Breaking Down the Electric Ending of Take Charge of My Heart

Korean dramas are famously chaste compared to Western TV series. Though there are some exceptions, most K-dramas shy away from featuring even passionate kissing, let alone full-on sex scenes. But Take Charge of My Heart, Netflix’s latest Korean-language romance, adds a jolt, making “skinship,” or the physical intimacy between two people, a central part of its premise. In the supernatural series, TV scriptwriter Na Bo-bae (When the Phone Rings’ Chae Soo-bin) has electrical currents coursing through her body, making it so she will zap anyone she touches with bare hands. Because of the condition, Bo-bae has never dated. The lack of real-world experience is hindering her latest TV drama script—a romance about a chaebol heiress and her bodyguard. Meanwhile, chaebol heir Baek Ho-rang (Trigger’s Kim Young-kwang) has an artificial heart that is failing. When Ho-rang and Bo-bae happen to be in the hospital at the same time, Ho-rang’s doctor discovers that physical proximity to Bo-bae charges Ho-rang’s artificial heart. Even more shocking to Bo-bae, she can touch Ho-rang without anything happening to him. As Ho-rang waits for a surgery for a new artificial heart in three months, the two stri...