What if Su-ho had never slipped into a coma? Where would Su-ho and Si-eun’s friendship have ultimately headed?
โ ๏ธ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ : ์ด ํฌ์คํธ๋ ์ฒญ์๋ ๋ค์ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ์ ์ ์งํ์ ๋ํ ๋ค์ ์ด๋์ด ์ฃผ์ ๋ฅผ ๋ค๋ฃจ๊ณ ์์ด์ ๋ถํธํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํธ๋ฆฌ๊ฑฐ ์์๊ฐ ์์ ์ ์์ผ๋ฏ๋ก ๋ถ๋ด์ค๋ฝ๋ค๋ฉด ๋ค๋ฅธ ํฌ์คํธ๋ฅผ ์ฝ์ผ์๊ธธ ๊ถ์ ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค.
โ ๏ธ Trigger Warning: This post tackles some pretty heavy psychological themes related to teenagers that might hit close to home. There could be triggering content ahead, so if you’re feeling overwhelmed, feel free to skip this one and check out my other posts instead.
๐ข ๊ณต์ ์ด์ฉ ๊ณ ์ง: ์ด ํฌ์คํธ๋ ๊ต์ก์ ๋ถ์, ๋นํ, ํด์ค ๋ชฉ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ณต์ ์ด์ฉ ์์น์ ๋ฐ๋ผ “์ฝํ์์ ” (ยฉ Wavve/Netflix)์ ์ ์๊ถ ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ํฌํจํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ชจ๋ ๊ถ๋ฆฌ๋ ์์์์๊ฒ ์์ต๋๋ค.
๐ข Fair Use Notice: This post contains copyrighted material from โWeak Heroโ (ยฉ Wavve/Netflix) used for educational analysis, criticism, and commentary purposes under the fair use doctrine. All rights belong to the original creators.

๐ ์ด ์ฃผ์ ์ ๋ํ ์๋ฌธ์ ์ฝ๊ณ ์ถ์ผ์๋ฉด “What If Su-ho Had Never Fallen Into a Coma? Where Would Su-ho and Si-eun’s Friendship Have Led?” ๋ฅผ ํด๋ฆญํด์ฃผ์ธ์.
๐ If you’d like to read the original version of this topic, click on “What If Su-ho Had Never Fallen Into a Coma? Where Would Su-ho and Si-eun’s Friendship Have Led?”
์์ฌ๊ฐ ๋์ K๋๋ผ๋ง ์ด๋ณ์ ์์์ฐจ๋ฆฐ๋ค๋ฉด…
์์ฌ๋ ์ง์ฅ ๋๋ฃ๋ค์ด ๋ด๊ฐ K๋๋ผ๋ง ๋ถ์์ ๋น ์ ธ์ ์ ๋ฌด์ ์ง์ฅ์ด ์๊ธธ ์ ๋๋ผ๋ ๊ฑธ ์์ ์ฐจ๋ฆฐ๋ค๋ฉด… ์ฐจ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ์ฐ์ฃผ ๋จผ์ง๋ก ์ฌ๋ผ์ง๋ ๊ฑธ ํํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. (์์งํ ์์ฌ๋ ๋ด๊ฐ ์ฝ๊ฐ ์ผ์ด ๋น ์ ธ์๋ ๊ฑธ ๋์น์ฑ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค. ํ์ดํ์ ํ๋ค๊ฐ ๋ฉํ๋ ์ฒ์ฅ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๋๋ฐ, ์์์ ๋ณด๋ฉด ๋ง์น ๊น์ ์ฒ ํ์ ์ฌ์ ์ ๋น ์ ธ์๊ธฐ๋ผ๋ ํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ ๋ชจ์์์ง๋ง, ๋ด๊ฐ ์์ ํด๋ํฐ์ ๋ค๊ณ ํ์ฅ์ค์ ๊ฐ๋ค๊ฐ ๋์์ค๊ธฐ๊น์ง ํด๊ฒ ์๊ฐ์ด ์ ์ ๊ธธ์ด์ง๊ณ ์์ด์ ๊ทธ๊ฐ ๋์น ์ฑ์ง ๋ชปํ ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ณธ๋ค…)
If my boss or colleagues ever caught wind of how deep I’ve fallen down the K-drama analysis rabbit hole to the point where it’s messing with my work performance… I’d rather just turn into cosmic dust and vanish into thin air. (Honestly, I think my manager has already picked up on the fact that I’m a bit spaced out lately. I’ll be typing away and then just zone out staring at the ceiling – from the outside it probably looks like I’m lost in some deep philosophical contemplation, but the dead giveaway is how my bathroom breaks with my phone keep getting longer and longer. There’s no way he hasn’t clocked that…)

์ต๊ทผ์ ์ ํ๋ธ ์ฑ๋์ ๋ ์ด์ฑ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋๊ธ์ ๋จ๊ธฐ๋ ์ฝ๋ฉํฐ ๋ถ๊ณผ (๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์บ๋ค๋์ธ์ด๋ค) TV ์ผ์ ๋์ค๋ ๊ฐ์์ ์บ๋ฆญํฐ๋ค์๊ฒ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋๋ฌด ๋ชฐ์ ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฑด ์๋์ง ์์กฐ์ ์ธ ๋๋ด์ ๋๋ด๋๋ฐ… ์ด์ฉ๋ฉด ์ด ๋๋ผ๋ง์ ํฌ๋ค ์ฌ์ด์์ ‘์ ๋ฒ์ง’๋ผ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ฆด ์ ๋๋ก ์กด๊ฒฝ๋ฐ๋ ์ ์๋ฏผ ๊ฐ๋ ๋๊ณผ ์ฐ์ถ์ง๋ค์ด ์๋ํ๋๋ก ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ทธ์ ์ ์งํ๊ฒ (?) ๊ฑท๋ค๊ฐ ํ ๋ผ ๊ตด์ ๋น ์ ธ์ ๋์ค์ง ๋ชปํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ ๋ณด์๋ค. ์ด๋ฐ ๋ฌ์ฝคํ (?) ์ง๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์ฌ๋ฐฉ์ ๋ฟ๋ ค๋์๋๋ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ฐ์ง ์์ ์ ์์๊น?
Recently, I was cracking self-deprecating jokes with one of my most dedicated commenters (she’s Canadian) who always leaves thoughtful responses on my YouTube channel about whether we’re getting way too invested in these fictional TV characters… But maybe we’re just honestly falling down the rabbit hole exactly as Director Yoo Soo-min and the production team intended – the same director who’s so revered among Weak Hero fans that they call him “Yuberji.” I mean, when you’ve got these sweet little landmines scattered all over the place, how could we possibly avoid stepping on them?

