‘The Trunk’ ending explained: Is the mystery of the dead body resolved?

The South Korean mystery drama series The Trunk is streaming on Netflix now, but is the mystery of the dead body resolved? Read on to find out.

The show stars Seo Hyun-jin (Why Her, Beauty Inside) and Gong Yoo (Squid Game, Guardian: The Lonely) and tells the story of a drug-addicted music producer who is forced into a one-year marriage contract with an employee of a company called New Marriage, but their lives are derailed by the discovery of a mysterious trunk and a dead body.

The Trunk is based on the novel of the same name by Kim Ryeo-ryeong, and was written by Park Eun-young and directed by Kim Kyu-tae. All eight episodes of the series were released onto Netflix on Friday (November 29).

In a four-star review of The Trunk, NME wrote: “The Trunk’s excellence can largely be credited to Choi Seong-Gwon and Kim Ji-soo’s music. Choi and Kim’s directions are purposeful and alive. The beginning is almost oppressive – between Jeong-won’s overpowering guitar compositions and the grating clinking of the chandelier in his home, the music feels claustrophobic.”

“Jeong-won’s anxiety and doubt are mirrored in tracks where the singing resembles breathing patterns. As Jeong-won and In-ji reach an understanding that blooms into something more, soft guitar seeps in, lending an airier vibe. The encompassing music corrals viewers to their liberation, which comes with a softness becoming of this otherwise macabre tale.”

The Trunk ending explained: Is the mystery of the dead body resolved?

As the central forced marriage begins to take hold and Han-Jeong-won and Noh In-ji, they begin to fall in love, after initial reluctance from both sides. However, in the end, In-ji decides to break up the marriage, although they agree that if they meet by chance on two occasions, they will rekindle the relationship. The show depicts one such meeting, but leaves viewers hanging about whether a second ever occurs.

There are multiple trunks depicted in the show – both Jeong-won and In-ji own one, but the one at the centre of the mystery is the trunk recovered from a lake in the first episode. Police find a dead body in it, who is identified as Um Tae-seong, an ex-employee of New Marriage who is stalking In-ji and making her life miserable.

We later learn that Tae-seong and In-ji meet at the lake and she shoots him after he attacks here. However, the bullet was a blank, so Tae-seong survives. It transpires that Tae-seong’s actual killer was a New Marriage security guard Yun Ji-o, who is ordered to kill him by the company’s CEO.

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