Sweet Home Season 2’s Ending Explained: How Is THAT Character Back? (2025)

Sweet Home season 2’s ending saw tragic deaths, surprising returns, and major setups for season 3. One of the most popular Korean dramas on Netflix, Sweet Home returned for a second season three years after season 1. With multiple new characters and storylines introduced, keeping track of everything that happened in Sweet Home season 2 might not have been too easy. That said, Sweet Home season 2, episode 8 brings everything together in an emotional finale that teases the next step of Hyun-su (Song Kang)’s journey.

After missing a significant portion of the season, Hyung-su returned in episode 7 to save Eun-yu (Go Min-si) and learn about the fate of his former Green Home residents. Sweet Home season 2’s final episode confirms how much the mysterious Kid trusts Hyung-su, but it ends on a sad note with Yi-kyung (Lee Si-young) having to be killed. Dr. Lim (Oh Jung-se) has been captured by one of his test subjects, Sang-won, also known as MH-1, who viewers were introduced to as Ui-myeong. Lastly, three years after Sweet Home season 1’s finale, it has now been revealed what happened to Eun-hyeok (Lee Do-hyun).

Sweet Home’s Eun-hyeok Is Alive

But He Is Now A Monster

Sweet Home season 2 ends with Eun-hyeok, who had presumably died at the end of season 1, returning as a monster. Throughout Sweet Home season 2, Eun-yu believed that her brother could still be alive and never stopped looking for him. Eun-yu even assumed that Eun-hyeok had turned into a monster and was the mysterious figure that kept saving her. While Eun-hyeok was partially wrong – her mysterious monster savior was Hyun-su all along — her brother was indeed alive. Sweet Home season 2, episode 8 returns to the Green Home and sees a slightly monsterfied Eun-hyeok coming out of the wreckages and smiling to the camera.

Earlier in the season, the surviving residents of the Green Home briefly returned to their building and saw Myung-sook, who they all assumed had died during one of the first monster attacks back in season 1. However, Myung-sook was kept in a monster cocoon and eventually emerged as some type of human-monster hybrid. She did now have all the signature traits of a monster about to transform, but she was no longer a human either. The same thing happened to Eun-hyeok, who was also in a cocoon. Interestingly, Eun-hyeok’s counterpart in the Sweet Home webtoon goes through a similar transformation.

Sweet Home's Ui-myeong Was Sang-won All Along

He Is Currently Using Sang-wook’s Body

One of the biggest reveals in Sweet Home season 2’s finale is that of Ui-myeong’s true identity. It was established in Sweet Home season 1 that Ui-myeong’s body belonged to one of the doctors who was conducting experiments on him. It was unclear whether Ui-myeong was his true name or the name of the doctor whose body he was now using.

Regardless, Sweet Home season 2 begins with Ui-myeong now possessing Sang-wook (Lee Jin-Uk)'s body. Sang-wook died at the end of season 1, and every time he was on screen in season 2, it was Ui-myeong using his body. However, the real twist is that Ui-myeong is Sang-won, Yi-kyung’s fiancé.

While Nam Sang-won did not have too much screen time in Sweet Home season 1, he is a key character in the show. Yi-kyung spent most of season 1 trying to find her fiancé and understand why he had left. As revealed later in the season, Sang-won was aware of the monster curse and volunteered himself to the government to become a test subject.

However, the research team led by Dr. Im treated Sang-won as nothing but a lab rat, which caused him to escape by taking one of the doctors’ bodies. Sang-won was Ui-myeong during all of season 1, and he is now conducting experiments on how to turn humans into monsters.

What Happened To Yi-kyung In Sweet Home

Yi-kyung Was Turned Into A Monster By Her Daughter

Yi-kyung nearly died in Sweet Home season 2’s finale after passing out during a fire and breathing a lot of smoke. Yi-kyung’s daughter set the boat on fire, although Yi-kyung had the chance to leave but chose not to. Hyung-su brought Yi-kyung’s daughter to see her mother for the last time, believing the child deserved to say goodbye.

However, not only wasn’t the Kid too interested in reconnecting with her mother, but she also stated that Yi-kyung did not have to die. As established earlier in the season, the Kid could turn others into monsters just by touching them. The Kid touched her mother and turned Yi-kyung into a monster.

The problem, however, is that Yi-kyung had even less control over her monster self than other characters. According to Hyun-su, every person who transforms into a monster gets to live in their “happy mind palace” while their monster selves take control. However, that was not the case for Yi-kyung.

She was suffering both as a human and a monster, blaming herself for everything that had happened since her daughter’s birth. Yi-kyung now hated to kill every monster and was in extreme pain, which is why Hyung-su had to kill her. Yi-kyung’s ending was a tragic one, as she did not get to reconnect with her daughter or even forgive herself.

