Just finished it and agree. At first I was wondering if he suffered from some kind of post traumatic stress disorder caused by seeing this terrible accident and that's why his memories altered.
At the same time I also thought, maybe the accident didn't happen like we believe it did at this point.
With every clue we got, it came to my mind that he's not what he looks like. He acted very strangely when he found the photo too. Something felt really odd and it wasn't just that he seemed to have abandoned the boy and not call for help. Even the moment when he just goes back to work after getting the gifted jacket by Tae Hee even though he wanted to tell him something. It all clicked into place in the end.