Argh, the ambiguity!!

Yesterday was the last episode of 9: Nine Times Time Travel.

[Earlier post on this here (or just scroll slightly down).]

Compared to the very heavy preceding episodes, where our hero is shown dying at the end of it, this episode is somewhat lighter. It starts from the point of the teenaged hero, going from how he falls into journalism, and him meeting his step-niecejunior colleague for the first time.

Okay, you know what, I'm gonna name names: Hero = Sun Woo; junior colleague/love interest/former step-niece = Min Young; Elder Brother = Jung Woo.

Now, in the previous episode, a dying present-Sun Woo had told Min Young (as a child) to stay away from a guy that looks like him, as he would be the one that will hurt her (by all this time-travelling nonsense). Min Young grows up, encounters Sun Woo at her workplace (because he's her senior), and in a very comic scene, tells him that she has to stay away from him because of "trauma" (she doesn't elaborate).

Despite her best(?) efforts, Min Young eventually couldn't be bothered and she sticks to Sun Woo like a leech, with Sun Woo thinking she's insane (and making his feelings on this known to her at all times) but finding her adorable and steadily attracted to her by the minute.

The episode briefly shows us the progression of their relationship through the years, right up to 2012, when all this kerfuffle first started.

He meets up with Jung Woo (now out of prison), who says that he's going to Nepal. Min Young herself is also going to Nepal (job-related), and Sun Woo pisses her off enough (he does a lot of attractive teasing) to finally tell him about her encounter with present-Sun Woo 20 years ago. Now-Sun Woo realises that it was him who met Min Young, and that he will eventually die when he's 20 years in the past.

But(!) he realises that he does love Min Young, and with the knowledge of that time travel is a possibility (and the fact that he would die if he went back to 1993) and his future self (initial-future self) telling him that "he would always make the right choice", he decides to go to Nepal to be with her (in the original timeline, he goes to Nepal to identify his dead brother and pick up his belongings).

So, the ambiguity of this is: is he still fated to die 20 years ago, mangled in a telephone booth, or, because of the time travel rippling effect in this show, will he avert this future and not die in the past.

AND WHAT'S WITH THAT LAST SCENE WHERE JUNG WOO IS AT THE MOUNTAIN DYING AND SUN WOO, LIKE, RESCUES HIM?!!

IS THIS CURRENT-SUN WOO OR FUTURE FUTURE SUN WOO!!

ARGGGHHH I SHOULD NOT HAVE READ THE INTERNET!!!

[APOLOGIES FOR CAPS-LOCK!!]