Shark: Episode 20 (Final)

154 August 1, 2013January 24, 2016

by HeadsNo2

And so it ends, and just about how you’d expect it to. I’d like to think that we just had extremely high expectations for Shark that it just couldn’t meet, and that we stuck it out because we always hoped to see it reach its full potential. At least, that’s what I hoped for—though I definitely feel unrewarded for that hope now. I’m also left with the feeling that this might be one of those dramas that we’ll just flush from our collective memory in a year or so, and maybe bring back up only when we’re feeling nostalgic for the side characters we came to love. Or when we feel nostalgic for the elderly, or split screens, or pictures, or juice.

Okay, it’s not ALL bad, and emotions always run a wee bit high after a final episode. But I’d be lying if I said I loved it.

FINAL EPISODE RECAP

Soo-hyun calls Grandpa Jo about the fee he’s due now that he’s shot Yi-soo, and no amount of squirreling on Grandpa’s part will get Soo-hyun to back down—he wants his money tonight, and he wants Clicky to deliver it to him. Grandpa finally agrees.

Junichiro gets the news about the shooting and wonders if Yi-soo is dead, though the police detail (run by Detective Byun) haven’t found his body yet.

Hae-woo gets a call that stills her nervous pacing, though we don’t hear what it is. In the meantime, we see Daddy Jo trying to play nice with the prosecutor who received the USB drive with incriminating evidence of Gaya. The prosecutor is clearly disgusted to be in Daddy Jo’s grinning presence.

So when he runs into Joon-young in front of his office, his first thought is that Joon-young is trying to bribe him. He peevishly replies that he will uncover Gaya’s dirty dealings no matter what, only to be surprised when Joon-young reveals that that’s the reason he came—not to bribe him, but to help him.

Joon-young reveals his noble cause: “Although it seems difficult now, I think that being properly investigated and starting anew is the best thing for Gaya’s future.” Good thing he leaves out the bit about getting revenge on Grandpa Jo.

Clicky meets Soo-hyun at a frustratingly dark harbor to hand over the money Grandpa Jo owes him. Soo-hyun thanks him for telling him the truth about who killed his father, but adds, “I am curious about one thing. How did you witness Han Young-man killing my father?” Oh crap.

As he asks this, we catch a brief glimpse of Detective Byun approaching, gun at the ready. Ah, Soo-hyun must have called Hae-woo… so this was a trap.

Soo-hyun then tells Clicky that he thought about it and realized that his father was doomed that day anyhow—if Yi-soo’s dad hadn’t have killed him, then Clicky would have.

Clicky begins to fidget for the gun in his pocket, but Soo-hyun raises his first. Detective Byun and another cop come out of hiding to surround Clicky and arrest him.

Afterward, Detective Byun walks right up to Soo-hyun and kicks him in the shins. Ha! How can a moment like this be adorable? He scolds Soo-hyun for his foolishness, and when he asks whose harebrained idea it was, Soo-hyun instantly looks ten years old as he points to himself.

Detective Byun then asks about Yi-soo, and all Soo-hyun knows is that his hyung told him he’d contact him. I love that Byun is totally taking Soo-hyun to school, and that his scolding is so dad-like. This skill is going to come in handy when Soo-hyun is his son-in-law. (C’mon, we’re all thinking it.)

We then see Yi-soo driving, very much alive and well. He has a flashback to when Soo-hyun confronted him over the truth and punched him repeatedly to get all his anger out.

Yi-soo accepted every hit, knowing better than to expect forgiveness. But he wanted Soo-hyun to at least understand that his father lived with a guilty conscience every day of his life.

Soo-hyun: “When I found out the truth, I resented and hated you so much that I wanted to kill you. But you’ve already been through so much up until now… and you’re the only family I have left. But that doesn’t mean that I forgive your father. If you want to atone, you should arrange for Chairman Jo to be properly judged, so that you and I can feel less wronged.” I’m so glad Soo-hyun didn’t turn into a remorseless vengeance machine. Mutual understanding for the win.

Yi-soo calls Dong-soo out of his house to deliver an envelope to Secretary Jang, and I love how Dong-soo instantly launches into a defense of her spying actions (by saying that Junichiro kept threatening her), only for Yi-soo to tell him that he already knew the whole situation.

Aw, and I was kind of hoping he’d actually tell Dong-soo about his identity, considering that he’s the only person who still doesn’t know. He does end the conversation by calling him “Dong-soo-ya” in banmal, like they would’ve when they were kids. This strikes Dong-soo as odd, but he doesn’t get the connection.

Clicky isn’t saying a word in the police interrogation room, and they soon find out that the money was all fake—which means Clicky was planning to kill Soo-hyun during the deal.

Detective Byun sighs that they have two options to summon Grandpa Jo for an investigation—either they get Clicky to confess, or they find more evidence. Hae-woo offers to try and persuade her grandfather. (So, did Soo-hyun not record his call with Grandpa Jo? What other evidence do they need, seriously?)

Yi-soo gives Hae-woo a call to ask if Clicky has confessed before he apologizes for not telling her about the plan with Soo-hyun beforehand. He’s got a hunch that Grandpa uses threats against Clicky’s wife and son to keep him in line, so he tells Hae-woo to assure Clicky that his family is safe to see if that gets him talking.

She then reveals that Secretary Jang gave her a USB (of the incriminating documents), but Yi-soo’s warning for her to do nothing comes too late—she’s already handed it over to a journalist.

After they hang up, Yi-soo waits for an opportunity to sneak into Junichiro’s office to steal the contents of his computer.

During his questioning session, Clicky turns the tables on Hae-woo by asking her if Yi-soo is more important than her family. Hae-woo: “Do you think I’m trying to uncover my grandfather’s sins just for Yi-soo?” She knows better than anything that uncovering the truth will mean the end of their hotel empire as well as her career, so while she may have started this because of Yi-soo, he’s not the reason she’s ending it.

As for the why, Hae-woo explains, “I want to beg for forgiveness from those people who died so wrongfully. I want to ask for their forgiveness in my grandfather’s stead.” She tells him it’s not too late for him to do the same, so he asks to talk to Yi-soo. Hae-woo calls him and hands the phone over.

Clicky makes a deal with Yi-soo to give his wife a new necklace for her birthday in two days, seeing as how he won’t be able to thanks to him. Because it’s totally Yi-soo’s fault that he killed how many people, again?

