Law And The City’s ending is a hopeful one, with everybody choosing to pursue their own path. While it’s exciting to see everyone try something new and put themselves first, it’s also sad to see the gang split up. However, this doesn’t mean they’re not friends anymore; it simply means they’ll find time for each other, and it’ll be extra special. I suppose you could almost call it a late coming-of-age story, because it isn’t just Ju-Hyeong and his buds who decide to follow their dreams, but it’s also Hyung-Min. Even in an industry such as this one, people can pivot and follow their dreams late, as long as they appreciate the work they’re doing. This is the one thing everybody has in common. But let’s get into what kind of ending each character gets in Law And The City’s finale.
Spoiler Alert
What Does Mun-Jeong Choose To Do?
In the final episode, Mun-Jeong decides to go for the interview for the in-house counsel role, considering her family situation. However, everybody, including her husband, knows that that’s not what she really wants to do. She enjoys her job too much to quit it. Mun-Jeong goes to the interview and then ends up telling the interviewers that she likes her job too much and she made a mistake in coming to the interview. She finally gets her maternity leave after finding a temp to replace her for the time being. This is an especially relevant storyline because of the low birth rate in Korea.
I’m starting to see a trend in K-drama plots where we see women being encouraged to continue working even after having children. It’s a way to show them that their lives aren’t going to change that drastically after having kids. I’m not sure how true it is, but I can certainly see a trend here. But anyway, at the end of the show, Mun-Jeong returns to the firm after having a baby. She’s all chirpy and excited to get back to doing the thing she loves. Even Kyung-Min is happy to see her again.
Is Sang-Gi Getting A PhD?
Sang-Gi had decided not to apply for a doctorate because he would have to stop working to be accepted into the program. But, in the final episode, he makes the ultimate decision to put himself first, especially after realizing that his well-wisher, i.e., Hyung-Min, was right by his side the whole time. At first it seems really sad that he won’t be at the firm anymore, especially because there’s great chemistry between him and his boss, Ryu-Jin, but the truth is, quitting allows them to date, and they finally admit how they feel about each other. Even in the future timeline, we see them together, while Sang-Gi is dressed casually and working as an assistant professor at school. Man’s clearly doing great for himself.
Does Chang-Won Become A Prosecutor?
On the other hand, Chang-Won decides to quit with just one week’s notice. He even points out how his boss didn’t hire him with a proper contract, so he can quit and stop working for the slobs he’d been forced to work for so far. Chang-Won seems to be the most lost of the gang. While everyone wants change, he’s the one who has never felt like anything is right for him. Even his dad keeps asking him to join his family business because that’s what’s expected from him, but it seems he realizes he wants to continue slogging (I’m only half kidding) and become a prosecutor. At the end of the show, we see Chang-Won in action, and that too with his boss as the attorney in front of him. He proudly gives his boss’ client a 15-year sentence, but Yu-Deok has a sly smile on his face.
What Does Hui-Ji Want To Do?
At the end of episode 11, Hui-Ji defends her client and tells the judge that she has cancer but believed there would be nobody to look after her brother if she died first, so she chose to kill him. In episode 12, the client is given a 3-year sentence, but it is suspended by 5 years, which would mean she’d never serve, considering her illness is terminal and she has very little time left. Soon after, Hui-Ji meets a terrible client, who admits to having touched a woman inappropriately but wants to get away with it. He’s also done it many times before. This makes Hui-Ji reconsider what she’s doing and why.
When she first joined the job, she said she didn’t want to stay working at a place where she was making money for something she didn’t enjoy. Her boss Jeong-Yun remembers this very clearly, because she hired her for the same reason. Now Hui-Ji tells her that she plans on becoming a public defender, but she’s willing to stay until somebody new is hired. Jeong-Yun tells Hui-Ji that she should do what she wants to, and she’ll be fine finding someone else. I guess it’s her blessing to go do what she enjoys. In the near future, we see Hui-Ji meeting with 17 clients as a public defender. She’ll do everybody proud for sure.
Does Ju-Hyeong Change After A Decade?
Ju-Hyeong is the one who needs the biggest pivot in this show. He’s been working the same job at the same firm for 10 years, and we saw the boredom on his face right from the start of the show. This show is about growing and going on a journey to improve oneself. In the final episode, Man-Su’s death has Ju-Hyeong shaken up, and he decides to go back to his old ways. To look at his job as something more than just work. Ju-Hyeong was emotionless after doing the same thing for so long. He tells his boss that familiarity has now become uncomfortable before quitting and then taking on Man-Su’s case by himself, looking eager to do right by those who have been wronged. Guess Man-Su just wanting to do something good made all the difference.
On the other hand, Hyung-Min decides to take a book out of the kids’ books and decides to try to become a lawyer herself. To genuinely leave the dream, rather than just be the head of the firm. Guess it really isn’t too late for anybody. She offers the firms the building anyway and says they can keep the merger or go their separate ways.
In Law And The City’s ending, the firms look like they’re still merged, and everyone has new hires. Mun-Jeong is the only one who returns to her old spot, while everyone is doing their own thing. She watches all the new hires and wonders if she’s going to make the same kind of friends again. However, it’s not the end, because the gang meets up again for their signature beansprout soup. Everybody seems to be delighted to be doing their own thing, so it’s a happy ending.
