Im Myung-sook

* Human
* Monster
* Half-Monster

**Im Myung-Sook** is one of the characters in *Sweet Home*. She is a Green Home resident who lost her baby daughter in a tragic accident a year before the main events of the series. She is portrayed by Lee Bong-Ryun.

## Biography

In Episode 1, she meets Yoon Ji-Su while heading to the elevator with an empty stroller. Ji-Su introduces herself and apologizes for making so much noise in her apartment. She also apologizes in advance for when she makes noise in the future, but Myung-Sook assures her that she doesn't mind. When Ji-Su realizes that Myung-Sook has been talking to a stroller with no baby in it, she is unnerved and makes excuses so she would not have to ride in the elevator with her. At Ji-Su's insistence, she goes downstairs alone. Once she is gone, Jung Jae-Heon tells Ji-Su about how Da-eun, Myung-Sook's daughter, was a year old when her stroller rolled away from her mother while they were outside and was hit by a truck.

In Episode 3, before Kim Su-Yeong and Kim Yeong-Su are killed by the Protein Monster, Myung-Sook politely asks him not to touch the children before being punched into the wall. She regains consciousness and hallucinates Da-eun is crawling towards her, alive and well, by her overturned stroller before the Protein Monster deliberately crushes it under his foot. This reminds her of the accident from a year ago, causing her to admit she knew that Da-eun was gone the whole time she was pushing around the stroller. The Protein Monster begins beating her into the ground, distracting him long enough for the children to run to the protection of Cha Hyun-Su, Jung Jae-Heon, and Yoon Ji-Su. She unexpectedly transforms into a monster and attempts to restrain the Protein Monster but is slammed into the ceiling. After Jae-Heon leads the monster away, Ji-Su checks on Myung-Sook to see if she's alright, but she asks about the children instead of answering her. Once Ji-Su realizes she has regained control of her human form and won't harm anyone, she tells her the children are safe. Myung-Sook goes to room 1408, where she meets Han Du-Sik and cleans herself up.

In Episode 4, she is helping Du-Sik care for the children. While listening to the military's announcement on TV, she gets worried when the topic of the "golden hour", a period of time in her transformation where she is vulnerable to damage and death, comes up. Later in the day, while she is preparing food, her transformation begins to take over her. Off-screen, she shuts herself in the bathroom to complete her transformation.

In Episode 5, Du-Sik prepares to kill Myung-Sook, but remembers a conversation he had with her, in which she explained her daughter's death: she had taken her outside in the spring to see the flowers and had looked away for one second before the stroller had rolled away from her. The two share a heartfelt moment talking about their children before Myung-Sook requests he kills her if she turns into a monster. In the end, he can't bring himself to do this and leaves her in the bathroom. While leaving room 1408, the kids take the scarves Myung-Sook embroidered their names onto before going to the ground floor.

In Episode 9, Hyun-Su brings Jung Ui-Myeong to see Myung-Sook's final form as proof that not all monsters harm humans.

## Personality

Myung-Sook is a kind and timid woman. After the death of her daughter, she pretends Da-eun is still alive and takes her stroller everywhere she goes, causing others to believe she has gone crazy. As seen in Episode 3, she is also very selfless and protective, as she risks her life to protect Kim Su-Yeong and Kim Yeong-Su from the Protein Monster. She later leaves the children and Han Du-Sik some food and embroidered scarves before taking her final form as a Fetus Monster in the bathroom. Despite transforming into a monster, she remained docile and never harmed anyone.

## Physical Appearance

Myung-Sook has long, unkempt dark hair and round facial features. She seems to be average height and has a slender body shape. She wears long dresses, cardigans and flat shoes, and, until it was crushed by the Protein Monster, rolled around her daughter's old stroller.

## Appearances

### Season One

* *Episode 1*
* *Episode 3*
* *Episode 4*
* *Episode 5*
* *Episode 9* (As a monster)

## Trivia

* She is one of the few monsters that doesn't harm humans.
* She appears similarly to an "evolved human" from the sweet home webtoon. A type of human who has fulfilled all their desires and has become totally emotionless.