He doesn’t guarantee a confession if Yi-soo does this task, but he does stress that when Yi-soo gives his wife a new necklace, he has to throw away the old one. Hmm. That’s curious.

Dong-soo hands Secretary Jang the envelope Yi-soo entrusted to him, and Yi-soo calls her once she receives it to tell her that it’s a press release he’d like her to release the day before their official hotel opening.

She’s shocked and touched that Yi-soo still trusts her after everything. But he cuts off her chance at an apology by telling her he’ll hear it in person later. Why do I feel like that never happens?

Grandpa Jo’s other assassin (that creepy dude who tried to murder Prosecutor Oh, and the one who followed Soo-hyun on his murder mission) pays a visit to the police station, and is greeted by Detective Byun’s partner as a sunbae.

He claims to be visiting from another precinct to investigate the murder of Detective Oh, so he wants a little chat with Clicky, since he’s the chief suspect. Why they let him in without anyone monitoring the conversation is a little beyond me, but whatever.

He hands Clicky a poison pill and tells him that if he doesn’t take it, bad things will happen to his wife and son. Clicky gives a resigned sigh: “I knew this would happen.” Then he takes it and immediately keels over.

Detective Byun comes running when the fake-detective cries out for help, with the fake-detective claiming that Clicky took a poison pill he’d been hiding in his clothes. Byun is at the end of his rope, “Do you know how hard it was to arrest him?!” While the fake-detective avoids suspicion by acting just as outraged that he lost his super important suspect.

The cast plays a round of telephone to pass on the info about Clicky’s poisoning, and Yi-soo is devastated when he finds out.

Hae-woo meets with the reporter friend she handed a copy of the document to, only for him to admit that he’s powerless to publish it. So she turns to an accomplished hacker friend she knows instead to disperse the document to as many people as possible safely and anonymously.

She meets Joon-young outside and asks, “Did I really do the right thing? Will releasing the document change the world? Will the people believe it?” Joon-young tells her that from now on, it’ll be up to the people. She did the best she could.

Yi-soo stands precariously on the edge of a high-rise rooftop. Is he thinking of jumping, or is he just looking at the north star? I can’t see.

The next morning, there isn’t a phone or tablet that doesn’t have “The Truth About Chun Young-bo” on it. Grandpa Jo laughs it off to one of his concerned cover-up specialists who seems to be a little curious as to the truth of the matter.

Grandpa Jo sets him straight pretty fast—if people begin to doubt him, a paragon of virtue in their troubled society, then it’ll affect the government he so graciously supports. Man, he IS a devious bastard, because this is an underhanded threat of the highest order. Hurt me and I’ll hurt you.

And the tactic works, because the man with him suddenly changes his tune. They’ll be covering up the story like it never happened, at no cost to Grandpa Jo.

While Joon-young warns Hae-woo about the reporters swarming outside their house, Grandpa Jo places a call to his new assassin to demand Yi-soo be immediately found and killed.

Soo-hyun escorts Yi-hyun to lunch with her brother, and the two men share silent looks over whether to confirm Yi-hyun’s suspicion that the article about Chun Young-bo is really about Grandpa Jo. Luckily they get interrupted by their food, which of course, is spaghetti. Aww.

Yi-hyun is able to eat it without worries now, and pulls out a camera to take a picture with her brother afterward. Noooooooooooooo! She might as well be signing his death warrant. We all know what Final Episode Pictures mean.

I do love that Soo-hyun feels all excluded from being in the photo, and I especially love that Yi-hyun coaxes her brother into making a peace sign for it. (And because of the wonders of product placement, Hae-woo gets an instant copy.)

Detective Byun calls Hae-woo with the autopsy report on Clicky, showing that he died of the same poison used on Yi-soo’s dad and Detective Oh. He’s more upset that they lost their only witness, to which Hae-woo replies that they’ll just have to find more evidence. I hate to be Buzz Killington here, but, how?

Grandpa Jo gives a statement to all the reporters waiting outside his door that he’ll be donating all his hotel holdings to society, while Hae-woo finally gets the package of her late grandmother’s personal effects as promised.

Hae-woo’s reporter friend is among the crowd, and he confronts Grandpa Jo directly over how his sudden charitable impulse might be misconstrued as a cover-up.

Moreover, Grandpa has no plans to refute the evidence in the article, claiming that he’ll just have to reflect over what wrong he must have done for someone to hold such a grudge. Pffft. He sure knows how to work a crowd.

Hae-woo just so happens to twist one of her grandmother’s hairpins to find a picture rolled up inside… of Grandpa Jo when he was Chun Young-bo, surrounded by the bodies of people he killed. Grandpa’s empty promises to the people are heard in voiceover as she takes in what she’s seeing.

Yi-soo calls Soo-hyun as he’s driving his sleeping sister home to check in while he heads off to meet Clicky’s wife. Soo-hyun remarks that she’d been strangely tired… Come on, you guys are NOT going to pull anything weird right now. We’re forty minutes in, for crying out loud!

He finds Clicky’s wife in much nicer surroundings than the hospital they kidnapped her from, and hands the dazed woman a necklace. The necklace she’s currently wearing has a key dangling from it. Ah, so that’s why Clicky wanted him to go.

Soo-hyun grows alarmed when Yi-hyun won’t wake up, and immediately rushes her to the hospital. Her father and mother are there with Soo-hyun when the diagnosis comes in—she has an aggressive autoimmune disorder.

And the only cure is—wait for it—a liver transplant. They’ll need a donor within the family, and I swear the rest of his speech just sounds like the way adults talk in Charlie Brown. In short:

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Detective Byun thanks Yi-soo for volunteering to donate his liver, and Yi-soo hands him the key he found with Clicky’s wife.

He has something to take care of before he goes into surgery, but is sure to tell Detective Byun that he’ll turn himself in to the police the day Yi-hyun is discharged in order to take responsibility for the death of Detective Jung. According to him, Soo-hyun had nothing to do with it.

He then pays a visit to his benefactor, Junichiro, who mentions that if Grandpa Jo managed to make it through the public release of the incriminating documents, it means Yi-soo’s revenge failed. Yi-soo: “It’s your revenge that failed.”

He describes the contents of the envelope he hands over as a press release stating that all of their hotel’s profits will be donated to torture victims. Because Junichiro put him in charge of the hotel in Seoul, Yi-soo had the authority to sign off on it and to put Secretary Jang in charge of it.

