When Lara Jean finds herself attracted to boys, she writes a letter to them without posting it. Her sister then mischievously posts those letter without asking.
Review:
This movie is nice, no doubt. But my opinion is - it's cringey. Some parts were good, it was fun and relatable. It's good for a one time watch. There's a part 3 coming next year. I liked the 1st part more than the 2. The bar is low here. And oh, it won an award for the best kiss....
2. The Kissing Booth
Summary:
Elle and Lee are best friends. But Elle falls for Lee's brother Noah which in turn creates a turmoil between the friends.
Review:
This movie franchise is - (finding different words for cringe is difficult) cringe :p. Elle and Lee's friendship has rules that aren't supposed to be broken, if broken face consequences. Honestly, does this happen in real life? Do you have rule books for friendship? Let us know in the comments. Part one was okay, part two was not okay. Didn't like it. Elle still goes with Noah, knowing Marco is a better option for her? What's that about? #teammarco
3. Perfect Date
Summary:
Brooks create an application to offer as a fake date to girls who needs it. His motive to do so was to earn so that he can go to his dream college.
Review:
The movie is okay-ish. Brooks wants to go to his favorite college and that's why he creats an app to act like a date for girls. But when one such order comes, he falls for her instead. The motive - good, the strategy - not good. One time watch worthy.
4. Sierra Bergers Is A Loser:
Summary:
Sierra is an unpopular kid who wants to make a name for herself. She develops feelings for Jamey. She asks her popular friend Veronica for help.
Simon is a high school boy with secrets. He shares his secret with an anonymous online, only for it be leaked to the entire school.
Review:
In true fashion, saved the best for the last. This movie is not cringey don't worry! I loved it because of its simplicity and relatability. I've seen it a couple of times and yet I don't get tired of it. Overall, it's warm, raw, realistic and emotional. Definitely must watch, at least once.
Notable mentions.
The Half Of It:
Summary:
Ellie Chu is an introverted girl who helps Paul to woo a girl in their school. Ellie and Paul both are attracted to Aster.
Review:
They don't make movies like this. It's warm and touching. Ellie and Paul both falls for the same girl. It also covers about some prevailing issues like immigration difficulties that are faced by immigrants on a daily basis in the US. This coming of age movie is definitely a must watch for every teen out there.
While writing this, I realised all the movies that I selected for this list were Netflix originals. (Except for Love, simon but it's not cringey anyway) So I guess you can say netflix has a way with the most cringe content always.
There are more movies in the same spectrum. I chose these because its wildly popular and most talked about movies. Feel free to recommend me more movies because even if it's cringy, I always survive the experience.
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Kang Sun Hyuk (Park Hae Jin) seems to have it all: financial success, good looks, and brains, but he's haunted by an experience that leaves him unable to remember his past.
Though successful in the corporate world, he abandons it all behind to become a rescue worker in the rural countryside. Jung Young Jae (Jo Bo Ah) is a promising young surgeon at her hospital, but her cheerful demeanor hides a childhood trauma, which leaves her unable to focus fully on her future. The pair are both drawn to a mystical forest.
A detective, his lover, and an obsessed serial killer from the 1980s are reincarnated as a prosecutor, an archaeologist, and a medical student in the present day
3.How to buy a friend/Friendship Contract / Friend Contract
Network:
KBS
Running Time:
6th April to 14th April
Synopsis:
Because of a poem he writes, an ordinary high school student makes a "contractual friendship" with the school's legendary tough guy.
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4.Fatal promise/dangerous promise
Network:
KBS
Running Time:
30th March 2020 to 28th August 2020
Synopsis:
Kang Tae In breaks a promise that he made to Cha Eun Dong when the latter's family was in danger. However, things change when the two come face-to-face after seven years
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5.Meow the secret boy/welcome
Network:
KBS
Running Time:
25th March 2020 to 30th April 2020
Synopsis:
Sol Ah is an outgoing graphics designer, who aspires to be a webcomic artist. One day, she brings home a cat, who unbeknownst to her has the ability to transform into a human male.
An unorthodox psychiatrist, passionate about his work, seeks to heal his patients of their emotional wounds and find happiness.
