ShortCircuit

He's just too ready to blame Yi Kang immediately - and I have this feeling he knew about the rock formation messages from the past, already...

True that... what if Goo Young pushed Da Won and placed the gloves in her hand to point the guilt at Dae Jin, and the one who was looking from the forest, if there was anyone there, was Dae Jin? What if they're actually either working together - or one is trying to hunt the other down?...

I do NOT like how corporeal-like Hyun-jo is becoming in the spirit world. Like his substance is transferring from this world to the other one. Let's stop that, show, can we?

I mean, if he - please, pretty please! - wakes up, how are those who saw his ghost going to take it?!

RE: Goo Young, he's much too suspicious right now. He just happened to come down the mountain right as Da Won went silent, he's way too snappy with Yi Kang in the present timeline, he doesn't want to meet the parents in the past, like he has something to hide... I hope he didn't push his love interest off the cliff too, sometime in the last year.

Finally, FINALLY, Yi Kang is trying to get inside Hyun-jo's radius of movements. She sure took her time.

It's Goo Young, it has to be him.

Do you religiously watch every episode of tvN's "Jirisan"?

I plead the 5th. I may or may not spend Saturdays and Sundays waiting for the next ep, then complain about having to wait another week. But I admit nothing. :P

I'm going to hop shamelessly onto your question not addressed to me and pimp some songs I love :D (because OSTs and BGMs are among the things that most attract me to a drama :) )

So, first - Eddy Kim's When the Night Falls (from While You Were Sleeping, the whole OST is on fire!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BGfwd2gk5c

Then Eric Nam's Before the Sunset (from Mad Dog - OMG Woo Do Hwan is coming back, happy dance yaay!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjBWvRVt4eY

Ailee's Goodbye My Love (from Fated to Love You - well, Ailee could sing the weather news and it'll still be amazing. I think she's my favourite Korean singer of kdrama OSTs - she did one for Arthdal Chronicles that's also pretty amazing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-ufRgQCsOM

Yoo Hwe Seung's voice (from N.Flying), from Criminal Minds' Another Day, wow! Such a clear voice, I love it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSeLNnF_6A0

Another WOW! voice - Isaac Hong's in Close Your Eyes from The Uncanny Counter. He sounds a bit like Hozier, deep and strong and powerful in waves. Loved that song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xpGEz1-54Y

Richard Parkers singing The Secret Not Revealed from Nobody Knows - such a melancholic tune and voice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuwJmMNEC4

Shin Yong Jae's Feel You from the Flower of Evil OST - such a good song, such a definite voice, such a great OST and drama overall!! (Umm, yeah, did I ever mention I'm a LJG fan? :D) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKIu8S6kj8E

Oh, and the cute and funny and bouncy songs!!! Like K.Will's Say! What're You Doing? from Descendants of the Sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OWE7smXnXE or NCT U's Baby Only You from The Tale of Nokdu, LOL, can't help but remember Jang Do Yoon as a girl - he was a cuter girl than many girls :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNYpIObmAJ4 and so many, many more! Kdramas have the best songs :)

(And yeah, if you ask me about Japanese songs and singers... I'll avalanche you with One Ok Rock and L'Arc en Ciel and TMR and generally every anime OP and ED older than 5 years you could imagine, too :D)

I think that she and Hyun-jo did have a hint of who is the ranger who's doing this, by the end of the past timeline, they just didn't have proof, and then they were trapped/attacked? (it isn't clear by the end of ep 8, either) and she ended up in a wheelchair and he in a coma.

So she might have come back to the ranger station in the present timeline to look for proof, and wasn't all that surprised to see the yellow ribbons. Of themselves, though, they don't prove much - they don't either exonerate or prove that Dae Jin is guilty (it's his office she's searching.) He could have been gathering them to destroy the poacher's paths... Then again he could have planted some of them himself. IF - big IF - he is the killer.

Se-wook was an opportunistic serial killer, he didn't have a pattern, he just poisoned whoever he could (Sgt. Kim, that granny with the memorial in the forest, the hiker who stole a poisoned drink from the water). He only attacked his cousin (still with the poisoned drink) when she could have gotten a clue about him.

The people who fell could be the work of the ranger who is Se-wook's accomplice or master killer. He even got rid of Se-wook through pushing him down a cliff, too.

He might have tried to get rid of Hyun-jo through a fire, but didn't expect it to get out of control - the wind changed direction, initially the wildfire (that the killer hadn't started) was not threatening the village at all. So that was all accidental and unsuccessful.

I imagine he'll try something more along his preference next time - a cut cord, a few misplaced carabiners and the like.

I guess it depends on which rules the ghosts/spirits are following. If he died and his ghost remained on Mt. Jiri, it could be he would eventually dissipate and leave forever so the killings would be left unsolved. If he's still alive, then his spirit would have an earthly anchor and could resist until there's a satisfying solution.

I just hope he does get to awake, even if (drama-style) he loses all memories of being a spirit and/or the ability to see people in danger on the mountain. Keeping fingers crossed for a HEA!