When Junichiro threatens that he won’t just take this lying down, Yi-soo threatens him back—he’s given all the dirt (which he stole off Junichiro’s computer) he has on him to an acquaintance in Japan, whose first job will be to take it to the police if something were to happen to him or Secretary Jang.

“Thank you for everything,” Yi-soo says with a small bow. “Especially for saving my life.” Hell of a way to thank the guy. Also, why the harsh retaliation? Did I miss the part where Junichiro became a villain?

Detective Byun uses Clicky’s key to find a secret compartment in his bookstore containing a ledger of his transactions, as well as a recording of Grandpa Jo ordering the murder of Detective Oh. There’s the evidence they needed.

An arrest warrant is issued for Grandpa Jo at last, a fact that’s made public along with the picture Hae-woo discovered.

When the police come to Grandpa’s house to arrest him, he pulls a pistol out from his desk drawer, puts it up to his head, and pulls the trigger… Click. It doesn’t fire.

…And then we see Mrs. Park hiding the bullets she stole from his gun. Awesome.

Now that the nation knows he was responsible for countless massacres along with the more recent murder of Detective Oh, Hae-woo’s reporter friend asks Grandpa Jo if he has anything to say before he’s carted off.

“I lived my life for this country!” Grandpa all but yells, only no one’s buying it anymore.

Mrs. Park gives Daddy Jo the box of his mother’s things Hae-woo wanted passed onto him, and he breaks down into pitiful sobs the second he sees his mother’s funeral photo.

Hae-woo finds the wooden shark pendant while packing up her desk, and as she and Joon-young responsibly facing the consequences of their family’s actions, we hear the news reporting on Grandpa Jo being charged for Detective Oh’s murder. A separate investigation is being launched into the released documents and his dark past.

His case has spurred a general re-investigation into other sordid events in the country’s past regarding independence activists and events like the Gwangju massacre that Clicky and Yi-soo’s father were a part of, in order to shine a light on the injustice between those who helped the Japanese during the occupation and became wealthy from it as compared to those who fought against Japanese rule and now live in poverty.

With Yi-hyun’s liver transplant surgery set to take place the day after next, Yi-soo calls Hae-woo to arrange a meeting, since they both have things to say to each other that they can either say now or never.

Yi-soo smiles when he sees Hae-woo rounding the corner, but someone appears from behind and puts a gun to the back of his neck. He starts to turn around…

But the assassin pulls the trigger, and shoots Yi-soo in the neck. The shooter is revealed to be Grandpa Jo’s backup assassin, and he runs away before Yi-soo collapses.

Hae-woo starts running when she hears the sound, and there Yi-soo is, bleeding out in the middle of the park. “I have… to live… Hae-woo-ya,” he chokes out. He wants to live long enough to make it to his sister’s surgery, but it’s clear that’s not going to happen once he starts going into convulsions.

Hae-woo is just left in shock as Yi-soo eventually goes limp in her arms, before we cut to Grandpa Jo in prison, smiling victoriously.

Cut to: Hae-woo standing in the light of her grandfather’s office before she leaves it for good.

Yi-hyun asks where her brother is as she’s wheeled off to surgery, and Detective Byun lies that Yi-soo will come after the surgery. Wait, did she have no idea that her brother was donating his liver in the first place? Where did she think she was getting it from?

It’s heartbreaking that her mother can’t hold back her tears, because she knows the terrible truth they’re keeping from Yi-hyun.

Hae-woo stands by the hospital bed where Yi-soo lies unconscious, but alive. We hear her in voiceover: “The doctor said that it’s a miracle that Yi-soo is still alive. But I know that it’s due to his strong willpower, not a miracle. Yi-soo’s holding onto his thread of life with all his might. And he’s telling me… to save him, and to let him go. And to do what I can right now.”

She leans over to kiss him. “I love you, Yi-soo.”

Dong-soo clutches Yi-soo’s hand and sobs as he’s wheeled into surgery, with Soo-hyun and Joon-young following behind. Did someone finally tell this poor man the truth? And we missed it?!

Time stops for Hae-woo, and when it finally starts again, she begins to cry. I think that might’ve been an indicator that Yi-soo died.

Some time later, we find Hae-woo alone on a beach, clutching her shark pendant. She walks until the waves are up to her knees and addresses it: “Now you can breathe in peace, Yi-soo.”

She gently releases the pendant into the water and watches as it floats away.

COMMENTS

This finale did so many things wrong, and for reasons I really can’t understand. In some ways, maybe the ending reflects on this show’s failure to humanize our characters, because it didn’t seem to be about them all that much. Yes, the main objective driving the plot was to bring Grandpa Jo to justice, not just for the murder of Yi-soo’s father, but for his countless war crimes. So why did this whole exercise end up feeling like it was more for the benefit of The People, and not for our people? I’m all for the greater good, but up until now this show didn’t really work toward making that its core message—Yi-soo was never supposed to be a hero of the people, even though in retrospect it would’ve been a good move for the show to tie in his teenage desire to become a prosecutor into his present journey to bring Grandpa Jo down. But they didn’t, so Yi-soo gave his all to his quest for justice only to kind of succeed, and then he gets shot at the end. But, wait! He hung on to donate his liver to his dying sister! And then he died anyway!

Which, wait a minute, what? And more importantly, why? We’ve all seen the dramas that throw in a life-threatening illness to add some last-minute dramatics, but what confused me most about the inane addition of Yi-hyun’s illness was that it added absolutely nothing to the story. Literally, nothing. I’m still left a little slack-jawed at why the show even felt the need to introduce her illness when it only had twenty minutes to resolve it and the story as a whole. And the argument that they set up this up in advance with her nosebleeds isn’t legitimate in any world which values good storytelling, because no amount of setup could justify pulling that sudden illness and resolution out of (what certainly felt like) the writer’s bottom.

So then I struggled with trying to figure out what this show’s final message was—that evil inevitably wins? That life sucks and then you die? When the entire story revolved around one thing, aka Yi-soo’s journey for vengeance/justice, why end his journey on something so unrelated? Even then, since he would have died with or without helping his sister, if she didn’t know beforehand and we didn’t get to see her reaction after the fact, what was the point? Saving her was a point I suppose, showing Yi-soo’s selflessness was another point, but when we get all of five minutes to process that then there’s just no way to empathize, which means we miss the point.