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7.Memorials/The Ballot / Into the Ring
Network:
KBS
Running Time:
1st July 2020 to 30th August 2020
Synopsis:
A poor girl who can't get a decent job decides to run for public office just for the money, but ends up joining forces with a demoted official to go after corrupt politicians.
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8. 365:Repeat the year/365: A Year Against Destiny / 365: One Year Against Destiny / 365: A Year of Defying Fate
Network:
MBC
Running Time:
23rd March 2020 to 28th April 2020
Synopsis:
A story of ten people who get the chance to go back to one year ago and change their destiny, But they are involved in mysterious events and face a destiny they never expected. Ji Hyung Joo (Lee Joon Hyuk) used to be part of the traffic police but was promoted when he arrested a wanted criminal. Shin Ga Hyun (Nam Ji Hyun) is a webtoon writer called "Hidden Killer". She experiences a sudden incident. Ga Hyun along with Hyung Joo and eight others get the chance to "reset" their lives.
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9.Dinner mate/Would You Like to Have Dinner Together? / Shall We Have Dinner Together?
Network:
MBC
Running Time:
25th May 2020 to 14th July 2020
Synopsis:
A man and woman waiting at a restaurant are mistaken for a couple and decide to have dinner together
A melodrama romance between a TV anchorman with hyperthymesia, the ability to remember nearly every detail of his life, and a top actress, who has forgotten much of her past.
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10.Old school intern/Kkondae Intern
Network:
MBC
Running Time:
20th May 2020 to 1st July 2020
Synopsis:
Fresh out of school, Ka Yul Chan lands a job where his innovative ideas are squashed by a rigid, 'old school' type of manager. Completely frustrated, he quits and goes on to success at another company, eventually becoming the chief of the sales and marketing. One day, he gets a new senior-aged intern, who is none other than his stodgy old boss.
A painter gets diagnosed terminally ill. On his 58th birthday, he plans to share his last will and testament. His great legacy and immense fortune slowly draw out his family's inner greed, causing a fierce mental battle amongst them. There are too many people around him who are only after his legacy; including his ex-wife, Ji Sul Young, who has taken care of him, Kim Ji Hye, a former mistress and mother to his daughter, and Dokko Chul, a son from a different father. They face different outcomes by the different choices they make as their greed overwhelms them. What are the limits of human greed
Veteran Detective Cha Young Jin is still tormented by the unsolved murder of a close friend by an apparent serial killer 19 years ago. When the killings begin again, she is determined to catch the culprit.
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13.Good casting
Network:
MBC
Running Time:
27th April 2020 to 16th June 2020
Synopsis:
After a botched mission, a legendary NIS black ops agent is reassigned to go undercover on a case involving intellectual property theft at Korea's largest conglomerate.
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14.Hyena
Network:
SBS/ Netflix
Running Time:
21st February 2020 to 11th April 2020
Synopsis:
To survive in a highly competitive environment, two rival attorneys with only high-class clientele tear apart anything that stands in the way of their ambition
In a parallel universe where a constitutional monarchy rules the nation, a palace plot leads to the assassination of the king by his half-brother. The coup is thwarted by the sudden appearance of a unknown person, who saves the life of the young heir to the throne, but drops a policewoman's ID tag on the scene. The treasonous prince then escapes to another world, using a piece of a stolen mystical artifact. Years later, still obsessed with finding the identity of his mysterious savior, the young king discovers the portal to the other world, crosses over, and finds the person he seeks there.
Detective Dong Baek has the supernatural ability to read people's memories, when he touches them. Armed with this power, he tackles a mysterious serial murder case
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18.Oh my Baby
Network:
tvN
Running Time:
13th March 2020 to 2nd July 2020
Synopsis:
Jang Ha Ri is a 39-year-old single career woman, who works for a parenting magazine called "The Baby". Having given up on the prospect of love and marriage 10 years ago to pursue her career, she still wants to have a baby of her own. She has three very different men around her who might make a suitable father for her child. She must choose.
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This drama focusses on the lives of two individuals who fights their inner battles of heartbreak while keeping an optimistic approch to life in a way that every thing will be fine one day.
However , this melodrama despite of its slow premise offers some great landscape visuals as well as side characters who equally emerges in developing a great storyline.
All the characters ultimately finds peace in their lives overcoming their part of guilt for each other and end on a happy note.
