Oh My Ghost Clients- Episodes 1-2

Mu-jin’s Last Stand… or His First Deal with the Dead?

The premiere of Oh My Ghost Clients kicks off with a bang—literally. Labor attorney Mu-jin storms into a steel factory and immediately throws himself into harm’s way, yanking a worker back from what could’ve been a fatal accident. The factory chief has no idea who this intense stranger is, but Mu-jin quickly makes it clear—he’s not here to play nice. He lists every workplace violation like a man on a mission, drawing a curious crowd of workers as tensions rise. Just as things heat up, a crane collapses overhead, and Mu-jin stares death in the face—calm, almost resigned.

We rewind two years.

Back then, Mu-jin was a tired cog in a corporate law firm. One day, with no warning, he quits his job of ten years to chase the crypto dream with a friend. Bold? Sure. Smart? Not exactly. The dream crashes when the friend dies unexpectedly, and Mu-jin’s savings vanish with him.

At the funeral, a former colleague floats the idea of becoming a labor attorney. Mu-jin is divorced, broke, and spiraling—but something clicks. He studies, passes the exam, and gets licensed, only for his potential job offer to dissolve when his colleague gets fired. Rock bottom seems to have no floor.

After a drunken night out with an old friend ends with vomit on a statue (classy), Mu-jin leaves behind a business card in a haze. This turns out to be more significant than it first appears.

Determined to make his license count, Mu-jin opens a practice with his resourceful sister-in-law, Hee-joo. Clients? Zero. Finances? Bleak. At one point, Mu-jin can't even afford instant noodles. Then comes the dream: a man engulfed in flames, banging on a door, pleading for help. Mu-jin wakes up shaken, but strangely hopeful.

Hee-joo hatches a bold plan: partner with viral YouTuber Gyeon-woo and fake investigations to pressure dangerous companies into paying them off. Mu-jin resists—until hunger and overdue rent push him over the edge.

Suddenly, they’re raking in cash. Gyeon-woo records the scams. Hee-joo runs point. Mu-jin plays the reluctant face of the operation. The office gets a glow-up. Things look good—maybe too good. Mu-jin’s anxiety spikes, but they renegotiate their cut, and the hustle continues.

Their next target? Taehyeop Steel—a real deathtrap with four fatal accidents in five years. They hit the road. Back at the factory (yep, the one from the opening), Hee-joo leans hard on the director while Mu-jin stages his dramatic confrontation inside.

Then—disaster.

Mu-jin is caught in an accident. Time slows. He sees his selfish life in flashes. But instead of dying, he’s yanked into a surreal space where he meets the flaming man from his dream. The man makes him an offer: come back to life and help spirits of workers who died due to corporate neglect. A shot at redemption—for a price.

Mu-jin, out of time and options, signs the deal without reading the fine print. The man vanishes, satisfied.

Cut back to the factory floor—Mu-jin collapses. A strange memory surfaces: that statue he drunkenly apologized to? It wasn’t a statue after all.

Welcome to Oh My Ghost Clients—where justice has a new lawyer, and his clients aren’t exactly among the living.

The Intern, the Lie, and the Spark That Started It All

Episode 2 of Oh My Ghost Clients wastes no time throwing us back into the danger zone—literally. Mu-jin just barely dodges death by a few inches at Taehyeop Steel, but the close call shakes him so badly he pees himself. Hee-joo is not impressed. On the drive back, she scolds him like a schoolteacher whose star pupil flunked a quiz. But before they can finish arguing, Mu-jin jumps again—not from trauma, but because he sees something no one else can: a ghost sitting right next to him.

Gyeon-woo and Hee-joo dismiss him as having a mental breakdown. So, Mu-jin does what any confused man haunted by the dead would do—checks himself into a hospital. He’s promptly referred to a traditional medicine clinic where he's told his energy is “blocked.” A few treatments later, and guess what? The ghost’s still there.

Back home, Gyeon-woo and Hee-joo tease Mu-jin and urge him to face the ghost head-on. That’s when we meet Lee Min-uk, a young intern who died on the job. At first, he seems polite and reserved, but his story? Brutal.

