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* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:The Yaburi tribe in "An African Incident". It turns out that they aren't actually cannibals, and they were simply taking advantage of rumors so that outsiders would leave them alone, and a lot of elements of their culture turn out to be completely benign, such as them using their skulls of their ancestors to ward off evil spiirts, and the worst thing that they do are confiscating the belongings out the outsiders that they capture, then releasing them.]]

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* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:The Yaburi tribe in "An African Incident". It turns out that they aren't actually cannibals, and they were instead are completely normal people who are simply taking advantage of rumors so that outsiders would leave them alone, and a lot of elements of their culture turn out to be completely benign, such as them using decorating their homes with skulls isn't some sort of grim trophy reaped from their victims, but a way of warding off evil spirits, with the skulls in question belonging to that of their ancestors to ward off evil spiirts, ancestors, and the worst thing that they do are confiscating the belongings out the outsiders that they capture, then releasing them.]]
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* TheBadGuyWins: "New Beauty Water" ends with the VillainProtagonist escaping from her misdeeds with a new identity.


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* FlockOfWolves: In "Grim Reaper", the protagonist is running out of time to collect souls and turns to a [[SuicidePact suicide club]] to finish his quota. Before they do the deed, one person has a change of heart and leaves. [[spoiler:The remaining people are all grim reapers who were hoping to take advantage of the suicide pact]].
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* Disproportionate Retribution: In the story "An African Incident". A tour guide with Feros disease is mocked and insulted by the two men he drives around, when they are kidnapped by a tribe, he tells them they are cannibals who will not eat sick humans. When they are released by the tribe because the tour guide gives them the disease and are in the hospital later, it turns out the tribe was really friendly. The tour guide did this to get back at them for treating him the way they did.

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* Disproportionate Retribution: DisproportionateRetribution: In the story "An African Incident". A tour guide with Feros disease is mocked and insulted by the two men he drives around, when they are kidnapped by a tribe, he tells them they are cannibals who will not eat sick humans. When they are released by the tribe because the tour guide gives them the disease and are in the hospital later, it turns out the tribe was really friendly. The tour guide did this to get back at them for treating him the way they did.
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* Disproportionate Retribution: In the story "An African Incident". A tour guide with Feros disease is mocked and insulted by the two men he drives around, when they are kidnapped by a tribe, he tells them they are cannibals who will not eat sick humans. When they are released by the tribe because the tour guide gives them the disease and are in the hospital later, it turns out the tribe was really friendly. The tour guide did this to get back at them for treating him the way they did.
** In beauty water, the protagonist goes to see a woman who helps restore her face, while insulting her not knowing she was her, when she at first plays a joke on her before giving her the face she wanted back, her own face, the protagonist attacks and chokes her to death.

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* BalefulPolymorph: In "The Human Door", people are cursed to turn into doors for a specific period of time as punishment. This can be undone with the passage of time or with the death of the witch who cast the curse.


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* ForcedTransformation: In "The Human Door", people are cursed to turn into doors for a specific period of time as punishment. This can be undone with the passage of time or with the death of the witch who cast the curse.
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* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:The Yaburi tribe in "An African Incident". It turns out that they aren't actually cannibals, and they were simply taking advantage of rumors so that outsiders would leave them alone, and a lot of elements of their culture turn out to be completely benign, such as them using their skulls of their ancestors to ward off evil spiirts, and the worst thing that they do are confiscating the belongings out the outsiders that they capture, then releasing them.]]
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* RagingStiffie: While the protagonist is on a date with the ghost girl, his family finds him in bed ice cold, barely breathing, and with a lump in the sheets. Before they call an ambulance, his father covers up the lump to spare him the embarrassment.

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* RagingStiffie: While the protagonist of "Dating a Ghost" is on a date with the ghost girl, his family finds him in bed ice cold, barely breathing, and with a lump in the sheets. Before they call an ambulance, his father covers up the lump to spare him the embarrassment.
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* IWillWaitForYou: In "Dating a Ghost", the ghost Soeun promises to date Taehun if he's still single when he dies. [[spoiler:Taehun is inspired to live every day to the fullest for her sake and ends up living too long, but she's there to greet him when he dies of old age]].


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* RagingStiffie: While the protagonist is on a date with the ghost girl, his family finds him in bed ice cold, barely breathing, and with a lump in the sheets. Before they call an ambulance, his father covers up the lump to spare him the embarrassment.

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* SleepParalysisCreature:
** "The Painting" is a story reminiscent of sleep paralysis. The painter's wife is plagued by demons that seem to come out of the painting in her sleep until she gets him to burn it.
** "Dating a Ghost" starts off with a forum post about how a man might see a hot female ghost when he gets sleep paralysis and be able to date her. The protagonist tries this out, and it works.



* TogetherInDeath: The protagonist of "My Wife's Memories" and the titular wife at the end. [[spoiler: In an unusual example for this series, he dies peacefully of natural causes and it's taken as a happy ending]].

