The Frog Ending Explained: Who Seong-a Really is and What Happened to Young-Ha?
The Frog Ending Explained: Since August 23, 2024, The Frog has been available on Netflix. It is a South Korean TV series of the thriller genre. Composed of eight episodes, it has a plot full of mystery and drama while alternating between past and present. The protagonists are two men, Sang-joon and Young-ha, who are linked by a person who is in a forest and hides many secrets. While the first is the one who still manages it, the first took care of it in the past. Sang-joon’s life changes when he begins to notice strange events, which concern the dark secrets that the guesthouse keeps. The new owner thus begins to investigate the reason why Young-ha had to abandon the structure with his family.
In 2000, Koo Sang-jun ran a hotel in the countryside called Lake View. He worked hard to ensure that every guest had the best experience so that people would recommend the place and his business would prosper. However, one rainy day, a mysterious man came to the hotel and took advantage of Sang-jun’s falling asleep at the front desk to murder a woman and dismember her body. Sang-jun’s wife, Eun-gyeong, discovered the gruesome scene and called the police. Although the killer, Ji Hyang-cheol, was caught, the hotel gained a bad reputation. The owners had no choice but to find other jobs and sell their property. The sale was ruined when the couple’s son, Gi-ho, who was bullied, was forced to bring alcohol and pills to his attackers. The students became intoxicated and blamed Gi-ho.
The Frog Ending Explained: Who Seong-a Really is and What Happened to Young-Ha?
In The Frog Jeon Young-ha owns a vacation home he bought years ago to make his terminally ill wife happy. After his partner dies, he rents out the place while his daughter Ui-seon lives in Seoul. In 2021, the property was rented by a mysterious woman named Yoo Seong-a (Go Min-si). It is later revealed that she is an artist from a wealthy family. Yoo Seong-a is accompanied by a boy named Ha Si-hyeon, but security cameras show her leaving alone and carrying a large suitcase. What happened to the little boy? After seeing blood on the record player the woman used, Young-ha checks the rented record player and sees that the guest meticulously cleaned the bathroom. Although she suspects Seong-a of murdering the boy and considers reporting him, she changes her mind when she remembers what happened to Sang-jun.
Jeon Young-ha gets rid of any evidence of the crime and tries to move on with her life. However, Seong-a returns a year later and rents a room again. Young-ha tries to stop him, but Ui-Seon, who has come to visit to lend her boyfriend and in-laws, convinces him to take her in. When the owner of the place goes to the police, the woman threatens to hurt her daughter. After getting Seong-a’s confession, Young-ha decides to report her, but the woman runs him over and steals the evidence. Later, she torments him and demands that he sell her his property. When Officer Kim interferes, he becomes another victim of Seong-a. Due to different events, Captain Yoon Bo-min (Lee Jung-eun) becomes interested in the case.
What Happened to Koo Sang-jun and His Family?
A year after the gruesome murder in his hotel, Koo Sang-jun suffered another tragedy: his wife committed suicide. Eun-Gyeong was determined to give up alcohol and pills when the sale of her property was confirmed, but the incident with her son affected her too much. In her farewell letter, she explains that she can’t get the image of the severed woman out of her head. After losing his wife, Sang-jun loses his mind. To decide on her property, Jeon Young-ha seeks out Sang-jun, who reveals that Koo Gi-ho is planning to assassinate Ji Hyang-cheol. When the protagonist of “Nobody in the Woods” visits Gi-ho, he mistakes him for a policeman and kidnaps him. He later murders Hyang-cheol with the help of Jong-du. After completing his revenge, he decides to commit suicide, but Young-ha stops him and helps him cover up his crime.
What Happened to Yeong-ha and Seong-a?
After a confrontation at an art exhibition, Yoo Seong-a doesn’t hesitate to escalate his violence, even involving Yeong-ha’s daughter in the game. Meanwhile, the artist’s father wants his daughter to leave the country, and Ha Jae-sik, Si-hyeon’s father, is released from prison and seeks revenge for Seong-a’s domestic violence accusation and the death of his son. Yeong-ha’s friend Yong-chae comes to visit and encounters Seong-a, who stabs him and locks him in the basement. He uses Yong-chae’s phone to lure Ui-Seon, whom he also stabs and stuffs into a bag, leaving her to bleed out near the lake. When Yeong-ha discovers his daughter is in danger, he takes Gi-ho’s gun and becomes determined to end the nightmare at any cost.
Upon arriving at her estate, Yeong-ha rescues Yong-chae and sends him to the hospital under the care of Gyeong-nam, who lost his laundry to the unhinged woman. The protagonist of “Nobody in the Woods” eventually trusts Captain Yoon Bo-min, who finds Ui-seon, who is pregnant, and helps set a trap for Seong-a. Although he manages to capture her, her father uses his influence to free her. Upon learning this, Yeong-ha decides to take justice into his own hands, but Ha Jae-sik gets ahead of him and begins his revenge. Yeong-ha intervenes and admits that she covered up the crime, so Ha Jae-sik shoots them both. Captain Bo-min arrives just in time and stops the gunman. Seong-a takes advantage of the distraction to escape, but Si-hyeon’s father catches up with her and kills her. In the end, Yeong-ha moves to Seoul with her daughter and grandson. Gyeong-nam opens a coffee shop and Gi-ho contacts Yeong-ha.
How Seon-Tae Died?
The first thing that comes out at the end of The Frog is what happened between Seong-A and police officer Seon-Tae. The last time the latter was seen was when he found the recording device that the former had hidden. He was chasing him in his car. Eventually, Seong-A killed Seon-Tae and left him in the field. His superior found the lifeless body of the policeman, butchered. Shortly after, the police received a signal about a fire that had broken out in the laundromat. Seong-A burned his clothes inside, apparently in revenge against the owner.
Who Kills and How Does Seong-A Die?
In the end, Seong-A dies and can no longer haunt anyone, even if she could do so in the form of a ghost. The one who kills her is Ha Jae-Sik, the father of little Si-Hyeon. Yeong-Ha believes that Seong-A deserves to die, as he feels guilty for letting her kill the boy as if he were her accomplice. Just like Sang-Jun, Gi-Ho’s father, felt all these years, letting her enter his guesthouse and thus allowing her to ruin his family.
Why Is Seong-A a Murderer?
In the end, it is explained as Seong-A having a psychotic episode. She may not have had a good relationship with her mother, which is why she became a psychopathic killer. This is evident from what she explained to Jae-Sik: she killed her son because she didn’t want to be like her mother. She wanted Jae-Sik, but Jae-Sik wanted a mother for his son. Meanwhile, the police never found Si-Hyeon’s body or any evidence that she was killed in Yeong-Ha’s cabin. Seong-A may have killed her and then used chlorine bleach to get rid of the body. In the end, Yeong-Ha is happy with her daughter and grandson and has closed the guesthouse for good.