I feel like we could talk forever about why melodramas feel a compulsion to kill off their heroes (which means we’re usually very surprised when they live), so I won’t belabor the point here other than that the hero’s death in this specific story seemed more pointless than usual. Yi-soo really did live a miserable life before he was killed for it, and there was just nothing satisfying about watching his story unfold. It’s not like only happy endings are acceptable, or only endings that are neatly tied into a bow are good—all you need to do is legitimize the journey. I just wish that would have happened here.

Other things that I wish would’ve worked better: Dong-soo’s off-screen realization that Kim Jun was Yi-soo, Junichiro’s very amorphous character, his reasons for revenge, and why he didn’t just reveal the incriminating documents if he had them the whole time, and Hae-woo’s reaction to pretty much everything. Especially her “Oh, well” take on Yi-soo’s death. This wasn’t a case where he shot himself or was dying from a disease—her grandfather was the reason he was shot down like a dog when he least expected it. And then she sheds a few tears, but figures that death was actually better for him in that now-he-can-finally-rest way? Sometimes heroes earn a valiant death, sometimes they don’t, but Yi-soo’s end just came off feeling unfinished, like he had to die because we’d reached the end of the show and not because the story necessitated it.

Oh well. Shoulda, woulda, coulda.

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51 spazmo

August 1, 2013 at 9:45 AM

i think it HAD to end with one dying - like in chagall's painting. it just happened to be yi soo instead of hae woo...

and the organ thing, there's so much mention of someone "ready to sell his organs", etc., i took it that he might have been donating part of his liver (which is possible, though i would imagine his sister would need a whole liver), but moreso that he just wanted to stay alive for his sister.

yi soo and hae woo were doomed to never be together, so for me, the ending was not awful, but it made sense. it's like an opera, always a tragedy...

i thought the whole cast rocked the drama, btw, especially KNG.

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52 Rach ^^

August 1, 2013 at 9:58 AM

Shark disappointed me so much. Once it had that mid drama slump (episode 12 thereabouts where almost everything was just filler) it never recovered the promise it started with. It may have been better off as a 16 parter.

All I can say at the ending is 'HUH? WHAT?? WHY?'

Resurrection is still the best out of the trilogy.

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53 selina

August 1, 2013 at 10:11 AM

Shark, you coulda have been a contender, you coulda been somebody...I was rooting for you! We were all rooting for you! HOW DARE YOU!

The finally was so goddamn predictable and the grand scheme of things felt void, pointless, and a let down of such great and wasted potential. I never liked Yi-soo nor felt for him the way I know the writers wanted me to. The first love stuff is never my cup of tea and in the end I only cared for side characters.

What's really sad is knowing that the writers could have done and have done better. I liked Resurrection and loooooved Mawang. I don't know if my expectations were too high, but the drams feels meh ok. With all that talent (Kim Na-gil, Soh Ye-jin, and the writers) it should have been let-me-love-you great.

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54 polinonae

August 1, 2013 at 10:18 AM

Am actually feeling glad I waitied for the finale recap to start watching the show. I love Kim Nam Gil, but his last drama Bad Guy left me a little traumatized. Spend all those hours, weeks for new episodes and at the end unsatisfy.

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55 Kaizeken

August 1, 2013 at 10:26 AM

I'm not going to say anything else because a lot of people have already spoken my thoughts (That, and I'm just feeling 'bleh' after watching that)
Grandpa Jo's laughter scene in his jail cell creeped me out. He was a cunning villain, never stopped until Yi Soo was dead either.

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risa

August 1, 2013 at 1:30 PM

Grandpa Jo's laughing-while-imprisoned scene really pissed me off. It negated the victory of his suicide attempt having been thwarted, and just gave a horrible "mass murderers get the last laugh" message. If they wanted to include that scene, they should've let Yi Soo survive the shooting, or at least shown us later Grampa Jo being tortured by irate fellow prisoners.

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56 Yvonne

August 1, 2013 at 11:34 AM

Thanks for the recap. Couldn't have said it better myself. Totally agree with your after comments.

Prepared that he was going to die...but not this way. When everything else felt so un-finished.

I hate the fact that the bad side won in the end. And it left me speechless with the mess Shark became.

Can't wait for the movie with KNG & SYJ tho!

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57 beggar1015

August 1, 2013 at 12:41 PM

This whole drama was like riding a roller coaster. It started off so slow, then suddenly took off like a rocket stealing my breath away, kinda stalled for a moment, took off again, and then came to a screeching halt.

While I knew from Episode One that Yi Soo was going to die (because it's KNG after all) it still doesn't mean I'm not upset at his death. As has already been said it was a useless death. If it had been a dramatic/action scene with Yi Soo fighting to triumph over Da Evil I probably could have accepted it better than just standing in the park.

And no, there was no reason whatsoever to have Yi Hyun suddenly deathly twenty minutes before the end of the show.

I still don't understand why Yi Soo did his benefactor so dirty unless it was revenge for the bug in his apartment and having the Kissy Picture leaked to the press.

Nor do I understand what Daddy Jo's missing mother had to do with the story. True, she had the hidden picture which would help bring Evil Gramps down but that's a very, very slim connection to everything else going on.

So Yi Soo did murder the Det. Jung. I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt but since he admitted to it then now I have to ask myself how could I have been rooting for this guy all along?

After Shark and Heartless City, I need a rom com pick-me-up.

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totvornottotv

August 2, 2013 at 4:56 AM

heartless citys ending made slightly more sense even if the plot of the entire series didnt had i wrote hearltess heres what the final scene of the drama wouldve looked like
post last scene
timeskip 5yrs
ext "playground"

a young child is playing in the sand making sandcastles next to other children
then we see what the child has created a cool building out of the sand we pan to the parents of the other children who are all talking about how intelligent and talented the child is they all ask one another whos child is that
from a short distance away comes a young woman in a police uniform who comes over picks up her son and says his name is ????? "the doctors son" now i know the details suck i just think the principle behind this ending would validate all the time spent on their relationship and the name what do you think?

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58 Sabelita

August 1, 2013 at 2:32 PM

Poor Kim nan gil i hope he can chose another roles, not only the revenge guy type, may be in the cinema because in dramaland he is doing the same role who did in bad guy and he is a good guy,ans a pretty good actor too.

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59 gemma jones

August 1, 2013 at 3:20 PM

what an awful end. where was the justice? the monster won in the end..and yi soo who did nothing but suffer dies? sucky end. if there was justice then yi soo and hae weo would have finally ended up together... i enjoyed the series until 19 and 20 was a horrid ending.

