to write your name, Man-wol.
Is he the person you miss the most
in your past?
You...
You really...
saw him.
You have been
waiting for that person
over this long period of time.
How do you see...
such things?
I don't know.
Why do I see you?
I'm scared that I may have to pay the price for it.
Jang Man-wol.
Since I began to see you,
I've been thinking of you...
very much, awfully a lot.
Jang Man-wol, I'm saying...
you are devouring...
all my nights and dreams.
The old memories that shriveled up
crawled out again because of you.
So I need to check this for myself.
Chan-sung. Starting today, you will deal with ghost guests.
There's someone she really wants to see.
Every single ghost has someone that they want to see!
You said the owner was a maniac, right?
-Is that so? -Leaves have sprouted from the dry tree...
I'm trying to take care of you.
I'm sorry.
Chan-sung, come to my hotel if you die.
Subtitle translation by Wayne Ryu