May I Help You?

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May I Help You?

일당백집사 (Ildangbaekjipsa) · 2022 · South Korea

WriterLee Seon-hye

Director

Episodes16 eps · ~70 min each

Where to Watch✅ Prime Video

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Binge Time18h 40m

AiredOct 19 – Dec 22, 2022

GenreFantasy · Romance · Drama

Content Rating15+

MBCPrime Video

Funeral DirectorMagical RealismHealingErrand ServiceMystery

Everything that matters, at a glance.

The funeral home, the errand office and the people who keep walking between them.

Lee Hye-ri

Baek Dong-joo

Lead

Lee Jun-young

Kim Tae-hee

Lead

Song Deok-ho

Seo Hae-ahn

Supporting

Han Dong-hee

Tak Chung-ha

Supporting

Tae In-ho

Im Il-sub

Supporting

Lee Kyu-han

Vincent

Supporting

Oh Dae-hwan

Father Michael

Supporting

Seo Hye-won

Yoo So-ra

Supporting

Park Soo-young

Baek Dal-sik

Supporting

Ahn Hyun-ho

Hyun Jung-hwa

Supporting

Kim Ha-eon

Kim Joon-ho

Supporting

A spoiler-light refresher, episode by episode.

EP 01

I Do Anything for You

Oct 19, 2022

Baek Dong-joo is a funeral director who can bring the recently dead back for a short talk in the mortuary’s powder room, and she is only waiting for autumn so she can quit both jobs. Then her boyfriend hires errand man Kim Tae-hee to break up with her on his behalf, and she kicks him in the shin. A dead cab driver asks her to find the son he abandoned 25 years ago, and when Tae-hee turns up at the memorial as a hired chief mourner, she decides he must be that son.

EP 02

A Strange Woman

Oct 20, 2022

Dong-joo is sure Tae-hee is the missing son because of a mark on his hand, and she keeps him at the funeral until he finally tells her she is wrong; the real son was already waiting outside, having ridden in his father’s cab without saying who he was. On her 25th birthday she and Tae-hee quarrel over a spilled lunchbox, the fight goes viral and his errand business loses its clients. The episode ends on a cliffhanger: on a job, Tae-hee opens a closet door and finds Dong-joo hiding inside.

EP 03

Let Me Tell You a Secret

Oct 26, 2022

The closet scene is explained: Dong-joo was hunting for the lottery winnings that a dead client, Suk-chul, wanted delivered to his wife, and Tae-hee had been hired to clear out that very house. She finds the money, hands it over, and a bandage for his cut finger becomes a peace offering. The good deed brings the errand business back, Dong-joo moves into the building that houses his office, and a murdered pregnant woman reaches the powder room just as Tae-hee walks in on Dong-joo talking to a corpse.

EP 04

The Guy I Already Knew

Oct 27, 2022

Tae-hee reports Dong-joo to her boss for what looks like a performance with a body and tells her to move out, but her boss has a bigger problem: the dead woman’s husband, Won-hyu, has disappeared. Dong-joo gets the wife’s love story onto a radio show, Tae-hee hears it in his car, realises the bridge in the story is where Won-hyu means to die, and gets there in time. That night he half believes her, until the apparition of a boy named Joon-ho asks him, “Why did you kill me?”

EP 05

Misunderstanding and Prejudice

Nov 9, 2022

After the quarrel Dong-joo sets up a new place and finds a ring tied to Joon-ho, the boy who was her first client and told her to look for it at Bongsu Market. Tae-hee, haunted by visions of a hospital and a boy he could not save, comes around to believing her and brings her back to the old flat. A new client, an elderly woman, wants only flowers, but her sweet-mannered daughter-in-law privately finds Dong-joo’s hands dirty from touching the dead. Tae-hee comforts her, and the next morning they wake up shocked to be in the same room.

EP 06

The Way I Console You

Nov 10, 2022

The morning after is innocent: they went drinking and simply fell asleep. The episode is about the two of them getting closer. He leaves her a note telling her not to chicken out, she admits she has been afraid of rain since childhood, and her father drops by the hostel she claimed to live in while Tae-hee covers for her. So-ra’s grandmother dies, and Dong-joo gets to say goodbye to her in the powder room. A flashback shows that Tae-hee used to be a doctor and quit after Joon-ho died, on the day he had meant to propose to his girlfriend Chung-ha.

