Somebody Ending Explained: Does Seong Yun-o Die After All? Who Are Mok-Won and Young Gi-Eun?
Somebody Season 1 arrived directly from South Korea to the Brazilian Netflix catalogue. Exploring a story involving a serial killer and a dating app, the series has become a huge hit on the platform. At first, the story accompanies Kim Sum (Kang Hae-Lim), an introspective young woman who decided to create a relationship app. In the meantime, we live with Sam and his friendship for years with Mok-Won (Kim Yong-Ji) and Gi-Eun (Kim Soo-Yeon), detectives on a constant spy mission.
However, Sum’s life begins to change when Seong Yun-o (Kim Young-Kwang), an interior designer, approaches the woman and her friends. On the other hand, the city is devastated when it reveals a murder that puts the reputation of the app created by Sum in check. While Mok-Won and Gi-Eun decide to help Sum unravel the mystery that links the murder to his app, the duo also becomes suspicious and investigates Seong Yun-o as a suspect in the crimes.
Somebody Season 1: Plot Summary
The young and brilliant Kim Sum (Kang Hae-Lim) has developed a particular social networking application intended to bring future couples together: Somebody. Kim Sum pours all her energies into work, also due to difficult social integration; she is a girl with Asperger’s syndrome, often discriminated against for her condition. One day, using the app of her invention, she meets an enigmatic and mysterious boy: the architectural designer Seong Yun-o (Kim Young-Kwang). We immediately discover one of the dark sides of the young man, who uses the app to commit brutal murders. In the meantime, the man will meet other women including the policewoman Yeong Gi-Eun, confined to a wheelchair due to an accident, and the shaman Im Mok-won. The three young women know each other quite well and all three will interface in different ways with the lethal killer. The hunt begins.
Directed in all eight episodes by Jung Ji-Woo, here in his first direction in a serial story, the trick of the thrilling finds its beginning with the idea and the development of an artificial intelligence system created by Kim Sum (Kang Hae-Lim), a young programmer with Asperger’s syndrome who, during a technology fair, presents Somebody, an instant messaging prototype capable of detecting the content of written and then deleted sentences in a conversation; that is, able to keep in the chat memory the thoughtful, typed but never sent answer (therefore the idea) of the profile considered “shy”. The idea was immediately detected and exploited for the development of an immediately successful meeting app, and Kim Sum, from an anonymous nerd, became the director of the company in a few years.
Despite having managed to make millions of people around the world fall in love with her, Sum’s life is almost solitary, consumed between work and an anonymous house surrounded by technology, until, thanks to a lucky match, she meets the architectural designer Seong Yun- Or (Kim Young-Kwang), a young man who finally gets in touch with his outlandish nature. What the protagonist does not know, but which she will soon inevitably find out thanks to the only relationships she has managed to establish, the two friends Yeong Gi-Eun (Kim Soo-Yeon), a police officer confined to a wheelchair, and Mok-Won (Kim Yong-Ji), a nun with shamanic powers ‒ is that the ‘oddball’ boy who satisfies her sexually and indulges her intellectually is a serial killer who works undisturbed for the network by constantly changing his identity, the very result of his invention for lonely hearts and which he will not be able to do without for a long time.
Somebody Season 1 Finale Explained: What Happens to Yun-oh?
At first, Kim Sum is a rather introspective, shy woman who dreams of finding love one day. It is for this reason that she decides to create the app called Somebody, alongside her friend Samantha. The application is a success and soon the two begin to profit from it. However, the goal of the new technology to lovingly bring people together ends up taking different paths when a serial killer starts using the app to meet people and kill them. Seong Yun-o, the serial killer, starts to create several fake profiles to circumvent the chances of reaching him. Meanwhile, Sum still hopes that she can find someone who understands and loves her the way she is. While the serial killer almost kills Gi-eun, Sum ends up meeting and falling in love with him.
Gathering Evidence
Seong Yun-o seems to be exactly what Sum was looking for: someone who would understand her and like her for who she was. In this way, the woman began to ignore all the warnings from her friends and the criminal side of her partner, who continues to commit her crimes. Just as the boy doesn’t seem surprised to hear Sum’s dark thoughts, the woman doesn’t listen to the accusations about the boy either.
Therefore, Sum decides not to help Gi-eun and Mok-won, who are strongly committed to making the serial killers pay for their crimes. The sum is aware of the accusations about Seong but remains sceptical and resolves to give him a chance. And although Sum’s friends were committed to incriminating Yun-o, both had no concrete evidence to incriminate the serial killer. However, everything changes when Princess Snacks’ wife’s corpse is found, being a great chance to link Seong Yun-o to the crime.
Does Seong Yun-o Die After All?
While Gi-eun decides to ask for help from the police to arrest Sum’s boyfriend, Samantha, the protagonist’s partner, decides to hunt down the person responsible for the crimes and the bad reputation of the app. In this way, the woman uses the Fingers hacker and gives Gi-eun the information she needed against Yun-o. On the other hand, Yun-o decides to confess his crimes to Sum, which makes the woman open her eyes. Suffering from denial, as she has never spoken openly with Yun-o about her criminal past, Sum comes to grips with reality and realizes the danger that surrounds her. Besides, she knows that the boy’s end is fast approaching.
Therefore, Kim Sum decides that she would put an end to Seong Yun-o’s story herself and kills the boy even before Gi-eun and the police arrive on the scene. Sum thus decides to kill Yun-o and put an end to all his misery by watching him suffer.