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zodd

August 1, 2013 at 8:48 PM

Pretty much a repeat of Bad Guy. Thank god I bailed out awhile ago and just read the recaps. You could see the final episode ending this way.

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60 kiyutata

August 1, 2013 at 3:32 PM

i want to know why kim nam gil choosed story like this after bad guy? so sad, lonely and always die
i hate the ending...

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61 Obsessed

August 1, 2013 at 3:33 PM

Oh...this soo sucks!!! I knew they were going to kill Yi Soo. They took us to great heights and then just left us standing there dazed and confused. All I can say is #%*$ the writers and everyone who thought the ending was great!! Yeah, I said it... And I'll say it again: #%*$! I'm going to go cry in the shower now....YI SOO!

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totvornottotv

August 2, 2013 at 5:01 AM

did it make any sense to you why yi soo and hae woo had no scene in the finale in which they where talking to one another face to face until after yi soo is mortally wounded when the principle relationship of the show was theirs? wtf? how could the writer screw this up so bad ? yi soos death isnt the whole issue the lack of a reasonable resolution to many of the story threads is the problem
why? what ? where ? how all of these where left without a valid resolution in my opinion this finale essentially invalidated all the time spent on yi soo hae woo and jy
why bother with all the angst when its just easily thrown aside with little reaction by the heroine of the series

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62 girlatsea

August 1, 2013 at 4:07 PM

When he was having that spaghetti dinner with Yi-hyun, I kinda sensed they would kill him off (him or little Yi-hyun). Then we were getting towards the last ten min, I was almost expecting him to live only THEN they had to go and shoot him. AND THEN they had to go give us hope when he was lying in that hospital bed, only to actually kill him off 1 min later. GOD, I FEEL SO CHEATED.

And how could they NOT give us a Dong-soo/Yi-soo reunion?!! Was that too much to ask for?

Like Heads said, I guess it was /that/ bad and I really did enjoy watching the leads. Kim Nam-gil, how I've missed him~ and then Son Ye-jin is always a pleasure to watch. BUT I still couldn't help but feel disappointed. Especially after I spent 20 hours waiting for it to get as good as I expected it to be, which it did get pretty okay at some point but only to burn us once again at the end :/

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girlatsea

August 1, 2013 at 4:14 PM

Oh can I just say that the scene where Mrs. Park took out the bullets was ever so satisfying. LOVED IT, what a great character

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63 Cheryl

August 1, 2013 at 4:37 PM

Too much time was wasted earlier in the series on Yi Soo sitting on his hands doing nothing, waiting for things to unfold, which necessitated rushing things here at the end. YH in the hospital and the transplant should have been done over at least two episodes. The writers also didn't do their research on signs and symptoms of a liver disorder, or they'd have known jaundice is a biggie. Nosebleeds show up with blood disorders.

How the hell does someone survive being shot in the back of the neck like that? Damn! The way it was handled was incredibly rushed and confusing, and I was left with the impression he somehow survived. There was too much going on, too much left unexplained and not really resolved.

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64 eren

August 1, 2013 at 5:19 PM

My version of the ending is that Yi Soo is watching her let him go so easily...so he lives with secretary jang, dong soo, yi hyun, soo hyun, and Ms. park at a villa. From money he saved. Fuuuuuuuuuuu. He didn't have to die.

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65 K-Drama love

August 1, 2013 at 5:25 PM

I must say this show started out great for me and faided more and more as it went on. The ending in particular was horrible in my opinion, all those gaps of information from Yisoo turning on Yunishiro, the later gaps when Yisoo died and his friend finding out about him and much much more, worse ending I've seen and I have seen terrible ones. For the most part we all knew what was going to take place, Yisoo was going to die and save is sister from her illness, clicky was destined for death too and really the only good thing was that grandpa didn't got to kill himself, yet at the end even in jail he was victorious, which really made me mad. But oh well those are my thoughts, this episode could have been much much better in my opinion.

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66 risa

August 1, 2013 at 5:53 PM

This drama was messed up. After watching Big and Incarnation of Money, which paled so much in comparison with their older siblings, you'd think I'd have learned not to get carried away with high expectations based on the creators' previous works. But no, I'm a big fat pabo. So yeah, color me acutely disappointed. There are way too many things that frustrated me about Shark to list here, but a couple of questions and rants I need to get off my chest:

∗ Show, you let Yi Hyun finally get to eat spaghetti happily (with both of her oppas!), after all those years of feeling traumatized at the thought of it, and then right after that, you made her deathly ill and killed off her beloved Yi Soo? WTF is wrong with you? Were you funded by spaghetti anti-fans?

∗ I hate it when dramas have supposedly smart characters act dumb. Like not instantly realizing that Clicky’s “buy my wife a new necklace and throw away the old one” was obviously a cryptic lead to evidence. Or telling a hacker that he may be in grave danger for posting online the document you just gave him-- when you just put him in grave danger by choosing to give him said document not only in person, but in public, knowing that other people have already been killed because of that document, and that chances are good that you’re being followed. D’oh!

∗ Why bother even having characters like Junichuro and Sec. Jang if you’re just gonna leave them as enigmas who don’t do much? I still don’t get why Junichuro and Yi Soo couldn’t have worked together, since they had the same goal. And who actually killed Det. Jung? Yi Soo ordered the killing, but said Soo Hyun wasn’t involved. It looked like it was a woman, but Sec. Jang didn’t know about Yi Soo’s identity at that point, and she doesn’t seem capable of it anyway. So, random female assassin?

I do have to give props to Show for not killing off Det. Byun despite the kdrama law that says all Best Dad Ever candidates must die. Just before Yi Soo left to meet Hae Woo, I told myself, “Okay, the drama ends here. Everything after this is just fanfic.” So in my world, Yi Hyun, her parents, her two oppas, and Dong Soo are all eating spaghetti together and having a good ol’ time. Hae Woo and Joon Young are rebuilding their marriage somewhere far, far away. Mrs. Park has become rich and famous after writing a tell-all memoir.

Thanks so much, Heads, gummi, and gf for being such wonderful guides even when the shark pool had a pretty foul naemsae.

