History Film / SympathyForLadyVengeance

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: The witch and Mr Baek eventually get killed by Geum-ja in this order. The former was a cannibalistic DepravedBisexual prison bully and the latter a child murdering SerialKiller. No one complained.]]

** When recounting how the original abduction occurred, [[spoiler: Geum-Ja says that Mr. Baek convinced her by saying that there are good kidnappings and bad kidnappings, and that good kidnappings end with the child safely returned after the ransom is paid. This is the same explanation Yeong-mi used to convince Ryu to go through with the kidnapping in ''Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance'', which ended with similarly tragic results.]]

* ChainOfDeals: When in prison, Geum-Ja secures a long list of people [[YouOweMe that owe her]] by performing seemingly unrelated actions and gaining just as unrelated favours once out... except it's all part of her elaborate vengeance plan.

* CoolGun: Geum-Ja's handmade two-barrel pistol.
* CoolOldLady: One of the murdered children's relatives is her grandmother, as the child's mother committed suicide and her father left the country. Granny's the one to strike the killing blow on Mr. Baek. She's completely calm and hasn't bothered to put on a plastic raincoat to keep the blood off her, being there just too deliver the final blow.

** He has a heavy-duty rope in a drawer of his desk, which looks completely out of place, but is just an insignificant, brief shot. [[spoiler: It's implied later that it's the same rope he used to hang the little girl]].

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: The elderly North Korean spy has Alzheimer's and is clearly not there anymore... but is cognitive just enough to help Geum-ja out of sheer gratitude for taking care of her, providing her with a diagram of the CoolGun. Notably, when Geum-ja was given the Buddhist treaty in which the blueprint is hidden, she thought it was just another random act of the demented old lady.

** A few scenes later, Geun-shik asks if Geum-ja is going somewhere - SmashCut to a wide shot of the Australian outback.

* TheDogBitesBack: Mr. Baek's wife teams up with Geum-Ja (who helped her in jail) to make him pay for his crimes.

-->'''Gaum-ja:''' So the kidnapper had kidnapped a kidnapper's kid. Isn't it funny?

* DreamSequence: Geum-ja has one of killing Mr. Baek, and he is ... [[AnimalMotifs a dog]]!

* EvilCostumeSwitch: After she is finally released, Geum-Ja cuts her hair in a more mature hairstyle, wears leather clothes and [[ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow deliberately wears red eye shadow]] so she wouldn't look angelic.
* EvilIsPetty: Extremely so. The reason why Mr. Baek was asking for ransom, [[spoiler: despite murdering the children long before even calling their parents? He was saving that money for a yacht]]. Gaum-ja is having trouble even saying that aloud to the parents, who are asking her what was the motivation behind all of this.

* FunWithSubtitles: When Mr. Baek is humping Li-Jeong on a kitchen table, the subtitle with the period in which she was doing time is slowly sliding from beneath the table - to the rhytm of the humping.

* GenreDeconstruction: Like the other two movies in the vengeance trilogy, this is very much a deconstruction of the revenge genre movie. In this case [[spoiler: Geum-ja may have gotten revenge on Mr. Baek, but Geum-ja will forever feel tormented by the things so has done and will never find the redemption she seeks.]]

* INeedAFreakingDrink: And it's played for laughs. [[spoiler: An ex-husband offers a hip flask with some liquor to his ex-wife, as they are waiting for their round of torturing Mr. Baek to death]]. She accepts, takes a swing... and then chugs down the whole thing to calm down at least a bit.

** [[spoiler: Li-Jeong [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink laced Mr. Baek dinner]] with sedatives. When Geum-ja arrives at his place, he managed to eat most of it before the drug took hold, indicating many minutes have passed]].
** [[spoiler: One of the thugs hired to get rid of Guem-ja is using a chloroform-soaked cloth. She simply held her breath at first, before pulling a SureLetsGoWithThat, pretending to be knocked out - only to start fighting against the thug the second he took the rag away]].

** The young guy that works with Geum-Ja is very attracted to her and even asks if he can call her "big sister" (a term of affection that can have different connotations). She shoots him down but later uses him to teach her daughter Korean since she was raised in Australia.

