I think it’s possible that SGW was entertaining the idea of drowning TS. Remember — Sun Young had JUST died. Early in the show, the one character he felt genuine rage for was Tae Sung.

Ironically, at the beginning of this story, the person he felt warmest toward was the mother. (I’m guessing SGW’s version of the buried truth was that his father had thrown him out, and the rest of the family were helpless accomplices.) Not until halfway did he fully comprehend she was his true enemy.

Try to re-watch and analyze… Compare to GW’s suffering since young who do you think who suffered most? TS separate with his mother only & GW separated with his parents, lived with the Hong for ONE whole year then suddenly got thrown away like a trash and his parents died. The Hong family did gave him love and he did love them too (esp. President Hong). The more you love a person, the more you’ll come to hate that person if he/her betrays you. If I would be like GW “if and only if” it would be a big damage for the revenge to make it with whole family. If you try to look and analyze the other characters you’ll know. I felt sorry for TR & MN too & JI at the end. But if it’s based on the story of this drama I sympathize with both TS and GW who were victims of the evil Witch. But I feel more pity for GW from beginning till the end, who’d lost TWO families & his last source of comfort ie. Sun Young. I deeply feel for poor GW, thrown away BOTH times, then, in childhood, and at the end – his running away, wounded, from this family, repeats itself,..

I feel that GW tried to ‘harass’ them, to ‘rattle their golden cage’ and to attack their pride and lack of affection, more than to push things too far like towards death… he surely was sorry for what happened to the older brother, and he didn’t want to drown TS, only to scare him… as for innocence, … now, there is an entire discussion about who is innocent , and who is not innocent… (of course, if only he knew!… he surely was ‘stabbed in the back’). Just look at the last episode, at KNG’s acting and you’ll know how GW really was and then, look at the last episode, and see who has a moral conscience, and who doesn’t.

I liked the drama,(well the first 12 episodes)but there is NOTHING realistic about it.Gunwook’s childhood story was unbelievably unrealistic and stupid,neither was the suicide story.His “revenge” is what kept me puzzled,why get revenge only on the Children?They had nothing to do with it,also you would think after so many years of plotting revenge against the family he would do more than seduce the sisters,and leak a few stories about the company.I don’t know If it was the writing or KNG,but I didn’t connect to his character I waited and waited but It just never happened,so the last episode came and *SPOILER SPOILER* he died,and I was like MEH,Ironically the character I thought I would hate(TS)]was the only one I sympathized with and wanted happy,maybe It’s because he reminded me so much of Jaemin in Bali,or because he’s so childish and a kid at heart,that It broke my heart to see the mental abuse he had to go through with that horrible family,and yet no one seemed to care or do anything about it).Oh and back to the suicide story!Why was everyone blaming him for his ex’s suicide?He dumped her and wasn’t too nice about it.sure!but that doesn’t mean It’s his fault she(who did not seem at ALL suicidal)Jumped off a building!!WTF the younger cop is the one who really pissed me off,such a douche!

I know who will stand first in line to take over husband duties. Wait, erase that, no divorce… happily ever after. Where are my ruby red slippers? Dorthy, I want those back.

I just finished marathoning Bad Guy. At first was ok with the ending, but as I read disgrunted posts about the ending, I started to not like the ending. Mostly because Madame Shin got away with murder and was happy seeing her daughter gain control of Hae Shin which was still on its feet and prospering while Gun Wook was gone for ever.

I agree with @ Anonymous 45 that Gun Wook wasn´t really all that bad and that did some good to some of the family members.

Too bad that the quality of the scenes suffered in the last episodes versus the first episodes that had this cinamatography that gave a movie like feel to them.

I would have like a happier ending, but I believe that the ending had alreaday been decided from the beginning and that was that. I would still recommend it since the scenes betwee Gun Wook and Tae Ra sizzled and there were other good moments.