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20.My Unfamiliar Family/We Are Family
Network:
TvN
Running Time:
1st June 2020 to 21st July 2020
Synopsis:
As people get older, they have less time to spend with their families and separately live their own lives.
They begin to meet someone who they share their time, feelings, and even their secrets.
Under these circumstances, the family becomes like strangers and people in relationships become like family.
21. When my love blooms/The Most Beautiful Moment in Life / Blossom
Network:
tvN
Running Time:
25th April 2020 to 4th June 2020
Synopsis:
Han Jae Hyun and Yoon Ji Soo were each other's first loves in university. In their 40s, they meet again. Jae Hyun has become a successful businessman, while Ji Soo is a struggling single mother.
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22.Its okay to not be okay/Psycho But It's Okay
Network:
tvN/Netflix
Running Time:
20th June 2020 to 9th August 2020
Synopsis:
A caregiver at a psychiatric ward who does not believe in love and a children's book author with an antisocial personality disorder heal each other's emotional wounds.
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This 2020 drama emerges as an epitome of an ideal Kdrama which offers something new in its premise .
How often , we see a Kdrama addressing a topic of Mental Illness right. A road of healing opens up for all the characters potrayed in the drama who once suffered from their own fears of loosing someone .
The narration of each episode in the terms of childrens story fits as a perfect sprinkle of fantasy in the genre of melodrama and healing .
We urge you to watch this drama for its quirky as well as mysterious aspects which will leave you thinking about it for quite a time .
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23.Team Bulldog: Off duty investigation
Network:
OCN
Running Time:
23rd March 2020 to 28th June 2020
Synopsis:
A dogged police detective, an enthusiastic PD of a TV investigative show, a former criminal profiler, a legendary fighter, and a former ace pathologist team-up to solve cold cases.
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24.Train
Network:
OCN
Running Time:
11th July 2020 to 16th August 2020
Synopsis:
A police detective crosses to a parallel universe to catch the murderer who killed his beloved.
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25.I'll go to you when the weather is nice/I'll Find You on a Beautiful Day / If the Weather Is Good, I'll Find You / I'll Visit You When the Weather Is Nice / When the Weather Is Fine
Network:
JTBC
Running Time:
24th February 2020 to 21st April 2020
Synopsis:
Mok Hae Won is a warm-hearted cellist living in Seoul. After a number of emotionally bad experiences, she tires of hectic city life and returns to Bookhyun, the small rural village of her youth. There she meets Im Eun Sup, an old high school classmate, who now owns a small bookstore, writes a blog, and lives a simple life.
Noh Ae Jung is a working single mother who has not dated in 14 years, but has four romantic prospects. Oh Dae Oh is her "charming bad boy" ex-boyfriend, who is a best-seller author. Ryoo Jin is an A-list actor, who seems perfect in every way, but is somehow "pitiful." Oh Yun Woo is a pure-hearted PE teacher, who "makes women's hearts' flutter," despite his youth. Koo Pa Do is an ex-gangster turned-CEO with hints of a warm heart behind his scary persona.
Park Sae Roi gets expelled from school for punching a school bully, the son of the CEO of his father's employer. As a result, his father gets fired from his job. When the same bully causes an accident that kills his father, Sae Roi beats him severely and is sent to prison. Once released, Sae Roi follows in his father's footsteps by opening a bar-restaurant in Itaewon. Together with his manager and other staff, he hopes to ruin his rival and achieve even greater success.
29.The world of the married/The Married Life / Couple's World/The Married Life / Couple's World
Network:
JTBC/Netflix
Running Time:
27th March 2020 to 16th May 2020
Synopsis:
Ji Sun Woo is a family medicine doctor. Her husband, Lee Tae Oh, is an aspiring movie director. Though they seem to have an ideal family life, betrayal leads to a whirlwind of revenge.
The everyday lives of four 17-year-old high school girls are filled with struggles, disappointments, and precious memories as they grow together.
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32.Extracurricular/Human class
Network:
Netflix
Running Time:
29th April
Synopsis:
In a gripping story of youth at risk, a group of high school students start committing crimes to earn money and then must face the serious consequences of their actions
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33.Hospital Playlist/Wise Doctor Life / A Wise Doctor's Life / Smart Doctor Living
Network:
tvN/Netflix
Running Time:
12th March 2020 to 28th May
Synopsis:
Five doctors who were all friends in medical school now work together at the same hospital.
