Park Yu-ri

**Park Yu-Ri** is one of the characters in *Sweet Home*. She is portrayed by Go Youn-jung. She is the caretaker of An Gil-Seob.

## History

### Biography

Nothing is known about Yu-Ri’s history prior to Green Home, other than she has been a hospice nurse and caretaker for An Gil-Seob long enough to form a very strong bond. She does not reference having friends or family during the monsterization incident.

## Throughout the Series

### Season 1

Initially seen a few episodes into the series living as caretaker to An Gil-Seob, after Lee Eun-Hyeok’s announcement that the first floor is safe. Mr. An wants to go downstairs and assist, but Yu-Ri is practical and concerned about his health. She gives him his medicine and teases him about his age, concealing worry.

The two are seen again when Cha Hyun-Su chases after a monster with an enormous hand that has taken Pyeon Sang-Wook, following it into an open lobby area on fire (from Mr. An’s flamethrower), and encountering the speed monster as well. Yu-Ri fires her crossbow at it to rescue Hyun-Su, and checks on an unconscious Sang-Wook, gently scolding Mr. An for burning down the area.

Hyun-Su and Sang-Wook are brought back to Mr. An’s apartment, where Sang-Wook rejects Yu-Ri’s attempts to treat him. Mr. An brushes off the man’s rudeness, but Yu-Ri seems concerned after Sang-Wook storms out. She quickly realizes Hyun-Su is a monster as his injuries heal quickly. Mr. An teases Hyun-Su by pretending to be angry at him for being a monster, much to Yu-Ri's exasperation, then asks for both to accompany him downstairs.

Yu-Ri is quickly incorporated as part of Lee Eun-Hyeok’s survival plan on the first floor, taking and recording temperatures every day to detect early monsterization. She continues to monitor Mr. An closely, as he spies on a motorcycle he owns in the Green Home lot outside, even trying to wrestle his keys away.

After Sang-Wook executes Choi Yoon-Jae and collapses from his injuries, she treats him in his unconsciousness. He chokes Yu-Ri when he wakes, triggering an asthma attack that requires her medication. She participates in Eun-Hyeok's training against monsters with her crossbow. Eun-Hyeok borrows this crossbow during the rescue of Hyun-Su in the downstairs garage, saving his life. The spider monster attacks the group during the garage rescue, with Yu-Ri and Eun-Yu running to save Han Du-Sik and Kim Su-Yeong from the monster while the other residents cower. The other women join them shortly after, successfully restraining the monster for a short period.

Yu-Ri treats the returned garage residents for their injuries, and is questioned by a rude Eun-Yu as to her asthma and ability to care for herself. She goes and leaves her medical box next to Sang-Wook, who questions her asthma as well, and if she is going to die. She scolds him for thinking about dying, that she does not think of it, and he should not show such a willingness to. It is bad manners, to which he questions her value of manners. Yu-Ri insists that in this world they've survived, manners and decency are what they have. Impressed, he asks her to treat him, though she is disturbed by the severity of his burn scars on his back.

When Ji-Su collapses from appendicitis, Yu-Ri volunteers to help search for medical supplies, citing her knowledge as a nurse, despite protests from Mr. An. She joins the group in the backseat of the reinforced car Mr. Han has created for them, but is knocked violently unconscious when the Protein Monster throws the vehicle shortly after departure. Injured and not waking, Yu-Ri is pulled from the vehicle by Sang-Wook, who shields her inside a hollow concrete cylinder as the car explodes.

Yu-Ri wakes to find Sang-Wook nearby, bandaging his hand from freeing her. Mr. An enters, and scolds her for not waking earlier, delivering medication for her found by Seo Yi-Kyung. She questions the medication, but Mr. An tells her to take care of herself. He also scolds Sang-Wook for trying to smoke around her, and tosses the cigarette in his face, to which Yu-Ri comments it's Mr. An's way of thanking him. Sang-Wook and Yu-Ri share a look, but no words.

