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Sung Yun-Oh (in Korean: 성윤오) is the villain deuteragonist of the South Korean TV series Somebody.
He is portrayed by Kim Young-Kwang.
Personality[]
Sung Yun-Oh's "self" is hardly defined.
His gift for mirroring the expectations and desires of others makes him seem an empty shell, ready to surrender identity and let others mold the mask he presents to them.
He is merely going along with it. This makes his character a complementary contrast with Sum's unapologetic and whole personality.
The mastermind behind this act however is a frustrated and hedonistic psychopath.
Yun-Oh is unhappy with others. The state of the world, the way people are, it all dissatisfies him. His misanthropy agrees with another facet of his personality: he sees people as means to an end, victims as entertainment.
He revels in deceiving people, watching them walk into his traps. He seeks pleasure in the murders and the preliminary steps leading up to it, the dominance that successfully manipulating them provides.
Yun-Oh is a predator, as evidenced by the simultaneous seduction of multiple potential victims or by his cold use of physical disability or Asperger's as a ploy to fake relatibility.
Ki-Eun is preyed on in much the same way a predator would go after a wounded, weakened prey. He sadistically observes her state of helplessness after he tricked her.
In the end, he is capable of love, although his behavior towards his loved one is abnormal (damage property, breaking her most cherished posession, harming her friends, deliberately putting her in harm's way, conspiring a violent crime against her...) His twisted romantic fantasies about Kim Sum are resolutely misanthropic in a Bonnie and Clyde fashion.
He revers and idolizes Sum.
| “ | I know it all. Do you want to go around killing people with me? | „ |
| ~ Yun-Oh, in a redacted message to Kim Sum. |
Ironically, Sung Yun-Oh exhibits the same desire to connect that make people so easy for him to manipulate, albeit more subtle. His longing manifests in the way he falls for Sum, and the pleasure he gets out of finding a youngster with the same inclinations as him, egging him on to commit acts of cruelty.
Past[]
| “ | You really want to know? ... That’s nothing you need to know. | „ |
| ~ Yun-Oh's reply to If you could change one thing from your childhood what would it be? on SomeOne's console |
His origins are shrouded in mystery.
Nonetheless, the beginning of his killing spree coincides with a one-night-stand with a stranger in a hotel.
On her command, he began choking her during intercourse. His grip eventually asphyxiated her.
It's unclear how Yun-Oh moves on from manslaughter to murder but it is assumed that the experience acted as a trigger for later violent crimes.
Modus Operandi[]
Because of his impressive stature (K. Y-K stands at 6 ft 2), he is able to overpower men and women, lift and swing people around with next to no effort. Killing relies on his sheer physical force.
Yun-Oh murders his victims exclusively with his bare hands. Strangulation and battery point towards release.
| “ | The autopsy report says she was strangled and her spine broke. He's no ordinary psycho. | „ |
| ~ Fellow police officer to Ki-Eun. |
To gain access to his victims without leaving a trail behind him, he exploits the characteristics of the anonymous dating and meet-up app Somebody.
His process to get closer to them takes advantage of two traits: the inherent desire to connect in most individuals ; and the pleasure people find in seeing their selves reflected back at them in someone else.
He demonstrates a remarkable ability to identify and replicate these keys to people's trust--all the things that make people 'them.'
Once the catfishing and deceit has earned their trust, he lures them to secluded areas, has sex with them and strangles them.
Relationship with Kim Sum[]
Yun-Oh and Kim Sum begin to chat on the night she kills a cat. She confides in him what she just did. The confession piques his interest. Their relationship devolves into an intense, but confusing romance. Yun-Oh finds the perfect other in her, she finds herself in him.
As their relationship progresses, he is also texting her from an account under the username 'Agape', pretending to be a high school student with ASD. Kim Sum relates to him and slowly gives him her trust, she wants to help him.
Attack on Sum[]
He orchestrates a gang rape with Kim Sum as the victim, by inviting men to partake at the location where Sum had agreed to meet 'Agape', setting them loose to hunt his new friend/lover.
His scheme comes across as pure sadism. It stands out for how cruel and indiscriminate in the choice of victim it is. However, a closer look at the outcome of the attack frames it as a cruel play to test Kim Sum and push her to violence.
Development[]
Yun-Oh truly is in love with Sum.[1]