SBS’s New drama from Friday-Sobat The infested building He made a powerful debut on April 18th. The first episode fascinated the audience with the turbulent fate of Yeori (played by Kim Ji-Yeon), born with shamanic powers, and the evil spirit Imogi Gangcheol (special appearance of Kim Young-Kwang), which owns the body of Palace Scholar-Gap (Yook Sung-Jae).
The episode of the premiere has reached a national evaluation of 9.2% and a peak of spectators of 10.7%, making it so far the highest rating of the first episode of any SBS drama from 2025. He also beat shows in competition like “Perfect secretary” AND “Treasure IslandAnd it has exceeded both its time slot and the weekly rankings of Mini-series, according to Nielsen Korea.
The episode began with the backbone background, a mythical snake who failed to climb to Dragonhood after a thousand years of cultivation and instead became an evil divinity feared by humans. In the village of Yongdamgol, the famous neop-deok (Gil Hae-Yeon) shaman warned his young nephew Yeo -ri (played as a child for Ji-Woo song) that Gangcheol was targeting his pure spiritual energy.
As feared, Gang-Cheol tried to use Yeori to become a dragon, but was stopped by Neop-deok, who equipped a stone that wandered the spirit called “Gyeonggwisek” to Yeori. When Neop-deok dies unexpectedly, Yeo -ri, devastated, swears that he never serves the evil spirit.
Years later, the hereditary prince Won-Ja (Park Jae-Joon), son of King Lee-Jeong (Kim Ji-Hoon), suffers from a mysterious madness. The official of the Yoon-Gap palace suggests bringing spiritual aid, but the king, stopped on the royal protocols, refuses to allow shamanic rituals inside the building.
Now an adult, Yeo -i refuses his destiny as a shaman and lives as a craftsman specialized in glasses. But it continues to see malicious spirits invisible to others. When he discovers a demon who torments the daughter of the former Prime Minister Choi Won-Woo (Ahn Nae-Sang), Yeo -i uses his spiritual powers to perform an exorcism, suspecting that the group feature is behind the disorder.
Meanwhile, Yoon-Gap receives a secret real order to recruit Choi Won-Woo and returns to his hometown, Yongdamgol. However, he also hopes to secretly bring Yeo -ri to the building to treat the prince’s affliction. Under the claim to request personalized glasses, he convinces her to come, with the downward of Yeo -ri, who had been admiring him for some time. It accepts despite the warnings of Gang-Cheol, having seen a divine vision of his future with Yoon-Gap.
On their journey, the tragedy hits. The political rival Kwak Sang-Chung (Yoon Seung) is an ambush and kills Yoon-Gap. Gang-Cheol, lurking nearby, grabs Yoon-Gap’s body to strip Yeo -i of the protective Gyeonggwisek. When Yeo -i witness of Gang-Cheol in Yoon-Gap’s body and the ghost of the real Gap Yoon next to him, it is devastated.
Gang-Cheol declares, “Yeo -ri, you are mine now,” But he is shocked to discover that he is trapped in Yoon-Gap’s body. Yeo -ri escapes the desperate attempt to recover the Gyeonggwiseok. Their chase ends in a dramatic fall from an impotent scroll-caught by the ghost of Yoon-Gap-like ends the episode.
Episode 2 of The infested building Airs Tonight (April 19) at 9:50 pm KST.