์ ์๋ฏผ ๊ฐ๋ ๋์ ์ฝํ์์ ๊ฐ๋ณธ์ ์งํํ๋ ๊ณผ์ ์์ ์ค์ ๋ก 10๋๋ค์ ์ฑํ ๋ฐฉ์ ์ ์ ํ๋ค๊ณ ํ๋ค. ํจ์ ๊ทธ๋ฃน, ์คํฐ๋ ์ํด, ๊ฑด๊ฐ ํฌ๋ผ, ์ฌ์ง์ด ์ฐ์ธ์ฆ์ ์๋ ์ฒญ์๋ ๋ค์ด ๋ชจ์ฌ์๋ ์ฑํ ๋ฐฉ๊น์ง… ๋์ด์ ์ด๋ฆ์ ์์ด๊ณ ๋ค์ด๊ฐ์ ์ง์ง 10๋๋ค์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ง๋ด๊ณ ์๋์ง ํ์ ํ๋ ค๊ณ ๋ ธ๋ ฅํ์ จ๋ค๊ณ ํ๋ค. (์ฝํ์์ ์ ์ฒ์ ๋ณผ๋๋ ๊ท์ฝ๊ณ ์์๊ธด ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๋ค์ ์ผ๊ตด์ ์๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋ ์ค ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ณ ๋น ์ ธ๋ค์ง๋ง, ๋๋ฒ..์ธ๋ฒ.. ํ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋ญํ๋ฉฐ ์ ์ฃผํ ํ๋ค๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋๋ผ๋ง๊ฐ ์์ํ๋ ์ฒญ์๋ ๋ค์ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ์ฅ์ ์ ๋ฌธ์ , ์ฌํ์ ๋ฌธ์ – ํนํ ์ดํผ๊ฐ์ , ์กฐ์๊ฐ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ๋๋ฅผ ์ผ์ผ๋ ๋ถ๋ชจ์ ๊ทธ๋ ์์์ ๋นํ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์๋ผ๋๋ ์๋ ๋ค์ ํ์ฃผ์ – ๋ฅผ ๋งค์ฐ ์ฌ๋์๊ฒ ๊ฑด๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์์ ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ์ ์๋ค) ์ ๊ฐ๋ ๋์ด ์ด ์ ์ ํ๋์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ํฐ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ ๋ฐ์ ๋ถ๋ถ์, ์คํธ๋ ์ค๋ก ์ธํ์ฌ ์ ์ ๊ฑด๊ฐ ์ ๋ฌธ์๋ฅผ ๋ง๋๊ณ ์๋ฉด์ ๋ฅผ ์ฒ๋ฐฉ๋ฐ๋ ์์ด๋ค์ด ์ผ๋ง๋ ๋ง์์ง ๊นจ๋ซ๊ฒ ๋ ์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋ค.
Director Yoo Soo-min actually went undercover in teenage chat rooms while working on the Weak Hero script. Fashion groups, study circles, health forums, even chat rooms where teens struggling with depression would gather… He disguised his age and name to get a real sense of what teenagers are actually going through. (When you first dive into Weak Hero, you get swept away by the cute, good-looking actors without even noticing time fly by, but as you binge-watch it for the second… third time… you can’t help but notice how deeply the drama digs into the psychological issues and problems facing teenagers, the social issues – especially the twisted reality of boys growing up warped in the shadows of divorced families, grandparent-led households, and abusive parents.) What hit Director Yoo the hardest during this undercover work was discovering just how many kids were seeing mental health professionals and getting prescribed sleep medication because of stress.
์ ์๋ฏผ ๊ฐ๋ ๋์ ์ธํฐ๋ทฐ์์:
From Director Yoo Soo-min’s interview:
10๋๋ค์ ์คํ์ฑํ ๋ฐฉ์ ์์ฒญ๋๊ฒ ๋ค์ํด์. ํจ์ ๋ฐฉ, ์คํฐ๋๋ฐฉ, ๊ฑด๊ฐ๋ฐฉ, ์ฐ์ธ์ฆ๋ฐฉ ๋ฑ๋ฑ… ๋์ด์ ์ด๋ฆ์ ์์ด๊ณ ๋ค์ด๊ฐ์ ์ต๋ํ ๋ง์ ์ ํ๋ฉฐ ์ฐธ์ฌํ์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด์ ๊นจ๋ฌ์ ๊ฑด ํธ๋ ๋๋ ๋ฐ๋์ด๋ ๋ณธ์ง์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ด๋ ธ์ ๋์ ๋๊ฐ๋ค๋ ๊ฑฐ์์ด์. ๋ฐ๋๋ก ๋๋ ๊ฑด ์ฐ์ธ์ฆ๋ฐฉ์ด์์ด์. ์๊ฐ๋ณด๋ค ๋ง์ ์์ด๋ค์ด ์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ๊ฐ์ ์๋ฉด์ ๋ฅผ ์ฒ๋ฐฉ๋ฐ๊ณ ์๋๋ผ๊ณ ์. ์คํธ๋ ์ค์ ์๋ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์ด์๊ฐ๋ ์ ์์ด๋ค์ด ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค๋ ๊ฑธ ์๊ณ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค.
Teenagers’ open chat rooms are incredibly diverseโfashion rooms, study rooms, health rooms, depression rooms, and so many more. I disguised my age and name to slip into those spaces, keeping my words to a minimum while participating. What I came to realize through this was that while trends may shift, the core essence remains exactly the same as when we were young. What caught me off guard, though, was the depression rooms. Way more kids than I expected were going to psychiatrists and getting prescribed sleep medication. I was genuinely shocked to discover that so many young people are living under this kind of stress.

์์ฆ 1๊ณผ ์์ฆ 2์์ ์์์ ๋ฐฉ์ ๋น๊ตํด๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ทน๋ช ํ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ ๋ณด์ธ๋ค. ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ ๋ฉ๋ง๋ฅด๊ณ ์๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์์ด์ก๊ณ , ์๋ ์ ๊ณต๋ถ ๋ฐฉ์๋ ํ ์ด๋ธ์ ์ค์น๋ ํ ์๋ ์คํ ๋ ์กฐ๋ช ์์ ์์ด๋์ค๋ ๊ทธ๋งํผ ์๊ธฐ์๋ ํ๋ ๋น๊ณผ ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์๊ฐ ๋๋ฆฌ์์ ธ ์๋ค. ์ ์์ง์ ์ํธ๋ฅผ ์์ ํ ์์์ ์ธ์์ด ์ผ๋ง๋ ์ฐจ๊ฐ๊ณ ๊ณตํํด์ก๋์ง๋ฅผ ๋จ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์ฌ์ค๋ค.
When you compare Si-eun’s room between Season 1 and Season 2, the contrast is stark. Everything has become barren and lifeless, and the boy’s study room is now bathed in that same lifeless blue light seeping out from a weak desk lamp, with heavy shadows creeping in everywhere. The production team really drives home just how cold and hollow Si-eun’s world has become after losing Su-ho.
์์ฆ 2์ ์์์ ๋ณด๋ฉด… ์๋ฒฝ 3์๊ฐ ๋์ด๋ ์ ๋ค์ง ๋ชปํ๋ ๊ทน์ฌํ ๋ถ๋ฉด์ฆ์ ์๋ฌ๋ฆฐ๋ค. ์ด๋ก ์ธํ์ฌ ํ๊ต์์๋ ๊ณต๋ถ๋ ๋ฑํ์ํ๊ณ ์ฑ ์์ ์์ด์ ธ ๊ฐ์ ํ ์กธ๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค.
Looking at Si-eun in Season 2โฆ he’s battling severe insomnia, unable to fall asleep even past 3 AM. Because of this, he’s been slacking off on his studies at school and barely managing to doze off with his head down on his desk.

