ShortCircuit

There won't probably be a second season. But there are threads starting that won't be tied off neatly because life goes on and it's never done. He left, is free of the Cha family and everything, he has the money still, he's not the suicidal type even if mentally exhausted. He'll be fine on his yacht while the Chas continue to destroy themselves (worth it anyway).

No.

She always has tears in her years. She probably tears up when she breaks a nail. It already means nothing for her. And she wasn't pretending to cheer for him, she WAS cheering for him, she thought it was the right thing to do to get revenge and that he had done it.

While he was having awful nightmares for a year, sleeping with a gun next to his pillow, being as much jailed inside his mind as the person he had jailed in the secret room. She didn't know that, but she was okay with him murdering someone. Because that's what she might have done had she managed to catch HID about her father's death (though notice she never told anything more to her mother about it after she found out.)

It is what it is. You can choose for him to be dead because he can't do it anymore. Or you can choose for him to rise and fight again.

He survived everything they threw at him and then some. He'll survive this too. He'll rise again and fight against the world.

My favourite kdrama killer (if one can say that) is the character played by Jung WoongIn in I Hear Your Voice. He was everybody's friend and the most brutal killer. And I already liked JWI from other dramas, LOL, it was a complete shock.

And Oh JungSe in The Good Detective, but then, OJS is good in anything he acts.

WAIT I forgot - the WHOLE VILLAGE in Black Out. :D

Anyway, it broke 15%.

Ep 15: 13.4% (1st)
Ep. 16: 15.4% (2nd, after Eagle Brothers).

So after starting with 6.1% I guess they did pretty okay.

1. He could say whatever, fact is he disappeared while being under investigation. Anything he says is automatically considered false. The investigation was suspended, not closed. When he came back they took it up again and this time he went to jail (because no powerful relationships and no money, LOL).

2. TaeYun sent the pictures and message to SDJ as he was going on the boat. There's nobody there yet to find the body and let everyone know, and maybe SDJ went off grid. The pic and the message are pretty much confirmation that TaeYun wasn't intending to kill himself and who he was with at the time - so in any case it means there's circumstantial evidence of the murder and whodunit.

3. They were partners in crime - Sec. Gong knew all about DeokHui and commiserated. DeokHui wanted the kid gone because she thought it was her husband's. And Sec. Gong learned about the killing at the same time as DeokHui (YEN heard them talking about it).

4. She might not have managed to find him if he didn't want to be found.

That's precisely why SDJ was crying at the end - he got to be CEO, he got to claim revenge (his mother's killer is dead, his father's and his sister's killer is locked up in jail for who knows how long, since he's in for both crimes), but also he lost the love of his life (because she's stupid, but that's another topic) and basically everything he ever worked hard for is now made hollow. All that fight - and for nothing. So the ending fits perfectly to that.

It was the ring he wanted to give to her that night. She chose to be stupid instead and then everything else happened. She's wearing it now because she remained stupid and thinks there's any possible way to return to how things used to be - dream on, YEN.

Okay, then Honda from A Shop for Killers isn't dead either. I will it so :D

Yeom lost everything - his reputation, his marriage, his power and all his money and after being locked up in a cage for a year he just exchanged it for a bigger cage. Sure he could get out (since he knows lots of secrets) but where is the proof for whatever he chooses to say? And since he's down, everybody will come for his throat while he's powerless.

DongJoo barely escaped with his soul after all this - he almost killed Yeom and became his father. Even stupid YEN praised him, thinking he DID kill Yeom and that might've shaken him up the most, the way everybody not just expected, but were okay with him being a killer. I think he's powerful enough to escape depression since he's out of the Cha influence, and he still has all that money to do whatever with it - give it for welfare, start another business, just live off it forever. And there's nothing else keeping him affixed, not like when he was forcing himself to be Yeom's jailer.

It was a pretty good ending all things considered. He's out (the ending is letting you choose what you want for him - to live or die), the Cha family will tear themselves apart, they already started, DeokHui has her own punishment in TaeYun (she could've let him leave and that would've stopped it) and Chairman Cha has the heir he deserves (because SeonWoo won't allow YEN to be CEO and he's not all that able either.)