* NiceGirl: In prison, Geum-ja makes a reputation for being kind, helpful and friendly. Even when she [[spoiler: poisons the Witch to death by putting detergent in her food]], [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt gaining her the nickname of "Witch,"]] she's ''still'' referred to as "the kind one". Because [[BewareTheNiceOnes they aren't mutually exclusive]].

** We never learn what are the first names of either Mr. Baek or detective Choi.
** So-young Woo husband is never named and even the credits list him as "So-young Woo's husband". His surname is probably Woo, given they are married.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Geum-ja spent her prison time preparing an elaborate revenge plot against Mr. Baek. [[spoiler: But once she captures him, she accidentally discovers he ''killed four other children'' while she was locked up. Thus, to deal with him, she allows the  closest relatives of his victims to torture him to death, considering the fact she delivered him to them to be enough revenge on her part]].
* PoliceAreUseless: Discussed, but ultimately subverted. Police were only unable to find the true killer because the detective in charge realised Geum-ja had been blackmailed into TakingTheHeat and thus assisted her in finding the true killer from that point forward, without endangering Geum-ja herself. [[spoiler: What they both didn't know back then was that this would allow Baek to kidnap and brutally murder four other chidren]]. When they do get Mr. Baek, he helps her with arranging everything, [[spoiler: even instructing the parents of the victims on how to inflict the most pain without killing the bastards too fast]].

** When Geum-ja is describing to Geun-shik, her young coworker, who she is and what she did to another 6 yo boy (he was six back then), the shots keep altering between her calm and cold descriptions and the reaction of the detective Choi's wife, after she learns from whom he got the fancy cake.
** For the most part, viewers are never shown anything that happened on Mr. Baek tapes, but instead there is [[VomitingCop detective Choi throwing up]] and the histerical reactions of the parents watching the content of those tapes.

** Did she actually shoot the puppy dead, or was it an ImagineSpot? And if so - why?

* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Played with. Geum-ja reminds the gathering that she served 13 years in prison, killed an inmate and ''nobody even realised it'', and then tracked Baek after being released with ease. So, if anyone changes their mind or feels guilty and wants to notify authorities... and she makes a DramaticPause. [[spoiler: However, the parents ''are'' willing to kill Mr. Baek, it's that they are afraid someone could eventually break and tell authorities and they need encouragement to be sure nobody will rat the rest of them out]].

* SlasherSmile: Mr. Baek's wife smiles with her mouth covered in blood after she's managed to subdue her husband and Geum-Ja shows up.

* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: Detective Choi quickly figured out that Geum-ja isn't telling him the truth during the initial investigation and just kept prodding. Ultimately, he helps her to self-convict, but not as a scrape goat, but to simply make her convincing enough to give her the sentence she clearly wants. When she's released 13 years later, they are still cordial, if a bit awkward, with each other, making him a case of FriendOnTheForce. [[spoiler: After they decide to kill Mr. Baek, he helps arrange the whole thing and even instructs the parents how to properly use the tools at their disposal, so they both inflict a lot of pain and won't kill the bastard too fast]].

** [[spoiler: Li-Jeong adds sedatives to Mr. Baek's dinner, while excusing herself from the house for the whole day, so he won't get suspicious about why she's not eating something from the multi-course dinner. Even if it appears he managed to outwit her after finding Li-Jeong connection with Geum-ja, he still eats the laced dinner, unaware of the ruse]].
* TakingTheHeat: Geum-ja went to prison for the crime she didn't commit, since the real killer [[spoiler: held her own child hostage]].
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Invoked by one of the parents, since Mr. Baek is your average, middle-aged guy. Geum-ja herself got similar treatment when she was sentenced, as nobody believed someone so young and so beautiful could be a murderer - which is also part of why nobody ever connected her with Witch's death while in prison.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Won-mo ghost is smoking, despite looking like a 6 yo. He then turns into a young adult, since he would be 20 if he were still alive.
* VomitingCop: Detective Choi, a hardened veteran in the force, is casually unearthing 4th corpse from some mass grave without even blinking, when Geum-ja calls him. Cut to him watching one of the tapes made by Mr. Baek, where he eventually gets up, goes to the bathroom and loudly throws up.