์์์ ์๋ฒฝ์ฃผ์: ์ํธ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ์ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์๋ฒฝํจ์ผ๋ก ๋ณธ ๊ด์
์ ํ๋ธ ์ฑ๋ ์ฝ๋ฉํฐ๋ค์ ๋ ์ฌ๋์๋ ๋๊ธ์ ๋ฌ์์ค๋ค. ๋ด๊ฐ ์ผ์ ์ ๋ณด์ง ๋ชปํ๋ ์ต๊ธ๋ก ๊ฐ์ ์ํ์ ํด์ํ๋ค.
The commenters on my YouTube channel always leave such insightful responses. They interpret the same work from angles I hadn’t even thought of before.
์์์ ์๋ฒฝ์ฃผ์์์ด๋ฉฐ, ์์ ์ ๊ฐ์ ๋จน์ผ๋ฉด์๊น์ง ์๋ฒฝ์ ๊ฐ๊น์ฐ๋ ค๊ณ ํ๋ ์ ํ์ ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ๋งน๋ชฉ์ ์ผ ์ ๋๋ก ์๋ฒฝํ๋ ค๊ณ ํ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์๋ฒฝํจ์ ์ํด ์ถ์ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์๋ฆฌ์ ๊ฐ์ (๋จน๋ ๊ฒ, ์๋ ๊ฒ, ๊ฑด๊ฐํ ์ธ๊ฐ๊ด๊ณ ๋ฐ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ์ ๊ต๋ฅ ๋ฑ) ์ ์ ํฌ์ํ๋๋ฐ ๋ณธ์ธ์ด ์ถ๊ตฌํ๋ ์๋ฒฝํจ์ด ํํธ๋ฌ์ง๋ฉด ์ ์์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋นํ ์ ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทน ์ด๋ฐ์๋ ์์์ ๋ชฉํ๋ ์ค๋ก์ง ๋ช ๋ฌธ ๋ํ์ ์งํํ๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค. ์ค์ ๋ก, ์๋น์ด ‘๋งํ์ง๋ง… ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ด์ ์ ์ํฅ ๊ฐ๋ค, ๋ ๋ํ ๊ฐ์ผ์ง?’๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋ฐํ์ ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ทธ ๋ง์ ์์ํ ๋ฐ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง, ์ฑ์ ์ด๋ผ๋ ์์ ์ ์ํ์ ํ ์ง์ด ํ๋ ์๊ธฐ์ ๋ฐ๋ก ๋ฏธ์ณ๋ฒ๋ ธ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ ๋ค์์ ๋์ ์ฒ์์ผ๋ก ์์คํ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ด ์๊ฒผ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฒ์๊ณผ ์ํธ. ์ํธ๊ฐ ์ฝ๋ง์ ๋น ์ง ์ดํ๋ก ์ด์ ๋ ๋จ์ํ ํ ์ง์ด ์๋๋ผ ์์ ์ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ฌ๋ผ์ก๋ค๊ณ ๋๊ผ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์์์ ํญ๋ฐ์ ์ํธ๋ฅผ ๋๋ฌด ์๊ปด์๋ง์ด ์๋๋ผ, ์์ ์ ์๋ก์ด ‘์ํ’์ ๋๋ฌด ๊ณผํ๊ฒ ๋ณดํธํ๋ค ๊ทธ๊ฒ ์คํจํ๊ณ ๋ ํ ์ด์ฉ ์ค ๋ชจ๋ฅด๋ ๊ดด์ฑ๊ฐ์ด ๋ค๋ ธ์ด์.
Si-eun is a perfectionist – the type who’ll tear himself apart trying to get as close to perfection as possible. He’s blindly obsessed with being perfect, and he’ll sacrifice basic life necessities (eating, sleeping, healthy relationships and hanging out with friends) for that perfection because he literally can’t handle it when his pursuit of perfection gets thrown off track. Early on in the series, Si-eun’s goal seemed to be solely about getting into a prestigious university. In fact, when Yeong-bin threatened him with “Don’t tell the teacher… it’ll mess with our grades, and you need to get into college, right?” he had no choice but to go along with it. But the moment his grades – his “masterpiece” – got even the tiniest scratch, he completely lost it. Then, for the first time in his life, he had precious friends. That was Beom-seok and Su-ho, but after Su-ho slipped into a coma, it wasn’t just a simple scratch anymore – he felt like everything he had was gone. So Si-eun’s explosion wasn’t just because he cared too much about Su-ho, but because he’d been protecting his new “masterpiece” way too intensely and when that failed, it came out like this desperate, almost inhuman scream of not knowing what to do.

์์ ํ์ฅ์ค์ ์์ ํด๋ํฐ์ ๋ค์ฌ๋ค๋ณด๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ์ ์ ๊ธธ์ด์ง๊ณ ์๋ ์ด์ ๊ฐ ๋ฐ๋ก ์ฝ๋ฉํฐ๋ค์ ๊น์ ๊ฐ์ ๋๋ฌธ์ธ๋ฐ, ์ด ์ฝ๋ฉํธ๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ณ ์ฒ์์ ์ด ๋๋ผ๋ง๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ผ๋ฉฐ ๊ถ์ ํด์ค ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์๋ด์ฌ ์น๊ตฌ์ ์์์ด์ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ํด ๊น์ ๋ํ๋ฅผ ๋๋๊ฒ ๋์๋ค. ์น๊ตฌ๋ ์ค์ ๋ก ์ฒญ์๋ ๋ค๊ณผ ๋ํํ๋ค๋ณด๋ฉด ๋๋ผ๋ง์์ ๋ค๋ฃฌ ํญ๋ ฅ์ด๋ ๋ถ๊ดด๋๋ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ๋ฒ๋ผ์ด์ดํฐํ ์ ์ ์งํ์ด๋ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ ๋ํด์ ๋ฃ๋๋ค๋ฉฐ, ์ค์ ๋๋ผ๋ง์์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ง๋ 10๋๋ค์ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ ๋จํธ์ ์ธ ๊ฒ์ ์ง๋์ง ์๋๋ค๊ณ ๋ค๋คํ ๋งํด์ฃผ์๋ค. ๋ด๊ฐ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ด์ฐํ ๋ ๋์จ 10๋ ์์ ์ ๊ณผ์ฐ ๋๋ ์ด๋ ํ๋์ง… ๋์๋ณด๊ฒ ํ์๋ค.
The reason I’ve been spending longer and longer stretches in the bathroom scrolling through my phone lately is because of these commenters’ deep insights. After reading this comment, I ended up having an in-depth conversation about Si-eun’s psychology with my psychologist friend who originally recommended this drama to me. She casually mentioned that when she actually talks with teenagers, she hears about mental health issues and backgrounds that are way more varied than the violence and psychological breakdowns shown in the drama – that what the series portrays about teenage problems is really just scratching the surface. It made me look back and wonder what I was actually like during my own teenage years, which I’ve long since moved on from.