It was a fair ending. I mean, not all dramas have to be HEAs, and the romantic part didn't deserve a HEA anyway, so better leave it bittersweet. At least Yeom HuiCheol got to mend some bridges with SDJ and now they'd be at least friendly enemies.

That's why I think he won't kill himself. Nobody, SDJ included, can kill SDJ :D

The Dandelion files are SDJ's card to get-out-alive-with-the-money. He did give them to the reporter, but I think she's smart enough not to play with fire. Hopefully.

SeonWoo isn't pivoting out of character - he used to be a teen delinquent and the way he acted around the Cha family and particularly his father showed he either doesn't really care at all about family bonds, or he's fooling them with the goody-two-shoes act. On the one hand, what pushed him into bad deeds as a teen might've been precisely having to grow up fatherless, and all that anger just bottled up inside of him. He thinks the Cha money is due to him and won't admit competition. But on the other hand - I think he's just a psychopath. I mean, his father was having an attack and might as well been dying for all that they knew, but SeonWoo didn't even move, looking at him kind of bored until his mother called to him to help. (As a contrast, TaeYun immediately rushed to help, then OR when SDJ got the cinnamon biscuits, for example. TaeYun has a lot more empathy, SeonWoo doesn't care for any other human being. Maybe his mother... at most.)

But since we never saw the hand that pushed TaeYun, what are the chances that Ms Ji did it? I think it was SeonWoo, but who can tell...

As for why did TaeYun have to die - he's his mother's reason for everything she did and so he must be her punishment.

If they make a sequel it won't be another makjang but maybe a psychological drama or something, where he revisits all his problems and heals. With Dr. Kang's help :D

6/10 eps in, we've had more fillers than the main OTP scenes. Those who started it will probably continue but this is not what it should've been already.

It's too soon but I don't think there would be another season. This one ends as it should even if some people don't like it. After all not all dramas are for everyone, some like them, some do not.

Wait, what were you asking before - if they end up together, no they do not (YAY!!), if he still has the money (YES! :D), whose son he is and if they're siblings, you already learned that - HID's and no they're not.

Let's make a league to get SDJ in Dr. Kang's orbit. He has mental health issues by now for being close to the Chas for so many years.

And hey! He's now best frenemies with Yeom HuiCheol! I mean, they should make a club of YEN's ex-lovers/husbands.

He's really a psychopath, LOL, when his father was having his gastritis attack he did carry him but had to be told to do so, he kept playing on the phone looking on the scene totally uninterested until his mother made him play along.

And yes, he didn't intervene between his mother and DeokHui, but I think he started planning already, or maybe he was already planning by then, looking for the opportunity.

The complete lack of respect he showed Chairman Cha, keeping up with the "harabeoji" joking manner of calling him even when he was recognised and included in the registry was another tell. Only when he realised how much money he would get did he start talking to him respectfully.

Psychopaths are good at leading normal lives, people don't really recognise the traits until they do something really atrocious and get found. We'll see if there's enough steam for a sequel where he'd get some punishment, but I think not. The suggestion is there, that SDJ has some proof he did it, but we won't ever see it.

Anyway, beautiful makjang and the best of all, the love line died :D After what she pulled in the first ep, she never redeemed herself, and with the thumbs-up for thinking he killed Yeom, she never learned better,

I vote for SDJ with Dr. Kang.

No LOL. And they won't. He seems totally done with anything Cha and for good reason.

She was killing him herself anyway. He wanted to study music, she pushed him into business and he didn't really fit in. And when he cried out to her about escaping, she basically blackmailed him with her life's purpose to stay there and take it. So he was going to probably waste his life in a world not of his own choice and I seriously think him being on that rooftop so many times ON the ledge, not on the safe side, points to some suicidal ideations already. But SeonWoo did him the "favour" so maybe there might be a chance for some sequel - I don't think it will come though - who knows...

The rule of thumb for kdramas is no gunshot, no death.