* CreepySouvenir: Mr. Baek has kept a small token (a button, a plastic ring, etc.) from each of the children he has murdered and has them attached as charms on his cellphone. Geum-ja realizes what they are when she recognizes Won-mo's marble.

* AintTooProudToBeg: Zig-zagged. Mr. Baek knows he's fucked no matter what, so he doesn't even try to negotiate or plead once the parents take turns beating him. But when he realises this is it, he makes a few pleading whimpers from behind his gag anyway.

* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: Detective Choi quickly figured out that Geum-ja isn't telling him the truth during the initial investigation and just kept prodding. Ultimately, he helps her to self-convict, but not as a scrape goat, but to simply make her convincing enough to give her the sentence she clearly wants. When she's released 13 years later, they are still cordial, if a bit awkward, with each other, making him a case of FriendOnTheForce. [[spoler: After they decide to kill Mr. Baek, he helps arrange the whole thing and even instructs the parents how to properly use the tools at their disposal, so they both inflict a lot of pain and won't kill the bastard too fast]].

* ShootTheDog: The image for the page comes from this film; Geum-ja apparently tests herself to see if she has a killer instinct by [[spoiler: shooting her daughter's pet dog]]. This could elicit a MoralEventHorizon or a WhatTheHellHero reaction from the audience.

* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Played with. Geum-ja reminds the gathering that she served 13 years in prison, killed an inmate and ''nobody even realised it'', and then tracked Baek after being released with ease. So, if anyone changes their mind or feels guilty and wants to notify authorities... and she makes a DramaticPause. [[spoiler: However, the parents ''are'' willing to kill Mr. Baek, it's that they are afraid someone could eventually break and tell authorities and they need encouragement to be sure nobody will rat the rest of them out.

* AloofDarkHairedGirl[=/=]EmotionlessGirl: After being released from prison, Geum-ja is incredibly distant and cold, while numerous people remember her as kind-hearted or are attracted to her beauty.

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Won-mo's missing marble, which was the element that convinced the detective of her innocence. The real killer, Mr. Baek, had the marble hanging on his cell phone strap like a trophy.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: The prison priest turns out to be hired by Baek to spy on Geum-ja.]]

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadasss: The elderly North Korean spy has Alzheimer's and is clearly not there anymore... but is cognitive just enough to help Gaem-ja out of sheer gratitude for taking care of her, providing her with a diagram of the CoolGun. Notably, when Gaem-ja was given the Buddhist treaty in which the blueprint is hidden, she thought it was just another random act of the dementive old lady.
* DeathOfAChild: It is, after all, a movie about taking vengeance on a kidnapping murderer. While most of his crimes are implied or described off-camera, there is a brief shot of him recording [[spoiler: hanging of a pre-school girl]], which is easily the most disturbing scene of the whole film.

** Few scenes later, Geun-shik asks is Guen-ja is going somwhere - SmashCut to a wide shot of the Australian outback.

* EverybodyDidIt: [[spoiler: Mr. Baek is killed by Geum-Ja along with the relatives of the children he murdered in a Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress fashion.]]

* HandCannon: Geum-ja's customized handgun ''[[LiteralDisarmin blows a man's hand off]]''.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: Geum-ja shoots Mr. Baek once in each foot as he is BoundAndGagged in a chair in the abandoned school.

* BadassOldLady: One of the murdered children's relatives is her grandmother, as the child's mother committed suicide and her father left the country. Granny's the one to strike the killing blow on Mr. Baek. She's completely calm and hasn't bothered to put on a plastic raincoat to keep the blood off her.

* DomesticAbuse: Mr. Baek beats up and sexually abuses his wife, who is an ex-convict.

* EvilTeacher: Mr. Baek has a job as an English teacher that makes it easier for him to avoid suspicion, when he's actually a ChildHater SerialKiller.

* [[ExcessiveEvilEyeShadow Excessive Anti-Heroic Eye Shadow]]: A running gag, in which people wonder just what possessed Geum-ja to start wearing hot pink, or rather almost blood red, eye shadow.

* GoryDiscretionShot: You don't actually see what happens to Baek, but you see several of the victims' relatives come out of the room covered in blood and very shaken.
* HandCannon: Geum-ja's customized handgun ''blows a man's hand off''.