์ด๋ฆฐ ์์ ํธ๋ผ์ฐ๋ง์ ๋ถ๋ชจ์์ ์ ์ฐฉ ๋ฌธ์
์๋ ์ฝ๋ฉํธ๋ค์ ๋ด๊ฐ ์ฝํ์์ ์บ๋ฆญํฐ๋ค์ ์ข ๋ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ๋ถ์ํด๋ณผ ์ ์๊ฒ ํด์ค ์๊ฒฌ์ด๋ค.
The comments below are perspectives that helped me analyze Weak Hero characters from a more psychological angle.
์ด๋ฆฐ ์์์ด ๋ถ๋ชจ์ ์ธ์์ ์ฟ๋ค์๋ ์ฅ๋ฉด์์, ๋ถ๋ชจ๋ค์ ๋ถ๋ช ํ ์์์ ๋ณ์์ง ๋ง์ง๋ฅผ ๋๊ณ ์ธ์ฐ๊ณ ์์๊ณ , ๋ ๋ค ์์ด๋ฅผ ๋ณ๊ธฐ๋ก ํ ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ๋ถ๋ช ํ ํํํ๊ณ ์์๋ค. ์์์ด ํ์ด ๋ถ๋ฌ์ก์ ๋์๋๋ฐ, ๋จํธ์ ์๋ด์๊ฒ ์์ด๊ฐ ์ด ์ง๊ฒฝ์ด ๋ ๋๊น์ง ์ด๋์ ์์๋๋ฉฐ ์ฑ ์์ ์ ๊ฐํ๊ณ ์์๊ณ , ์๋ด๋ ‘๋น์ ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์์กํ๊ธฐ๋ก ํ์ผ๋๊น ๋ณ์ง ์์๊ฒ ๋๋’ ์ง์ฆ์ด ์น๋ฐ์ด ์ฌ๋ผ ๋๊พธํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ์ ๋จํธ์ ์์ด, ์ฆ ์์์ด ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์์ฃผ ๋ค์น ์ค์ ๋ชฐ๋๋ค๋ฉฐ ์ผ๊ตด์ ์ฐํธ๋ฆฐ๋ค.
In the scene where little Si-eun overhears his parents fighting, they were clearly arguing about whether or not they should have had him in the first place, and both of them were obviously regretting their decision to have a child. This was when Si-eun had broken his arm, and the husband was passing the buck to his wife, asking where she was while their kid got hurt to this extent. The wife snapped back in frustration, “If we weren’t going to raise him together, I wouldn’t have had him.” Then the husband grimaced and said he had no idea that Si-eun – their child – would get hurt this often.
์ด๋ฆฐ ์์ด๊ฐ ๋ถ๋ชจ๊ฐ ์์ ์ ๋ณ์ ๊ฒ์… ํํํ๋ค๋ ๋ง์ ์ง์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฟ๋ฃ๋๋ค๊ณ ์์ํด๋ณด๋ผ. ์ด๊ฑด ๋จ์ํ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๋ฐฉ์น๋ผ๊ณ ํ๊ธฐ์ ๋ถ์กฑํ๋ค. ์์ด๊ฐ ์๋ ์ผ๋ก ์๋ผ๋๋ ๊ณผ์ ์์ ๊ทธ๊ฐ ์ธ์๊ณผ ์ฌํ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฌ๋๊ณผ ๊ต๋ฅํ๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์ํฅ์ ์ค ์ ์์ ์ ๋์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ํตํญํ์ ๋์ง ์ ์ด๋ค.
Imagine a little kid directly overhearing their parents say they regretโฆ having him in the first place. This goes way beyond simple emotional neglect. It’s like dropping an emotional nuclear bomb that could fundamentally shape how that child interacts with the world, society, and people as he grows from a kid into a young man.
์ด๋ฆฐ ์์์ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์ด๋ก ์ธํ์ฌ ๋ฐ์ ๋ถ๋ชจ์๊ฒ ์์ด ์์ ์ด ์์น ์๋ ์กด์ฌ์ด๊ณ , ์ค๋ง์ค๋ฝ๊ณ ๋ถํธํ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ผ๊ณ ํ์ ํ์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ฐฉ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ ๋ฌธ์ ์ ๊ทธ๊ณ ์ํ ๋ฌธ์ ์ ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ ์ผ ์ ๋๋ก ์ง์ฐฉํ๋ฉฐ ํ์ด๋ด๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค. ๋ถ๋ชจ๊ฐ ์์ ์ ์ํ์ง ์๋๋ค๋ ์ฌ์ค์ ์ธ์งํ๊ณ ๋ ํ ์๊ธด ์ผ์ข ์ ๋์ฒ ๋ฉ์ปค๋์ฆ์ด์๋ค.
Little Si-eun must have become convinced that to his career-obsessed, busy parents, he was an unwanted burden – a disappointing and inconvenient problem. So he retreated to his room, locked the door, and started obsessively working through math problems. It was a kind of coping mechanism that kicked in after he realised his parents didn’t want him.
์ค์ ๋ก ์์์ ํน์ฑ์ ๋ณด๋ฉด – ํ์ ์ ๋ํ ์ง๋์น ์ ๋๋ก ๊ณผ๋ํ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ์ง์ค, ๋ถ๋ชจ์ ๋ํ์์ ๋ช ์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ธ๊ธ๋๋ ์ด๋ฆฐ์์ ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ ์ ์ ์ ์๊ณ ์ฐ๋ฌ์ก๋ค๋ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์ ์ํผ์๋ (์๋ง ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๊ณผ๋ถํ๋ก ์ธํ…), ์ค์ค๋ก๋ฅผ ์ฌํ (ํ๊ต์์๋ ์ด๋ ํ ์น๊ตฌ๋ ์ฌ๊ท์ง ์๋) ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ์ํค๊ณ , ํนํ ๋ถ๋ ธ๊ฐ ์น๋ฐ ๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์กฐ์ ํ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ด๋ ค์, ์์ ๋ง์ ๊ท์น์ด ๊นจ์ง ๋์ ๊ทน๋๋ก ์น๋ซ๋ ์คํธ๋ ์ค์ ๊ฐ๋ – ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ๋ค์ด ์ด๋์ ๋ ์ํ ์คํํธ๋ผ์ ํน์ง์ผ ์๋ ์๋ค๋ ์ ์ด ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ฝ๋ฉํธ์์ ์ธ๊ธ์ด ๋์์๋ค.
Looking at Si-eun’s actual characteristics – his obsessively excessive focus on academics, the childhood episodes his parents explicitly mention where he would suddenly lose consciousness and collapse (probably from sensory overloadโฆ), how he socially isolates himself (not making any friends at school), his difficulty regulating emotions especially when anger builds up, and the extreme intensity of stress he experiences when his own rules get disrupted – several commenters have pointed out that all of these could be signs that he’s somewhere on the autism spectrum.