EP 07

A Girl Showed Up

Nov 16, 2022

Tak Chung-ha, Tae-hee’s ex and first love, interrupts a small date between him and Dong-joo and asks to talk to him alone, and a flashback shows how happy they once were at the hospital. A case takes Dong-joo and Tae-hee out of town, where a grandmother wants a photo replaced by a happy memory with her troubled grandson. A mishap on the road forces them to spend the night together, he wonders aloud what it would be like to depend on someone, and she offers her shoulder. Chung-ha then turns up at his office to say she will do whatever it takes to get him back.

EP 08

The Broken Promise

Nov 17, 2022

A flashback to Tae-hee’s little brother Joon-ho shows a promise to take him to see the stars, and the rainy night a truck hit the boy, the memory Tae-hee cannot put down. At Father Michael’s urging, Dong-joo and Tae-hee take Joseph, a boy who has just lost his father, on a camping trip that quietly becomes a romantic getaway. Back home, police officer Hae-ahn, Tae-hee’s tenant, starts to fall for Dong-joo without knowing about them, and the epilogue shows him at a hospital bedside and, in flashback, walking past the crash site.

EP 09

The Letter That I Can’t Send

Nov 30, 2022

On the camping trip Tae-hee tells Dong-joo about Joon-ho for the first time, unaware that the ring she keeps was his brother’s, and the two grow closer. Chung-ha reappears, determined to win him back, and a flashback shows that on the night of the crash it was she who treated the truck driver. In the powder room a teenage client, Seo-rin, asks Dong-joo to help her confess to a boy she liked, and he likes her back. The story pushes Dong-joo to say the same words to Tae-hee, and she does.

EP 10

I Can See Your Lies

Dec 1, 2022

Tae-hee turns down Dong-joo’s confession and asks her not to say it again; she takes it gracefully and apologises the next day, and Vincent starts to suspect something. Hae-ahn confesses to her and is refused, but he is promoted to detective that week and notices Joon-ho’s case file on his computer. A bride named Agnes, with no friends or family, hires A Dime a Job, and Dong-joo stands in as her friend because Agnes’s dead brother asked her to. At the wedding Dong-joo’s ex-boyfriend shows up, a fight breaks out, and on the way home Tae-hee admits he lied and likes her too.

EP 11

When the Fall Comes

Dec 7, 2022

The romance gets going. Tae-hee says outright that he loves her, and Vincent and Father Michael are delighted when they find out. Chung-ha’s mother sees the couple on the street, a quarrel ends in cruel words, and she dies soon after; in the powder room she asks Dong-joo to give Tae-hee back to her daughter, which Dong-joo cannot do, though she urges Tae-hee to attend the memorial. When Tae-hee’s grandmother visits ahead of Joon-ho’s death anniversary, Dong-joo realises that her very first client was Tae-hee’s little brother, and she runs.

EP 12

Meeting You

Dec 8, 2022

Hae-ahn finds old photographs at A Dime a Job and learns that Joon-ho was Tae-hee’s brother, and a flashback reveals that the drunk truck driver was his own older brother. Dong-joo tells Tae-hee the truth, returns the ring, and mentions that Joon-ho spoke of a police officer at the scene, something the official investigation never recorded. Tae-hee learns the driver is still in hospital, goes to see him and finds Hae-ahn in the waiting room. Dong-joo’s own case this week is a mother who killed her teenage daughter and herself; the girl dreamed of being a pop star, so Dong-joo uploads her dance video.

EP 13

The Driver Wakes

Dec 14, 2022

Seo Young-chul, the driver, wakes from his coma, and Tae-hee, face to face with Hae-ahn at the bedside, says the child who died was his own brother; Hae-ahn pretends not to know. He apologises, moves out of Tae-hee and Vincent’s house and is then invited back, while behind the scenes he deletes camera footage from the night of the crash. Young-chul dies. At the funeral home Dong-joo expects not to meet him, since those who commit a crime are denied a last wish, but he comes back when she touches him and insists he was the driver, which she does not believe.

