The Cursed (The Method / Bangbeob / 방법)

I'll keep you safe until the IPO.

He says he'll keep you safe until the IPO today.

Thank you.

Reporter Park. - Ma'am.

I said to just call me Jin Hee. - Yes. Jin Hee.

Aren't you on vacation?

What happened to your face?

What?

This? It's nothing.

Do you have it? - That's right.

We can cover the IPO. Do you want to go yourself?

You know I've always been interested in Forest.

They were super strict with the press cards.

Not many were handed out for people from the press.

Thanks. I'll do a good job.

See you after your break.

Okay. - Bye.

And take care of yourself.

Hey, Woo Chan.

You know right?

That you're a great journalist.

You sound like I'm never going to see you again.

Here.

Okay.

Hold on.

Put this on. - What?

Wear this.

Okay.

It looks good on you.

Do I look like a reporter? - No.

That color looks good on you.

I didn't know since you always wore the red hoodie.

Okay.

Are we going now?

That's right.

Let's end it today.

Are you ready?

Sir?

Hi, Ms. Choi. Thank you.

Do you need things like this for an IPO these days?

Shall I compare it with other IPOs?

According to the data...

Ms. Choi. It's fine. You can stop.

So this is the tree.

You don't see Jin Jong Hyun, do you?

I don't think he's here yet.

Jin Hee.

That tree...

What?

Do you know what it is?

No, I don't.

Hey. Go.

I said to take her home safely, you jerk.

I'm sorry, sir.

Let's go somewhere else.

What's wrong?

What is it?

It's the guard that I saw at Mount Cheonbo.

I think he recognized me.

Where is he?

Over there.

Let's go somewhere else. This way.

Act natural.

Ms. Im!

Mr. Kim.

That's right. I heard you were promoted to section editor,

Ms. Im.

Yes. Thank you.

Ms. Im, should I call you "Editor Im" now?

Ms. Im is fine.

Sure, sure, sure.

But...

Quite a taste Chairman Jin Jong Hyun has.

It's the IPO of the nation's top IT company,

and he puts on this strange ritual show.

He should've just hired some dancers to dance to silly music.

Who's this? A rookie?

Yes, she's a new intern. I'm teaching her the ropes.

Jin Hee, we have to go.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

We shouldn't get too close.

Okay.

We have an hour left.

My client confessed.

What more is there to ask?

I have just a few more questions.

You know he isn't obliged to answer, right?

Yes. He can answer if he wants,

and not if he doesn't.

Ask me anything you want.

There isn't much time left anyway.

I wondered why your company, Forest, would break the law...

and do this.

First. You know Min Jung In, who used to be on your coding team.

Why did you people...

abduct and torture Min Jung In?

What did he do that was so wrong?

I worked for Forest, Chairman Jin Jong Hyun's company,

in a department in charge of coding.

They...

suddenly fired me, saying they were restructuring.

It started with you people firing Min Jung In,

and abducting him...

because he was angry at you.

But it's hard to believe you did all that...

just because he wrote an angry post.

Clearly, he knew something,

and you were afraid...

he'd tell people.

Forest isn't that different from other social media networks...

like Twitter and Instagram...

if you remove the Forest of Curses.

You people methodically replaced the coders...

and tried to vitalize the Forest of Curses. Correct?

Sure. That's quite interesting.

At first, I thought your company abducted and murdered...

Detective Yang Jin Soo...

because he found out about the manipulation.

But I was wrong.

Recently,

they wanted to know how Min Jung In's case was progressing,

and...

when Kim Ju Hwan died, his autopsy report,

photos from the scene, things like that.

And...

that Jin Soo...

that Jin Soo had the fountain pen cap.

This is where I was stumped.

I thought the point was, you had the coders...

manipulate the hashtag.

But you abducted Detective Yang Jin Soo...

because he had the fountain pen cap?

That made no sense.

What are you getting at?

Get to the point.

It makes no sense logically,

but considering all the circumstances until now,

let me guess what your plan is.

Chairman Jin Jong Hyun...

is possessed by an evil spirit.

And today, that evil spirit that's in Chairman Jin...

On the day of the IPO, he's going to move his spirit into Forest.

On the day of the IPO,

it's going to move into Forest itself.

That's why you bought all those talismans...

through the Jinkyung Corporation.

If he moves his spirit into Forest tomorrow, you and I,

and the tens of thousands of people tagged in the Forest of Curses...

will die all at once.

After moving into Forest, that evil spirit...

will kill everyone tagged in that Forest of Curses...

that you people manipulated. Why?

Because that evil spirit loves cursing people.

It's satisfied by acting out the curses people put on each other.

No, no.

Hatred, which exists in everyone.

That is the evil spirit controlling Chairman Jin Jong Hyun.

Thus, once Forest's stocks are publicly offered,

countless people will die at the same time.

Bravo.

You've figured out something tremendous.

Listen. Please stop already.

I'm flabbergasted.

You're flabbergasted?

Sure. It is hard to believe.

However,

you have been helping...

Chairman Jin Jong Hyun do this outrageous thing.

So? What are you getting at?

Someone I know said...

this case...

can only be solved by believing...

this outrageous concept.

It's starting.

Lee Hwan.

Do you believe that the evil spirit inside of Chairman Jin Jong Hyun...

will move into Forest and kill countless people?

Do you?

Does it matter whether or not I do?

It does to me.

I'll ask you again.

Did you help Chairman Jin Jong Hyun knowing that?

Or did you think he was seriously delusional,

and only did it because it profited you?

Captain.

I think only about whether or not something benefits me.

I don't think about stupid things.

Really?

So it didn't matter to you.

However,

you'll have to think about...

whether or not you believe it.

Because I tagged you on the Forest of Curses.

Okay. Now, test your faith.

Forest will go public soon.

Once it does, will you die...

or not?

Tell me the head of coding...

in charge of manipulating the Forest of Curses.