์ํธ์ ๋ฑ์ฅ๊ณผ ์์์ ์ฒซ์ฌ๋
์น๊ตฌ๋ ์์์ ํญ๋ ฅ์ ํ๋์ ๋ํด ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๋ถ์ํ๋ค:
My friend analyzed Si-eun’s violent behavior like this:
์์์ ๋ด์ฌ๋ ๋ถ๋ ธ๋ ์ด๋ ธ์ ์ ๋ถํฐ ์ด์ด์ง ๋ถ๋ชจ์์ ์ ์ฐฉ ์ฅ์ ์์ ๋น๋กฏ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ๋๋ผ๋ง์์ ๋ช ์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ธ๊ธํ์ง ์์ง๋ง, ์์์๊ฒ์๋ ์ธ์์ ๋ํ ์ด๋ ํ ๊ธฐ๋๋ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌ๋์ง ์๊ณ , ์๋ฉด์ด๋ ์ ๋๋ก ๋ ์์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์ผ์์ ๊ท์น์ ์ ํ ์งํค์ง ์๋๋ค๋ ์ ์์ ์๊ธฐ ํ์ค์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์๋ ๋๋ฆฌ์์ ธ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ํ๊ต์์๋ (์๋ง ์ด๋ฑํ๊ต, ์คํ๊ต ๋ ์ญ์ ๋ง์ฐฌ๊ฐ์ง์์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค) ๊ทธ ๋๊ตฌ์๋ ๊ต๋ฅํ์ง ์๋๋ค. ํ์ ์ฑ์ ์ ๋ถ๋ชจ์๊ฒ ์์ด ์์ ์ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ฆ๋ช ํ๋ ์ ์ผํ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ด์์์ด ๋ถ๋ช ํ๋ฐ, ์ํ์ง์ ์๋ฒฝํ ๋๊ทธ๋ผ๋ฏธ๋ค์ ์ด๋ฐ ๊ทน๋จ์ ์ธ ์๋ ์๊ฒ ์์ด ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ์์ ๊ฐ์ ์ฃผ๊ณ ์์๋ค. ์ผ์ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋ค์ด ์์์ด ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ ์ผ ์ ๋๋ก ๊ณ ์ํด๋์ ์์ ๋ง์ ๊ท์น, ‘๋๊ทธ๋ผ๋ฏธ’๋ฅผ ๊ฑด๋๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์ํํ๊ณ ๋ง์ง๋ง์ ๊นจ๋จ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ฐ ์ฑ๊ณตํ์ ๋, ์์์ ๋ถ๋ ธ๋ฅผ ๋์ด ๊ณตํฌ๋ฅผ ๋๊ผ๋ค. ๊ทธ์๊ฒ ์์ด์ ์ฃฝ์์ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๋๋ ค์์ด์์ํ ๊ณ , ์์ ์ด ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ ์ผ ์ ๋๋ก ์ง์ฐฉํ๋ ์๋ฒฝํ ‘์ํ’์ด ์ํ๋ฐ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ ๋ค๋ฆ ์์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ฝ๋๋ก ๋ชฐ๋ฆฐ ๋๋ฌผ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ฐ๊ฒฉํ ๊ฑฐ๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ๊ทธ ๋ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ์ ํ ํต์ ํ์ง ์์๋ค.
Si-eun’s deep-seated anger seems to stem from attachment disorders with his parents that go way back to childhood. Obviously the drama doesn’t spell it out, but you can see that Si-eun has zero expectations from the world, he completely ignores basic daily routines like proper sleep and meals – there’s this shadow of self-hatred hanging over him, and at school (probably going back to elementary and middle school too) he doesn’t interact with anyone. Academic grades were clearly his only way to prove his worth to his parents, and those perfect circles on his test papers were giving this extreme kid some kind of psychological stability. When the bullies started messing with and threatening Si-eun’s obsessively guarded personal rule – his ‘circles’ – and finally succeeded in breaking them, Si-eun felt something beyond anger – he felt terror. For him, it was a fear close to death, like his obsessively perfect ‘masterpiece’ was under attack. So he lashed back like a cornered animal. And obviously, he had zero control over that retaliation.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ง์น ๋ฒํฐ๋ฅผ ์์ฝ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ฅด๋ฏ ์์์ ์ถ์ ๋ฒ์ปฅ ์ด๋ฉฐ ์ํธ๊ฐ ๋ํ๋ฌ๋ค. (์ฐ์ถ ์์ผ๋ก๋, ๋ฐฐ๋ฌ์ ์๋ชปํ์ฌ ์์ ์ง์ ํ๊ด์ ์ด๊ฒ ๋๋ค.)
๋ถ๋ชจ์๊ฒ์ ์๋น ๋ฐ์์ด์ผํ ๊น์ ์ ์ฐฉ, ํ๋ณต, ์์ ๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฌ๋์ ์งง์ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ํ์์ฒ๋ผ ๋๋ผ๊ฒ ๋์๋๋ฐ, ์ฌ์ค ํ์๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํ๊ธฐ ๋ถ์กฑํ ์ ๋์ ๋์ค๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ํ๋์๋ค. ์น๊ตฌ๊ฐ ์๋ดํ๋ ์์ด๋ค ์ฌ์ด์์๋ ์ฒซ์ฌ๋์ด๋ ์ด์ฑ ํน์ ๋์ฑ์ ์น๊ตฌ ๊ด๊ณ์์ ๋ญ๋ผ ํต์ ํ๊ธฐ ์ด๋ ค์ด ๊ฐ์ ์ ํฉ์ธ๋ ค ํ์ ์ ์ด๋ ค์์ ๊ฒช๊ฑฐ๋, ์ ์ฐฉ์ ๋์๊ณผ ์ ์ ๋ฉ์ด์ง ๋ ๊ทน๋จ์ ์ธ ์ ํ์ ๋ํด ์์ํ๋ค ์๋ด์ ํด์ค๋ ์ผ์ ์น๊ตฌ์ ์ง์ ์ธ๊ณ์ ์์ด์ ๋๋๋งํ ์ผ์ ์๋๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋ค (…๋ด๊ฐ ๊ทธ ์์ ์ ๋๋ฌด ๋ฉ๋ฆฌ ๋ ๋์จ ๊ฑธ๊น…?) ๋ฌผ๋ก ๊ทน์์ ๋ค๋ฃฌ ์์์๊ฒ ์์ด์์ ์ํธ๋ ์ ์ด ์ด ๊ฐ์ฌ์ด ์๋ ์๊ฒ ๋ด๋ ค์ค ‘์ ๋ฌผ’์ ๊ฐ๊น๊ณ , ์น๊ตฌ๊ฐ ์ผ์์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋๋ ์ฒญ์๋ ๋ค์ ์ ๋ง ํ์ค์ธ๊ณ์ ๋ถ์ค๋ฌ๊ธฐ๋ค์ ๋ฐ๊ณ ์ด์ฉ ์ค ๋ชฐ๋ผ ์๋ด์ค๋ก ๋ถ๋ ค์จ ์ง์ง ์์ด๋ค์ด๋ค.
And then Su-ho came slicing through the boy’s walls like a knife through butter, suddenly throwing open the door to Si-eun’s world. (In the narrative device of a misdirected food delivery to Si-eun’s home.)
The deep attachment, happiness, stability, and love that he should have rightfully received from his parents – he experienced all of it in a short period like a flood, but honestly, calling it a flood doesn’t even do it justice – it was more like overwhelming waves. My friend says that among the kids she counsels, it’s not unusual at all in her line of work to see teens coming in for counseling because they’ve gotten swept up in uncontrollable emotions during first love or same-sex/opposite-sex friendships that mess with their academics, or because they start imagining extreme choices when they feel their object of attachment drifting away (… have I drifted too far from those days…?). Of course, Su-ho for Si-eun in the drama was like a ‘gift’ that God gave to this poor boy, while the teenagers my friend meets daily are real kids who’ve been stepping on the broken pieces of the real world and don’t know what to do with themselves when they get called into the counseling room.
๋ฌผ๋ก ์์์ “์์ ์์ ” ์ํธ์ ๋ฑ์ฅ์ ์์์๊ฒ ์์ด ์ ์ด ๋ด๋ฆฐ ์ ๋ฌผ์ด์๋ค… ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ํธ์ ๋ฒ์์ด, ์๋ง๋ ์ด ์๋ ์ ์ฒซ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ด์์, ๊ธฐ์ ์ฒ๋ผ ๊ทธ์ ์ถ์ ๋ํ๋ฌ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ถ๋ชจ๊ฐ ์ฃผ์ง ๋ชปํ ์ ์ฐฉ, ์์ ๊ฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฌ๋์ ๊ทธํ ๋ก ์งง์ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์ ํ๊บผ๋ฒ์ ๊ฒฝํํ๊ฒ ๋์๋ค. ํ์๋ผ๊ณ ํ๊ธฐ์๋ ๋ถ์กฑํ๋คโ์น๊ตฌ ์ญ์ “ํ๋” ๊ฐ๋ค๊ณ ํํํ๋ค.
Of course, the appearance of Su-ho, Si-eunโs โlittle hero,โ was a gift from God for Si-eunโฆ This is how Su-ho and Beom-seokโprobably this boyโs first friendsโappeared like a miracle in his life. So the attachment, stability, and love that his parents couldnโt provide, he experienced all at once in that short period. Calling it a flood wouldnโt be enoughโmy friend also described it as being like โwaves.โ

So the attachment, stability, and love that his parents couldnโt provide, he experienced all at once in that short period.
์์งํ ์น๊ตฌ๊ฐ ์ฌ์ฉํ ์ ๋ฌธ์ ์ธ ์ฌ๋ฆฌํ ์ฉ์ด๋ฅผ 100% ์ดํดํ ์๋ ์์์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฐ ๋์๊ฒ ์ ๋ฌํ๊ณ ์ ํ๋ ๋ถ์์ด ๋ฌด์์ธ์ง๋ ๋๋ต ํ์ ํ ์ ์์๋ค. ์ํธ๋ ์๋ชป๋ ์ฃผ์๋ก ๋ฐฐ๋ฌ์ ํ๋ค๊ฐ ๊ฝ๊ฝ ๋ซํ์๋ ํ๊ด๋ฌธ์ ์ด๊ณ ๋ค์ด์๋๋ฐ, ์ ์๋ฏผ ๊ฐ๋ ์ด ๋ฐํ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ด ์ด๋ ๋ฐ๋ฏธ์๊ณผ ์ฑํด๋ ์ด์ ๊ด๊ณ์์ ์ฐจ์ฉํ ๊ฒ์ด์๋ค… ๋ง์ฝ ์ํธ๊ฐ ์ค์๋ก ์์์ ๋ฌธ์ ์ฐพ์์ค์ง ์์๋ค๋ฉด… ๊ทธ๊ฐ ๊ป์ง์ ๊นจ๊ณ ๋์ฌ ์ ์์์๊น?
To be honest, I couldnโt understand 100% of the professional psychological terminology she used, but I roughly grasped what kind of analysis she wanted to convey to me. Su-ho opens that tightly shut front door when he mistakenly delivers to the wrong address, and as director Yoo Soo-min revealed, this was borrowed from the relationship between Demian and Sinclairโฆ If Su-ho hadnโt mistakenly found his way to Si-eunโs doorโฆ would he have been able to break out of his shell?