* IHaveYourWife: Mr. Baek coerces Geum-ja into making a FalseConfession to the murder of Won-mo by holding her daughter hostage.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: [[spoiler: The murdered children's parents needed one before going through their collective revenge]].
* ImAHumanitarian: What the Witch did to her husband and his mistress. She is arrested when she was doing a barbecue with [[NauseaFuel saucy hubby meat]].

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Geum-ja and the children's families' entire M.O. to Mr. Baek.

* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: In prison, Geum-ja kills the Witch by adulterating her food with bleach. ''For three years!''

--> Everyone makes mistakes. But if you committed a sin, you have to make an atonement for that sin. Atonement, do you know what that means? Big Atonement for big sins. Small Atonement for small sins.

*** Originally she wanted to cut all of her fingers off, until the parents would forgive her. But it ends soon, as the parents call for a ambulance.

* BestServedCold: Deconstructed. Geum-ja spends thirteen years in prison, putting forth a truly elaborate revenge plot and goes through great lengths to execute it once out... only to find that VengeanceFeelsEmpty. She can't turn back the clock, she can't fix the actual mistakes and is haunted forever that even after having her revenge, nobody will ever forgive her for what she's believed to do in her youth - including her own daughter. On top of that, in her single-minded drive for revenge, she ended up alienating or at least disturbing all the people she [[FalseFriend befriended]] to reach her goal.

* BittersweetEnding: Geum-ja finally succeeds in getting her vengeance on Mr. Baek and finally reconciles with her daughter Jenny. But unfortunately, the events will haunt her forever and now she has to live with the fact that she has lost the chance for redemption and will never be "pure" again.

* BoundAndGagged: After abducting Mr. Baek, Geum-ja keeps him bound to a chair and gagged in the abandoned school. When the families of his victims confront him, some chose to ungag him so they can hear what he has to say ([[spoiler:or hear him beg for mercy]]), while others leave him gagged because they have no interest in his excuses or justifications.

** When recounting how the original abduction occurred, [[spoiler: Geum-Ja says that Mr. Baek convinced her by saying that there are good kidnappings and bad kidnappings, and that good kidnappings end with the child safely returned after the ransom is paid. This is the same explanation Yeong-mi used to convince Ryu to go through with the kidnapping in ''Sympathy for Mr. Vengenace'', which ended with similarly tragic results.]]

* DeathByCameo: [[spoiler: Song Kang-ho and Shin Ha-kyun (who both stared in ''Film/SympathyForMrVengeance'') play two contracted killers assigned to murder Geum-Ja. Geum-Ja however easily kills both of them after we are interduce to them.]]

* DramaticDrop: When Geum-ja knocks the symbolic tofu out of the Preacher's hands outside the prison, the band is shocked and the cymbalist drops one of his cymbals. Later, Geun-shik catches sight of Geum-ja for the first time and is so struck by her beauty that he drops the stack of boxes he is carrying.

* EvilCostumeSwitch: As she is finally released, Geum-Ja cuts her hair in a more mature hairstyle, wears leather clothes and [[ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow deliberately wears red eye shadow]] so she wouldn't look angelic.

* FelonyMisdemeanor: PlayedForDrama; Geum-ja, after failing to prevent Mr. Baek from suffocating a child, tracks down the child's parents and ''tries to cut off all her fingers for forgiveness.'' Granted, it's not akin to a white lie, but considering that a)there was absolutely nothing she could have done to stop it; and b) [[spoiler:her newborn daughter's life was at risk had she not taken the blame]], you'd think she wouldn't blame herself as much.
* FemmeFatale: Once out of prison, Geum-ja does an instant 180 turn on her sweet and kind persona and turns into a vicious, yet elegant [[TheVamp vamp]] that uses ''every single asset and favour she can call'' to get her revenge on the man that got away with the crime she was sentenced for. [[spoiler: In the end, it turns out that the FemmeFatale is just a dramatic facade, while deep down she's still [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold the kind and gentle person]], but by then she burns most of the bridges with her callous behaviour]].

* {{Forgiveness}}: What Geum-Ja wants, but doubts she can ever earn.

* HumanShield: One of Mr. Baek's assassins uses Jenny as a human shield to hold Geum-ja at bay. [[ShootTheHostageTaker he regrets this.]] [[LiteralDisarming Briefly.]]

