'Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area' Part 1 Ending Explained: Did Professor's real identity get expose?
The heist team has made a grand comeback and they are set to commit the biggest bank robbery in the world. Professor had it all planned out, but things get awry in between as the team suffers a lot of setbacks while executing their plan to take away 4 trillion won from the Korean mint at the Joint Economic Area. In the way, we saw how dissent grew in the team and there was a power struggle, however, they soon realize that it was time for them to come together and save the day.
Meanwhile, the joint force squad was doing everything in their power to end this misery. However, the Professor was always one step ahead of them. Even when we realize that the heist team is f****d, he would always have something rolled up his sleeve. In the penultimate episode, we saw a police officer named Park trying to wreak havoc in the mint. He used his techniques to neutralize the situation, but it created more chaos and the heist team was not ready for it.
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Anne, daughter of the US Ambassador and the deputy director of the mint, tries evacuating the hostages, but they get caught by the team and are brought back. On the other hand, someone has already found Park and is going to kill him. So, let’s take a look at how things ended for the team in Season 1.
‘Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area’ Ending Explained: Did Seon and joint force task capture the Professor?
So, we know that the Professor is not inside the mint. However, the police got something on a car the Professor used ending with 9125. The car is in the junkyard and the Professor reaches there to get it back. However, the car dealers felt suspicious and tried stopping him. Professor manages to evade them and as soon as the police arrive there, he manages to escape the junkyard and take the car away with him. So, Seon and a team of police officers try catching him and when they get a hold of the car, Professor tricks them by taking the car away and escapes by jumping in the pond. After escaping the car, he makes sure that the car is burnt from the inside.
When the cops arrive, the Professor had already escaped and Captain Cha calls Seon to tell her that the person sitting in the car might be the Professor.
‘Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area’ Ending Explained: How did the Heist team manage to make the public believe that they are the good guys?
So, the Professor had already made it clear that public opinion should be on their side and that’s why they never wanted to hurt anyone or kill anyone. During the heist, some gunshots were heard from inside the mint and the police believes that they have killed Park, the police officer, who entered the mint. However, the heist team had to make sure that the secret doesn’t get out that Berlin did shoot Park multiple times on his chest.
The families of the hostages begin to surround the mint and in order to tell those families that their loved ones are alright, the police make a plan that Seon will go inside the mint with a camera to let the world know that every hostage is fine. However, the real plan is to show everyone that they killed Park and cheated on them. Seon and one cameraperson enter the mint and the entire thing is being broadcast outside in front of everyone. One by one, Berlin lets the hostages meet Seon and they tell her that they are fine. When she asks them about the gunshots, they replied that the heist team was doing gun-fighting practice.
However, prior to the meeting, Anne, the deputy director of the mint, and Cho make a plan to tell Seon everything by writing it on the banknote. When Anne is presented in front of Seon, she cries and forces Seon to come closer to her. Seon does the same and when Anne was close enough to keep that note in her pocket, Tokyo takes control of her hand and takes her inside.
A few moments later, Seon understands that she needs to look at the hostages in one go and that’s where things get interesting. While confirming the identities of the hostages, she also included the name of the police officer who was killed by Berlin. Seon puts up an act of how the heist team put everything in jeopardy by killing the police officer and asks Berlin to let the school students go.
Berlin says that she just needs the daughter of the US Ambassador so that she and the authorities can get in their good books. Seon believes that the public won’t like hearing that they killed Park and if he is not killed, let her see him. Now, the heist team panics a bit because the plan is falling apart.
‘Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area’ Ending Explained: Did Berlin really kill Park?
As Seon continues to put up an act, Berlin takes everyone by storm by removing the mask from one of the hostage’s faces and revealing that Park is still alive. The entire situation is overturned and the authorities are clueless as to how this is possible. It is revealed that Berlin did shoot Park, but Park was wearing a bulletproof chest and that’s what saved him. So, Professor came up with a plan and the thing that they were holding back from telling was not about Park’s death.
Elsewhere, the channel broadcasting the entire scene from the mint gets a pen-drive with a video telling everyone how police tried sabotaging everything by sending in police in disguise and putting the lives of the hostages in danger. Berlin says that it was the police who disturbed everything and if they wouldn’t do that, Park would not have been inside the mint.
He also assures the public that he won’t let anyone get injured and he would kill himself first before even thinking of hurting anyone in the mint. The game changes and the momentum is now with the heist team again.
In the ending moments, Moscow tells everyone that the tunnel is about to finish and they’ll be out of their mind within the next three days.
‘Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area’ Ending Explained: Did Captain Cha gets to know the real identity of the Professor?
During the series, we get to know that Sunho is the Professor and he is currently dating Seon. So, he keeps on meeting her and knowing about what’s happening in the mint. When the heist embarrasses the joint task force by revealing that Park is alive, the top management takes the decision of firing Cha from the mission. Seon says that she will resign as well if Cha goes.
They meet outside and Cha tells that Sunho might be involved. Seon doesn’t believe that and meets Sunho after getting out.
While keeping her phone inside the coat’s pocket, she sees that a part of the banknote is in the pocket and that could help them. She leaves Sunho and when Sunho reaches his café, Cha introduces him to Sunho.
This is how things ended in Part One in Season 1 and look like Part 2 will be on its way soon.