Character Arc
Kwon Young-ji is a nurse working long, draining shifts at the hospital near the alley, a role that places her at the very edge of the line the series keeps returning to. Compassionate and quietly exhausted, she moves through wards full of patients whose fates she cannot fully control, and her empathy makes her especially sensitive to the strange currents running through the neighborhood.
Drawn toward the lamp shop without fully understanding why, Young-ji becomes one of the threads that ties the ensemble together. Her work at the hospital connects her to patients whose stories quietly intersect with the alley and its keeper, and her steadiness gives the audience a grounded, human vantage point on events that resist easy explanation. The more she learns, the more her caregiving takes on a deeper, almost sacred weight.
Park Bo-young brings her trademark blend of warmth and resilience to the part, underplaying the supernatural in favor of lived-in tenderness. Young-ji's scenes anchor the show's themes of grief and care, and her gentle persistence helps illuminate the hidden link binding the patients and strangers together. NOTE: character details are AI-summarized from public sources and flagged for human fact-check.
