Gyeongseong Creature Season 2 Ending Explained: Tae-Sang and Chae-Ok, Will They Stay Together or Break Up Again?
Since September 27, 2024, Gyeongseong Creature Season 2 has been available on Netflix. This is the second season of the TV series that brings a shocking twist to viewers during the finale. This chapter is set in the modern era and Jang Ho-Jae is living without knowing who he is, at least in the first episodes. When he accidentally meets Yoon Chae-Ok, he begins to realize that there is something strange about him. It seems that he had an accident a year ago and lost his memories. All he knows is that it was because of his friend Yong-Gil that everything happened. The latter just wants him to live his life as a human experiment and live a normal life. In the finale of Gyeongseong Creature Season 2, Ho-Jae is cornered by Maeda, who intends to take revenge for her having walked away in the 1930s. Maeda is alive thanks to the Najin and now owns the biotech company Jeonseung Biotech. In the last episode of season 2, Seung-Jo injects Chae-Ok with a drug to put the Najin to sleep.
This means she is no longer immortal. Ho-Jae must choose between his friends who are being attacked by monsters and Chae-Ok. He is not willing to make this choice and manages to save everyone. First, however, he injects Maeda with the anti-Najin drug, making her immortal. Furthermore, Ho-Jae manages to fight against the monsters and save his friends. He then asks to call the police and leave, while he stays to save Chae-Ok. However, Maeda turns on the nitrogen gas and Ho-Jae has to leave immediately. Meanwhile, his grandmother received 10 million won. In the end, Seung-Jo kills Maeda, who takes out his fury on her for killing his mother and having to work for her all these years. When he is about to die, Maeda says that “it feels beautiful”, as he was just waiting for this moment to come. After Ho-jae saves Chae-ok from a mysterious being chasing her, he begins to question his past even more. Although his partner and friend Yong-gil denies knowing anything about Tae-sang, it becomes clear that he is hiding something. Eventually, he discovers the truth. Yong-gil is Kwon Jun-taek’s grandson and Ho-jae is actually Jang Tae-sang.
Gyeongseong Creature Season 2: The Story Plot
The first season of the TV series Gyeongseong Creature is set in 1945, during the period in which Japan was attempting to colonize South Korea. In the future, Seoul, then known as Gyeongseong, the figure of Jang Tae-sang, the renowned owner of a pawn shop, stands out. Tae-sang’s path crosses that of Yoon Chae-ok, a young woman who, together with her father Jung-won, specializes in finding missing people, including her mother Choi Seong-sim. In the meantime, Tae-sang is assigned by the local police commissioner Ishikawa to search for his lover Akiko, who has also disappeared and is expecting a child with him. The pawn shop owner thus joins Chae-ok’s investigations which end up leading both of them to the Ongseong military hospital.
A facility where terrible experiments are performed on people to create immortal and invincible beings, with the unhealthy belief of improving the fate of humanity and the very survival of the species. An organization that involves several members and influential authorities of the place including Lieutenant General Kato, head of the hospital facility, and Yukiko Maeda, the most powerful and ruthless noblewoman of Gyeongseong who finances the crazy project believing firmly in the cause. Among the human guinea pigs held prisoner in the basement of the Ongseong hospital are also Akiko and Chae-ok’s mother, who in the meantime has become a monstrous creature because of the Najin, the parasite on which the military project is based.
After joining forces and falling in love with each other, Chae-ok and Tae-sang finally manage to dismantle – at least in part – the hospital of horrors but not without victims and dramatic consequences. Akiko ends up ingesting the Najin and transforms into a terrifying being, killing Ishikawa himself who had previously managed to save and hide her. Akiko is later finished off by Kato, in an attempt to remove the child she is carrying to study as a new experiment. Maeda is severely burned during an attack by the civilian resistance, while Kato later suggests that she absorb the Najin to start a new life and recover her previous appearance.
Seong-sim, Chae-ok’s mother, despite having become a monster on the outside, still maintains a semblance of humanity and helps her daughter against her enemies. But believing that she must also save herself from Tae-sang, she accidentally ends up fatally attacking Chae-ok. At that point, to make her survive in his place, Seong-sim transmits the Najin to Chae-ok which, while making her partly a creature like her mother, manages to bring her back to life. The first season of Gyeongseong Creature ends with a short post-credit scene in which a time jump occurs: South Korea is finally free from Japanese oppression and Tae-sang has also survived the previous events but has a strange scar on his neck and bears the new name of Ho-jae.
Gyeongseong Creature Season 2 Ending Explained: Why Hasn’t Tae-Sang Changed Since 1945?
Tae-sang, like Chae-ok, has the najin parasite inside him. Why? After accepting General Kato’s proposal, Yukiko Maeda (Claudia Kim) returns to Gyeongseong to take revenge on the man who caused the explosion that left her with serious after-effects. In addition to destroying the auction house and killing its employees, she inserts the najin into him.
Why Doesn’t Tae-Sang Remember His Story?
Once again, the culprit is Lady Maeda, who, with the help of a special team captured Tae-sang and had the najin removed from his body, causing him to lose his memory. To prevent his death, Yong-gil promises to keep his grandfather’s best friend away from Maeda. However, Chae-ok’s appearance causes Tae-sang to regain some of his memories.
On the other hand, the experiments that began at Onseong Hospital in 1945 continue at Jeonseung Biotech, which uses other methods to obtain test subjects. When some of them discover what awaits them, they try to escape, but Seung-jo chases them down and kills them. Although he solves the problem, he attracts the attention of the police, which annoys the company’s president, Shin Ji-oh, who is a descendant of Dr. Ichiro. And of course, Lady Maeda plays an important role here.
Who is Seung-Jo Really?
Seung-jo is the son of Myeong-ja and Police Commissioner Ishikawa. Because he obtained the najin parasite from his mother, he is stronger and has greater control over his powers. Lady Maeda adopted him and raised him to use in her experiments and as a weapon. When the Najin parasite returns to Tae-sang’s body, he regains his memories, that is, his memories with his beloved Chae-ok.
Once again, the protagonists of Gyeongseong Creature decide to confront those behind the atrocious experiments despite the danger it represents and what it could mean for their lives. Although Seung-jo joins Tae-sang and Chae-ok, he eventually betrays them. Chae-ok tries to make him see that Lady Maeda is just using him, but he refuses to listen to her, even admitting to knowing his mother’s story. Chae-ok escapes thanks to Noh Ji-Su, who gouges out Seung-jo’s eye. However, she is later captured and Tae-sang must decide between saving her or his friends, Yong-gil, Jong-hyeok, and police detective Yuh. Tae-sang does not hesitate to face his rivals to rescue everyone. Does he succeed?
What Happened to Tae-sang and Chae-ok?
While Tae-sang is confronting Lady Maeda, Captain Kuroko locks Chae-ok in a water tank to extract her najin. Seung-jo appears on the scene and confronts Maeda. After heart-to-heart, he uses the medicine he gave her earlier to make her lose some of her regenerative power and inflict a fatal wound on her. Meanwhile, Tae-sang reaches Chae-ok and after defeating Kuroko, breaks the water tank and saves his beloved, who no longer has the najin. Meanwhile, Seung-jo convinces Chairman Ji-oh to place najin parasites in water bottles that reach supermarket shelves. Does this mean that citizens will become monsters? Will Captain Kuroko return? At the end of the second season of Gyeongseong Creature Chae-ok is living a normal life as a college student. Although she doesn’t remember anything about her past life, she still has the bracelet that Tae-Sang gave her. Also, while walking down the street, she meets him again and smiles at him as if she knew him.