2nd season is confirmed
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34.Hi! Bye Mama
Network:
tvN/Netflix
Running Time:
22nd February 2020 to 19th April 2020
Synopsis:
A woman who died five years ago, leaving behind a husband and child, returns for 49 days.
This drama is about Han Tae Joo, the 18-year-old chaebol heir to the TB Group, and his unofficial bodyguard, Kang Gook. They are childhood friends but as they grow older, they start to feel something more. When a female student Hye Mi transfers to their school, she activates the romantic tension between the two long-term friends by going on a date with Gang Gook, irritating Han Tae Joo and opening suppressed feelings.
Review/ Explanation:
This is an extremely short kdrama of only 6 episodes available on viki. Its one of the first Korean bls.
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36.Men are Men/That Guy Is the Guy / To All The Guys Who Loved Me
Network:
KBS
Running Time:
6th July 2020 to September 2020
Synopsis:
Hyun Joo is a leader of webcomic planing team and she harbors the jaded view that all men are same and has decided to remain single but soon two charming men come into her life.
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37. The Flower of evil
Network:
tvN
Running Time:
29th July 2020 to23rd September 2020
Synopsis:
Cha Ji Won is a police detective. Her husband, Baek Hee Sung, seems like a loving husband and father, but one day she discovers that things are not as they seem. He has apparently been living under another man's identity and hiding a sinister past.
An Eun-Young (Jung Yu-Mi) is a new nurse teacher at school. She has a special ability to see jelly like monsters that are made from residue of human desire and she can also eradicate these jellies. She uses a toy knife and a BB gun to take out the jellies. She senses that a mysterious event takes place at her school
Hong In-Pyo (Nam Joo-Hyuk) is a Chinese language teacher at the same school. Hong In-Pyo has a special energy. In order to protect the students, An Eun-Young and Hong In-Pyo work together to eradicate the
Cha Ji-Won (Moon Chae-Won) is a detective. She is married to Baek Hee-Sung (Lee Joon-Gi) and they a daughter.
Baek Hee-Sung seems like a committed husband and father, but he hides his cruel past and lives under another person's identity. He deceives his wife completely. Cha Ji-Won learns of his deception and chases his past.
Plot-
Major spoilers ahead!!!
Entire story explained from the start.
Episode 1 starts off with Baek hee sung tied up and in water about to die because of suffocation.
Cha ji won comes to the rescue (this is just a glimpse of what happens in episode 6 and continues from there)
How it started:
Do hyun soo the main character and his sister Do hae soo live with their father Domin seok.
Their father Do min seok makes metal crafts and is a serial killer. He kidnapped and kept his victims in the basement of his house/workshop.
Later he killed them and left a cut in their Achilles heal, put a dog collar around their neck and pulled out their nail of thumb and kept it as Souvenir.
These murders were called Yeonju City Serial Murders. He was never caught.
One day at do hyun soos school he comes across baek hee sung. Baek hee sung was on the terrace and threw a brick on a dog and killed it. The teacher had called his mother to school to talk about it. He lied and said that he didn't and he was just stressed about his exams. When hes waiting outside Do min seok tells him he must feel lonely as he hasn't found anyone like him.
On 12th May 2002 the last of the 7 victims of Do min seok is kidnapped. Her name was Jung Mi Sook. Her body was never found.
When she was kidnapped there was a witness her name was Jang young Hee.
She remembered the kidnapping but since it was dark and the person was wearing a hat she never saw his face.
She files a complaint to the police immediately but once home she gets a call saying that the killer remembers her face and that she should be careful. So she tells the cops that she was drinking too much so doesn't remember anything properly.
That time when the police suspected Do min seok his son Do hyun soo served as an alibi because he was with his father the whole day. That means Do min seok had assistance of another person. That person was Baek hee sung.
Do min seok tells baek hee sung to turn himself in as this was his mistake ( that there was a witness to the kidnapping).
When Do min seok is leaving baek he sung attacks him from behind with a stone and kills him.