Yu-Ri witnesses but is unable to stop the monsterized security guard, as Jae-Heon battles it. Horrified by the scene, she holds her crossbow at the ready as Jae-Heon encourages them to burn him and the monster alive.

When a murderous pack of survivors arrives, Yu-Ri is immediately captured and forced to sit in the jail circle the group has drawn. One of the men menaces her lewdly, recognizing her as the nurse of the group, and insists she accompany him to see injured Ji-Su. Mr. An attempts to stop them, but Yu-Ri goes willingly, only fighting back when it becomes evident the man intends to rape both women. Ji-Su intervenes, stabbing the man in the back with Jae-Heon's broken sword, but only earning his ire. Yu-Ri collects the blade as he begins brutally beating Ji-Su and stabs him again in the back. The two struggle for the blade before Yu-Ri and the man fall, the man impaling himself in the chest on top of her. Her face is coated in blood as he chokes, and Yu-Ri suffers a panic attack, struggling to breath as she surveys the damage to Ji-Su and the man. She drops her medication and is unable to retrieve it.

Sang-Wook arrives, and retrieves the medication, administering it. Yu-Ri tells him she killed a human being, shedding tears, to which Sang-Wook reassures her he wasn't a human being.

Yu-Ri later confront Mr. An as he digs in the burial garden, struggling to find an access tunnel to the outside that the group can escape to, worrying that his heart will give out. He dismisses her, and she suddenly collapses, having gone white and unable to breath. Sang-Wook, having found her empty medication, arrives to rescue her. Carrying her on his back through the apartments to the first floor lobby, intending to find her medication outside. Ui-Myeong unexpectedly knocks them down with great force, and tells Hyun-Su he does not trust them to leave (and possibly inform the military of their presence). Seeing Sang-Wook’s desperation to reach Yu-Ri, Hyun-Su gives him the car fob and tells him to go.

As Sang-Wook and Yuri make it halfway to the car, bullets rain through them, as Ui-Myeong fires on them, then turns the gun on the other residents. Yu-Ri requests they “don’t look back”, so Sang-Wook carries her to the passenger seat of the car, and collapses against the car door. Some time later we see them clinging to life, Yu-Ri repeating that she had killed someone. Sang-Wook assures her the man was inhumane, but Yu-Ri is afraid she will die thinking of what she did. Sang-Wook insists she not think of it, and she asks he also not think of “it” (his earlier murders). He smiles, touched, and agrees, then holds her hand until they pass a few moments later.

## Personality

The actress describes her as a nurse who heals the body and heart; a young woman who has not had an easy life, who acts as nurse and caretaker for An Gil-Seob at Green Home Apartments. She has a very protective, sassy relationship with her much older patient, teasing him for being stubborn and dramatic. They are very protective of one another, similar to a father and daughter.

She is notably a very courageous, strong character in the face of the monsterization taking place - being concerned foremost with everyone’s well being, placing herself in danger several times (rescuing Han Du-Sik, Cha Hyun-Su, Yoon Ji-Su, among others). Yu-Ri arms herself with a large crossbow from Mr. An to keep monsters at bay.

Despite this exterior toughness, Yu-Ri is deeply traumatized by having to kill another person, even to save her life and Ji-Su.

Yu-Ri is initially frustrated with Pyeon Sang-Wook, a ‘gangster’ who rejects her medical help and ridicules her sense of communal responsibility. Her empathy for his tragic scarring and evident goodness beneath the bluster eventually leads them to be closer.

## Physical Appearance

A young woman in her mid twenties to early thirties, long dark hair. She seems to dress practically as a nurse, in subdued colors with no makeup. She wears a bandana around her face while navigating the apartments with An Gil-Seob and his flame thrower, probably to avoid breathing smoke.

Throughout the series she gradually comes to look more sickly, as her severe asthma takes its toll.

## Appearances

Season One
* *Episode 4*
* *Episode 5*
* *Episode 6*
* *Episode 7*
* *Episode 8*
* *Episode 9*
* *Episode 10*

## Notes and Trivia

* In the webtoon she survived till the end.