Where Is Hyun-su Going Next In Sweet Home?

Hyun-su’s Monster-Self Was Talking To Eun-yu

Hyun-su did not appear too much in Sweet Home season 2. After losing a fight against Ui-myeong in episode 3, Hyun-su only properly shows up again in episode 7. More than a year passed since those two episodes, meaning there is a lot about Hyun-su that the show did not cover. It is known that Hyun-su helped raise Yi-kyung’s daughter, to the point the Kid trusts him more than she trusts her mother.

However, other than the Kid’s storyline, it is unclear what Hyun-su’s goals are now. At the end of Sweet Home season 2, Hyun-su’s monster self takes control and has a conversation with Eun-yu.

Hyun-su said to Eun-yu that he could fix things, but it is unclear what he meant by that. Considering that Hyun-su refused Ui-myeong’s offer of recruiting more neo-humans, arguing that he did not want to forget that he is a human, it does not seem likely that he will fight against humanity. That said, Hyun-su has been sympathetic to other monsters throughout the show, noting that they should not be hated or hunted down simply for existing. Hyun-su and Eun-yu spent most of the season away from each other, and their stories might be more connected in Sweet Home season 3.

What Is Chief Ji Hiding In Sweet Home?

Season 2 Doesn’t Fully Reveal Her Secret

The stadium was Sweet Home season 2’s equivalent of the Green Home, with the show focusing on the secrets and interactions involving this new group of survivors. One of the most interesting characters living at the stadium was Chief Ji, who, alongside Sergeant Tak, helped keep things in order. However, both Chief Ji and Sergeant Tak were hiding major secrets.

Tak was a monster, which is something Ji suspected of but could not confirm. Ji, on the other hand, was secretly sheltering a monster — this is why she tricked Seung-wan and left him there to be eaten. Presumably, the monster in question is Ji’s husband, who once attacked Eun-yu.

How Sweet Home Season 2’s Ending Sets Up Season 3

Sweet Home Season 3 Premiered In 2024

While Sweet Home season 2 premiered three years after the first season, viewers didn't have to wait that long for Sweet Home season 3. As revealed in the title card at the end of episode 8, Sweet Home returned in 2024. Sweet Home season 2 is not the end of the show, which is why so many questions were left unanswered. Most of them have to do with Yi-kyung’s daughter, whose powers are still an enormous mystery box. The Kid can turn other people into monsters, yet those people do not show any signs of infection before transforming. She can also control them.

Dr. Lim has been captured by Ui-myeong/Sang-won, who was hinted to be Sweet Home season 3’s main villain. Where Hyung-su is going next was also a major plot point for season 3. The conflict at the stadium has yet to be resolved, with both Sargeant Tak and Chief Ji hiding terrible truths from the survivors. Eun-hyeok’s return as a monster is Sweet Home season 2’s biggest sequel hook for season 3, especially because he does not seem to be too friendly now. Eun-yu is still looking for her brother, and she might not be happy with what she finds.

The Real Meaning Of Home Season 2's Ending

The Finale Has Several Metaphorical Threads

The final episode of Sweet Home season 2 was one of the most emotional in the show, and it had a considerable amount of thematic depth. At the core of almost every tragic twist, turn, and death were two key aspects — loss, and (at a metaphorical level) how tragedy can turn loved-ones into people one doesn't recognize. The first of these aspects is quite obvious. Almost every character lost in the Sweet Home season 2 finale was incredibly important to at least one of the other characters. This meant that the deaths hit incredibly hard, and their emotional impact on those they left behind could be fully examined.

The second aspect of the episode's deeper meaning was more metaphorical. There were several characters either turned into monsters, or revealed to have been monsters all along. Much like the characters who died, these unfortunate transformations seemed to be mainly with those who were loved ones of other characters in the show.

While not every transformation in Sweet Home plays into the same metaphor, in the season 2 finale there was the definite sense that the idea of transformation was being used at a metaphorical level. Since these transformations into monsters came so late in the story, by the point that everyone still alive in the Green Home complex had experienced a considerable amount of trauma, the response wasn't one of shock and surprise as much as it was one of despair.

Because of this, there seemed to be a metaphorical thread running through the entire finale. This idea that tragedy can turn people into monsters (in a metaphorical sense) was compounded by Hyun-su's explanation that the (literal) monsters in Sweet Home all exist in a dreamlike state of happiness in their own mind. It feeds into the idea that, if analyzed from a metaphorical perspective, the transformation of various characters into monsters in the Sweet Home season 2 finale could be seen as an alegory for how trauma can lead people in the real world to become the worst version of themselves if this is an easier option than facing their own troubles.