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67 Michael

August 1, 2013 at 6:12 PM

I think the only point I was a bit turned off by Shark was when Yi Soo finally found out the truth behind his father. His breakdown, or ‘heroic blue screen of death,’ was a bit over-the-top and funny. Other than that the series was, at least for me, quite a well-planned series. I can only compare the show to movies like The International and The Parallax View: similar to both those films, Shark doesn’t really have a happy ending. Realistically speaking, however, I think that’s what happens when one tries to take down a person in the highest echelons of society: one must wade in the muck, and at times get dirty, to drag that person down to justice. Without really breaking any laws (other than his initial spark with Jung Man Chul), he dived deep into the mud and yet never really strayed again toward murder until Chairman Jo was caught. He still couldn’t escape Jo’s power, however.

Do I think it’s a fitting conclusion for him? No, because Kim Nam-gil is a great actor and I could really empathize with Yi Soo’s search for balance and justice. Realistically speaking, however, he was going to be incarcerated for murder; he would have had to still die for the sake of Yi Hyeon if he was going to save her. I have much respect for the show because they used ‘autoimmune hepatitis’ as a disease entity. We had one small-group discussion regarding that disease, and no one in our class got it right. It’s a bitch of a disease because of its protean manifestations: when I speak of protean, I pertain to non-specific signs and symptoms that may be confused with diseases which are more obvious. These are examples such as fatigue and malaise. When it comes to the point of Yi Hyeon (and we’ve been introduced ever since the earlier episodes that it wasn’t really just starting), it may have been a progressive disease that led to cirrhosis. Complications of cirrhosis include coagulopathy, which means that clotting is impaired. I think Yi Hyeon’s encephalopathy was reflected by her persistent loss of consciousness in the car. I’m no gastroenterologist, but the show was pretty accurate with the disease they chose and its manifestations: in intractable cases of hepatitis, liver transplantation is the only answer.

It was undeniable that he was going to give his life up for the sake of his sibling; he was already willing to pay for what his father had done, but most of the affected people (even Yi Soo) had moved on from the past and essentially just sought justice.

I don’t find the non-love story between Yi Soo and Hae Woo to be tacky, essentially because as a rational man, Yi Soo never really took advantage of Hae Woo as regards to her emotions toward him. He loved her, and that was reciprocated, but he never even dared to have sex with her even though it was obvious that she wanted it despite the fact that she was married. He wanted her near him, but it never really got beyond his kisses and hugs. The status quo in the love triangle was essentially maintained: Joon Young loved Hae Woo even though he knew she still loved Yi Soo all those years. I doubt whether they’d still have a child after all that but only time will tell. She probably wouldn’t betray her love for Yi Soo again, though.

It’s not as complicated and as intelligent as Joseon X-Files, but it’s one of the better dramas I’ve seen. The foreshadowing was well-done, the intricate exchanges and the chess game between Chairman Jo and Yi Soo were properly thought of for the most part. There’s just a little bit missing, but I certainly wasn’t disappointed in it. I loved how Yi Soo tried to pay for the sins of his parents after he realizes he was deeper in the muck than he initially imagined, and made peace with the people his father victimized. I like it better than the brutality of Devil, although of course I wished for the more hopeful light of Resurrection. I wasn’t disappointed with what I watched, though: in the end Yi Soo became someone I could really cheer on because he did it his way, and did the right thing.

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68 wonhwa

August 1, 2013 at 6:20 PM

I agree that the instant fatal disease twist, while not totally unexpected, felt cheap and manipulative, especially when the show had fun undercutting other cliches like the baddie committing suicide before he can be brought to justice. However, I wasn't as upset with other elements of the ending as some folks for a number of reasons. First, I never felt that the writer was trying to create a traditional "avenger corrupted by revenge" story. She already did that brilliantly in The Devil and I appreciated the fact that she wasn't repacking the same narrative arc. For me this was always far more the story of Hae Woo's attempt to find the truth than it was the story of Yi Soo's revenge, and I actually really liked the way the drama presented her character's journey. She's not a saint, but she never stops fighting to expose the truth, even at great personal cost, and she consistently refuses the comfortable option of denial. All of the members of the younger generation find themselves in the position of having to address their parents' wrongs, and I found the different choices that each of them made interesting and compelling. Thematically, I also felt the author was far more interested in this particular show about the way lies and corruption affect society as whole rather than a particular individual's wrongs.

From a structural perspective, if you're going to draw on the Orpheus story, than you know going in that Hades ends up keeping the Eurydice character, so Yi Soo's death was hardly a surprise. However, I wish it had been handled in a more dramatically effective way, and one that hinged more immediately on the personal choices of the main actors. Kim Ji Woo tends to have random stabbers (or in this case a shooter) show up at the end and I would have preferred a different choice this time around.

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69 hanna

August 1, 2013 at 7:47 PM

yeeaah in the end, kim nam gil "always" died -.-

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70 Lilly

August 1, 2013 at 8:33 PM

This one goes into the Big category for me

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71 tamagoxyaki

August 1, 2013 at 10:30 PM

You know this ending wasn't very good but it was no where as bad as the ending for "bad guy"which still holds the record of "Worst kdrama ending ever" in my book,and worst of all the writer there managed to create an awesome second male lead whos character you really get invested in but they give him an undeservingly cruel ending and don't even close his story properly(sorry I'm still pissed at the writers for that ending lol)
It was just SO stupid,contrived,ridiculous,unrealistic,and a thousand others things and worst of all none of it made any fucking sense.This ending was super cliche and very disappointing but it was not THAT bad,mainly because you never really get emotionally invested into any of these characters,since none of them felt human or relatable.

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72 Sora

August 2, 2013 at 12:34 AM

For me the ending is so-so :)
Well, its okay yet its didn't complete.
I think maybe their have to rush, not sure.
From episode 19 its already makes me excited and want to know what happen especially between Yi Soo (or i more prefer called him as Yoshimura ^^) and Soo Hyun. Since both of them are good partner and already makes me curious who is 'FRIEND" since the start. I hoping for that Soo hyun didn't keep revenge to Yi soo and i'm glad he didn't and even do a plan with him. Another great team work.

As promises by drama name 'don't look back' so there's no happy ending for Yi soo and Hae woo. That makes me agree because it follow the flow. If the ending suddenly change and make both of them together then it's not that tragic at all.

Also about Hae woo grandfather, a bit sad for me because their didn't finish it completely and just focus how he paid revenge too Yi soo >.<

Watched it from the 1st episode makes me realized that every single character have their own role in every part of the drama. Even Clicky wife also play main role too because of her necklace.

So over all although the ending is not as awesome as what i expected but the whole drama is good enough to makes me think the story line from episode to episode.