Baek hee sung makes it look like suicide(we know this because thats what they say many times in the kdrama)
The village foreman takes the now orphan children in his care.
Now the village foreman wasn't some sort of saint. He and a group of villagers took Dohyun soo every night and did exorcism rituals on him. They said that his fathers spirit haunted him.
Do hyun soo started to believe them and he too felt that he was being haunted by his fathers spirit. All this took a huge toll on his mental health. His sister started to started to get worried about him.
3 months later one day she goes and asks the village foreman to stop the rituals but he says no and is about to hit her. In self defence she accidentally kills him.
Do hyun soo comes to see his sister covered with blood. He takes the blame on himself. He tells her to change and burns her clothes along with his house where there were his photos and belongings. Everything that could connect to the siblings like DNA etc is burned.
Do hyun soo takes his bag and all his books that have his name written and intentionally drops them near the crime scene. He puts his fingerprints on the murder weapon and leaves it there too and runs away from the village. The cops conclude that he was the murderer of the village foreman and possibly the person who assisted Do minseok in those serial murders. The village foremans murder was called the geongri murder.
Do hyun soo has run away from the village and started working at a Chinese restaurant. Another person who works there was namsoon kil. Do hyun soo worked there from 2002 to 2005.
After that sometime in 2005Do hyun soo is running away from an incident where Namsoon kil tries to steal from him. When he's running he gets in a car accident. The man who hit Do hyun soo was Baek hee sung(og)
Baek hee sung is the son of baek man woo and gong mi jaa. When he accidentally hits do hyun soo hes about to call an ambulance but do hyun soo tells him not to(as hes wanted man). Baek hee sung tries to call his father but he doesn't pick up the call. He goes home and starts to dig up a hole. Hes about to bury the unconscious do hyun soo.
He doesn't know that he is Do min seoks son.
His mother meanwhile found a collection of human nails (the ones that were pulled out from the victims fingers) and a knife
His mother is shocked and scared and as she takes the knife is about to commit suicide she sees baek hee sung from the window digging and she sees the body of do hyun soo
She asks him what hes doing and he seems unfazed as if he's done this countless times before. She stabs him which almost kills him. Later we see that his father a doctor saved him (he goes in a coma). His parents hide him in thier house in a secret room so no one would ask questions as to what happened to him.
Now sometime between 2005 and 2006dohyun soo takes baek hee sungs place.
After that cha ji won meets baek hee sung (do hyun soo) and starts to have feelings for him. He rejects her at first buy eventually starts dating her.
They go on to marry and have a daughter. Jiwon is a detective and knows reporter Kim moo jin. One day kim moo jin goes to meet Baek hee sung at his workshop to repair a necklace (cha ji won suggested he go to her husband to get it done).
He recognises do hyun soo as kim moo jin used to date his sister do hae soo and also bullied do hyun soo.
Do hyun soo now baek hee sung ties kim moo jin and locks him in the basement for 2 or 3 days. Due to an incident he has to let go of kim moo jin.
He doesn't kill him but blackmails him that if he doesn't keep quiet baek hee sung will release the recording that kim moo jin had taken in school where he discovered the lair where do min seok kept his victims.
In the video we see that kim moo jin recorded the cages in do mink seoks basement. While recording he sees a sack bag that is moving. He realizes its a human being in it and at that same moment do mink seok comes down. He says its an elk and Kim moo jin says ofcourse it is as hes scared.
Now next day a body is found at a Chinese restaurant. Naam soon kil the guy who worked with do hyun soo is killed in a similar manner of yeon ju city murders. Now the police (including cha ji won) note that the murder is similar not same. As some details like a cut in the Achilles heel was not revealed to public so this murder is a copy cat murder not suspect do hyun soo who is still on run.
Next day kim moo jin and baek Hee-Sung the next day come to an agreement to work together as baek hee sung needs to clear the name of do hyun soo so people don't try to look for him and Kim moo jin because he'll get a name.
The murderer turns out to be the husband of the last victim who was kidnapped but who's body wasn't found his name was park kyungChoon. He wanted to find her body and give her a proper burial. He thought that committing murders with similar pattern might make people look into do hyun soo again and that he might reveal his dead wife's body.
