An Alternative Ending for the finale!!! Must read This alternative ending is by tsutsuloo. I even emailed dragon studios to complain about the ending. Now I have found this alternative ending I am happy. This drama is a magnificent thriller and all episodes except the finale is just amazing. The ending has been ruined due to a conflict of interest between the writer and the director.
My alternative ending dealing with just oneof the messy strands: All the bad still happened and Ha-ram gets a slightly different happy ending
Ha-ram throws herself off the cliff at the same moment Black asks for the most severe punishment. She's rendered unconscious on impact and doesn't suffer as she drowns. In the last seconds of her life, her brain experiences the beautiful life she'd always wanted (growing up with two parents, becoming an EMT, falling in love, having mind-blowing sex, marrying a sweetie named Oh Man-soo, etc.)
Time is asynchronous between our world and the underworld. Black's trial and sentencing all happened during the moments of Ha-ram's fall
Back in the underworld, Josean and Hip-Hop argue-rapping, of course-that the Death Squad screwed up. They successfully posit the underworld's failure to catch Ha-ram's GM father triggered a cascade of human suffering. As recompense, Ha-ram earns a dispensation for her suicide. (She doesn't remember her miserable life and didn't know she killed herself. The life she experienced during her fall is the life she knows.)
Since Joon's body is finally found, he also earns Paradise. As a reward for cleaning up the Death Squad's mess, Joon is allowed to keep all his Joon/Black memories and remain an adult. He wears the face of Kim Tae-woo, which turned out to be Joon's true adult face.
Ha-ram's body washes up on the shore where it is found by Black's former compadres.
Ha-ram, now dead, stands on the shore and greets Kim Tae-woo, who smiles gently at her. She clutches at her heart and wonders, "Why is my heart fluttering like this?" He takes her hand, "Were you happy?" She answers yes and they walk to paradise together. Last thing we hear her say is, "Are Grim Reapers usually so handsy?" Sip-gyeong energetically trots after them, as spry as a puppy.