A salt storehouse near the sea may be haunted. A penniless ex-con dies a gristly death in a house he can ill afford. The detectives assigned the case are Min, newly reinstated after a suspension, and Lee, a new transfer from forensics. Min has nightmares: a sexual assault that haunts her. She and Lee work well together, but soon two more deaths occur - each mysteriously poisoned, both friends of the ex-con. A fourth friend, a newly married doctor, is a suspect. But what has all this to do with the salt storehouse, a death ten years ago, and a missing girl? Can Min and Lee get to the bottom of it, or is the supernatural beyond a cop's reach?
Acting
Song Yun-ah carries trauma like a second skin.
Direction
Ahn Sang-hoon merges police procedural and folklore seamlessly.
Director
Ahn Sang-hoon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Arang is based on a famous Korean folktale about a wronged woman whose ghost demands justice—here updated for a forensic age that still fails women.
The 2006 release came during Korea's golden age of horror blending social critique with genre thrills, though it remains criminally underseen compared to The Host or A Tale of Two Sisters.
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