* JadeColoredGlasses: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] through Guem-ja wearing rouge eye-shadow after prison so she doesn't appear kindhearted.

** [[spoiler: Geum-Ja kills]] the Witch by methodically poisoning her food with detergent, "cleaning" her stomach, as the other inmates joke. She was convicted for killing and [[ImAHumanitarian eating]] her husband and his mistress.
** [[spoiler: Mr. Baek is killed by Geum-Ja with the help of the families of the children he murdered.]]
* LadyInRed: Aside from wearing red eye shadow, Geum-Ja wears a red négligé when she seduces her younger co-worker.
* LiteralDisarming: When one of Mr. Baek's assassins uses Geum-ja's daughter as a HumanShield, she closes [[ShootTheHostageTaker blows the hand holding the knife off at the wrist]].
* MarketBasedTitle: The title ''(Sympathy for) Lady Vengeance'' was done solely to tie it with ''Film/SympathyForMrVengeance'' (itself a market-based title, making ''Lady'' an ArtifactTitle), even though this movie [[ComicallyMissingThePoint couldn't be much more different]]. The Korean title, ''Chinjeolhan Geumjassi'' translates to "The kind-hearted Mrs Geum-ja". That has a very different ring to it, doesn't it?

* MatchCut: During a tense scene showing a recording of Mr. Baek about murder a young girl by hanging, the scene shows Mr. Baek pulling the chair to hang the girl, then cutting to a parent falling off her chair in shock.

** The young guy that works with Geum-Ja is very attracted to her and even asks if he can call her "big sister" (a term of affection that can have different meanings). She shoots him down but later uses him to teach her daughter Korean since she was raised in Australia.

* NiceGirl: In prison, Geum-ja makes a reputation for being kind, helpful and friendly. Even when she [[spoiler: poisons the witch to death by putting detergent in her food]], [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt gaining her the nickname of "Witch"]], she's ''still'' referred to as "the kind one". Because [[BewareTheNiceOnes they aren't mutually exclusive]].
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Geum-ja's daughter was raised in Australia. Her daughter doesn't say much but when she does speak, it's a North American accent. The actress was Korean-American.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Geum-Ja and the children's families' entire M.O. to Mr. Baek.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Invoked with the witch. When she murders and eats her husband and his lover, only a brief shot of her eating MysteryMeat is given; the scene where she rapes another inmate, however, [[RapeAsDrama is pretty darn graphic.]] [[spoiler:The main reason for this is to undoubtedly justify Geum-ja killing her in a horrible fashion.]]

* ShootTheHostageTaker: One of Mr. Baek's assassins attempts to use Geum-ja's daughter Jenny as a HumanShield. Seriously bad move. Results in a LiteralDisarming as the blows the hand holding the knife off at the wrist.
* SlasherSmile: Mr. Baek's wife has smiles with her mouth covered with blood has she managed to subdue her husband and Geum-Ja ahows up.

* ToThePain: Geum-Ja puts a microphone in the room where she and the parents are discussing how to kill Baek, and a speaker where he's being held.
* TranquilFury: Geum-Ja's attitude after being released.

* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: [[spoiler:Geum-ja kills the witch in a pretty nasty way, and promptly inherits her title. To a much more chilling extent, Baek keeps personal mementos from the children he murders and uses some of them as phone charms.]]

* BestServedCold: Deconstructed. Geum-ja spends thirteen years in prison, putting forth a truly elaborate revenge plot and goes through great lengths to execute it once out... only to find that VengeanceFeelsEmpty. She can't turn back the clock, she can't fix the actual mistakes and is haunted forever that even after having her revenge, nobody will ever forgive her for what she's believed to do in her youth - including her own daughter. On top of that, in her single-minded revenge, she ended up alienating or at least disturbing all the people she [[FalseFriend befriended]] to reach her goal.

** "It has to be pretty. Everything should be pretty."

* FoodPorn: Look at ''that cakes''. It has to be expected when the protagonists is a SupremeChef and works in a bakery.

* GenreDeconstruction; Like the other two movies in the vengeance trilogy, this is very much a deconstruction of the revenge genre movie. In this case [[spoiler: Geum-ja may have gotten revenge on Mr. Baek, but Geum-ja will forever feel tormented by the things so has done and will never find the redemption she seeks.]]