EP 14

The Photo in the Passenger Seat

Dec 15, 2022

Dong-joo investigates on her own. Young-chul’s girlfriend Mi-young gives her the photo he sent just before the crash, and matching the car shows he was in the passenger seat, a photo she says she handed to Hae-ahn and the police never saw. A flashback gives the truth: newly graduated from the police academy and drunk, Hae-ahn took the wheel from his brother, hit Joon-ho, then moved Young-chul into the driver’s seat, took the dashcam card and ran. Tae-hee finds footage of a figure fleeing the scene, and Hae-ahn, who overheard Dong-joo’s suspicions, waits for her outside her door and tries to strangle her.

EP 15

Fourteen Years

Dec 21, 2022

Hae-ahn’s grip loosens when Tae-hee walks in on the attack. He flees to a rooftop, thinks about jumping, and is stopped by Tae-hee, who hands him to the police. At the station he apologises to Dong-joo and tells her where to find the dashcam memory card; she gives the footage to the police, and he is sentenced to 14 years. Tae-hee meets Joon-ho in a dream and is told it was not his fault. Tae-hee, Vincent and Dong-joo make kimchi with her father, who approves of Tae-hee, and she agrees to move back home to study for her civil service exam if he quits his night-guard job.

EP 16

The Last Client

Dec 22, 2022

Dal-sik dies in an accident while saving a pregnant woman, and he becomes Dong-joo’s final client. They have hours together in the powder room, and he does her hair the way he did when she was small and asks her to stay happy. Afterwards she sends the kimchi they made to everyone she knows, while the neighbourhood honours him as a hero. Her words about saving lives send Tae-hee back to hospital work, Dong-joo takes up funeral directing for good, and the finale explains the origin of her gift. The details are in the Ending Explained section below.

The finale, unpacked in full. Consider yourself warned.

The two leads end up where they belong Both finale write-ups agree on the shape of the ending: Dong-joo and Tae-hee each go back to the work that suits them, and they do it together. Newstomato describes Dong-joo and Tae-hee choosing lives where they pass hope and comfort to people in need, as a funeral director and a doctor, and High On Films has Tae-hee return to the hospital after Dong-joo tells him he is someone who can save lives. High On Films adds that Vincent gets a call from an investor who will help him expand A Dime a Job, and that So-ra and Il-sub begin dating. Newstomato quotes the closing narration: “Are you alive? Are you dead? How may I help you?”

Dal-sik’s death The finale’s blow lands on Dong-joo’s family. Her father, Baek Dal-sik, dies in an accident while saving a pregnant woman. Newstomato adds that she was about to give birth and had triplets, so his death saved four lives and mourners came from across the country. He arrives at the funeral home as Dong-joo’s last client. Newstomato quotes him saying he had begged for just one minute with her, grateful for the miracle after death, and High On Films says they spent hours together, remembering happier days, with him doing her hair the way he did when she was young.

The kimchi and the bankbook After the funeral, Newstomato reports, Dong-joo finds a bankbook in her father’s empty room where he had been quietly saving for her wedding. She wanted more people to remember him for longer, so she shared the kimchi she had made with him among those who knew him. High On Films says she sent it to everyone she knew, to spread the love, and that the neighbourhood now treats him as a local hero. It is the quietest stretch of the finale, and it suits the show, which has spent sixteen episodes treating small errands as the real work.

Who caused Joon-ho’s death The murder mystery closes in episode 15, and only High On Films covers it in detail. Hae-ahn, who was driving the truck, is stopped on the rooftop by Tae-hee and handed to the police; he apologises to Dong-joo and points her to the dashcam memory card, and he is sentenced to 14 years. Tae-hee meets Joon-ho in a dream, where the boy tells him it was not his fault and he should move on. We found no second source for the sentence or the dream, so treat those details as one recapper’s account.

The secret behind Dong-joo’s gift The last loose end is why Dong-joo can talk to the dead. Newstomato says she and Tae-hee were both survivors of the Bongsu Electric fire, that her mother saved Tae-hee and died after giving birth to her, and that the people Dong-joo met as clients had helped her be born. High On Films puts the death toll at 21, the same number as the wind chime in the powder room, and describes Father Michael with a scrapbook of clippings about the fire. After her father, the last client, she no longer meets the dead. Newstomato says the ability is gone but she chooses to stay a funeral director; High On Films adds a joke that the gift passes to a colleague, which only that recap reports.