Info in Movie News | Heavens Ever After by JTBC is a drama that is being noticed for a specific interpretation of life after death. The series is approaching its 5th episode, with the plot still based on emotion. This is not just a question about what happens after a person dies; it is also about how love, pain, and memoirs will not completely vanish, and in some cases, they turn up in the most unforeseen forms.
According to Soompi, Kim Hye Ja plays Lee Hae Sook, an 80-year-old woman who dies and reunites with her husband Go Nak Joon in the afterlife. But there’s a twist. In heaven, people can choose to appear in any form they want. Nak Joon (played by Son Suk Ku) returns to his 30-something self, while Hae Sook chooses to stay in her older body. The choice becomes a major emotional point between them.
Fresh stills from the next episode show something unexpected. Hae Sook seems to be growing closer to Som Yi (played by Han Ji Min), a mysterious young woman who was the center of a conflict between Hae Sook and Nak Joon in a previous episode. Now, Hae Sook holds Som Yi’s hands and hugs her warmly. Som Yi’s expression is mixed, part surprise, part emotion.
Just like how Hae Sook once lived with Lee Young Ae (Lee Jung Eun) when she was alive, she now seems to be forming a new bond with Som Yi. They eat together and sleep under the same roof like family. It’s a quiet but powerful shift that shows how even in the afterlife, we search for connection and meaning.
But not all is peaceful in this version of heaven. The oddball trio, Jjajang (Shin Min Jae), Jjamppong (Kim Choong Gil), and Mandu (Yoo Hyeon Soo), make their appearance again. These characters are dogs abandoned by humans, now given forms and minds of their own. They are on a mission to find someone who escaped from hell.
Mandu, in particular, believes that Som Yi is just like him, abandoned and full of bitterness. He is sarcastic at her, but Som Yi does not yield. Instead, she looks back at him with a calm defiance that insinuates there are many other details of her story.
While people search for the escaped malefactor with even greater determination, everybody wonders aloud whether Som Yi's true identity will come to the surface at last.
Following the broadcast of last Sunday's episode, the show secured its highest ratings yet. Nielsen Korea points out that the average nationwide rating of Heavenly Ever After amounted to 6.4 percent, which was the highest among the cable shows on that day. The drama is the epitome of the right emotions, the right amount of mystery, and the right visuals, which made it the show to watch every week, and hence the drama kept on attracting the audience.
Heavenly Ever After is now streaming worldwide on Netflix, with new episodes released weekly. The series premiered on April 19, 2025, and airs every Saturday and Sunday at 10:30 PM KST on JTBC in South Korea. International viewers can catch the episodes on Netflix, typically available shortly after the Korean broadcast, complete with English subtitles.
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