Gyeongseong Creature Is Certainly A K-Drama Of All Time

Not sure why but going into Gyeongseong Creature thinking it was about time travel made the show in the end even wilder of a ride.

Wooo, at the time of writing this, this is my last review from the back log I had and the latest K-Drama I finished before I started my two current ones. I can’t believe I made it here! Ok as you can see from the little teaser up there I was clearly misinformed when it came to Gyeongseong Creature. I for some reason, even having watched the trailer thought that Gyeongseong Creature was a time travel drama? Well in a sense it is in another historical time as we are transported to Seoul when it was under Japanese occupation and still called Gyeongseong, so in a way I wasn’t wrong but the rest? No actual time travel involved just more bad CGI! Let’s review.

Gyeongseong Creature summary via MDL: Jang Tae Sang is a wealthy man. He is known as the most attractive man around Bukchon in Gyeongseong. He is also a reliable source of information around the area. His talents, including the ability to react quickly to situations, a keen insight, and sociability, have led him to his current position. He soon gets involved with Yoon Chae Ok, which leads him to reevaluate his priorities as a person. Yoon Chae Ok is famous as a todugun (a person who finds missing people). As a young child, she traveled between Manchuria and Shanghai, China, with her father. Her life was not easy, and she learned at that time how to survive. She developed skills with shooting guns, using knives and handling machines. Her mother went missing 10 years ago. To find her mother, Yoon Chae Ok arrives in Gyeongseong. There, she becomes involved with Jang Tae Sang. They follow a series of mysterious missing person cases, and they come upon a terrible reality.

Okay, I clearly chose this drama because with people like Han Sohee, Wi Hajoon, and Park Seojoon in the main roles what could go wrong? Right? Well, Gyeongseong Creature isn’t per se bad but it has a lot of badly written moments that don’t really make sense. I’d say that the first half of episodes are the dramas stronger part. I can see a clear plot line here, we start off with clear objectives, good story and world building and a main villain. That being said after I reached and finished episode I was like “Um how are they filling another five episodes of this? What else is supposed to happen?” Well they somehow do fill it and I will be honest I don’t remember most of it.

Gyeongseong Creature was a drama that had fantastic actors that had great chemistry and a solid and believable romance but the whole creature plot was a bit ehh for me. I am not sure what I had expected from Gyeongseong Creature but it wasn’t what it gave me. I also absolutely hate the ending and us getting a second season. It was all somewhat resolved until they introduced a new part and big plot twist at the end. Gyeongseong Creature was a bit messy and the fact season 2 won’t have Han Sohee in it has me extra unexcited. Oh well, I am honestly not sure I’ll be tuning in because I really didn’t enjoy Gyeongseong Creature all that much.

All in all, it was a fine fantasy drama with an interesting premise, though I am getting bored with the monster plot in Netflix K-Dramas but the time this was set in we haven’t seen a lot of dramas set in, amazing actors and semi well execution. Gyeongseong Creature just didn’t make much logical sense when it comes to them going in and out of the hospital and freeing people. I wish the focus would have been more on the Japanese occupation then them doing human testing and making a war machine monster. Maybe these dramas are just not for me anymore.

In conclusion: Wi Hajoon is hot.