He then runs into do hyun soo and kidnaps him where he asks him if he was the accomplice of his father. He denies it. He says that he knows it was him because the fish keychain that do hyun soo had attached to his recorder was the same fish keychain that he had given his wife.
Baek hee sung suddenly remembers that at his father's mourning his sister came and gave him the keychain. He doesn't say that out loud.
Now baek hee sung is already tied and in an empty pool where water starts filling. Hes underwater and soon cha ji won who followed her husband through the gps chip she put in his watch because she previously suspected him to be somehow involved.
She saves him and park kyung choon is caught. Hes in the hospital where baek hee sungs father tells him to kill park kyung choon as he might reveal his identity (park kyung choon is pretending to be unconscious so police don't arrest him)
Baek hee sung goes to his hospital room and park kyung choon tells him to kill him as he deserves that.
The flashback reveals his sister said someone gave her this but as gold fish represents good luck she gave it to him. When park kyung choon asks why he didn't tell him that back then he says because he might have gone and harassed his sister.
Now further cha ji won suspects her husband but baek hee sung is unaware. He goes to kim moo jin and asks him to find his sister.
Baek he sung meets with his sister and tells her how he's been living for 18 years and hes married and has a daughter eun haa. She tells him that shes grateful that he took the blame for her back then. She asks him if he loves cha ji won. He says no he doesn't love her but he needs her.
He asks her about the keychain and she tells him someone gave her but she doesn't remember who. Cha ji won who had followed baek hee sung hears this.
Later to find do min seoks accomplice baek hee sung and kim moo jin go to a person who does human trafficking (they found out about him through a bar that so hyun soos father do min seok took him to once).
Do hyun soo says he'll pay him if he tells him the name of the accomplice. He agrees. When hes about to hand the photograph the dealer sang chul gets a call from baek hee sungs father and he says he'll pay double to kill the man making the deal (baek hee sung).
The dealer agrees and a fight erupts. Cops raid the place and sang chul runs away. Baek hee sung is discovered by his wife as do hyun soo.
Do Hyun-soo asks why Ji-won stayed when she knew the truth about him. She asks if he really doesn’t know, and he doubles over, wailing that he’s sorry for causing her so much pain.
Back at the real baek hee sungs place his mother removes the oxygen in order to kill her son but his father comes back home and he tries to do something in this process the real baek hee sung comes out of his coma.
He says he can’t sleep because he’s scared that Hyun-soo won’t give his identity back, but his father promises he won’t let that happen.
The family is surprised when their doorbell rings it’s Hae-soo, who introduces herself and shows Baeks father he picture she printed of the silicone bracelet from his hospital, and how the accomplice was wearing one at her father’s funeral.
Baek tells Hae-soo that he’ll look into the people who volunteered for the event and got a green bracelet, though he makes no promises.
Before Hae-soo leaves, Hee-sung’s mother asks if there was anything about the accomplice that stood out. Hae-soo recalls that the nails on his left hand were much shorter than those on his right.
She’s doesn't know that Hee-sung is in the next room, listening in and nervously biting the nails on his left hand.(This is where the accomplice is revealed in the drama)
We also see that it was Hee-sung who made the threatening call to the witness who saw him kidnapping Park Kyung-choon’s wife.
Back at do hyun Soos place, he tells cha ji won everything about his past.
Next day The maid asks to speak with Baek hee sung's mother. When they sit down together, she hands Mom a note, “I quit…Please transfer my severance pay and the money for my silence into my account by next week
The women are shocked when Hee-sung stands up.
Dr. Baek gets home and when he sees the maid’s body, he finds Hee-sung and demands to know why he killed her. When Hee-sung explains, “She knew too much,”
Hee-sung had contacted Sang-chul, who insisted he didn’t tell Hyun-soo anything other than that someone paid him to kill him.
Hee-sung had ordered Sang-chul to stay out of things from now on, and he was the one to tell his parents that Hyun-soo was setting a trap (moment Sang-chul showed up at the summer house, Hyun-soo would know exactly who sent him.)
Instead of going to the farmhouse do hyun soo and ji won go to baek hee sung's house and send cops to the farm house in order to catch sang chul.
While they’re all inside, Hee-sung plants hairs from the dead housekeeper in Hyun-soo and Ji-won’s car so as to make do hyun soo the culprit of the maids murder.