์น๊ตฌ๊ฐ ๋งํ๊ธธ, ๋ถํ๋ฏ ํ๊ด๋ฌธ์ ์ด๊ณ ๋ค์ด์ ๋ฒ์ปฅ๋ฒ์ปฅ ๋ฌผ์ ๋ง์๋ ์ํธ๋ก ์ธํ์ฌ, ๊ทธ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ ๊ป์ง์ ๊นจ๊ณ ๋์จ ๊ฑด ์ข์์ง๋ง, ์์๊ณผ ์ํธ์ ๊ด๊ณ๋ ์ฐ์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ฅด๊ธฐ์๋, ๋๋ฌด ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒฉ๋ ฌํ๋ค๊ณ ํ๋ค. ๋ ์ ํํ ๋งํ๋ฉด, ์์์ด ์ํธ์๊ฒ ๋๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ ํญ์ด ์ง๋์น๊ฒ ๊ฒฉ๋ ฌํ๊ณ ํ๋ ๊ฐ์์, ๋ง์ฝ ๋ ์๋ ์ด ์ค์ ํ์ค์์ ์กด์ฌํ๋ ์น๊ตฌ ์ฌ์ด์๋ค๋ฉด, ํ์ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ์์์ด ์ํธ์๊ฒ ์ง๋์น๊ฒ ์ง์ฐฉํ๊ฑฐ๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ์์กดํ๋ ์ง์ ์ด ์์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์ง์ ํ๋ค. (์ด ์ง์ ์๋ ์๋ฌด๋๋ ์ฐ์ถ์์ผ๋ก ๋ช ์์ ์ผ๋ก, ์ธ์ด์ ์ผ๋ก ์ธ๊ธ๋์ง ์์์ง๋ง ๋๋ผ๋ง๋ฅผ ์ฌ๋์๊ฒ ์ฌ๋ฌ์ฐจ๋ก ๋ณธ ํฌ์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์๊ฒ ๋๋ ์์์ ์ ์ ์ ์ธ ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐํ์ ๊น๋ ค์์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค…)
My friend said that while it was good that Su-ho – who suddenly barged through the front door gulping down water – helped Si-eun break out of that solid shell, the relationship between Si-eun and Su-ho was too emotionally intense to be called friendship. More precisely, she pointed out that the range of emotions Si-eun felt toward Su-ho was so overwhelmingly intense and wave-like that if these two boys had been friends in the real world, there inevitably would have come a point where Si-eun became overly obsessive or emotionally dependent on Su-ho. (This is where – though never overtly stated in the narrative – the careful viewer who has revisited the drama would sense the foundation of Si-eun’s psychological struggles lying beneath the surfaceโฆ)

๊ทธ๋์ ์น๊ตฌ์ ๊ด์ ์์๋… ์์์ด ์ฑ์ ์ ์๋ช ์ค์ฒ๋ผ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๋๋ฐ, ์ผ์ง ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋ค์ ๋ฐฉํด๋ก ์ธํด ์กฐ๊ธ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ํ์ง์ ‘๋๊ทธ๋ผ๋ฏธ’๊ฐ ์ผ๊ทธ๋ฌ์ง๊ฑฐ๋ ํ ์ง์ด ๋์ง ์๋๋ก ๋งน๋ชฉ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ง์คํ๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ, ์๋ ์ ์๋ฒฝ์ฃผ์์ ์ฑํฅ๊ณผ ์์ ์๊ฒ ๋งค์ฐ ์์คํ๋ค๊ณ ์ฌ๊ฒจ์ง๊ธฐ ์์ํ ์กด์ฌ์ ๋ํ, ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ด ‘์ฑ์ ’์ด๋ ‘์ฌ๋’์ด๋ , ๋งน๋ชฉ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ด ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์๋ช ์ค์ธ ์น๊ตฌ, ‘์ํธ’์๊ฒ๋ก ํฅํ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ด ๋๋ค๊ณ ํ๋ค. (๋๋ ๋งค์ฐ ๋์ํ๋ค…)
So from my friend’s perspective… just like Si-eun had treated his grades as a lifeline, blindly zeroing in on making sure the bullies couldn’t mess with him and that not even the slightest bit of those perfect “circles” on his test papers got warped or scratched up, that same perfectionist streak and blind obsession he’d developed for anything he started holding dear – whether it was “grades” or “people” – would likely have shifted over to his other lifeline, his friend “Su-ho.” (I totally agreed with this…)
๋ง๋ถ์ด๊ธธ, ์ค์ ์๋ด์ธ์ ๊ด์ ์์ ์์์ด ์ํธ์๊ฒ ๋ณด์ธ ์ ์ฐฉ์ ํ๋ฉด๋ง ๋ด๋ ์ด๊ฑด ์์์๊ฒ ์์ด ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฑด๊ฐํ ์ฐ์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํ ์ ์๋ค๋ฉฐ, ๋ฌผ๋ก ์์์ ์น๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ํด ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ํญ๋ ฅ๋ ๊ฐ์ํ ๋งํผ ์ํธ๋ฅผ ์๊ผ์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๊ด์ ์์๋ ์์ ์ ์์ผ๋ก ๊ธฐ๊บผ์ด ํผ๋ฅผ ๋ฌปํ๊ฑฐ๋ ์น๊ตฌ ๋์ ์์ ์ด ํญํ์ ๊ฐ์ํ๋ ํฌ์ ์ญ์๋, ์์ ์ ์ธ ์ ์ฐฉ์ ๊ฒฝํํด๋ณธ ์ ์๋ ์๋ ์ด ๋งค์ฐ ์์คํด์ง ์กด์ฌ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง ๋ ‘์์ ์๊ฒ’ ์ฐพ์์ฌ ํต์ ๋ถ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ๋ถ๊ดด๊ฐ ์คํ๋ ค ๋ณธ์ธ์ด ์ ํํ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ์ํด (์ํด) ๋ณด๋ค ๋์ฑ ๊ณ ํต์ค๋ฝ๊ณ ๊ฒฌ๋ ์ ์์ ๊ฒ์์ ์ง๊ฐํ๊ณ ์์๊ธฐ์, ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ์ ์๋ฅผ ์น ์ ๋ง์ ์ธ ํ๋์ ๋ ๊ฐ๊น์ ๋ณด์๋ค๊ณ ํ๋ค.
She went on to say that from an actual counselor’s standpoint, just looking at the surface of the attachment Si-eun showed toward Su-ho, this couldn’t be written off as completely healthy friendship. Sure, Si-eun cared enough about his friend to put up with physical violence for him, but from her perspective, even his willingness to get his own hands bloody or take beatings in place of his friend came across more like desperate behavior – like this kid who’d never experienced stable attachment was picking up on the fact that the uncontrollable breakdown that would hit him if this precious person suddenly vanished would be way more unbearable than any physical pain he chose to take on himself, so he was getting ahead of it with this kind of desperate preemptive strike.
In other words, Si-eun’s coping mechanism of sacrificing himself to this extent for Su-ho was the most unhealthy thing for Si-eun himself.

