Karma Ending Explained: In the Netflix Kdrama Karma, six people’s lives are forever changed after a fateful accident connects them by fate. Will they be able to atone for their sins before they get a taste of their own medicine?
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Karma Netflix Cast
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Karma Kdrama Screenwriter and Director
Lee Il-hyung
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AKA
악연
The series, based on the webtoon 악연 by Choi Hee-sun, has 6 episodes, each with a runtime of around 60 minutes.
Karma Ending Explained
The story starts with Park Jae-yeong struggling to pay off his debts to loan sharks after being unable to hold down a job or save anything that he gets. He tries to harass his aging father, but after finding out about an accident that he got into, he realises that there’s a huge life insurance on him if he gets into a motor accident. Desperate, he decides to employ a colleague whom he assumes is a gangster, and Jang Gil-ryong agrees to help him out in exchange for a cut of the payout.
On the day of the orchestrated accident, Jae-yeong gets the fateful call but is left in disbelief when he learns that someone apparently buried his father and that there was an eyewitness. On the other hand, we meet Han Sang-hoon, who is trying to woo Yu-jeong with expensive dinners and gifts. However, after spending the night together, she has an emergency call, and Sang-hoon drives her to her destination. Unfortunately, on the way, he crashes into a man on the street while the two were making out and freaks out about what to do. Sang-hoon is adamant about not going to the police and decides to bury the man in the mountains.
Unfortunately, there seems to be a witness to the crime, Kim Beom-jun, and Sang-hoon gets Beom-jun to do the buying with him, giving him 30 million won to keep quiet. Eventually, he is left distraught and desperate, the guilt and fear of being found gnawing at him. It also doesn’t help that he is running short on funds, and Beom-jun keeps returning for more money. Having had enough of his nagging, Sang-hoon goes through the camera footage from his car and realises that he didn’t run over the guy, and instead, his body was thrown from the bridge. Shockingly enough, it’s Beom-jun who threw the body.
Angry, he tells Yu-jeong everything, but it turns out that she’s in on the con because she’s Beom-jun’s partner. The two of them drug him and take him to an abandoned building to get rid of him, but as they dig a hole, Sang-hoon comes back to his senses and drives the car into them, killing Yu-jeong. Beom-jun eventually kills Sang-hoon. All this is recorded by a detective agency that was hired by Sang-hoon’s ex.
Next, we meet Doctor Ju-yeon, who has just admitted a patient to her hospital with severe burns. She seems to recognise him immediately as someone from her past, someone who had assaulted her in school. She still lives with the trauma from that violent night and vows to get revenge for the harm that he has done to him. As it turns out, the man is Jae-yoon.
How are all of these people connected to each other?
Beom-jun and Gil-ryong were prison mates, and the latter called Beom-jun after he was called in for Jae-yoon’s job. Interestingly, Jae-yoon and Beom-jun were from the same school, although the latter is older. Beom-jun had also given Ju-yeon’s classmate the idea of assaulting her. Thus, while Beom-jun and Gil-ryong were trying to run over Jae-yoon’s father, they hatched a plan to include Sang-hoon, whom they were already conning, in a bid to get more money.
What happens in the end?
In the end, Beom-jun kills Jae-yoon and takes his place after the police try to capture him. Unfortunately, he doesn’t get the life insurance payout because Jae-yoon’s father had changed his will weeks before his death, and he is abducted by the loan sharks who harvest his organs to get their money. In a shocking twist, it turns out that Ju-yeon’s fiancé is the one who is doing the harvesting, after having just discouraged her from harming Beom-jun. Although he pleads with him that he isn’t Jae-yoon, her fiancé refuses to believe him and go through with the procedure.
In the end, Ju-yeon comes out of this having gotten over her fear and trauma.
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