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73 Jyyjc

August 2, 2013 at 2:41 AM

Let us all pray to the drama gods to let kim nam gil live in his next drama.

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74 Oyabun

August 2, 2013 at 4:06 AM

So the guy who looks like a girl with a mustache died. Hurrah! It's a good ending. You can decently not survive with a look like that.

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75 Stuzza

August 2, 2013 at 5:17 AM

You know, I didn't think this show was that bad. Perhaps I've had a bad run with K dramas but I still think it was well above average. At its best I found it to be genuinely gripping.

As I see it, these dramas should really be half their running length; you just can't maintain a coherent story for that long. Factor in tight production schedules and egregious product placement, it's a miracle if any show can get out a final episode that makes any sense.

And even if you think the story was a bit off, the production values were top notch.

There.

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76 V En Detta

August 2, 2013 at 6:32 AM

well,another sad or incomplete ending...is dying synonymous with good drama/movie in Korea?

my boyfriend doesn't like me watching K-dramas or movies because I end up crying or feeling sad...can't understand why they,almost , always have to have sad endings...

Now, I am having second thoughts about watching their movie,that's yet to start filming-ya I know...don't think my heart will be able to take him dying a second time and their unrequited love once again

I need a rom-com to get over this ending!

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77 Chika

August 2, 2013 at 6:55 AM

Ohh.... I hate this drama!!!!!
I love this drama when i read the first episode synopsis.
I now... i really dissaponted. I wish i didn't watch or following this drama. It just make a pain. *sigh

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78 Chika

August 2, 2013 at 6:56 AM

Ohh.... I hate this drama!!!!!
I love this drama when i read the first episode synopsis.
and now... i really dissapointed. I wish i didn't watch or following this drama. It just make a pain on my memory. *sigh

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79 Sabelita

August 2, 2013 at 2:14 PM

I am sure about that Kim nan Gil took his role because of the circunstances he had been two years ago far from business he would be waiting another role but finally take it or leave it .the showbusiness is ruthless you are in or out and sometimes you can choose,its my opinion .The actress main role was wonderful.

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80 canxi

August 2, 2013 at 7:32 PM

I love you Kim Nam Gil, but I just need you to stop dying on me. I totally cried at the end because I was like "dammit, I knew it...he dies again!!" He's a great actor, though, and he never lets me down but I still want him to pick something lighter next time. I think he owes it to himself, too.

I agree with what Michael and Wonhwa were saying. If they had pulled out the disease a couple episodes earlier, I think would have been much better. I did like the characters, though. I won't file this drama away from my memory because I did enjoy it--it was a different kind of revenge story. I liked how it wasn't always intense but filled with observant moments and everything felt thought out and planned--even the ending to a certain extent.

What made less sense than Yi Hyun's disease was the shooter's appearance (no one was there and all of a sudden he's there!). I just wish Yi Soo had held his guard up for a little longer. As for the characters--I liked Yi Soo--I know many did not but I did, it was refreshing to see him as a revenge seeker..he was neither completely jaded or completely good, he was cool and collected but he had his moments of panic, he feels guilt and love, and he knows when he is hurting others. So, his death at the end and Evil Grandpa Jo smiling was horrible. It's like, I knew he wasn't going to get a completely happy ending (I was expecting a death but not in this way) but it was still so disappointing for me because it does say the bad guy wins in the end. I would have rathered Yi Soo be able to turn himself in as I think that would be a truer way of things coming full circle (like the show wanted!) but it's like Yi Soo's story--his circle--got cut off before it could make a complete revolution. And that is why the ending disappoints.

I liked Hae Woo, too. She was strong and steadfast but why she wasn't sobbing for Yi Soo I have no idea. If there was ever a time to sob...that would have been the time. Maybe she expected it, too. Who knows. But I would have marched straight to jail and told the Grandfather (especially if he was my own) to rot there--honestly that would probably be the only thing to get through to him. I never felt like she was being tortured or manipulated or used mostly because she never made me feel like she was. I like how everyone kept telling her she was being used and she always replied, that no, she wants the truth and so she's going along. I liked that in her. She was hesitant which is understandable but she was never afraid to not do what's right.

Lee Soo Hyuk's acting keeps improving and I feel so proud of him. I loved Soo Hyun and how his story came around in a full circle, it seems, but then I'm sad because another family member was taken away from him. I know he isn't alone (he has Yi Hyun and Det. Byun and Mama Byun I hope!) but that was his brother and friend and the person who changed his life and that must feel so unfair.

I did like this, though! I marathoned through which I am sure is a different experience than watching week to week but I believe it will be one of the better dramas of this year.

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81 Amy

August 3, 2013 at 7:41 AM

I love this series except 5 minutes at the end of course. I felt like the writer should have let him die in another way. His death is meaninglessly unexpected. Besides that, this show gathered many excellent actors. I have to give them credit for make this drama more interesting to follow. I had never watched any drama live but I did for shark. I wish they could extend this series a little longer so that all questions can be answered and YS didn't have to die that way. But I guess they didn't have financial supports needed to continue because of TV low ratings. Overall, shark has good basic story and great cast but the ending ... felt so empty .... I still love KNG and SYJ though. I hope their "pirate" movie will be a huge success.

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82 JaeJae

August 3, 2013 at 6:10 PM

How can YiSoo just died like that?
He died for NOMREASON!
At least if he died for taking down the Grandpa Jo I can accept it but he just died because-a-killer-from-nowhere-who-is-not-being-noticed-yet came over and shoot him
What happened to dongsoo?????? =_=

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83 Bigbanglover

August 4, 2013 at 2:19 AM

It was kinda predicted that something was gonna happen to him when HW and YS were about to meet since its linked to the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. I thought he was gonna live but then he died at the end and tears started flowing from my eyes gosh T.T BEST DRAMA EVER.

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84 Michelle

August 4, 2013 at 6:49 AM

This drama has caused me to go through the 5 stages of grief....I'm now at the ANGER stage.....??? The drama took me on a emotional roller coaster, where I was cheering for the hero...only for him to die in the LAST 5 MINS!!!!...so many loose ends....do we even know what happens to JY's father who was almost killed by the dirty cop?...seriously...I can't even begin to prattle off the other loose ends...KNG's first drama back from the military and he dies!!! Ugh!!!! So mad....!! I for one would like to see him in a romantic comedy that shows his playful side that we see on the BTS footage....SBS, KBS...MBC...are you listening to the frustration of the viewers?