์ํธ์ ์ฝ๋ง: ํด๋์ค 1์ ๊ฒฐ๋ง์ด ์์์๊ฒ ์ง์ง ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ์ค ์ด์
์น๊ตฌ๋ ์์์ด ์ํธ๋ฅผ ์๋ ํธ๋ผ์ฐ๋ง๋ฅผ ๊ฒช์ด์ผ๋ง ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๋งค์ฐ ํ๋ฅญํ ์ฐ์ถ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํ๊ณ , ๋๋ ๋์ํ์๋ค. ์์์ด ์ค์ค๋ก์๊ฒ ๋ ์ด์ ํด๋ฅผ ์ ํ๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ด ์๋ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ผ๋ก ์ฑ์ํ๊ธฐ ์ํด์๋ ์ด์จ๋ ๊ณ ํต์ค๋ฝ์ง๋ง ๋ ํ๋ฒ์ ์ฑ์ฅํต์ ํ์ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒช์ ์๋ฐ์ ์์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ํธ๋ฅผ ์ฝ๋ง๋ก ๋ณด๋ด๋ฒ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ์… (๊ณ ๊ต ํ์ฐฝ์์ ์ ๋ฐ ์ด์์ ๋ณ์์์ ๋ณด๋ด๋ฒ๋ฆฐ ์ํธ์๊ฒ๋ ๋๋ฌด ๋ฏธ์ํ์ง๋ง…์ ๊ฐ๋ ๋๋ ๋ง์ํ์ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ์ํธ๋ ์ค๋ก์ง ‘์์’์ด๋ฅผ ์ํด์๋ง ์์ง์ด๋ ์กด์ฌ์ด๋ฏ๋ก… ‘์ธ๊ณต์์ฑ’ ์ ๋๊ฐ ์ ๋นํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค…) ๋๋ผ๋ง์ ์ผ๋ก ๋งค์ฐ ํ๋ฅญํ ์ฐ์ถ ์ฅ์น์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ๋ค.
My friend said that Si-eun having to go through the trauma of losing Su-ho was brilliant direction, and I agreed. For Si-eun to mature in a healthy way rather than continuing to harm himself, he inevitably had to go through another painful but necessary growth spurt, and sending Su-ho into a coma wasโฆ (sorry to Su-ho, who ended up spending more than half his high school years in bedโฆ but as Director Yoo mentioned, Su-ho exists solely to move for “Si-eun”โฆ so calling him a “satellite” would probably be fittingโฆ) I think it was a dramatically brilliant directorial device.

์์์ ํด๋์ค1์์ ์์ ํ ๋ฌด๋์ง ํ, ๊ฐ์ ํ ์๋ ์ ํ์ ๋ฉดํ์ง๋ง, ์ด๋์๋ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์์ฃผ๋ ๊ณณ์ด ์์ด ๊ฑฐ์ ์๋ ์์ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๋์ํ๊ต์ธ ์๋ฑํฌ๊ตฌ์ ์์นํ ์์ฅ๊ณ ๋ก ๋ณด๋ด์ก๋ค. ์ด์จ๋ ๊ทธ ๋๋ถ์, ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฑฐ์ ์ฃฝ์ด์๋ ์ฐ์ก์ฅ์ด๋ ๋ค๋ฆ์๋ ์์์ด ๋ฐ์ฟ , ๊ณ ํ, ์คํ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ฌ๊ณ , ์ด ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ์ ์ฐ์ ์ด – ๋๋ฌด ๊ฐ๊น๊ฑฐ๋ ๋๋ฌด ๋ฉ์ง ์์ – ํจ์ฌ ์์์๊ฒ ์ด์์ ์ธ ๊ด๊ณ์ ๋ํ ์๊ฐ์ ์ฃผ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋น์ฐํ ์์์๊ฒ๋ ๋ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ ๊ด๊ณ๋ก ๋ค๊ฐ์๋ค. ‘๊ทธ ์ผ’ ์ดํ๋ก ์์์ผ๋ก ํ์ฌ๊ธ ์ง์ฅ๊ฐ์ ๋ถ๋ฉด์ ๋ฐค์ ๋ณด๋ด๊ฒ ํ๋, ‘๊ทธ ๋ง’ ์์์ ๋ฒ์์ ์์ ๋๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฒฐ์ ํ ๊ฒ์, ๋ฐ์ฟ , ๊ณ ํ, ์คํ์ ํจ๊ป ๋ ์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ ์ฐ์ ์ ์์๊ฐ๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค๋ ์ ํธ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋๋ผ๋ง์์ ๋ช ์์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ค๋ฃจ์ง ์์์ง๋ง ์ด ์ํ์ ๊น์ด ์ดํดํ๋ ์ฌ๋์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ์ค๋กฏ์ด ๋๋ผ๊ณ ์๋ ์์์ด์ ๊น์ ์ ์ ์ ํธ๋ผ์ฐ๋ง์ ์ ์ ์งํ์ ๊ทธ๋์์๋ ์์ํ ๋ฒ์ด๋๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ํฌ๋ง์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ์๋ค.
After Si-eun completely fell apart in Class 1, with nowhere willing to take him in, he barely dodged juvenile detention and got shipped off to Eunjang High – an alternative school in Yeongdeungpo that was basically like a juvie. But thanks to that, Si-eun, who’d been living like an emotional zombie – practically walking dead – ended up meeting Ba-ku, Go-tak, and Jun-tae, and his friendship with these guys – not too close, not too distant – gave him a much more ideal relationship dynamic to look up to, and naturally came across as a much healthier relationship for Si-eun. His decision to let go of Beom-seok’s hand on “that ring” – the one that had been putting him through hellish sleepless nights ever since “that incident” – showed that he was starting to build more sustainable, healthy friendships with Ba-ku, Go-tak, and Jun-tae. And while the drama didn’t spell it out explicitly, anyone who really gets this show could feel the hope that Si-eun was slowly breaking free from the shadows of the deep psychological trauma and mental illness that had been weighing him down.

His decision to let go of Beom-seok’s hand on “that ring”
ํด๋์ค 1์์ ์ํธ๋ฅผ ์์ ๋๊ฐ๋ก ์์์ด ๊ฒช์ ๊ฑฐ๋ํ ์ ์ ์ ์ธ ๋ถ๊ดด๋ ๋จ์ํ ๋น๊ทน์ด ์๋๋ผ ์์์ด ๊ฒช์ด์ผ๋ง ํ๋ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ์ฑ์ฅ์ด์๋ค. ๊ป์ง์ ๊นจ๊ณ ๋์จ ์๊ฐ ๊ป์ง์ ๊นจ๊ณ ๋์จ ๊ฒ ๋ง์ผ๋ก๋ ์ด์๊ฐ ์ ์๋ค. ์ด์จ๋ , ๋ ์๊ฐ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๊ฑฐ์ณ์ผ ํ๋ ํ์ํ ๊ณผ์ ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ง์ด๋ค. ์๋ ์ ์์ ์ ๋์ฒ ๋ฉ์ปค๋์ฆ – ์๋ฒฝํ ์ฑ์ , ๊น์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ ์ฐฉ ๋์์ผ๋ก์์ ์ํธ – ์ ํ ์ด ๊ฐ๋๋ผ๋ ์ด์จ๋ (์ด์ฑ์ ์์ง ์๊ณ …) ์จ์ฌ๋ ๋ฒ์ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๊ณ ๋ ธ๋ ฅํด์ผ๋ง, ์ด๋ฅธ์ผ๋ก ์ฑ์ฅํ ์ ์์๋ค. ๋ง์ฝ, ์๋ ์ ๋ด์ฌ๋ ํญ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ด ๋์ฒ ๋ฉ์ปค๋์ฆ์ด๋ ๊ฒฉ๋ ฌํ๊ฒ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋์ด ์๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ ์ฐฉ ๋์์ ๊ท ์ด์ด ๊ฐ๊ฑฐ๋ ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ ์๊ธธ ๋๋ง๋ค ๋ฐ๋๋์ด ์ํดํ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์ง๊ฒฐ๋๋ค๋ฉด, ์๋ ์ ์ค์ค๋ก๋ฅผ ์จ์ ํ ์ด๋ฅธ์ผ๋ก ์ฑ์ฅ์ํฌ ์ ์์์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
The massive psychological breakdown Si-eun went through as the price for losing Su-ho in Class 1, and consequently being sent to Eunjang High where he met new friends, wasn’t simply tragedy but the psychological growth Si-eun had to go throughโa bird that breaks out of its shell can’t survive just by breaking out. Ultimately, it’s like the necessary process it has to go through to learn how to fly. The boy had to learn and work to live without his coping mechanisms – perfect grades, Su-ho as an object of deep emotional attachment – to truly grow into an adult. If the boy’s inherent violence kept getting triggered and ended up with him harming himself every time his coping mechanisms or the objects of his deeply controlling emotional attachments got damaged or disrupted, he would never be able to grow into an adult.

