The series has an anthology-like feel, as Hyeok-jun takes on a new, terrifying part-time job more or less in each episode. Over the course of the eight-episode series, Hyeok-jun’s interest in Spider Staffing Agency’s jobs turns from financial to familial when he realizes that his father, who disappeared 20 years prior after falling into massive debt, was also used the temp agency. With the help of his younger sister, Ji-yoon (Typhoon Family’s Kim Min-ha), and Yeon-joo (Tastefully Yours’ Go Min-si), a mysterious woman investigating the agency, he commits to discovering Spider Staffing’s supernatural secrets.
Lee Hee-joon as Mr. S —Courtesy of Netflix
When pressed by Hyeok-jun, Mr. S explains that these worksites exist where the border between the world of humans and the world of supernatural beings is at its thinnest. While humans live in the yang, explains Mr. S., these other beings stay in the yin. People like Hyeok-jun, who are desperate to make a living, emit especially strong yang energy when engaged in acts of paid labor.
Yeon-joo’s secret agenda
Go Min-si as Yeon-joo —Courtesy of NetflixAt first, Yeon-joo presents herself as an investigator trying to determine if Spider Staffing is facilitating unsafe labor practices. However, we find out in the series’ penultimate episode that Yeon-joo herself is a monster, tied to the other world. She wasn’t born a monster; she was once a young woman trying to make a living as a factory girl in a rapidly modernizing South Korea, roughly 40 years prior to the main events of the series. When Yeon-joo and her co-workers protested against their cruel labor conditions, they were met with violence. Yeon-joo was stuffed in a locker by her older co-worker to avoid the violence, not realizing that it was a doorway to the other world. When Yeon-joo comes out of the locker, it is modern-day Korea, and there is an amusement park where her factory once stood. It’s unclear at what point Yeon-joo turned from human to monster.
Yeon-joo is not a specific historic character, but rather a symbol of this period in Korean history and of the role female factory workers and union organizers played in the rapid, painful transformation of the country’s economy and society in the second half of the 20th century.
Hyeok-jun finds his dad, and starts the apocalypse
Lee Jae-wook, Lee Hee-jun in Episode 7 —Courtesy of NetflixWhen Ji-yoon realizes what her brother has done, she confronts Mr. S. about sending Hyeok-jun back on a job. Mr. S. insists that it is not his fault, but rather a direct result of the machinations of Yeon-joo, who is using Hyeok-jun as a pawn to open the door between worlds. When he does so, monsters from the other world will storm into our world, bringing about the apocalypse. From Yeon-joo’s perspective, it is what our world deserves after the way it has treated its most vulnerable workers. It will fully reveal the truth of the bones and blood our cities are built from.
Before the darkness can fully claim Hyeok-jun, Ji-yoon pulls her brother from the door’s threshold. Together, they close the door before more of the other world’s entities can escape into ours, stopping—or at least halting—the apocalypse.
Kim Min-ha, Lee Jae-wook in Episode 5 —Courtesy of Netflix
In a twist ending, Hyeok-jun gets a text from Spider Staffing and returns to the abandoned office. Once there, he is offered a new job: as Mr. S’s replacement. In a voice message pre-recorded by Mr. S., the manager wonders if Hyeok-jun will make different decisions and come to different conclusions than he did in the role. In Mr. S.’s eyes, the deaths of some people were acceptable for the survival of everyone else.
In a mid-credits scene, Ji-yoon receives a text about the successful results of a work recruitment from Kyung-il Group. The mysterious company owned both Yeon-joo’s factory, and the amusement park. Could they also be behind Spider Staffing? Either way, both brother and sister are getting pulled back into the ongoing supernatural battle.
Will Dead-End Job have a second season?
Dead-End Job leaves the door open for a second season. Its greenlighting is no doubt dependent on how the first season performs on Netflix. If a second season is greenlit, it will be awhile before it can be filmed, given that main actor Lee Jae-wook is currently performing mandatory military service. He is expected to be discharged in November 2027.
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