Question (spoilers)

Professor's wife hired Mr. Myuan [via her lover (guy from the bank- Kim Jung Hwan)] to kill her husband. Probably because professor had a affair with Mr. President's(Tae-won Kim)mistress or/and she wanted his money.

2nd question
She hired with her lover two guys to kill our protagonist because he told her that he'll find out who killed her husband. Probably she talked with Kim Jung Hwan about next moves or something.

The banker hired the waiter who in turn hired Myun (and ultimately the job fell on Gunam’s lap) to kill his client/lover (the affair is not established)'s husband, the professor.
You can hear it all from the waiter himself who was tortured in the Mr. Kim's basement.

The banker was either in love or having affair with the professor's wife.
So he wanted to have the professor killed and mentioned it to the waiter who arranged the hit.

The bank scene implies the professor's wife and the banker were NOT having affair.
They were acting too formal and no body languages or gestures whatsoever to imply they were no more than regular banker/client.

I don’t think the banker and the professor's wife was having affair, or professor's wife was involved with the hit in any way.


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the subs on the copy i saw must have been off, because it seems i lost a lot in translation...i dont understand why Mr Myun wanted Gunam killed after he gets the professor's finger...he sent him to do the job, 2 other dudes do it, but its all the same, he gets the finger, was he a loose end? i love Korean movies, but i was lost for parts of this one...Mr Myun was an awesome baddie!

The key point here is that there were two separate parties who wanted to kill the professor: there was Gunam and the chauffeur (who actually killed the professor). Gunam was hired by Mr. Myun, who was hired by the waitor, who was hired by the banker who knows/has an affair with (it is not entirely clear) the professor's wife. The chauffeur was hired by Mr. Kim Tae Won, the mob boss, who wanted to kill the professor because the professor had an affair with his wife (which he mutters while he is dying on the floor).

When the professor is killed, Kim Tae Won asks Choi whether it was the chauffeur or Gunam who killed the professor, and Choi doesn't know. Kim Tae Won wants to kill Gunam because Gunam is now a loose end who knows that the chauffeur was also hired to kill (which reveals his part in the killing). On the other hand, Mr. Myun cut off all communication with Gunam after the killing (probably because he didn't want to give the rest of the money), and we see that he planned to do that from the beginning when there is no boat back. Then, Mr. Myun goes after Gunam after he meets Kim Tae Won, which is when he makes a deal with Kim Tae Won to get money in return for killing Gunam. (This is realized when Mr. Myun sends Choi back to Kim Tae Won to talk about some secret plan he had, which is followed by the scene in which Kim Tae Won and Mr. Myun have the conversation about Mr. Myun knowing who goes in and out of Korea to China and Kim Tae Won giving him the money.)

Also, when Gunam searches for his wife, he finds out that the wife is with the white fish truck guy, and he even finds where she lives, but she never comes home. Then, we find out from the news on television that some guy killed a Chosunjeok woman who wanted to go back to China for her husband, and we, along with Gunam, automatically assume that that's his wife. Gunam pays the morgue guy to check if it is, and even if he can't really tell, he just tells Gunam that it is his wife. Gunam, then, has "his wife" cremated and has the ashes with him in the boat where he dies. However, the last scene suggests that his wife did come back for him to China and was not actually killed.