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The protagonist of "My Wife's Memories" and the titular wife at the end. [[spoiler: In an unusual example for this series, he dies peacefully of natural causes and it's taken as a happy ending]].ending]].
** In "Dating a Ghost", the ghost girl tries to get the protagonist to give up his life so they can date for real. [[spoiler:She realizes that his family cares about him very much and tells him she won't visit him again until he dies naturally. He gets the feeling that she's watching and chooses to live a long, meaningful life to make her proud before peacefully joining her in death]].
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** "Watermelon": [[spoiler: The author the runaways run into is revealed to have cut off the head of their friend and put it in a watermelon shell to each from.]]

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** "Watermelon": [[spoiler: The author the runaways run into is revealed to have cut off the head of their friend and put it in a watermelon shell to each eat from.]]
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** "Switch": [[spoiler:The eponymous switch never came into existence. The protagonist wakes up after passing out on a bench and dreaming the whole scenario.]]


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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The protagonist of "Switch" draws a switch that can turn his family on and off, and it becomes real. He uses it so much that it breaks, and he regrets making them disappear. [[spoiler:Fortunately, it was AllJustADream, and he treasures his family from then on.]]


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* RetGone: When the protagonist of "Switch" breaks the eponymous switch in the off position, his family ceases to exist and he was never married.
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* GilliganCut: The protagonist of "In a Rut" refuses to squeeze into a tiny box for the sake of 1.5 million won. One panel later, he is in his underwear and ready to get in the box.

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* FateWorseThanDeath:
** "Beauty Water" ends with [[spoiler: the protagonist kidnapped by the man, or should we say woman, she was dating who uses the Beauty Water to turn her into his leg. Now stuck to his body and punished whenever she doesn't say something he likes.]]

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FateWorseThanDeath: "Beauty Water" ends with [[spoiler: the protagonist kidnapped by the man, or should we say woman, she was dating who uses the Beauty Water to turn her into his leg. Now stuck to his body and punished whenever she doesn't say something he likes.]]



* HereWeGoAgain: "The Stationary Store" involve a few boys who rob from a store and being cursed by the owner to become whatever they stole (A boy who stole box cutters has his hands turn to box cutters, a boy who stole balloons deflates like one when poked, one who stole a soccer ball becomes one, etc). After experiencing a day with the inconveniences, they go back to the store, return the items, forced to write "I will not steal" 100 times before the owner reverses them back to normal and lets them off with a warning. [[spoiler: Unfortunately one of the boys had no recollection of the incident (he stole ice cream and melted, so was unaware what happened) and reveals he nicked some supplies on the way out. Cue the others looking on in horror.]]

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* HereWeGoAgain: HereWeGoAgain:
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"The Stationary Store" involve a few boys who rob from a store and being cursed by the owner to become whatever they stole (A boy who stole box cutters has his hands turn to box cutters, a boy who stole balloons deflates like one when poked, one who stole a soccer ball becomes one, etc). After experiencing a day with the inconveniences, they go back to the store, return the items, forced to write "I will not steal" 100 times before the owner reverses them back to normal and lets them off with a warning. [[spoiler: Unfortunately one of the boys had no recollection of the incident (he stole ice cream and melted, so was unaware what happened) and reveals he nicked some supplies on the way out. Cue the others looking on in horror.]]



* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: "Cafe" involves a mean boss being recommended a coffee cafe which sells some particularly good drinks. The owner claims they just put animal blood in it to make it taste better and offers her a visitation coupon. She manages to fill it and offered to try an exclusive drink. [[spoiler: Only to find out that it has an eyeball in it, plus it was likewise poisoned. When her assistant comes for a visit she see the boss' name as one of the new drinks.]]



* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: "Cafe" involves a mean boss being recommended a coffee cafe which sells some particularly good drinks. The owner claims they just put animal blood in it to make it taste better and offers her a visitation coupon. She manages to fill it and offered to try an exclusive drink. [[spoiler: Only to find out that it has an eyeball in it, plus it was likewise poisoned. When her assistant comes for a visit she see the boss' name as one of the new drinks.]]
* SurprisinglyHappyEnding:
** "The Future Spirit" is about a man who can see how people are going to die (including himself) and falls in love with a woman he saved. They both seek more stable work and have several close calls with death. [[spoiler:In the climax, the man gives up his protective charm to save the woman during an earthquake. He wakes up with the charm and worries that she is dead, but it turns out she is alive and understands his situation. They become HappilyMarried and find good jobs]].
** "Ghost Home Care" is about a man who hires a ghost cleaning service because his apartment is a mess and he's too exhausted to clean it after working at his new job. [[spoiler:After a month, he finds the ghosts' help awkward and cancels the service without any repercussions. He finds out that he can handle the house chores by himself]].