“It looks good”
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฏ๋ก, ์ํธ๊ฐ ๊ธด ์ ์์ ๊นจ์ด๋ ๋ค, ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ๋ฌ๋ ค ์จ ์์์ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ง์ด ์๋ “๋ณด๊ธฐ ์ข๋ค” ๋ผ๊ณ ๋์ง ๊ฒ์โ์๋ฏธ๊ฐ ํฌ๋ค. ๊ฑด๊ฐํ ๊ด๊ณ๋ฅผ ํตํด ํผ์ ๋ ์ ์๋ ์๊ฐ ๋ ์์์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ง์ฌ์ผ๋ก ๋๊ฒฌํ๊ฒ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๊ณ ์ถํํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ์ค์ ๋ก ์ํธ์ ์๋ ๋์ฌ๋ “์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์์์ด ๋ค ์ปธ๋ค” ์๋ค๊ณ ํ๋ค.
So when Su-ho woke up from his long sleep and saw Si-eun running over with his friends, the fact that he said “It looks good” out of all things he could have saidโcarries real weight. He was genuinely proud of and celebrating Si-eun’s growth into a bird that could fly on its own through healthy relationships. Apparently, Su-ho’s original line was supposed to be “Our Si-eun has really grown up.”
์์์ด ์๋ฒฝ์ฃผ์์๋ผ๋ ์ฝ๋ฉํฐ์ ์๊ฒฌ์ผ๋ก ๋์๊ฐ๋ฉด, ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ ์ผ ์ ๋๋ก ์๋ฒฝํด์ผํ๊ณ ๋งน๋ชฉ์ ์ผ ์ ๋๋ก ์์คํ ๊ฒ์ด ๋ถ์ด์ง์ง ์๊ฒ ๋๋ ค๋ ์์์ ์ฑํฅ์ ์ ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์บ๋ฆญํฐ ์ฌ์ ์์ ์ผ๊ด๋๊ฒ ๋ํ๋๋ค. ํ์ ์์ ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ ์ผ ์ ๋๋ก ๋งค๋ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ ์๋ฒฝ์ฃผ์๊ฐ ์ผ์ง๋ค์๊ฒ ์ํ๋ฐ์ผ๋ฉด์ ํต์ ๋ถ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ํญ๋ ฅ์ผ๋ก ์ด์ด์ก๋ค. ์ฒซ์ฌ๋์ด๋ผ๋ ๋จ์ด ์ธ์๋ ๋ฌ๋ฆฌ ์ ์ ๋ด๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์ด๋ ค์ด ํ๋ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ ธ๋ค์ค ์ฐ์ ์ด ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ํ์ ์ง๋ฉดํ๊ณ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์์ค๋ก ์ด์ด์ ธ, ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ๋ถ๊ดด๋ก ๋จ์ด์ง๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ํด๋์ค 2์์ ์๋ก์ด ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๋ก ์ธํ์ฌ ์๋ ๊ทธ๋๋ก์ ๋ถ์์ ํจ์ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๊ณ ์์ ์๊ฒ ๋์ฑ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ ๊ด๊ณ๋ฅผ ํ์ฑํด ๋๊ฐ๋ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค๋ค.
Going back to the commenter’s take on Si-eun being a perfectionist, Si-eun’s tendency to be obsessively perfect and blindly protective of what he holds dear shows up consistently throughout his entire character journey. His obsessive academic perfectionism gets threatened by the bullies, leading to an uncontrollable violent explosion. The friendship that brought wave-like emotions that can hardly be defined as anything other than first love faces multiple threats and eventually leads to loss, ultimately plunging him into complete psychological breakdown. But in Class 2, thanks to his new friends, he shows growth by learning to accept imperfection as it is and forming healthier relationships for himself.

๋ง์ฝ ๊ทธ๊ฐ ์์ ์ ๋ชธ์ ์์ฒ๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ณ ํผ๋ฅผ ํ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด์ ์์ ์ ์ํ๋ค์ ๊ณ์ ๋ณดํธํ๋ค๋ฉด – ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ด ์๋ฒฝํ ‘๋๊ทธ๋ผ๋ฏธ’ ์ด๋ ๊ฐํ ์ ์ฐฉ์ ‘์๋’์ด๋ ) ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๋ ์จ์ ํ ์ฑ์ฅํ ์ ์์์ ๊ฒ์ด๊ณ , ์์์ ์๋ผ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค๋ ์๋ ์ด ์ค์ค๋ก๋ฅผ ์ํดํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ํ์ง ์์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
If he had kept protecting his masterpieces by scarring his own body and shedding blood – whether those were perfect “circles” or objects of intense attachment – he never could have grown up properly, and the people who care about Si-eun wouldn’t want the boy to keep hurting himself either.
์น์ ์์ ํฌ๋ง
๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์์์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ, ์์ฌ๋ฅผ ์๋ฆ๋ต๊ฒ ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ณต์๋ ํญ๋ ฅ์ด ์๋๋ผ ์ด ์๋ ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ด๋ค.
What ultimately makes Si-eun’s story and narrative beautiful isn’t the revenge or violence, but this boy’s growth.
์์ฆ 2๋ ๋ฐ์ฟ , ๊ณ ํ, ์คํ์ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ ์ธ๊ฐ๊ด๊ณ์ ์ฐ์ ์ ํ์ฑํ๋ ๋ฒ์ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๊ณ , ์ ๋ชป ๋ค๊ฒ ํ๋ ๋ง์์ ๋ฒ์์๊ฒ ์ง์ง ์๋ณ์ ๊ณ ํ๋ฉฐ, ์์ฅ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ ๋์๊ณผ ์์ ์ ์์ง๋ก ๋ฌด๊ฒ๊ฒ ๋ด๋ฆฌ ๋๋ฅด๋ ์ฃ์ฑ ๊ฐ์์ ์ค์ค๋ก๋ฅผ ์ฉ์ํ๊ณ ๋์์ฃผ๋ ์ง์ ํ ํ๋ณต๋ ฅ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅด๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋์๋ค. ์์์ ์ด์ ์์ ์ ์๋ก์ด ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ๋ญ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค์ด๊ฐ ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ์ค์ค๋ก๋ฅผ ์ค๋ํ ๋งํผ ์ฑ์ฅํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค. ๋ฐ์ฟ ์๋ฒ์ง์ ๋ง์ฒ๋ผ “๊ทธ ๋๋คํํ ์ํด, ๊ทธ ๋๋ค์ ํ์ ๊ฐ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ด์ผ…”
Season 2 wraps up with him learning to form healthy human relationships and friendships with Ba-ku, Go-tak, and Jun-tae, finally saying goodbye to Beom-seok on that ring that had kept him awake through sleepless nights, and building true resilience through healing with his own strength and help from his Eunjang friends, forgiving himself and letting go of the crushing guilt that had been weighing him down. Si-eun seems to have grown enough to convince himself that he can build something sustainable with his new friends. As Ba-ku’s father said, “Be good to those guys, they’re friends for life…”

๊ฐ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ํน์ ์ง๋์น๊ฒ ์๋ผ๋ ์์ ์ “์๋ช ์ค”์ ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ ์๊ฒจ๋, ํต์ ํ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ ํญ๋ ฅ์ ๋๋ฌ๋ด๋ค ์์ ์ ์์ง ์์ผ๋ฉด์๋, ์ง์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๋๋ฐ์ ์ ์๋ค๋ ํฌ๋ง์ ๋ค์ ํ๋ฒ ๊นจ๋ซ๊ฒ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ด ๋ฌด๋ฅด์ต์ ์ํธ๊ฐ ๋ค์ ๊นจ์ด๋๋ค. “์ ์ด์๋?” “๋ณด๊ธฐ ์ข๋ค”
Even when problems arise with his obsessively or overly cherished “lifelines,” he realizes once again the hope that he can be truly loved without losing control, lashing out violently, and losing himself in the process. And as Si-eun’s growth ripens, Su-ho wakes up again. “Have you been living well?” “It looks good.”
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The fully developed version of this idea is available here: What If Su-ho Had Never Fallen Into a Coma?
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