Chief Ji: Sweet Home character explained

Chief Ji is the one who established the camp at the stadium where all the survivors live. In Sweet Home, Kim Shin-rock plays Chief Ji.

Chief Ji is respected by the survivors, as she was instrumental in setting up the underground camp at the stadium and later took in the survivors that the Crow Platoon brought there after the government’s bombing. 

Chief Ji knows the stadium’s layout better than anyone, which allows her to keep her secrets well hidden from the survivors and the Crow Platoon.

Losing her family

After the monsterization outbreak, Chief Ji, like all common citizens, seeks refuge in a safe shelter with her husband and son. 

However, her son begins showing symptoms of monsterization. As the soldiers at the shelter kill anyone who has been infected, Chief Ji leaves with her family.

She finds refuge at the stadium, which is free of monsters. Eventually, her son turns into a monster, and she locks him in the basement.

Sweet Home Chief Ji
Chief Ji locks her son in the basement

When the Crow Platoon and survivors arrive, Chief Ji accommodates them because she wants to keep them safe. However, she keeps her son’s condition a secret. 

Soon after, while working alone with Eun-yu, Chief Ji’s husband turns into a monster. Hyun-su rescues Eun-yu by killing Chief Ji’s husband and then disappears.

No one believes Eun-yu’s account, and she is labeled a murderer. Chief Ji, having lost the last of her family, also blames Eun-yu. 

While she does not forbid Eun-yu from staying at the stadium, she shows her a secret passage, hoping that Eun-yu will die when she goes outside to look for her brother. 

However, Eun-yu returns safely each time, prompting Chief Ji to selfishly send people to follow her, which leads to their deaths.

Chief Ji’s secret

The Crow Platoon establishes rules to ensure the safety of the survivors, and Chief Ji does not interfere. Similarly, the soldiers do not interfere with her work. 

Survivors showing symptoms are kicked out of the camp, and Chief Ji exploits this rule. She sneaks those who have been expelled back inside through the secret passage.

She then sends them to the basement to be eaten by her son. By keeping her son alive in the basement, she risks the lives of the survivors.

When the Crow Platoon learns that there is a monster in the building, Chief Ji manipulates Ye-seul into helping her keep the secret. 

After losing her parents, Ye-seul started considering Chief Ji her mother, even though Chief Ji never reciprocated this feeling. 

The Crow Platoon eventually discovers Ye-seul’s involvement in concealing the monster, which results in Chief Ji shifting the blame onto her. 

Chief Ji then frees Ye-seul, who has been imprisoned, and asks her to leave the camp. When Ye-seul demands answers, Chief Ji tries to feed her to her son. 

However, the soldiers rescue Ye-seul and discover Chief Ji’s secret. Chief Ji is then faced with two options: remain a prisoner at the camp or leave. 

Realizing that the soldiers will kill her son and that her efforts have been in vain, Chief Ji attempts to take her own life, but Ye-seul stops her. 

Ye-seul holds Chief Ji responsible for turning her son into a murderous monster by feeding him humans when he could not differentiate right from wrong. 

Chief Ji cannot forgive herself for her mistakes, so she decides to punish herself for what she has done to the infectees, her son, and Ye-seul. 

She takes her life by feeding herself to her son but not before doing the right thing by revealing the secret passage to Master Sergeant Tak.

With this new information, the Crow Platoon forms an evacuation plan to save the survivors from the special infectees.


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Muskan Chhatwani
Muskan Chhatwani
Muskan is an editor at The Envoy Web. Her name translates to smile in English, but she likes shows and films that do anything but make you smile. She believes that analyzing and interpreting the tiny little things on-screen can reveal a story that is not visible to everyone, a story of your own.

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