Download The Apartment Job Episode 4

Episode 4 opens with a flashback three years into the past, inside Hae-gang's office at the HK Group. His team has prepared an exquisite historical Korean art piece as a gift for Tadayoshi, a former yakuza boss with a deep appreciation for Korean culture. The meeting is violently interrupted when Ichigaro — Tadayoshi's deadly rival — storms the office with his gang intent on killing the old man. Hae-gang and his crew throw themselves into the fight and protect Tadayoshi, and the grateful ex-yakuza swears on the spot to repay the favour one day. Back in the present, the cooperative delivery service is still running, and Ha-ri questions how long they plan to keep it going now that Hae-gang has already secured the District 4 representative seat. Hae-gang quietly thanks her for being the one who uncovered the truth behind the edited kick video. The moment of warmth is short-lived. President Seo Gang-won, the sitting president of the residents' association who has deep financial ties to Chung-won, turns to his network of contracted trash removal workers for dirt on the new representative. They dig up what Hae-gang has been hiding from day one — that Park Hae-gang is the former boss of the Oasis Gang. President Seo calls an emergency all-building meeting and broadcasts Hae-gang's criminal past directly into every household in the complex, demanding that he resign from his position. The revelation lands like a shockwave. Residents who were celebrating him as a neighbourhood hero just days earlier now treat him as a pariah. His supporters within the intermittent family scramble for a way out while President Seo's faction savours the moment — until someone quietly pulls the power plugs mid-broadcast, cutting the feed and giving Hae-gang a sliver of breathing room. At the lounge, a group of resident women corner Ha-ri and pressure her to divorce her so-called husband now that his past has surfaced. Ha-ri shuts them down with a composure that surprises even her, publicly defending Hae-gang and refusing to be pushed. It is the first real sign that her loyalty to the intermittent family project is quietly becoming something more personal. Suk-jin, who should have every reason to rejoice at her campaign rival's humiliation, does something unexpected — she takes pity on him. Setting aside all their mudslinging and academic-fraud accusations, she approaches Hae-gang directly and brings him into her ongoing protest, a residents' campaign to have the planned subway line's exit relocated closer to their apartment complex. Most residents treat the protest as a casual outing with no real chance of success, but Suk-jin believes in it and Hae-gang listens carefully. Her description of how construction was once halted in Busan after workers accidentally uncovered buried cultural relics sparks an idea in Hae-gang's mind that is equal parts audacious and absurd. He contacts Tadayoshi in Japan and calls in the debt — the historical art piece he gifted him three years ago. Tadayoshi ships it back. That night, under cover of darkness, Hae-gang and his crew dig into the construction site and bury the relic in the earth. The next morning, Hae-gang organises a loud, spectacular protest at the site complete with hired traditional dancers to draw cameras and crowds. Mid-protest, he dramatically stumbles and Suk-jin bends down to find — apparently by pure chance — the ancient artefact in the dirt. The discovery immediately goes national. Media reports flood in. Real estate analysts scramble. The government freezes the construction and orders a full heritage excavation, which forces the development plan to stall and the subway exit to be rerouted exactly where Suk-jin's residents wanted it. Property values in the complex surge overnight. The same residents who were demanding Hae-gang's resignation wake up to inflated apartment prices, and fury transforms into gratitude. When the presidential election is held, Hae-gang wins by a landslide — ninety percent of the vote in an unprecedented turnout. His fake family celebrates. The reserve fund and the power to access it are now within reach. Elsewhere, Chung-won's Oman new-town development project has been thrown into a state of suspended animation — all his carefully placed bribes and threats to ministers and assemblymen rendered void by Hae-gang's stunt, with his assistant confirming the delay could stretch to three years. The person Chung-won holds most responsible is President Seo, who failed to keep Hae-gang in check when it mattered. With no further use for the disgraced president, Chung-won summons him and beats him with his own glass nameplate, laughing as he does it, before walking out without any attempt to conceal what just happened. Moments later, Chung-won crosses paths with Hae-gang in the street. Hae-gang clocks the blood on Chung-won's hands and face instantly — the reading of a man who has spent years understanding violence — but keeps his expression warm and congratulatory. Chung-won returns the smile, holds out his bloodied hand, and tells Hae-gang they will be seeing each other very soon. Hae-gang shakes it. The handshake is cordial, unhurried, and deeply threatening. Two men who each know exactly what the other is capable of have just introduced themselves properly for the first time.