Missing ~ The Other Side 2 | More Missing Bodies, Sad Souls

“Missing: The Other Side” is a Korean drama series with two seasons. S1 was released in 2020 and S2 in 2022, but was recently added to Netflix USA. It’s 2025. Only took 3 years, but any fan of Go Soo is willing to wait! The series continues to find the bodies of people who went missing. Their souls are in a “temporary place” on the “Other Side”. They can’t leave until their bodies are found.

SUMMARY: Two men who thought they been cured, i.e. they could no longer see ghosts, started seeing ghosts again. That meant they had to help them find their missing bodies.

♦ We’re Seeing Ghosts Again!

Kim Wook and Jang Pan Seok used to see dead people. They even discovered an entire village full of dead people. Both men were looking for missing persons. Jang Pan Seok wanted to find his daughter and Kim Wook thought his mother had abandoned him. Both men had a near-death experience and that’s probably why they could see dead people. But they didn’t see all dead people. Just people who went missing and their bodies had not been found. Together both men searched for the bodies and when they found them, the souls that were on the “Other Side” in that village that only they could see, were finally free to enter peacefully into the afterlife.

Several years had passed and Kim Wook and Jang Pan Seok thought they were “cured”. Meaning they didn’t ghosts any more. That’s what they thought. Jang Pan Seok was the first to see a ghost. He didn’t say anything because he hoped Kim Wook didn’t see him. If he didn’t see the ghost there was no point mentioning it. But of course, Kim Wook did see the same ghost. They didn’t want to accept that their “special ability” had returned.

Based on what the ghost told him Kim Wook told the police detective Shin Joon Ho where to find a missing person. The detective asked: “Are you seeing ghosts again?” The detective already had experiences with Kim Wook and he couldn’t deny that he solved many crimes with his help. But he thought all of that was all in the past. Didn’t Kim Wook tell him that he could no longer see ghosts?

The ghost both Kim Wook and Jang Pan Seok saw was Oh Il-Yong. When they first encountered him, they thought he was a living person. He invited them to come to where he was currently living or “??” … waiting? It turned out to be another one of those villages with souls waiting on the “Other Side” hoping their bodies would be found. There was a woman who had grown old searching for her daughter who had been missing for 20 years. She was there, along with many others. Kim Wook and Jang Pan Seok were surprised and saddened to see how many children were there. Enough for a school! But now that they knew about these sorrowful souls, there was no way they were going to ignore them and not try to find their bodies.

Main Characters:

• Kim Wook (played by Go Soo, “Parole Examiner Lee”)
• Jang Pan-Seok (played by Heo Jun-Ho, “Dr. Cheon and The Lost Talisman”, “Escape from Mogadishu”, “Bloodhounds”)
• Lee Jong-A (played by Ahn So-Hee)
• Kang Eun-Sil (played by Lee Jung-Eun, “The Book of Fish”)
• Oh Il-Yong (played by Kim Dong-Hwi, “Troll Factory”, “The Deal”)
• Shin Joon-Ho (played by Ha-Joon, “Destined with You”)

Where to Watch: Netflix

Viewership and Rating:

• IMDb: 7.9 out of 10 stars
• My Drama List: 8.8 out of 10 stars
• Dramabeans: 9.1 out of 10 stars

Viewers have praised “Missing: The Other Side 2” for being an excellent follow-up to the first season. I agree. In case you did not watch the first season, I am going to repeat myself by borrowing an excerpt from my review of Season 1:

The script for “Missing: The Other Side” is a unique storyline that:

• weaves the worlds of the supernatural and the natural together,
• untangles the sordid web of criminal activities,
• solves the mystery of the missing bodies,
• brings criminals to justice, and
• helps sorrowful souls cross over to their final destination.

Many are saying that there likely won’t be a Season 3. Perhaps not. But couldn’t imaginative scriptwriters go crazy with a storyline like this? I mean … there are so many strange and unsolved cases of missing people in the real world. “Missing: The Other Side” has the potential for several seasons.

• In South Korea, there were over 25,000 reports of missing children in 2024. That’s just children! Data from the National Police Agency, reports that over 70,000 adults go missing annually.

That’s a lot! Plus … who knows if writing a script for a fictional plot won’t help solve a real case? (I like to think positive. HOPE!)

LINKS OF INTEREST:

“Missing: The Other Side 2” Ends On A High Note With New Personal Best In Ratings | Soompi

KDrama Review: Missing: The Other Side 1 and 2 | Clare Henney

Final Review: Missing – The Other Side 2 | The cat that watches TV

TRAILER/TEASER:

CJ ENM Global. “Missing: The Other Side 2.” YouTube, Video, 14 Aug. 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGZA11sQjCM.

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