Min-uk was just starting out, full of hope, with a mother who was anxious but proud. His factory internship was supposed to be the first step in a promising future. Instead, he got dumped into subhuman housing, paired with a foreign worker named Nimal, and overworked without training or safety equipment. He was treated like a cog in a machine—until the machine quite literally ate him alive.

As Min-uk recounts the tragedy, Mu-jin slips into a trance, reliving it through the ghost’s eyes. Gyeon-woo and Hee-joo panic and slap him out of it—though Gyeon-woo maybe enjoys the slapping a little too much.

Now convinced the ghost is real, the trio launches into full-on investigative mode. Gyeon-woo reaches out to a reporter friend, but her hands are tied. Higher-ups buried Min-uk’s case, and the company paid off his grieving mom with hush money. When Hee-joo sees the female reporter, she immediately claims to be dating Gyeon-woo—jealousy levels: high.

The group meets with Min-uk’s professor (who’s less than helpful) and then finally with his mom. The truth is crushing—she was manipulated and pressured into settling. All the while, Min-uk quietly watches his mother cry, unable to comfort her.

Fueled by rage and regret, Mu-jin vows to get justice. While combing through the company's report, he notices a strange detail. Meanwhile, Gyeon-woo goes undercover as a factory worker. Somehow, he actually gets hired on the spot. The factory director doesn’t even recognize the guy who tried to blackmail him last week.

Gyeon-woo gets partnered with Nimal, who immediately clocks the hidden camera and backs off. Outside, Hee-joo and Mu-jin monitor everything from a very conspicuous parked car no one seems to notice.

Gyeon-woo tries to win Nimal over by bringing up Min-uk, and while Nimal is visibly affected, he’s afraid. One wrong move and he could be deported. Unfortunately, Gyeon-woo’s cover crumbles when the company owner arrives. A staffer recognizes him—apparently, Gyeon-woo was seen using the bathroom during their last scam visit. Chaos erupts.

Mu-jin and Hee-joo rush in, but before they can escape, the police show up. Just when it looks like game over, Nimal steps forward and reveals the smoking gun: a video he secretly recorded the night Min-uk died.

The footage is gut-wrenching. Min-uk was scheduled to be off for Chuseok but was ordered to fix a jammed machine. It malfunctioned, and his upper body was pulled in. Instead of helping, Jang-sung—the director—called his father. They chose to let Min-uk die to avoid legal trouble. No rescue. No remorse. Just silence.

The workers erupt. Jang-sung lashes out and punches Gyeon-woo, sealing his own fate. The police arrest him on the spot, and Mu-jin calmly lists the crimes they’ll be charged with. Justice: served cold.

The trio celebrates with drinks and dinner while watching their case explode across the news. At a convenience store, Mu-jin spots a mistreated clerk named Yoon-jae. He offers help, but Yoon-jae brushes him off.

The next day, they visit Min-uk’s mom together, with Min-uk’s ghost in tow. She’s overwhelmed by gratitude. When Mu-jin imitates the way Min-uk used to say goodbye, she sees her son in him and embraces him. It’s the closure she needed. Min-uk smiles, finally at peace. His spirit dissolves quietly. Watching from afar, the mysterious man from Mu-jin’s dream nods approvingly.

All seems well—until the very last moment.

As they walk home, Mu-jin spots a sparking transformer. Suddenly, a live wire snaps and hurtles straight toward him.

Looks like ghost clients aren’t done with Mu-jin just yet.

DramaZen's Opinion

Okay, Oh My Ghost Clients is already my new obsession. Two episodes in and this show is wild—in the best way. We’ve got factory scandals, near-death experiences, ghost interns, and a broke ex-lawyer stumbling into supernatural justice like it’s just another Tuesday.

Mu-jin is such a mess, but I love him. One minute he’s peeing himself at a job site, the next he’s making shady deals to survive, and somehow ends up being a ghost whisperer for dead workers? I didn’t expect to laugh this much, or to suddenly cry watching a ghost hug his mom for the last time.

Hee-joo and Gyeon-woo are chaotic sidekicks and the energy between them is pure gold. Also, can we talk about that twist with Min-uk’s death? Gut-wrenching. And that undercover mission? Messy, risky, totally addictive.

If the first two episodes are anything to go by, this show is going to be emotional, hilarious, and absolutely unmissable. Count me in.