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TIME: Breaking Down the Twisty Ending of Netflix K-Drama The Trunk
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Netflix’s latest Korean drama, The Trunk (트렁크), begins with a gunshot and the sinking of the titular trunk to the depths of a lake. Soon after, a flashback to five months prior introduces us to Noh In-ji (Dr. Romantic’s Seo Hyun-jin), an employee at New Wedding (NM), a mysterious company that provides professional spouses for the richest of the rich. In-ji is a “field wife” for NM, and is preparing for her fifth contract marriage with the company.
This time, In-ji will be married to uber-wealthy music producer Han Jeong-won, played by Hallyu superstar Gong Yoo (Coffee Prince, Train to Busan, Goblin, Squid Game). Unlike her previous contract spouses, Jeong-won has not sought out the marriage for himself. It has been arranged by his ex-wife, the pathologically manipulative Lee Seo-yeon (Exhuma’s Jung Yun-ha), who has hired her own NM husband, Yun Ji-oh (Lee Woo). Seo-yeon has told a reluctant Jeong-won that, if he completes the one-year contract marriage, they can get back together.
But what starts as a business arrangement between In-ji and Jeong-won slowly becomes something deeper, as the two develop feelings for one another, threatening both Seo-yeon’s plan and the designs of murderer and former NM employee Eom Tae-seong (Kim Dong-won), who has been stalking In-ji for the last four years. This all comes to a head in the eighth and final episode of The Trunk. Let’s break down the ending of the psychological melodrama.
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