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Goblin Ep 10-11

AHN NYOUNG MY CHINGOOS!

Wow it’s Episode 11 and let me say, this was a very important episode cuz the Grim Reaper gets his identity BUSTED by Sunny’s Cherry Blossom branch attack!! and *ominous background music* The Final Boss appears: the evil spirit of Park JoongHun! Coincidentally enough, that relates to the two things we’ll uncover today 1) Salty Spirits and 2) ‘The Legendary Hometown’ (1977). Just a warning: This show is about ghosts but don’t worry; I CANNOT TAKE scary stuff so you can be assured there won’t be any scary visuals NO WAY JOSE

Keep Reading if you loved this Grim Reaper + Goblin moment in Ep 10! Grocery Shopping like a PRO AWW YEEEEEEE

...or not.

SALTY SPIRITS

Sunny: Part-timer, throw salt at them.

(The Grim Reaper follows her so meekly haha)

Not only in Goblin, but you might have seen people in other dramas/show programs who throw salt at spirits, demons, or even a person they don’t like. That is because Koreans from back then believed that salt keeps away demons and other bad things. Kinda like garlic for vampires. But why salt?

Medicine: Koreans used salt to cure infected parts of the body. They even used it as toothpaste!

Cleansing and Preservation: Salt could also preserve meat from rotting (<--this link has other cultures that associate salt with superstitions/bad luck so if you’re interested, go read it! Written in Korean though, sorry.)

So in short, salt has the power to extinguish and purify bad things so the belief that throwing salt will drive out evil spirits stemmed from its practical properties! Hence Sunny, who sees this rather dashing coo-coo man, commands EunTak to throw salt to drive him away! BUT HE’S BRINGING BUSINESS THO

THE LEGENDARY HOMETOWN

Kim Shin: Even if she was Sun in her previous life, I’m nothing to her in this life.

(Okay, honest truth: I had to go to a coffee shop to write this part of the blog in case something scary pops up in my researchT___T Full disclosure, I HATE SCARY STUFF so I’ll be SUPER brief.)

‘The Legendary Hometown (전설의 고향)’ is a KBS TV show that aired for 12 years with 578 episodes. It tells horror stories and folklore that’s been passed on as a legend within certain geographical locations of Korea. To this day it is the iconic horror show that anyone from the 80’s and 90’s know from their childhood.

So here, Kim Shin is saying, “Even if she was Sun in her previous life, my existence (a 939-year-old immortal goblin) is just a fictional ghost story [like ‘The Legendary Hometown’]”.

Let’s all have a Mr. Buckwheat scarin’ away the ghosts:

CONCLUSION

Next time you dislike someone, throw salt to show you’re salty at them *badum tssss*

The Legendary Hometown. Scary show from 70’s. Yep. Ok. Let’s move on ha..haha

BONUS! COOL FACT

By the way, Mr. “Grim Reaper Jr.” here talks in the 다나까 way of speech which is the way one is required to speak within the Korean military. Remember that popular Kdrama about Korean military men? ‘Descendants of the Sun’? Guess who was in it? YES. OUR GRIM REAPER JUNIOR. Which brings me to think that they purposefully made his character in Goblin speak in that military lexicon to allude to his other role! #CrossReferencing

Repost with your answer to ‘What grave sin do you think Grim Reaper Jr committed in his previous life as a soldier?’ Reply to this post and let me know!

P.S. In case you were wondering, there were no puns/hidden references from Ep 10.

EP 10 + 11 SCREENCAPS