Won-Young tells Sung-Sik that he was confused about the shop in Light Shop Episode 7. It flashes back. Won-Young and his daughter are buried under the ruin after a catastrophe. The daughter feeds him a candy. He eats the sweet candy. He promises her that someone will come to save her.
Won-Young leaves the ruin. He visits the light shop. The store owner Seo-Ryung is a mysterious lady. He asks her to help him. But she rejects it. He’s furious to carry the lamp. He tries to break it. But his body stiffens suddenly. She grabs the lamp from him.
The light is restoration in the store. The woman tells Won-Young that there’s a bulb which belongs to his daughter in the store. He looks at the bulbs and he understands the meaning of the light shop. The ones who walk into the store are dying people.
Some of them will be alive. But some of them passed away. Won-Young realizes that he died in the ruin. He cries to ask Seo-Ryung to save his daughter. She makes a deal with him. She asks him to replace her to be the owner of the light shop.
We return to the present. Sung-Sik knows the meaning of the store after he heard Won-Young’s story. But he doesn’t understand his situation. He asks Won-Young if he dies. Won-Young tells Sung-Sik that he’s alive. But Sung-Sik is like a ghost if he walks around.
Sung-Sik doesn’t believe Won-Young’s words. Won-Young speaks the children’s names. The names Sung-Sik saw from the classroom. One of the names is his child’s name. The kid passed away. Sung-Sik begins to cry. He chooses to believe Won-Young’s words. He asks him why he didn’t tell him the truth.
Won-Young explains it to Sung-Sik because he’s alive and he can return to the world of living. The one who goes back cannot take away the memory of light shop. Sung-Sik wonders where the suspect he chases went. Won-Young points out that the existence of the suspect for guiding Sung-Sik to find the store.
He hints at the cop to look for the suspect along the light. The cop lights his lighter. He sees the light of hope. He wakes up in the ward.
Someone still wonders in the life and death realm. He’s the man Byung-Jin who can hear dog barking. Byung-Jin run out of his apartment in the evening. He swears to find the dog. He follows the sound and he finds the dog in the alley. But he remembers everything when he had an eye contact with the dog.
Byung-Jin fell off a cliff. He was in a coma because he lost his body temperature. The search and rescue dog watched him and he helped him maintain his temperature. The dog kept barking for informing the rescue team. The man was found by rescue team because of the dog’s company. But the dog who helped the man passed away.
Byung-Jin cries to touch the dog. But the dog still barks. He tells the man to follow him. The man follows the dog to the light shop. He finds the life bulb which belongs to him.
Hyun-Ju cries in her room in the evening. She cannot understand why her mother asked her to buy bulb every night. Her mother Yoo-Hee cannot tell the girl the truth. She’s silent to pick up her daughter’s bracelet. Young-Ji explains it to the junior about Hyun-Ju’s history in the ward.
Yoo-Hee protected Hyun-Ju with her body when the accident happened. But she passed away. Hye-Won also protected her girlfriend Sun-Hae. She hugs Sun-Hae from her back when they lie in the bed. She tells her to go to look for the light shop.
There was a boy being injured in the accident. He’s in a coma in the ward. Young-Ji puts a basketball under the boy’s bed. She wishes it to help him. The basketball appears in the alley. Seung-Won follows the basketball. He finds the boy Ji-Woong.
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Ji-Woong is frustrated because he cannot leave the alley. Seung-Won is gentle to carry the boy out of the alley. He guides him to go to the light shop. He tells him that he should find the right bulb with his willpower. He says sorry to him before the boy leaves. He feels guilty for causing the accident.
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The episode ends with the boy walking into the store with his injured leg. He finds his bulb with his willpower. The life flame burns again when he touches the bulb. He wakes up and he’s going to leave the hospital one month later. He tells Young-Ji that he dreamed about wandering somewhere. She smiles because she knows the uncle who carried the boy is warm even if he looks slow.