Gyeongseong Creature season 2 ends, explained

With a show as complicated as Netflix’s The Gyeongseong creaturethe end of season 2 is anything but easy to watch. The South Korean drama, which relies heavily on the Japanese occupation of Korea in the 1940s, a host of monstrous experiments and its aftermath as its central narrative conceit, manages to outdo itself in the season 2 finale – leaving a host of new questions in her wake. Is Maeda finally dead? Is Ho-jae able to save Chae-ok? Did the duo’s love survive in 2024 Seoul? Let’s unravel what happens to our Gyeongseong residents at the end of season 2.

A Korean genre drama directed by Jung Dong-yoon, The Gyeongseong creature Season 2 is full of romance, terrifying monsters, fast-paced action and extreme gore. The Netflix series is set eight decades after the events of season 1 and focuses on star-crossed lovers Ho-jae (played by Park Seo-joon) and Chae-ok (played by Han So-hee) as they fight to save Seoul from an army of Najin-infested superhumans in 2024.

Speaking about the shift from 1945 Gyeongseong to 2024 Seoul in season 2, director Jung said in an interview with TheKoreaTimes“When we were planning, we talked about transcending time. Many things have improved in the last 79 years. But I wanted to say that there are still people who commit terrible acts for their own personal gain. I wanted to deal with the irony of the times.”

Spoilers ahead!

The Gyeongseong creature Season 2 Ending: How does Seung-jo redeem himself? Is Maeda dead?

The second season of The Gyeongseong creature it’s full of new Najin-infected superhumans, multiple betrayals, and of course, the end of Maeda (played by Claudia Kim).

Season 2 episode 7 titled “Marginal Man” opens with a flashback. Viewers see a deep and meaningful conversation between Seung-jo (played by Bae Hyeon-seong) and Ho-jae, aka Tae-sang. For context, Ho-jae is the Tae-sang of 1945. He survived all these decades because he too injected himself with the Najin parasite in 1945. In the flashback, when Seung-jo asks Ho-jae why he continues to fight monsters when he knows it’s impossible to win, Ho-jae tells him that he doesn’t fight to win. It’s his way of getting revenge on Maeda and others as “because as long as we fight, they will never forget what they did to us and more”.

The narrative of the apocalyptic horror K-drama then shifts to the present, where Seung-jo is on his way to Maeda. He remembers his conversation with Ho-jae and laments that he met him because if the two hadn’t met, it would have been perfect for him to become a monster. The next moment, Seung-jo’s car gets into an accident, but he somehow survives. After crawling out of the wreckage, he meets Chae-ok who informs him that Maeda’s so-called “mother” is using him for her experiments and that he is nothing more than a tool for her. While Seung-jo acts nonchalant about the fate of his biological mother Myeong-ja in front of Chae-ok, their conversation leaves him uneasy. However, taken over by evil, Seung-jo captures Chae-ok and takes her to Jeonseong Biotech where she is suspended above a Najin transfer water tank. In the end, when they drown her, either the Najin inside will be extracted along with her memory, or she will meet her end.

Elsewhere, Maeda gives Ho-jae a proposition – either he saves his business partner Yong-gil (played by Heo Joon-seok), detective Myung-jun (played by Lee Sung-wook) and Antena’s nephew or his lover Chae-ok. . Ho-jae chooses to go after his friends first, as viewers see Chae-ok holding them off, taking out her attackers and delaying the drowning process.

When Ho-jae returns to Chae-ok after rescuing her friends from the nitrogen chamber, Seung-jo confronts Maeda about what Chae-ok told her earlier. When she accepts that she never loved him and only wanted him for her experiments, Seung-jo stabs her with his tentacles and throws her into the nitrogen chamber to die.

The Gyeongseong creature Season 2 Ending: Is Ho-jae able to save Chae-ok? Do they get their happy ending?

Chae-ok fights bravely against her superhuman attackers, but ends up drowning in the frozen water tank. As his heart stops, the Najin parasite leaves his body as expected, and Captain Kuroko (played by Lee Mu-saeng) prepares to leave with him. However, Ho-jae arrives in time and takes out all of Kuroko’s superhuman soldiers. Then she tries her best to free Chae-ok, all the while remembering their love story in 1945, Gyeongseong. He hits the tank repeatedly to break it and finally saves Chae-ok.

While our hero’s love survives, the Najin inside her is now seen lying on the ground in a pool of water.

The final episode of the 2024 K-drama then jumps back in time. Viewers find that Chae-ok has lost his memory due to past events and now leads a normal life. She doesn’t remember Ho-jae either. However, he still wears an old bracelet from 1945.

The Gyeongseong creature Season 2 ends with Chae-ok walking down a street in Seoul as her voice says, “Sometimes… I have this dream. A dream where I follow someone every night. But I don’t know who he is, and I don’t even remember what he looks like. But when I wake up, my heart aches and longs for him.” Her voice then goes on to share the recurring motif of the series, “Spring will soon pass and it will be summer again,” as she looks back and notices Ho-jae in the crowd. The two look longingly at each other before their eyes water and they exchange a familiar smile as Ho-jae’s voice completes Chae-ok’s thoughts, “and we’ll be together again.”

All seasons of Gyeongseong Creature are now available to stream on Netflix.

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