Sort of. He's actually a known Korean folklore character who'se best described as a taost wizard and an anarchist helping the poor while humiliating the yangbang class and kings.
Humiliating kings is a particular favorite pastime of Jeon Woochi, especially demon kings~
His voice claim is Greg Chun so of course he's a thorn to Gwi-ma's fiery side.
Also here's Jeon Woochi and Young-ja getting some McDonalds together.
Young-ja decided to save for later to get the Huntrix box while Jeon Woochi gets the breakfast meal. And yes.
And I think Ji-Ah bothered me a lot. I truly believe that she was queer corded, and that she and Young-ja really did love each other, and left alone would have been romantically involved.
Young-ja’s conversations with Ji-Ah were incredibly queer coded in my opinion, and when I have the time I want to analyze why I think so.
To make Ji-Ah get with Atticus, the man who tortured her friend and who killed innocent women without a second thought? I hated, and still deeply despise Atticus for that.
There was no excuse. I saw no point of even putting them in a relationship.
I don’t understand why it was done, It was a disservice to Ji-Ah, who deserved much better than to be strung on a man who tortured her love interest.
We learn what Ji-ah is. And we learn what Atticus has become during the war. What was their relationship. And why he stayed in Florida instead of coming home.
I loved that we saw the story from Ji-ah perspective. We see her dreams and aspirations and we know why she so desperately needs to believe in what she says to Atticus “We’ve both done monstrous things but that does not make us monsters.“ And why the acceptance of Young-ja matters so much. The belief that it’s OK to be different. That you don’t have to change who you are to fit others’ idea of who you should be and be accepted the way you are.
She wants to be more than just a vehicle of vengeance. Not just a monster but a person. But she doesn’t want to be human and lose the memories that make her - even the stolen ones. She wants live and be loved the way she is now.
Despite her best efforts to not care about the creature she summoned Soon-hee has loved her even as Kumiho and finally accepting it frees them both. The guilt over letting her husband into their house. And then selling her daughter’s spirit for vengeance on him has burdened her with guilt creating resentment towards the spirit she summoned. But she sees her grow into a person and she accepts that daughter too.
She is not the daughter from before the rape but even if she changed back to human she could never be that. The girl her mother longs for is gone either way. Kumiho may not be able to tell the bad kind of love from the good ones but that may as well be true for the girl who was abused in such way. We know what we learn and she only had the wrong kind of lessons. But Ji-ah still yearns for that real connection. The one that would make her feel cared about as a person not just a tool.
She finds it in acceptance of her best friend. She finds it in Atticus when she lets go of revenge and the anger. And finally she finally finds it in acceptance of her mother. The moment her mother finally embraces her as her daughter hit the hardest.
The acceptance of queer people parallels were very strong in this story and I thought she was in love with Young-ja for the first part of the episode. But then I realised this was a story of her finally experiencing the different kinds of good love - between friends, lovers and finally family. The love that builds you up not tears you down. And at the end she got to stay herself and become a real girl.
It’s not happy ending but heart break and loss are part of being full person. Just like sacrifice for those you love. She’s trying to find a way to save Atticus despite seeing memories of his future including Leti. Her mother is choosing to pay the price this time.