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85 akefjlks

August 4, 2013 at 7:55 AM

its about how yisoo transformed from a person full of anger and revenge, schematic to the core, to a person who is more vulnerable to his emotions and able to put an end to the revenge mess to give people around him a new life, like he did to his sister.

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86 jayk

August 4, 2013 at 12:26 PM

Honestly, this is the WORST final episode I've seen in years. Actually, make that the worst EVER. There were so many things that are wrong here (Mrs. Park hiding bullets from the gun is about the only good part), but terminal illness in that last twenty minutes gotta top them all. And they don't even properly kill off our hero. He's shot, not even at point-blank but literally right on his neck, yet he's still ALIVE ("miraculously"), then after supposedly giving his liver to save his sister, he's apparently off again. WTF? Seriously, this writer should NEVER be allowed to write another script ever again.

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87 MELODY

August 4, 2013 at 10:57 PM

Maybe somewhere along the way, the writer got confused and ended up his story like this. SOOOOOOOO SAD!!!!

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88 MELODY

August 4, 2013 at 11:38 PM

As expected, the ending was sad, however, I am sorry to say that there were so many important issues left unspoken & questions need to be answered with valid reasons. Why did the writer kill YS. It could have been better if YS went to prison since he also murdered the investigator. Together with Grandpa Jo, they will both reflect and repent for the sins they had committed and ask forgiveness from all the people who suffered so much along the way.

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89 NY

August 5, 2013 at 11:22 AM

still feel like its a Bad Boy ripp-off... Up to the character dying in the end

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90 yeonu

August 6, 2013 at 2:48 PM

who say's he really is dead... it is never said everybody is just thinking it right now but is it also true ?
i think the last episode was so weeiiird i still have soooo many questions.

What happened to yi hyun and soohyun ? they were a really really cute couple but did they end up together?

and what has happened to junichuro he didn't take revenge on yi soo!

What about joon young and hae woo ? are they still married or uuh are they divorced ? maybe yi soo is alive and she's just together with him right now <3

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91 suci togubu

August 9, 2013 at 7:46 PM

someone please give kim nam gil ssi a rom-com. even this 20eps melo crap ive watched only for him. for a rom com i would stay for 3days and 3nights:)

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92 deandreart

August 10, 2013 at 8:39 PM

I felt disappointed and.... Such a waste! I think this is a very great drama and I really love to read every single episodes, but in the episode 20??? 19 episodes of YS's revenge was such waste! He's dead, and that evil grandpa is succeed by killing him from prison! And that looked happy and smiling and laughing from the prison! OMFG! If he wouldn't be with HW because she's married, just let her be with his sister!!!! Didn't the writer think about his sister? Uuuggghh. I'm so pissed!

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93 deandreart

August 10, 2013 at 8:45 PM

But this drama is still BEST DRAMA EVER for me for made me smiled, cried, and mad. This drama was controlling my emotions! But still! BDE!

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94 Emmy

August 26, 2013 at 12:20 AM

I know I'm late to this but I finally managed to finish watching it today.

My thoughts. The ending definitely left me unsatisfied. I would have loved for Yi-Soo to live. That said it would have been tonally appropriate for the show for him to die at the very end, but not in this way. I felt there was an overall lack of closure for those of us who did come to care for Yi-Soo and Hae-Woo.

Also, I hated how they squeezed in Yi-Hyun's disease at the very end. I would have much preferred for them to spend their time on other issues, like resolving Secretary Jang and Junichiro's mysteriousness, which until now, still remains a mystery to me.

I still enjoyed watching the show, but the ending did leave me unsatisfied. I think many of us are disappointed because the potential of this drama was amazing and unfortunately it never did fulfil it's potential of a stellar cast, an interesting premise and very talented writers.

Side characters are amazing though. Most dramas use side characters as plot devices, but in Shark, detective Byun, Housekeeper Park, Yi-Hyun, Soo-Hyun, Joon-Young , Dong Soo and even secretary Jang were such amazing characters. Detective Byun will remain a favourite secondary character of mine for a long time.

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95 tercumen

August 29, 2013 at 10:18 PM

That was the first KNG drama i've seen.. I'll not say i regret it, eventhough the final ep. sucks, the drama was worth seeing nevertheless. But i really feel like betrayed.. God.. The final ep could never be worse..

First of all, I'm really sorry and angry about Joon Young. He was really one of the best characters of the drama but since the beginning of the drama he really couldn't get the value he deserved(his character).. and in the end, ...nothing, neither positive nor negative..

OK, nobody expected them(Yi Soo&Hae Woo) to be together in the end, but Yi Soo's dying was really like.. come on!wth? why they needed this all above??!

I really liked Clicky's necklace thing and the guns scene.. really. but grandmother's items came up so much random to hae woo..really hated that scene..

I'll assume as it didn't ended like that and Yi Soo becomes together with his sister after all. Otherwise i'm really getting angry >.<

Thx a lot for the recap and comments! I've come here as soon as i finished the drama and now i feel better lol

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96 Sydney

September 6, 2013 at 2:31 AM

WWHY DOES IT HAVE TO END THAT WAY???????????????? ugggggh. the end was just too insulting. Yi soo deserved a break -_-

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97 mariam

October 3, 2013 at 1:43 AM

This drama ends on a really sad note, why would yi soo sister come to losing her brother again after so many years and to Grandpa jo at that. And why is it that Grandpa jo is made to feel justified for the killing, how can evil continue to triumph even to the very end. Also the fake detective/the assassin got away with it all.
This drama left so many unanswered question. There should have been a better re-union of friends and family even if yi soo were to die or be jailed, am just so disappointed. Argggggggh

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98 jonah

October 16, 2013 at 9:27 PM

I get the feeling that the drama was expected to go more than 20 episodes. Otherwise, they wouldn't have rushed all the loose ends.

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99 Lydia

October 25, 2013 at 1:31 PM

I have this strong feeling of unfinished work; they just left emptiness... and anger. Thanks. Just gonna watch some stupid comedy and never again a drama with that kind of subject. Tired of all those predictables ends.

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100 Lucifera

November 2, 2013 at 1:34 PM

I think KING should follow So Ji Sub's lead and take on a rom-com. You know, since he dies in all his dramas. His death here was as stupid and ridiculous as it was in "Bad Guy". I simply hated the ending. So many wasted hours!

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