Poachers and tresspassers use those ribbons to mark a trail for future hikes/ for their buddies to follow, so they don't get lost. The killer caught on that and is using them to mark fake trails that lead people to their deaths or bring them closer to where the killer's waiting.

Some ranger can be seen either gathering them up (so destroying the hidden trails)... or tying them up (so that they're probably the killer or his accomplice). It's yet unclear (ep 8) which ranger that is.

If Da-won is still alive, she'll either have amnesia or be in a coma... But I hope the killer at least tricked her with a poisonous drink so she could have a fighting chance if found on time, instead of pushing her off a cliff.

The killer looked to be too tall to be Dae-Jin, but the rookie is kind of short... maybe it's just the perspective.

Dammit, now there are spiritless days?! Whyfor all the new rules? Let the spirit of Hyun-jo move freely! Let the sun go down so he could get up and go save the rookie!

At least don't blame it on him for whatever happens to her...

And now I have to wait another week?!! Next time I'll definitely wait for a show to end so I can binge watch it. Real-time watching is damaging to the nerves.

I keep yelling at a screen, YK, get inside the freaking park so he can talk to you!!!

... That's how I know this is going to be painful.

I listened to all the songs you linked, thank you :)

Lu Yu Ning's voice really is amazing, so warm and cozy. I'll be on the lookout for more of his songs. And maybe fold and watch Skate Into Love, just in case.

I was ready to swear Zhou Shen is a woman, based only on his voice. He reminds me of Yoshikazu Mera - if I didn't know, I'd also have sworn he's a woman.

Xueran Chen's song from Guardian is always epic. I don't really listen to much of the rest of his songs, but that one's fixed on my feel good list. (And I couldn't even go too deep in the series, either, but the song stayed with me.)

Someone already mentioned, but Sa DingDing should be on the list - at least for Upwards to the Moon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpan9yLmsgI
That's an amazing song and an amazing voice.

Also, I absolutely love Li Jian's voice and the OP song of Joy of Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nirw5N9w250
I think his voice is so sweet and melancholy, it always puts me into a contemplative mood.

He's stuck on the mountain... They should bring his body back to Jirisan, I don't think he'll survive otherwise, since the spirit can't move further than the end of that bridge. It was so sad, seeing him try to communicate with the living... Bring KHJ back!! (Let's start a petition :D)

I love how receptive the rookie is to the idea of supernatural acts on Jirisan - Yi Kang had a chance to see Hyun-jo's power in action, so she's convinced, but the rookie only saw the ghost/spirit so far. And the rock formations, maybe. Women power for the supernatural!!

I'm now stuck too, with the main killer's identity. If the person buying yoghurts in the same store where YK and HJ are eating is supposed to be the killer, they'd obviously recognize him if he was their team mate. But the killer also has access to their things in the refuges and stations, so he HAS to be a ranger too... (Unless there will be a retcon later, when we'll be shown that Yi Kang actually saw that person in the store but didn't make a connection to the poisoned yoghurts. )

Also, it has to be someone who isn't directly involved in the fire-containment at this moment, as he had time to follow HJ and lock him in the building...

I seriously don't like the implication that whenever HJ tells the outside world that someone's going to be killed on the mountain, the effort to influence the physical world is making him grow weaker... NO!! STOP IT!! He needs to survive!! (please!)

That skeleton is definitely Se-wook's. It's been a while since he was killed, he would be at least partially skeletonized. But if the fire reaches that area, all traces will be burned :(

Ep 7 flashed by so fast...

The events are linear in either timelines. You can very easily see in which timeline you're in at any given time because they're using upper and lower black ribbons on the screen/image on the past timeline (even in the recap sequences).

The goal of the past timeline is rather clear, I'd say - the event that left KHJ where he is and what IK is trying to make sense of.

The present timeline... well, I am hoping for a happy ending, myself.

This felt like a quiet episode. The quiet before the storm?

Show, don't tell me to be prepared for what may come while showing me KHJ. That's just cruel...

i also wonder if there is some connection amongst the victims.

Most of them were poachers/tresspassers in forbidden areas of the mountain. There were a few who were killed opportunistically - they just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time (like Sgt. Kim, Hyun-jo's friend.)

It's unclear why the female ranger was targeted, unless it was to punish her former poacher grandfather or because she might have a clue about the potato bombs.

The incident might have happened in the late winter in 2019 or the beginning of 2020, since now it's summer/the start of summer, judging by their clothes and the fact that cold comes sooner in the mountains than in the plains.

But now KHJ is the killer's next target, and it's coming... and then it stared snowing :( Probably there will be a few more incidents/rescues in the winter, but the big thing is coming.

I think she more than suspects her former (and current) colleagues, so she chooses to trust the rookie only, because she couldn't have been involved.

If she trusted them, she wouldn't have gone straight for Dae Jin's files and unreported evidence (like the yellow ribbons in the bag, which he's been having on him in the past timeline). I think she has doubts or maybe even certainties, but no proof yet and that's what she's hunting for in the present.