* MarketBasedTitle: The title ''(Sympathy for) Lady Vengeance'' is clearly supposed to [[MisaimedFandom attract audiences]] that expect an action movie with a female lead character similar to Film/KillBill, even though this movie [[ComicallyMissingThePoint couldn't be much more different]]. The Korean title, ''Chinjeolhan Geumjassi'' translates to "The kind-hearted Mrs Geum-ja". That has a very different ring to it, doesn't it?
** As we're at it, there also exists [[http://www.joblo.com/timthumb.php?src=/posters/images/full/2006-sympathy_for_lady_vengeance-4.jpg&h=600&q=100 this]] cover from a Swedish release that is pretty unambiguous in what it wants to make the buyer believe.

* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]]: In prison, Geum-ja makes a reputation for being kind, helpful and friendly. Even when she [[spoiler: poisons the witch to death by putting detergent in her food]], [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt gaining her the nickname of "Witch"]], she's ''still'' referred to as "the kind one". Because [[BewareTheNiceOnes they aren't mutually exclusive]].

* StockingMask: So-young and her husband wear stocking masks during the bank robbery they. The stocking have a snakeskin pattern on them, and--perhaps because they are more opaque than regular stockings--they have cut eye and mouth holes in them.

* {{Yubitsume}}: Geum-ja goes to the parents of the murdered boy, with the intent of getting rid of her fingers until they accept the apology. She manages to only remove one.

!!This {{film}} provides examples of:

* GenreDeconstruction; Like the other two movies in the vengeance trilogy, this is very much a deconstruction of the revenge genre movie. In this case [spoiler: Geum-ja may have gotten revenge on Mr. Baek, but Geum-ja will forever feel tormented by the things so has done and will never find the redemption she seeks.]]

* ArbitraryMaximumRange: Justified. Geum-ja's gun can only be fired accurately at very close range, since it's smooth-bore. It's still very effective.

** As we're at it, there also exists [[http://www.joblo.com/timthumb.php?src=/posters/images/full/2006-sympathy_for_lady_vengeance-4.jpg&h=600&q=100 this]] ContemptibleCover from a Swedish release that is pretty unambiguous in what it wants to make the buyer believe.

* EvilMakeover: As she is finally released, Geum-Ja cuts her hair in a more mature hairstyle, wears leather clothes and deliberately wears red eye shadow so she wouldn't look angelic.

''Sympathy for Lady Vengeance'' is a 2005 Korean thriller directed by Creator/ParkChanWook, released in Korea under the title of 친절한 금자씨; ''Kind-hearted Geum-ja.'' It's the final film in Park's ThematicSeries on revenge, following ''Film/SympathyForMrVengeance'' and ''Film/{{Oldboy 2003}}''.

The third film of Creator/ParkChanWook's ''Vengeance Trilogy'', released in Korea under the title of 친절한 금자씨; ''Kind-hearted Geum-ja.'' This film's plot has parallels to both ''Film/{{Oldboy 2003}}'' and ''Film/SympathyForMrVengeance'', notably the quest for {{revenge}} after more than a decade in confinement and the study of how vengeance can turn simple people into monsters. It is, however, very stylistically different from both installments.

Lee Geum-ja, a 19-year-old girl paying the price of some bad decisions, is blackmailed into [[FalseConfession falsely confessing]] to the murder of a child. After 14 years in prison, she emerges a cold, vengeance-driven woman, dropping the kind, gentle facade that had won her the friendship and loyalty of the other female prisoners.

Using her connections formed in prison, Geum-ja sets into motion a plan 14 years in the making. Her goal is to punish Mr. Baek, the real murderer; however, even {{revenge}} may not be enough for Geum-ja to find redemption.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When the Witch is forcing her newest slave to pleasure her in the bathroom, Geum-ja can be seen over her shoulder, soaping the floor. This [[BrickJoke receives a payoff later]].

* HumanShiled: One of Mr. Baek's assassins uses Jenny as a human shield to hold Geum-ja at bay. [[ShootTheHostageTaker he regrets this.]] [[LiteralDisarming Briefly.]]