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[Sports Today reporter Jeong Ye-won] Park Min-young and Wi Ha-joon are riding an emotional roller coaster.
In episode 5 of tvN’s Monday–Tuesday drama Siren, which aired on the 16th, Han Seol-ah (Park Min-young) and Cha Woo-seok (Wi Ha-joon) join forces to unearth a buried truth, only to have a new clue shatter their fragile trust and leave the pair wrapped in a tense standoff.
According to Nielsen Korea, episode 5 posted an average nationwide household rating of 4.5%, peaking at 5.4%. In the Seoul metropolitan area it averaged 4.7%, with a high of 5.7% — marking the show’s fifth straight episode to top its time slot among cable and general programming channels. It also ranked first in its time slot among cable channels in tvN’s target 20–49 demo, both nationwide and in the metro area.
Cha Woo-seok begins to rethink his assumptions after witnessing Han Seol-ah break down at the funeral of Yoon Seung-jae (Ha Seok-jin). While investigating the Cheongun family fire that killed both of her parents, he uncovers painful details of her past and starts to regret the ways he helped cast her as a suspect.
During an incident involving damaged artwork, Cha accompanies Han and observes a side of her he hadn’t seen before. He watches her wrestle with trauma while dutifully working to resolve the case. Moved and concerned, he ultimately tells her, “I want to try trusting you.”
Han Seol-ah, long accustomed to suspicion from others, slowly lets her guard down in response. She admits candidly that she suspects the string of deaths among her former lovers is connected and confesses that it often feels as if someone wants her life to fall apart.
From that, Cha posits there may be a killer selectively targeting Han Seol-ah’s male partners. He proposes they pretend to be a couple to lure the culprit out. Though the plan is reckless, Han agrees, and the former suspect and the investigator become unlikely partners with a shared objective.
The dynamic shifts again when Cha discovers that Han Seol-ah’s parents had named her beneficiary on a life insurance policy and that she received the payout after the fire. Consumed by a sense of betrayal, Cha demands to know who set the blaze. In a chilling instant, Han Seol-ah, wearing an odd expression, responds, “I killed them,” delivering a confession that stunned viewers and intensifying questions about whether she truly killed her parents to collect the insurance.
At the same time, attention is turning to Royal Auction VIP Baek Jun-beom (Kim Jung-hyun), who has shown an unusual interest in Han Seol-ah. Investigators discover the signature wine from Yoon Seung-jae’s restaurant in Baek’s private quarters, and Baek visibly bristles when Cha accompanies Han. To provoke him, Han and Cha stage a public display of affection in front of Baek; when left alone, Baek’s gaze hardens with something almost predatory, raising further suspicions about his motives.
Episode 6 of Siren, which continues to trace Park Min-young and Wi Ha-joon’s fragile alliance and unraveling trust, airs on the 17th at 8:50 p.m.
[Sports Today reporter Jeong Ye-won ent@stoo.com]
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