Korean Thriller Series Karma from Netflix has a pretty gloomy, dark secret story, wherein each secret bears deadly consequences, adapted from Choi Hee-sun’s webcomic.
The story starts with Park Jae-yeong, a drowning debt person who hires his old college friend Gil-ryong to kill his father for taking up insurance money. But Gil-ryong brings in a dangerous ex-convict, Kim Beom-jun
Kim kills Gil-ryong and burns Park alive, planning to steal his identity to collect the money. But fate intervenes, and the warehouse collapses: Kim is burned but alive. He loses his fingerprints, poses as Park, and gets to the hospital.
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Dr. Joo-yeon sees what the name refers to. Park was one of the boys who assaulted her while at school – a trauma that she never forgot. She schemes revenge, but in the last minute, she turns back – she chooses peace over violence.
Anyway, Kim’s plan goes kaput. Park’s father has changed his will and left the insurance money to a church. Before Kim could escape, he was captured by his loan sharks because they mistakenly identified him with Park.
In the end, what happens is that Joo-yeon’s friend, secretly a doctor working for the loan sharks, brutally kills Kim under the assumption that he is Park. Joo-yeon will never know the truth, but she finds her closure by letting go.
No one escapes their past, and karma finally catches all; this is how Karma ends.
