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Grand Galaxy Hotel (그랜드 갤럭시 호텔)

Grand Galaxy Hotel (그랜드 갤럭시 호텔) is an upcoming South Korean Netflix original series, a mystery romantic fantasy about a hotel that consoles the souls of the dead, created by the writers of Hotel Del Luna¹. Netflix confirmed the production and cast on 13 October 2025¹. A release date has not been announced².

Key fact	Detail
Format	Netflix original series, mystery romance fantasy genre¹
Production confirmation	13 October 2025, with casting of the four leads announced the same day¹
Writers	Hong Jung-eun and Hong Mi-ran (the "Hong Sisters")¹
Director	Oh Choong-hwan (Start-Up, Melo Movie)¹
Main cast	Lee Do-hyun as Eun-ha, Shin Si-a as Sang-soon, Lee Soo-hyuk as Baek-gi, Lee Su-hyun as Seok-san¹
Production company	IMAGINUS¹
Filming period	Scheduled 17 September 2025 to April 2026³
Release	Date not announced; Netflix confirmed the series but not a premiere schedule²

Spoilers

Premise

The series is set in the Grand Galaxy Hotel, a memorial hotel that provides top-class service to console the souls of the dead, and opens only in the middle of the night¹. According to Netflix's synopsis, the hotel ranked first in customer satisfaction for decades among spirit reapers' top memorial hotels worldwide, and the story begins when its long-standing owner suddenly vanishes without a trace³. The new owner, Eun-ha, arrives and meets the hotel manager Sang-soon, the only human employee at the hotel, who does not fear ghosts¹. Netflix describes the series as stories of guests with different backstories and mysterious events spanning this world and the afterlife⁴.

Cast and characters

Netflix announced four leads with the production confirmation¹:

Lee Do-hyun plays Eun-ha, the hotel's new moody owner with a mysterious past, who arrives after the previous owner's sudden disappearance¹.
Shin Si-a plays Sang-soon, the hotel's only human employee, a manager with strong professional spirit and a knack for befriending ghosts¹. The actress drew attention with her film debut in The Witch: Part 2 and the drama Resident Playbook⁴.
Lee Soo-hyuk plays Baek-gi, a free-spirited grim reaper who cleans up the remnants of evil spirits¹.
Lee Su-hyun plays Seok-san, a mysterious woman with an eerie and dangerous aura¹. She was praised for her acting debut in the drama Family Matters³.

Before the official confirmation, producer IMAGINUS had announced Lee Do-hyun and Shin Si-a as the leads in June 2025⁵. Reports at that time noted that actress Go Min-si, who had been considered for the female lead, did not appear in the final casting⁵.

Creative team

The script is by the Hong Sisters, Hong Jung-eun and Hong Mi-ran, whose earlier credits include Sassy Girl Chun-hyang, My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho, The Greatest Love, Master's Sun, and Alchemy of Souls⁶. The director is Oh Choong-hwan, whose credits include The Doctors, While You Were Sleeping, Start-Up, Castaway Diva, and Netflix's Melo Movie⁶.

The pair previously collaborated on the 2019 hit Hotel Del Luna, also set at a hotel for the dead, and Grand Galaxy Hotel reunites them with actor Lee Do-hyun, who worked with both on that series⁶. Korean press described the new series as having a similar premise, with the gender arrangement of the two leads reversed: in Hotel Del Luna the owner was a woman and the human manager a man, while here the new owner Eun-ha is male and the only human employee is female⁶^•⁷.

Netflix has never described the series as a second season of Hotel Del Luna, and whether the two shows share a fictional universe is not officially confirmed⁷. After Hotel Del Luna ended in 2019, the Hong Sisters said they had no concrete plans for a second season, and broadcaster tvN said none had been discussed⁷.

Production and release

Filming was scheduled to begin on 17 September 2025 and to run through April 2026³. Netflix's own announcement, and Korean press coverage of it, stated that no release date had been set¹^•². Some databases list 2026, others 2027; with filming running into April 2026, trade coverage has judged a 2027 release the most realistic, and the year labels on database pages are editor entries rather than announcements from the distributor³^•⁷. The series will stream exclusively on Netflix¹.

References

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026