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* SurprisinglyHappyEnding:
** "The Future Spirit" is about a man who can see how people are going to die (including himself) and falls in love with a woman he saved. They both seek more stable work and have several close calls with death. [[spoiler:In the climax, the man gives up his protective charm to save the woman during an earthquake. He wakes up with the charm and worries that she is dead, but it turns out she is alive and understands his situation. They become HappilyMarried and find good jobs]].
** "Ghost Home Care" is about a man who hires a ghost cleaning service because his apartment is a mess and he's too exhausted to clean it after working at his new job. [[spoiler:After a month, he finds the ghosts' help awkward and cancels the service without any repercussions. He finds out that he can handle the house chores by himself]].
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* DeadlyGaze: The protagonist of "Devil's Eyes" can weaken things by staring at them with hatred. Staring at a person will make them weak enough to crumble upon being touched.
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** The protagonist of "A Boy and A Murderer" realizes he was murdered soon after the story starts and tries to stop the murderer with the limited interactions he's allowed to have.

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** The protagonist of "A Boy and A a Murderer" realizes he was murdered soon after the story starts and tries to stop the murderer with the limited interactions he's allowed to have.



* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Zig-Zagged. Some stories usually go easy on younger kid protagonists but there are cases where they do die such as "A Boy and A Murderer" [[spoiler: the daughter in "Ghost Hunting", two boys in "Jayce's Pen" and one of the boys in "Watermelon".]]

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* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Zig-Zagged. Some stories usually go easy on younger kid protagonists but there are cases where they do die such as "A Boy and A a Murderer" [[spoiler: the daughter in "Ghost Hunting", two boys in "Jayce's Pen" and one of the boys in "Watermelon".]]
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* ForceFeeding: Happens to the protagonist of 14k while kidnapped, as her captors figure that if she has more skin, they can scrape gold off faster. She's a ''lot'' fatter for the remainder of the episode as a result.
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* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: "Cafe" involves a mean boss being recommended a coffee cafe which sells some particularly good drinks. The owner claims they just put animal blood in it to make it taste better and offers her a visitation coupon. She manages to fill it and offered to try an exclusive drink. [[spoiler: Only to find out that it has an eyeball in it, plus it was likewise poisoned. When her assistant comes for a visit she see the bosses name as one of the new drinks.]]

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* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: "Cafe" involves a mean boss being recommended a coffee cafe which sells some particularly good drinks. The owner claims they just put animal blood in it to make it taste better and offers her a visitation coupon. She manages to fill it and offered to try an exclusive drink. [[spoiler: Only to find out that it has an eyeball in it, plus it was likewise poisoned. When her assistant comes for a visit she see the bosses boss' name as one of the new drinks.]]



** "The Makeover" involves a plastic surgeon having to deal with the ghost a of girl who pesters him to remake her corpse so she can look beautiful so it'll transfer to her ghostly appearance. He manages but, despite ordering her not to tell any other ghosts, naturally she blabs and other ghost girls start haunting him. [[spoiler: Ultimately he manages to make them go away by collecting their corpses and burning them. But the hauntings take a toll on his appearance that he can't get business anymore. So he goes into business by making a new product: Beauty Water.]]

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** "The Makeover" involves a plastic surgeon having to deal with the ghost a of a girl who pesters him to remake her corpse so she can look beautiful so it'll transfer to her ghostly appearance. He manages but, despite ordering her not to tell any other ghosts, she naturally she blabs and other ghost girls start haunting him. [[spoiler: Ultimately he manages to make them go away by collecting their corpses and burning them. But the hauntings take a toll on his appearance that he can't get business anymore. So he goes into business by making a new product: Beauty Water.]]



* WhoWantsToLiveForever: The protagonist of "Eternal Life Pills" is aware of the problems of living forever. [[spoiler:It's implied that he chooses to live anyway. The story closes on the words "But still, I chose to be unhappy. Because I am just a weak human being."]]

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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: The protagonist of "Eternal Life Pills" is aware of the problems of living forever. [[spoiler:It's implied that he chooses to live anyway. The story closes on with the words "But still, I chose to be unhappy. Because I am just a weak human being."]]
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** "The Demon Man" focuses on many exorcised demons merging into one giant powerful one that can absorb the abilities of people they kill and take on their characteristics. [[spoiler: Eventually, the creature is divided into pieces and destroyed, but one piece manages to escape. The demon, looking to live among humans while not wasting his abilities, kills someone and takes his place. Said person is a familiar magician named Jayce...]]

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** "The Demon Man" focuses on many exorcised demons merging into one giant powerful one that can absorb the abilities of people they kill and take on their characteristics. [[spoiler: Eventually, the creature is divided into pieces and destroyed, but one piece manages to escape. The demon, looking to live among humans while not wasting his abilities, kills someone and takes his place. Said person is a familiar magician named Jayce...Jayce.]]
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: "Murderous Rage" features a boy who freezes to death because bullies stole his clothes, so his spirit goes on to possess the clothes of the bullies and make them die from violent accidents. [[spoiler: The last bully's spirit then goes on to possess a scarf of a kid who didn't help him escape his death.]]

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