Later that night, Hyun-soo receives a call from someone
He says he’s a fan of Hyun-soo’s art, but Hyun-soo hears the call for the threat that it is, unaware that it’s the real Baek Hee-sung on the other end.
Hyun-soo traces the call, which locates at a pay phone in Makmun-dong. He goes there but the area is deserted, and when he calls the owner of a car parked nearby (their number is on their dashcam) to ask if he can look at the video footage, she’s on vacation.
Hyun soo returns to the pay phone and this time he sees a message written on the glass: Hide and seek! I can see you, but you can’t see me.
Some volunteers find the body of the dead housekeeper in a shallow grave.
Jae-sub has called Ji-won to the scene.
The housekeeper’s notebook is found beside her body, and the most recent notes show that things were not well with her employer.
In one note to Hee-sung she’d mentioned his parents by name, giving Ji-won pause just as they get the call that she’s been identified.
Additionally a fingerprint was found on the tape that was on her body, but despite it being a complete print, there’s no match in the database.
This means the killer is an adult who has no government ID. Ji-won’s worst fears are confirmed when she learns that the dead woman was her in-laws’ housekeeper, and all she can think of is how Hyun-soo left the house last night.
Ji-won takes a copy of Hyun-soo’s fingerprint from their house. She compares it to the unmatched print from the housekeeper’s body, and it’s a perfect match.
Do Hyun-soo calls Sang-chul to ask him to meet. But Sang-chul left Mi-sook alone with his phone, so when it rings, she’s the one who answers.
She tells Hyun-soo her name, so he asks where she is, but she only has time to say there are a lot of trees before Sang-chul returns and hangs up the phone.
Jae-sub shows up with the entire team, but the studio is empty. They check the CCTV footage, and see that it’s been unplugged. Rewinding to the point where Hyun-soo takes Ji-won hostage, they watch in horror as Hyun-soo directs Ji-won to disconnect the CCTV feeds.
As soon as the cctv is turned off they run away and do hyun soo goes to find jo mink seok.Detective cha says shes fine and not hurt when they find her in a hotel cuffed to a table.
Eun ha and do hae soo go to her place to take eun has clothes but baek he sung is waiting there. Eun ha locks herself into her room and baek he sung mistakens do hae soo as cha ji won and kills her
Now Do hyun soo is in the basement of his father and jung mi sook. He puts a new lock on her cage and gives the key to her. When the negotiations between baek hee sung and sang chul are over he tries to open the lock but can't. Do hyun soo attacks baek hee sung from behind and ties him to a chair.
He asks him for his phone and finds it in his pocket where ji won's ID card was there. He loses it thinking that ji won is dead. He tries calling her but since its an unknown number she thinks it might be reporters and doesn't pick up. Hes about to kill him when he breaks free and runs out.
The cops solve the case and come to the conclusion that baek hee sung is awake and his parents helped him with the murder of the maid.
Kim moo jin is at their place at that time and ji won calls him to warn. He doesn't take the warning and goes around the house to confirm about baek hee sung.
His parents finally give in. Now on the other hand Do hyun soo is about to kill Baek hee sung but the cops arrive just in time
Baek hee sung takes the gun from the cops and shoots at ji won but Do hyun soo takes the bullet.
Episode 16 of the flower of evil is the final episode.
Its been 4 months after the shooting incident and do hyun so is now out of coma.
The court trials have begun and do hae so is in jail. For her to prove it was self defence she needs witnesses. The village foreman had a nephew who is scared to testify but tells cha ji won the truth. He used to spread false rumours about do hyun soo like how do hyun soo was possessed by his fathers spirit.
He used to cut open a chicken and leave it on the road at night and in the morning when the villagers gathered he would blame do hyun so thus making the villagers sure that do hyun soo needed exorcism.
The village foreman had taken do min seoks Inheritance and therefore told his nephew that he'd pay for his tution if he spread those rumours.
The court lets do hae soo go as they said it was an act of self defence and that she was a a minor at that time. Hae soo soon decides she wants to start over again and will leave Korea for further studies.
Baek hee sungs father is in hospital because hes mentally unstable and his mother is in jail.
Do hyun soo, cha ji won and eun ha reunite and have a new beginning as a family.