Starting this week, we’ll be doing an episode by episode recap and analysis of Hotel Del Luna. Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 1, which introduces the characters and sets up the main storyline, which is that Hotel Del Luna is a guesthouse for the dead and it needs a new manager. 20 years earlier, a dying dad made a deal with the hotel’s owner so that he could live; in return, the son would “belong” to the hotel owner. In this episode, we meet Jang Man Wol, Koo Chan Sung, some of the hotel staff, and two ghosts.
Episode 1 of Hotel Del Luna introduces the main characters, Jang Man Wol and Koo Chan Sung, as well as some of the hotel staff, mainly the bellman, the guest manager, and the bartender. The episode flips back and forth between the past and the present, and between the main storyline and the side stories.
We do a short recap of the show, and then we dive deep into the episode. We talk about our first impressions of the show and what we loved about the first episode. We discuss:
We close with a few words about Korean names, including how you address someone formally, informally, and our new Korean nicknames.
Here are some of the websites we referenced: