Tag: #SchoolViolence

  • ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์™€ ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ๋”์šฑ ๊นŠ์€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ: ์‹œ๋„ค๋งˆํ‹ฑ ํŠธ๋ผ์šฐ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ๋‚จ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ํ•œ ๊ทธ ‘๋ง’ ์žฅ๋ฉด์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‘ ์†Œ๋…„์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ

    ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์™€ ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ๋”์šฑ ๊นŠ์€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ: ์‹œ๋„ค๋งˆํ‹ฑ ํŠธ๋ผ์šฐ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ๋‚จ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ํ•œ ๊ทธ ‘๋ง’ ์žฅ๋ฉด์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‘ ์†Œ๋…„์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ

    Su-ho valued, recognized, and loved that crazy quality in Si-eun. That ‘courage’ was a quality Beom-seok never had from the beginning and was the huge source of Beom-seok’s inferiority complex.

    ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์‹œ์€์˜ ๊ทธ ‘๋˜๋ผ์ด ๊ธฐ์งˆ’์„ ๋†’์ด ์ƒ€๊ณ , ์ธ์ •ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ‘์šฉ๊ธฐ’๋Š” ๋ฒ”์„์ด ์• ์ดˆ์— ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋˜ ์žฌ์งˆ์ด๊ณ  ์—ด๋“ฑ๊ฐ์˜ ๊ทผ์›์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

    “Are you dating Ahn Su-ho? Relationships are all about give and take. That guy lets you sleep at his house and gives you a job. What have you given Su-ho in return?”

    โš ๏ธ Please ignore any Korean text that appears โ€“ I’ve noticed Korean fans also visit my blog, so I include Korean notes to help their understanding ๐Ÿ™

    ๐Ÿ“ข Fair Use Notice

    This post contains copyrighted material from “Weak Hero” (ยฉ Wavve/Netflix) used for educational analysis, criticism, and commentary purposes under fair use doctrine. All rights belong to original creators.

    For weeks now, instead of simply consuming and moving on from this beautiful poem of youth called Weak Hero, I’ve been creating content to remember it forever. Through reading hundreds of comments from subscribers worldwide, I feel like I’ve been able to analyze the friendship between Su-ho and Beom-seok from a much broader perspective than I initially thought possible.

    The discussion around Su-ho and Beom-seok’s relationship and friendship doesn’t seem to go as deep as the Si-eun and Su-ho dynamic, but since Beom-seok is ultimately the character who cuts through the core of Weak Hero, we really need a deeper understanding of him.

    ๋ช‡ ์ฃผ์งธ ์•ฝํ•œ์˜์›…์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ์ฒญ์ถ˜์˜ ์‹œ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ์ € ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์ง€๋‚˜์น˜๋Š” ๋Œ€์‹ , ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์•„๋ฌด์ƒ๊ฐ ์—†์ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๋˜ ์œ ํŠœ๋ธŒ ์ฑ„๋„์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ๊ตฌ๋…์ž๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ ๊ฐœ ๋Œ“๊ธ€์„ ๋ฐ›๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. (์ฑ„๋„์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค ๋•Œ๋Š” ๊ทธ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋„ ์ฝ”๋ฉ˜ํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋‚จ๊ธธ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์กฐ์ฐจ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค! ๐Ÿฅน) ์ด ์ฝ”๋ฉ˜ํŠธ๋“ค์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์™€ ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ์šฐ์ •์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ฒ˜์Œ ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋„“์€ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ๋ถ„์„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋œ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค.

    ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์™€ ๋ฒ”์„์ด์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„์™€ ์šฐ์ •์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋…ผ์˜๋Š” ์‹œ์€๊ณผ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ทธ ์ธต์œ„๋ฅผ ๊นŠ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ์ธ๋ฐ, ์•ฝํ•œ์˜์›…์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ทน์˜ ํ•ต์„ ๊ด€ํ†ตํ•˜๋Š” ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋ฒ”์„์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ทธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊นŠ์€ ์ดํ•ด๋Š” ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค.

    “Are you dating Ahn Su-ho? Relationships are all about give and take. That guy lets you sleep at his house and gives you a job. What have you given Su-ho in return?”

    (This scene where he’s basically convinced that Su-ho and Yeong-i are sleeping together… and interrogates Yeong-i about it) reveals Beom-seok’s transactional view of relationships, shaped by his experience with conditional love. He couldn’t understand Su-ho’s kindness toward Yeong-i without assuming she was giving something back. Having never experienced unconditional love, Beom-seok finds it hard to take Su-ho’s goodwill at face value.

    (์•„๋งˆ, ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์™€ ์˜์ด๊ฐ€ ์ž ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ํ™•์‹ ์„ ๊น”๊ณ … ์˜์ด๋ฅผ ๊นŒ๋ณด๋Š” ์ด ์žฅ๋ฉด์€) ์กฐ๊ฑด์  ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์œผ๋กœ ํ˜•์„ฑ๋œ ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์  ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ด€์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ธ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์˜์ด๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋Œ๋ ค์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์ •ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ ๋Š” ์˜์ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์˜ ์นœ์ ˆ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์กฐ๊ฑด์—†๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์„ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•œ ์ ์ด ์—†์—ˆ๋˜ ๋ฒ”์„์€ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์˜ ํ˜ธ์˜๋ฅผ ์•ก๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต๋‹ค.

    The Moment of Explosion: Understanding the Ring Scene

    Season 1 Episode 7 is known among fans as ‘that episode’… the one you need to mentally prepare yourself for before watching. The friendship between Su-ho and Beom-seok reaches its breaking point with escalating tension that hits a shocking climax at a completely unexpected moment, leaving viewers with unforgettable cinematic trauma.

    The ‘ring’ sequence at the underground fighting venue where Su-ho goes serves as the ultimate release of all the psychological tension that had been building throughout these two boys’ relationship. Hong Kyung’s acting in this scene is particularly noteworthy because he brilliantly conveyed that Beom-seok’s final act of violence wasn’t purely evil, but rather an impulsive explosion of all the conflicting love-hate emotions toward Su-ho that had accumulated during their brief but intense friendship.

    ์‹œ์ฆŒ1 ์—ํ”ผ์†Œ๋“œ7ํ™”๋Š” ํŒฌ๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ‘๋ณด๊ธฐ ์ „์— ๋‹จ๋‹จํžˆ ๋งˆ์Œ ๋จน๊ณ  ๋ด์•ผํ•˜๋Š” ‘๊ทธ’ ํšŒ์ฐจ… ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ผ์ปฌ์–ด์งˆ ์ •๋„๋กœ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์™€ ๋ฒ”์„์ด์˜ ์šฐ์ •์˜ ํŒŒ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๊ธด์žฅ๊ฐ์ด ๊ทน์— ๋‹ฌํ•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ฐ์ง€๋„ ๋ชปํ•œ ์ง€์ ์—์„œ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ํŒŒ๊ตญ์„ ๋งž์ดํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ณด๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์žŠ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ์‹œ๋„ค๋งˆํ‹ฑ ํŠธ๋ผ์šฐ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ์•ˆ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

    ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ์ฐพ์•„๊ฐ„ ๊ฒฉํˆฌ๊ธฐ ์žฅ์˜ ‘๋ง’ ์‹œํ€€์Šค๋Š” ์ด ๋‘ ์†Œ๋…„์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์Œ“์—ฌ์™”๋˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์  ๊ธด์žฅ์˜ ์ ˆ์ •์  ๋ฐฉ์ถœ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด ์žฅ๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ ํ™๊ฒฝ์˜ ์—ฐ๊ธฐ๋Š” ํŠนํžˆ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•  ๋งŒํ•œ๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ํญ๋ ฅ์ด ์ˆœ์ „ํžˆ ์•…ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์งง์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฐ•๋ ฌํ•œ ์šฐ์ • ๋™์•ˆ ์Œ“์ธ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ƒ์ถฉํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ž‘-์ฆ์˜ค ๊ฐ์ •์˜ ์ถฉ๋™์  ํญ๋ฐœ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜๋„ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ–ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค.

    When Beom-seok finally strikes Su-ho’s head in that final moment… the camera angles intentionally mirror the previous abuse scenes with his adoptive father. This visual parallel suggests that Beom-seok was projecting all the hatred and pain from his father’s violence onto Su-ho. In this boy’s moment of rage, Su-ho becomes a symbol of everyone who had hurt Beom-seok, everyone who had abused their power over him.

    ๋ฒ”์„์ด ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์— ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์˜ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ… ์นด๋ฉ”๋ผ ์•ต๊ธ€์€ ์˜๋„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์–‘๋ถ€์˜ ์ด์ „ ํ•™๋Œ€ ์žฅ๋ฉด๋“ค์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด ์‹œ๊ฐ์  ํ‰ํ–‰์„ ์€ ๋ฒ”์„์ด ๊ทธ์˜ ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€์˜ ํญ๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ฆ์˜ค์™€ ๊ณ ํ†ต์„ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์—๊ฒŒ ํˆฌ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•”์‹œํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด ์†Œ๋…„์˜ ๋ถ„๋…ธ์˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์—, ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋ฒ”์„์„ ํ•ด์ณค๋˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ, ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ์„ ๋‚จ์šฉํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ด๋“ค์˜ ์ƒ์ง•์ด ๋˜๊ณ ๋งŒ๋‹ค.

    I don’t think Su-ho had any idea he carried this kind of symbolic weight for Beom-seok. From Su-ho’s perspective, when he came to the fighting venue to find Beom-seok and confronted him, if Beom-seok had just accepted his request to ‘apologize to Si-eun and Yeong-i,’ he wouldn’t have fallen for the other bullies’ provocations and the situation would have ended there. Sure, he knew Beom-seok hated him enough to sabotage his bike brakes and potentially cause a serious accident, but Su-ho couldn’t have known that his very existence was a projection of all the hatred that Beom-seok desperately yearned for yet violently resented.

    ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋ฒ”์„์—๊ฒŒ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ƒ์ง•์  ๋ฌด๊ฒŒ๋ฅผ ์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ „ํ˜€ ๋ชฐ๋ž์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์˜ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ, ๋ฒ”์„์„ ์ฐพ์•„ ๊ฒฉํˆฌ๊ธฐ ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์™€ ๊ทธ์™€ ๋งˆ์ฃผํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ๋ฒ”์„์ด ‘์‹œ์€๊ณผ ์˜์ด์—๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ๊ณผํ•ด๋‹ฌ๋ผ’๋ผ๋Š” ๋ถ€ํƒ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์˜€๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ผ์ง„๋“ค ๋„๋ฐœ์— ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์ƒํ™ฉ์€ ์ข…๋ฃŒ๋์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”์ดํฌ์˜ ๋ธŒ๋ ˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๊ณ ์žฅ๋‚ด์„œ ํฐ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์„ ์ •๋„๋กœ ๋ฒ”์„์ด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ฆ์˜คํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณค ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ ๊ทธ๋Š”, ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์กด์žฌ ์ž์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋ฒ”์„์ด ์ ˆ์‹คํžˆ ๋™๊ฒฝํ•˜๊ณ  ์›ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ํญ๋ ฅ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ„๊ฐœํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์ฆ์˜ค๋ฅผ ํˆฌ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค๊นŒ์ง„ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

    The Unanswered Questions: Romantic Feelings or Extreme Attachment?

    While the drama doesn’t explicitly address Beom-seok’s sexual orientation (this isn’t the main theme of the show – the brilliance of Weak Hero’s script lies in not trying to ‘define’ teenage emotions with a single word or label. It lets those shimmering, burning feelings naturally unfold for viewers to follow), the script book details and directing choices portrayed in the show led me to personally interpret that there were somewhat romantic elements in his feelings toward Su-ho.

    Especially reading through the deleted scenes of them drinking beer together by the Han River and going through the script book, I felt that Beom-seok’s admiration for Su-ho was implicitly close to love.

    ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ๊ฐ€ ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ์„ฑ์  ์ง€ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ช…์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด (๋ณธ ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ์˜ ์ฃผ์ œ ์ž์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ์•ฝํ•œ์˜์›… ๊ทน๋ณธ์˜ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚œ ์ ์€ 10๋Œ€๋“ค์˜ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ์–ธ์–ด๋‚˜ ๋‹จ์–ด ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋กœ ‘์ •์˜’ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์— ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์ง€๋ž‘์ด ๊ฐ™์ด ํƒ€์˜ค๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ฐ์ •์„ ๋ณด๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋”ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ ๋†”๋‘”๋‹ค) ๋Œ€๋ณธ์ง‘ ์„ธ๋ถ€์‚ฌํ•ญ๊ณผ ์‡ผ์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋ ค์ง„ ์—ฐ์ถœ ์„ ํƒ๋“ค์ด ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ฐ์ •์— ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋กœ๋งจํ‹ฑํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ํ•ด์„์„ ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

    ํŠนํžˆ ์‚ญ์ œ๋œ ํ•œ๊ฐ• ๋ณ€์—์„œ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋งฅ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์‹œ๋Š” ์žฅ๋ฉด๊ณผ ์Šคํฌ๋ฆฝํŠธ๋ถ์„ ์ฝ์œผ๋ฉด์„œ, ์•”์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฒ”์„์ด์˜ ๋™๊ฒฝ์ด ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์— ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค๋ผ๊ณ  ๋А๊ผˆ๋‹ค.

    I felt that Beom-seok’s admiration for Su-ho was implicitly close to love..

    But the question of whether these feelings were romantic is less important than understanding the intensity and impact these two characters had on each other that drove the drama. Whether we categorize Beom-seok’s feelings as romantic love, intense admiration, or obsessive fixation, the result is the same: he placed Su-ho at the center of his emotional universe in a way that was neither healthy nor sustainable.

    ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ฐ์ •๋“ค์ด ๋กœ๋งจํ‹ฑํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€์˜ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๋‘ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์„œ๋กœ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ผ์นœ ๊ทน์„ ์ด๋ˆ ๊ฐ•๋„์™€ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ๋กœ๋งจํ‹ฑํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘, ๊ฐ•๋ ฌํ•œ ๋™๊ฒฝ, ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ฐ•์  ๊ณ ์ฐฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ„๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๋“ , ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋™์ผํ•˜๋‹ค: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜์ง€๋„ ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜์ง€๋„ ์•Š์€ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฐ์ •์  ์šฐ์ฃผ์˜ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์— ๋‘์—ˆ๋‹ค.

    Su-ho became Beom-seok’s entire self-worth, his validation, his escape from traumaโ€”a burden no single person should ever have to carry. The brilliance of Weak Hero’s script and direction lies in not simplifying or hastily defining these emotions with words. Beom-seok’s feelings seem to exist somewhere between love and obsession, desperately burning anger and jealousy, and an unspoken but possible sexual attraction to the friend he admired.

    ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ์ „์ฒด ์ž์กด๊ฐ, ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ฒ€์ฆ, ํŠธ๋ผ์šฐ๋งˆ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ์˜ ํƒˆ์ถœ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹คโ€”์–ด๋–ค ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋„ ์งŠ์–ด์ ธ์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋  ๋ถ€๋‹ด์ด๋‚˜ ๋‹ค๋ฆ„์—†๋‹ค. ์•ฝํ•œ์˜์›… ๊ฐ๋ณธ๊ณผ ์—ฐ์ถœ์˜ ํƒ์›”ํ•จ์€ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ฐ์ •๋“ค์„ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ™”ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋‹จ์–ด๋กœ์„œ ์„ฃ๋ถˆ๋ฆฌ ์ •์˜๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋ฐ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ๊ฐ์ •๋“ค์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘๊ณผ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ•๋ฐ• ์‚ฌ์ด, ์ ˆ๋ง์ ์ผ ์ •๋„๋กœ ๋“์–ด์˜ค๋ฅด๋Š” ๋ถ„๋…ธ์™€ ์งˆํˆฌ, ๋ช…์‹œ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๋Ÿด์ง€๋„ ๋ชฐ๋ž์„ ๋™๊ฒฝํ•˜๋Š” ์นœ๊ตฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์„ฑ์ ์ธ ๋Œ๋ฆผ ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ๊ณณ๊ณณ์— ์กด์žฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด์—ฌ์ง„๋‹ค.

    This ambiguity makes his character more realistic and tragic, as real human emotions rarely fit into neat categories.

    ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ๊ฐ์ •์˜ ์• ๋งคํ•จ์€… ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋” ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์ด๊ณ  ๋น„๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์คฌ๋‹ค, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ๋„ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ๊ฐ์ •์€ ์–ด๋– ํ•œ ๊น”๋”ํ•œ ๋ฒ”์ฃผ์— ๋งž์•„ ๋–จ์–ด์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ.

    The Cycle of Violence: How Abuse Creates Abusers

    Beom-seok’s story serves as a stark illustration of how childhood abuse creates cycles of violence. His adoptive father’s political ambitions and physical abuse directly contributed to creating someone who would eventually harm others. The show doesn’t use this as an excuse for Beom-seok’s actions, but it presents it as a tragic reality while still holding him accountable for his choices.

    ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ ํ•™๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํญ๋ ฅ์˜ ์ˆœํ™˜์„ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š”์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋šœ๋ ทํ•œ ์˜ˆ์‹œ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์–‘๋ถ€์˜ ์ •์น˜์  ์•ผ๋ง๊ณผ ์‹ ์ฒด์  ํ•™๋Œ€๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ํ•ด์น˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ง์ ‘์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ฝํ•œ์˜์›…์—ฅ์„œ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ถˆ์šฐํ•œ ์„œ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ํ–‰๋™์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ณ€๋ช…์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ, ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ทธ์˜ ์„ ํƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ์ง€๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋น„๊ทน์  ํ˜„์‹ค๋กœ ์ œ์‹œํ•œ๋‹ค.

    The most chilling aspect of Beom-seok’s character development is how logically his violence follows from his experiences. He learned that might makes right, that the strong survive by dominating the weak, and that love must be earned through submission. These lessons, taught through years of abuse, became the foundation for his later actions.

    ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ ๋ฐœ์ „์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์˜ค์‹นํ•œ ์ธก๋ฉด์€ ๊ทธ์˜ ํญ๋ ฅ์ด ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋…ผ๋ฆฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋”ฐ๋ผ์˜ค๋Š”๊ฐ€์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ํž˜์ด ์˜ณ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ, ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์ž๊ฐ€ ์•ฝํ•œ ์ž๋ฅผ ์ง€๋ฐฐํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์ƒ์กดํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์€ ๋ณต์ข…์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์–ป์–ด์ ธ์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐฐ์› ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„์˜ ํ•™๋Œ€๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์ณ์ง„ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ตํ›ˆ๋“ค์ด ๊ทธ ํŒŒ๊ดด์ ์ธ ํญ๋ ฅ์˜ ๊ธฐ์ดˆ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฆฌ๋ผ ๋ณธ๋‹ค.

    However, the drama also shows us moments when Beom-seok could have chosen differently. His friendship with Si-eun and Su-ho definitely offered him hope for building relationships unconditionally, an alternative model for pure friendship. But Beom-seok’s trauma responses were too deeply rooted for him to accept this as it was.

    ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ๋Š” ๋˜ํ•œ ๋ฒ”์„์ด ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์„ ํƒํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋“ค์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค. ์‹œ์€๊ณผ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์™€์˜ ์šฐ์ •์€ ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ ์กฐ๊ฑด์—†์ด ์ธ๊ฐ„๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์ ธ๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ํฌ๋ง, ์ˆœ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ์šฐ์ •์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋Œ€์•ˆ์ ์ธ ๋ชจ๋ธ๋„ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ์ œ์‹œํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณธ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ํŠธ๋ผ์šฐ๋งˆ ๋ฐ˜์‘๋“ค์ด ์ด๋ฅผ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๊ธฐ์—” ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊นŠ์ด ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ•ํ˜€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

    The Question of Forgiveness: Can Su-ho Ever Forgive?

    The most actively discussed topic among fans about these two boys is: would Su-ho forgive Beom-seok if given the chance? Given Su-ho’s character – the way he clearly compartmentalizes emotions and handles them rationally – my opinion is probably not, but many fans had different views on this.

    ํŒฌ๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ๋‘ ์†Œ๋…„ ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํ™œ๋ฐœํžˆ ๋…ผ์˜๋˜๋Š” ์ฃผ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ์–ด์ง„๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋ฒ”์„์„ ์šฉ์„œํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€?์ด๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์˜ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ, ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ์ •์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ์„ฑํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏธ๋ฃจ์•„๋ณด์•„, ๋‚ด ์ƒ๊ฐ์€, ๊ทธ๋Ÿด ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์ง€ ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ, ๋งŽ์€ ํŒฌ๋“ค์˜ ์˜๊ฒฌ์€ ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ๋‹ฌ๋ž๋‹ค.

    “์ž˜ ์‚ด์•˜๋ƒ?”

    The Performance That Brought It All to Life

    Hong Kyung’s acting as Beom-seok was absolutely incredible with its nuanced portrayal of psychological complexity. He managed to make us view Beom-seok as a boy we could feel sympathy for, successfully drawing him as someone who was both very vulnerable and very destructive at the same time. Following the emotional trajectory that Hong Kyung created for Beom-seok, he didn’t try to convince me to accept or justify Beom-seok’s actions, but simply led me to ‘feel’ the psychological mechanisms of that destructive and shocking boy who kicked Su-ho’s head.. (The friend who was probably the most beloved person in his short 17-year lifeโ€ฆ)

    ๋ฒ”์„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ ํ™๊ฒฝ์˜ ์—ฐ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์  ๋ณต์žก์„ฑ์˜ ๋‰˜์•™์Šค ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌ๋กœ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋„ ๋Œ€๋‹จํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฒ”์„์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํ•œ ์†Œ๋…„์„ ๋™์ •์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ๋„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋งค์šฐ ์ทจ์•ฝํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๋™์‹œ์— ๋งค์šฐ ํŒŒ๊ดด์ ์ธ ์ธ๋ฌผ๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๋Š”๋ฐ ์„ฑ๊ณตํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™๊ฒฝ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ€๋‹ค๋ณด๋ฉด ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ํ–‰๋™์„ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋‚ฉ๋“ํ•˜๋ผ๊ณ  ์„ค๋“ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ, (17๋…„์ด๋ž€ ๊ทธ์˜ ์งง์€ ์‚ถ์—์„œ ์•„๋งˆ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์• ์ •ํ–ˆ์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์ธ…) ์นœ๊ตฌ์˜ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฑท์–ด์ฐจ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ ํŒŒ๊ดด์ ์ด๊ณ  ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ ์ด์—ˆ๋˜ ์†Œ๋…„์˜ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์  ๋ฉ”์ปค๋‹ˆ์ฆ˜์„ ๊ทธ์ € ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ‘๋А๋ผ๋„๋ก’ ๋Œ๊ณ ๊ฐ”๋‹ค.

    but simply led me to ‘feel’ the psychological mechanisms of that destructive and shocking boy who kicked Su-ho’s head..

    What impressed me most was his ability to convey Beom-seok’s internal conflict, especially in Episode 7 where love and hatred become indistinguishable. I was amazed by the subtlety of his actingโ€”the process of Beom-seok’s admiration for Su-ho transforming into extreme rage, his desperate level of longing for Su-ho’s recognition… turning into hatred.

    ๋‚ด๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ธ์ƒ์ ์ด์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ๋‚ด์  ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค, ํŠนํžˆ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘๊ณผ ์ฆ์˜ค๊ฐ€ ๊ตฌ๋ณ„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š” 7ํ™”์—์„œ ๋ง์ด๋‹ค. ๋ฐฐ์šฐ ์—ฐ๊ธฐ์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ฌ˜ํ•จ์— ๋†€๋ž๋‹คโ€”์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ๋™๊ฒฝ์ด ๊ทน์— ๋‹ฌํ•œ ๋ถ„๋…ธ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ธ์ •๋ฐ›๊ธฐ ๊ฐˆ๋งํ•˜๋Š”… ์ ˆ๋ง์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ์ฆ์˜ค๋กœ ๋ณ€์ƒ‰๋˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ • ๋ง์ด๋‹ค.

    So he convinced me that Beom-seok’s final act of violence wasn’t calculated evilโ€”not asking for forgiveness or understandingโ€”it was the destructive release of a young boy’s deep, unfulfillable deficiency, feeling he couldn’t get back what he gave to the friend he loved and admired most, and the deep friendship and love he felt he could never obtain from Su-ho. After that, thanks to the actor’s portrayal of a teenage boy trembling and ‘not even knowing why he did it himself.’

    ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ, ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ํญ๋ ฅ์ด ๊ณ„์‚ฐ๋œ ์•…์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋‚ฉ๋“์‹œ์ผฐ๋‹ค, ์šฉ์„œ๋‚˜ ์ดํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹Œโ€”๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋™๊ฒฝํ•˜๋˜ ์นœ๊ตฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Œ๋ ค๋ฐ›์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋А๋‚€ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์†Œ๋…„์˜ ์ ˆ๋Œ€ ์ถฉ์กฑ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๊นŠ์€ ๊ฒฐํ•๊ณผ, ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ์–ป์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋А๊ผˆ๋˜ ๊นŠ์€ ์šฐ์ •๊ณผ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํŒŒ๊ดด์ ์ธ ๋ฐฉ์ถœ ํ›„ ‘์ž๊ธฐ๋„ ์™œ ๊ทธ๋žฌ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋‹ค’ ๋œ๋œ ๋– ๋Š” ์‹ญ๋Œ€ ์†Œ๋…„์„ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•œ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ์˜ ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌ ๋•๋ถ„์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

    Two Different Views, Same Tragic Ending

    What’s interesting about fan analysis is that everyone sees the same character and scenes, but reaches different conclusions about Beom-seok’s psychology. Some see a wounded child spiraling toward catastrophe based on trauma and fear of abandonment. Others see a boy who learned twisted patterns of love and control from an abusive environment, inheriting the bad habits of a terrible adult.

    ํŒฌ๋“ค์˜ ๋ถ„์„์— ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ์™€ ์žฅ๋ฉด๋“ค์„ ๋ณด์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฒฐ๋ก ์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ด ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กญ๋‹ค. ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๋Š” ํŠธ๋ผ์šฐ๋งˆ์™€ ๋ฒ„๋ฆผ๋ฐ›์Œ์˜ ๋‘๋ ค์›€์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ํŒŒ๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ ์น˜๋‹ซ๋Š” ์ƒ์ฒ˜๋ฐ›์€ ์•„์ด๋ฅผ ๋ณธ๋‹ค. ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๋Š” ํ•™๋Œ€์  ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ๋น„ํ‹€๋ฆฐ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘๊ณผ ํ†ต์ œ์˜ ํŒจํ„ด์„ ๋ฐฐ์šด, ๋ชป๋œ ์–ด๋ฅธ์˜ ์•…์Šต์„ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋‚ด๋ ค๋ฐ›์€ ์†Œ๋…„์„ ๋ณธ๋‹ค.

    But both analyses of the character agree on the fundamental tragedy โ€“ Beom-seok never learned healthy ways to process or express intense emotions. Whether you see Beom-seok as a traumatized child or someone with learned patterns of violent control, the result is the same: a young person whose psychology was so damaged that violence became his primary language for dealing with love, disappointment, and loss.

    ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‘ ๋ถ„์„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ๋น„๊ทน์— ๋™์˜ํ•œ๋‹ค โ€“ ๋ฒ”์„์€ ๊ฐ•๋ ฌํ•œ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ”์„์ด๋ฅผ ํŠธ๋ผ์šฐ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ์ž…์€ ์•„์ด๋กœ ๋ณด๋“  ํญ๋ ฅ์  ํ†ต์ œ์˜ ํ•™์Šต๋œ ํŒจํ„ด์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๋กœ ๋ณด๋“ , ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋™์ผํ•˜๋‹ค: ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์†์ƒ๋˜์–ด ํญ๋ ฅ์ด ์‚ฌ๋ž‘, ์‹ค๋ง, ์ƒ์‹ค์„ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ์–ธ์–ด๊ฐ€ ๋œ ์†Œ๋…„.

    young person whose psychology was so damaged that violence became his primary language for dealing with love, disappointment, and loss.

    The Food Connection: How Beom-seok Lost His Language of Love

    Reading through countless thoughtful comments from international fans, what often surprised me was that fans of this drama genuinely enjoy not missing very detailed aspects, thinking about things from multiple angles, and drawing their own conclusions.

    Many fans picked up on how Beom-seok wanted to show his affection not just through the ‘language of violence’ but also through sweet concepts like food. Beom-seok always goes around saying ‘I’ll buy it’ to Si-eun and Su-ho.

    Then, to escape Gil-soo’s threats, he probably took on such a huge risk that if he’d been caught, he might have ended up hospitalized – selling his adoptive father’s watch to get a large sum of money. But when Su-ho and Si-eun wouldn’t accept it (naturally, those two saw Beom-seok as a true friend, and it’s only natural not to accept when a friend brings over ten million won), sadly Beom-seok lost his only way of saying “I love you guys” – through ‘currency’ Of course, Su-ho and Si-eun probably couldn’t even imagine Beom-seok’s depression over this.

    ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ํ•ด์™ธ ํŒฌ๋“ค์˜ ์ •์„ฑ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์ฝ”๋ฉ˜ํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ฝ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์ข…์ข… ๋†€๋ผ๊ฒŒ ํ•œ ์ ๋“ค์€, ์ด ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ์˜ ํŒฌ๋“ค์ด ๋งค์šฐ ๋””ํ…Œ์ผํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ๋†“์น˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ๋„๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด๊ณ  ์ž๊ธฐ๋งŒ์˜ ๊ฒฐ๋ก ์„ ๋‚ด๋ ค๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์ฆ๊ฒจํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŽ์€ ํŒฌ๋“ค์ด ๋ฒ”์„์ด๊ฐ€ ‘ํญ๋ ฅ์˜ ์–ธ์–ด’ ๋ฟ๋งŒ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์Œ์‹๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋‹ฌ๋‹ฌํ•œ ๊ฐœ๋…์œผ๋กœ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์• ์ •์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ดํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ๊ผฌ์ง‘์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ”์„์€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์‹œ์€๊ณผ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์—๊ฒŒ ‘๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์‚ด๊ฒŒ’ ๋ผ๋Š” ๋ง์„ ๋‹ฌ๊ณ  ์‚ฐ๋‹ค.

    ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค, ๊ธธ์ˆ˜์˜ ์œ„ํ˜‘์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์•„๋งˆ ๊ทธ๋กœ์„œ๋Š” ๋ฐœ๊ฐ๋์„ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋ณ‘์›์‹ ์„ธ๋ฅผ ์กŒ์„์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅผ๋งŒํผ ํฐ ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๋‚ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์–‘์•„๋ฒ„์ง€์˜ ์‹œ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํŒ”์•„ ํฐ ๋ˆ์„ ๋งˆ๋ จํ•ด์™”์ง€๋งŒ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์™€ ์‹œ์€์ด ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์„ ๋•Œ (๋‹น์—ฐํ•˜๋‹ค, ๊ทธ ๋‘˜์€ ๋ฒ”์„์ด๋ฅผ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋กœ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์นœ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์ฒœ๋งŒ์›์ด ๋„˜๋Š” ๋ˆ์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ค๋ฉด ๋ฐ›์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ๋‹น์—ฐํ•˜์ง€ ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ) ์•ˆํƒ€๊น๊ฒŒ๋„ ๋ฒ”์„์€ “๋„ˆํฌ๋“ค์„ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•ด”๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ์ž๊ธฐ์˜ ์œ ์ผํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•, ‘ํ™”ํ’๋ฅผ ์žƒ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์™€ ์‹œ์€์€ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ์šฐ์šธ์„ ์ƒ์ƒ์กฐ์ฐจ ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

    Unlike Yeong-bin, Jeong-chan, and Tae-hun’s bully group who he had gained attention and favor from through money, Su-ho and Si-eun truly saw Beom-seok as a friend. Anyway, when his only means of expressing love and affection – ‘money’ – didn’t work, the boy had no other healthy way to communicate his feelings.

    The series of actions Beom-seok showed toward Su-ho, who became an object of love-hate after Yeong-i’s appearance – provocatively testing Su-ho in the cafeteria like ‘I’m this angry. Are you going to hit me too (like my adoptive father, like the Moon-gang bullies)?’ or sabotaging the brakes of Su-ho’s bike, which was essentially his ‘lifeline’ in many ways, leading to a serious accident… and needless to say, the destructive actions on the ‘ring’ – all became the boy’s only remaining strategy for showing affection.

    ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ํ™”ํ๋ฅผ ๋งค๊ฐœ๋กœ ๊ด€์‹ฌ๊ณผ ํ˜ธ๊ฐ์„ ์–ป์—ˆ๋˜ ์˜๋นˆ, ์ •์ฐฌ, ํƒœํ›ˆ ์ผ์ง„ ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋“ค๊ณผ๋Š” ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ, ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์™€ ์‹œ์€์€ ์ง„์ •์œผ๋กœ ๋ฒ”์„์„ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋กœ ์—ฌ๊ฒผ๋‹ค. ์–ด์จŒ๋“  ์‚ฌ๋ž‘๊ณผ ์• ์ •์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋Š” ๋ณธ์ธ์˜ ์œ ์ผํ•œ ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์ธ ‘ํ™”ํ’๊ฐ€ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์ž, ์†Œ๋…„์€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ์†Œํ†ตํ•  ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์˜์ด ๋“ฑ์žฅ ์ดํ›„๋กœ ์• ์ฆ์˜ ๋Œ€์ƒ์ด ๋œ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฒ”์„์ด ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์ผ๋ จ์˜ ํ–‰๋™๋“ค โ€“ ๊ธ‰์‹์‹ค์—์„œ ‘๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ™”๋‚ฌ์–ด. ๋„ˆ๋„ (๋‚ด ์–‘์•„๋ฒ„์ง€์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ, ๋ฌธ๊ฐ•๊ณ  ์ผ์ง„๋“ค์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ) ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๋•Œ๋ฆด๊ฑฐ๋ƒ?’ ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋– ๋ณด๋“ฏ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๋„๋ฐœํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜๋ฏธ๋กœ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์˜ ‘์ƒ๋ช…์ค„’ ์ด๋‚˜ ๋‹ค๋ฆ„์—†๋Š” ๋ฐ”์ดํฌ ๋ธŒ๋ ˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๊ณ ์žฅ๋‚ด ํฐ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง€๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜.. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งํ•  ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์—†์ด ‘๋ง’ ์œ„์—์„œ์˜ ํŒŒ๊ดด์ ์ธ ํ–‰๋™์€ ์†Œ๋…„์—๊ฒŒ ๋‚จ์€ ์• ์ •์„ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์œ ์ผํ•œ ์ „๋žต์ด ๋˜์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ๋‹ค.

    Now, ironically, violence became his only remaining strategy for showing love, which is so heartbreaking.

    When Love Isn’t Enough

    I think the relationship between Beom-seok and Su-ho portrayed in Weak Hero Class 1 will remain one of the most complex and heartbreaking dynamics I’ve seen in K-dramas. (The scene in Episode 7 where Beom-seok kicks Su-ho’s head will remain a cinematic trauma for a very long time, and I can’t help but think it’s one of the masterpiece scenes…) The excellent script, equally excellent acting, and direction showed how Beom-seok’s psychology could be revealed in such a realistic yet destructive way.

    ๋‚ด ์ƒ๊ฐ์— ์•ฝํ•œ์˜์›… ํด๋ž˜์Šค1์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋ ค๋‚ธ ๋ฒ”์„๊ณผ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋Š” ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ์—์„œ ๋ณธ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋ณต์žกํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์Šด ์•„ํ”ˆ ๋ชจ์Šต ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ ๋‚จ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. (7ํ™”์—์„œ ๋ฒ”์„์ด ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์˜ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฑท์–ด์ฐจ ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ ์žฅ๋ฉด์€, ๊ต‰์žฅํžˆ ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ์‹œ๋„ค๋งˆํ‹ฑ ํŠธ๋ผ์šฐ๋งˆ๋กœ ๋‚จ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์–ด์ฉ” ์ˆ˜ ์—†์ด ๋ช…์žฅ๋ฉด ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•œ๋‹ค…) ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๊ฐ๋ณธ๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋งŒํผ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋“ค์˜ ์—ฐ๊ธฐ, ์—ฐ์ถœ์ด ํ•œ ์†Œ๋…„์˜ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์ด๊ณ ๋„ ์ดํ† ๋ก ํŒŒ๊ดด์ ์ธ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋†€๋ผ์› ๋‹ค.

    When Subscribers Become Psychology Experts: Two Brilliant Takes on Why Beom-seok Destroyed Su-ho

    Meanwhile, questions about these translations and nuances keep coming from channel subscribers, and I felt the need to organize thoughts about these two characters I’ve been analyzing for fans who still need to understand the characters through subtitles.

    One subscriber asked about Beom-seok’s tone toward Si-eun in Episode 3 – whether “What are you going to do if something happens to Su-ho?” sounded accusatory or if it was just from anxiety. I explained the Korean translation and nuanced context, and that subscriber replied: “The words sound quite harsh, but Beom-seok’s intention doesn’t necessarily seem to be blame; it seems like the poor kid said that because of extreme anxiety about his precious new friend. He seemed scared that Su-ho might die.”

    ํ•œํŽธ, ์ฑ„๋„ ๊ตฌ๋…์ž๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ฒˆ์—ญ๊ณผ ๋‰˜์•™์Šค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“ค์ด ๊ณ„์† ์ด์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ž๋ง‰์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ๋“ค์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ํŒฌ๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ๋ถ„์„ํ•ด์˜จ ๋‘ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ •๋ฆฌํ•  ํ•„์š”๋ฅผ ๋А๊ผˆ๋‹ค.

    ์–ด๋А ๊ตฌ๋…์ž๊ฐ€ 3ํ™”์—์„œ ์‹œ์€์„ ํ–ฅํ•œ ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ์–ด์กฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ฌผ์—ˆ๋‹ค – “์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ ์ž˜๋ชป๋˜๋ฉด ๋„ˆ ์–ด๋–กํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋ž˜?”๋ผ๋Š” ๋ง์ด ๋น„๋‚œ์กฐ๋กœ ๋“ค๋ ธ๋Š”์ง€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•ด์„œ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ฑด์ง€. ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๋ฒˆ์—ญ๊ณผ ๋‰˜์•™์Šค ์ ์ธ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์„ ์•Œ๋ ค์คฌ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๊ตฌ๋…์ž๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค: “๋ง์€ ๊ฝค ๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋“ค๋ฆฌ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ์˜๋„๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ๋น„๋‚œ์€ ์•„๋‹Œ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค; ๋ถˆ์Œํ•œ ์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ์ƒˆ ์นœ๊ตฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ทน๋„์˜ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋ง์„ ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ์ฃฝ์„๊นŒ ๋ด ๋ฌด์„œ์› ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค.”


    Reading the comments, I sometimes come across analyses that make me suspect they might be studying psychology or working professionally in that field. They share excellent perspectives on why Beom-seok destroyed Su-ho in the ring. One subscriber focused on calling Beom-seok ‘a big body with a child inside who hasn’t fully grown up’ – basically that underneath all the violence he experienced and the manipulation he uses to control people, there’s a pitiful boy who never learned how to give and receive unconditional love or healthy ways to cope with being ‘rejected’ or sometimes ‘abandoned.’

    ์ฝ”๋ฉ˜ํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ฝ๋‹ค๋ณด๋ฉด ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌํ•™์„ ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ง์—…์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ ํ•„๋“œ์— ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š์„๊นŒ ์ถ”์ธก์ด ๋˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ๋ถ„์„์ด ์ „ํ•ด์ง€๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ”์„์ด ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๋ง์—์„œ ํŒŒ๊ดดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋œ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์›์ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํƒ์›”ํ•œ ๊ด€์ ๋“ค์„ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•œ๋‹ค. ํ•œ ๊ตฌ๋…์ž๋Š”, ๋ฒ”์„์ด๋ฅผ ‘๋ชธ์€ ํฌ์ง€๋งŒ ๋‹ค ์ž๋ผ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ์•ˆ์— ์žˆ๋‹ค’๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ์ดˆ์ ์„ ๋งž์ท„๋‹ค – ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•œ ๋ชจ๋“  ํญ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์„ ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ‘๋งค๋‹ˆํ“ฐ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜’ ๊ธฐ์ €์—๋Š” ์กฐ๊ฑด์—†๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์„ ์ฃผ๊ณ  ๋ฐ›๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด๋‚˜ ‘๊ฑฐ์ ˆ๋‹นํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜’, ๋•Œ๋•Œ๋กœ ‘๋ฒ„๋ ค์ง€๋Š”’ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋Œ€์ฒ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์ „ํ˜€ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ๊ฐ€๋ จํ•œ ์†Œ๋…„์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค-๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์ด๋‹ค.

    The Inner Child Theory: When Trauma Creates a Broken Little Boy

    According to this subscriber, every time Su-ho and Si-eun showed friendship to Beom-seok, you could literally see the child inside Beom-seok who hadn’t fully grown up light up. They described this as “a child tasting warmth for the first time,” and because this warmth was so foreign yet sweet to Beom-seok, he became afraid of losing this feeling. When he was finally consumed by the fear that this happiness could be taken away overnight depending on the choices, control, or will of those who gave it to him, he eventually came to resent and then hate those very people.

    ์ด ๊ตฌ๋…์ž์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์™€ ์‹œ์€์ด ๋ฒ”์„์—๊ฒŒ ์šฐ์ •์„ ๋ณด์ผ ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค, ๋ง ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ฒ”์„ ์•ˆ์˜ ๋‹ค ์ž๋ผ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ๋น›๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ด๊ฒƒ์„ “์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•จ์„ ๋ง›๋ณด๋Š”” ์•„์ด๋กœ ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ด ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•จ์ด ๋ฒ”์„์—๊ฒŒ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋‚ฏ์„ค๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๋‹ฌ์ฝคํ–ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ด ๊ฐ์ •์„ ์žƒ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋‘๋ ค์›Œํ•˜๊ณ , ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ๊ทธ ํ–‰๋ณตํ•จ์„ ์ฃผ๋Š” ๋Œ€์ƒ์˜ ์„ ํƒ์ด๋‚˜ ํ†ต์ œ ํ˜น์€ ์˜์‚ฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ํ•˜๋ฃจ์•„์นจ์—๋„ ๋นผ์•—๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹จ ๋‘๋ ค์›€์— ์‚ฌ๋กœ์žกํ˜”์„ ๋•Œ ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ๊ทธ ๋Œ€์ƒ ์ž์ฒด๋ฅผ ์›๋งํ•˜๋‹ค ์ฆ์˜คํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค.

    The Power Dynamics Theory: When Love Becomes Control

    One subscriber tried to understand Beom-seok through a different approach. While most subscribers focused on the wounded inner child within Beom-seok’s character, this fan said they saw something much more calculated and disturbing in Beom-seok. They felt that ‘Beom-seok never had deep admiration for Su-ho in the first place.’

    Instead, they understood that Beom-seok learned a twisted lesson from his adoptive father: “Love someone enough to teach them by hitting them when that loved one disappoints you.”

    The adoptive father adopted Beom-seok and supposedly loved him enough to save him from poverty, right? But he hit him when Beom-seok fell short of expectations and made mistakes. This twisted parenting style of the adoptive father would have influenced Beom-seok’s twisted logic, and according to this logic, if the friend he cared about most fell short of expectations and made mistakes… Su-ho deserved to be hit too. So this fan’s analysis was (๐Ÿฅถ a bit creepy but… interesting!) that from the perspective of interpreting the same sequence from multiple angles being the viewer’s freedom, the ring scene was essentially Beom-seok treating Su-ho the way his adoptive father had treated himโ€”a direct projection of love through control and power.

    ํ•œ ๊ตฌ๋…์ž๋Š”, ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ ‘๊ทผ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฒ”์„์ด๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ๊ตฌ๋…์ž๊ฐ€ ๋ฒ”์„์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ์ƒ์ฒ˜๋ฐ›์€ ๋‚ด๋ฉด์˜ ์•„์ด์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋‚˜, ์ด ํŒฌ์€ ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๊ณ„์‚ฐ์ ์ด๊ณ  ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•œ ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋ฒ”์„ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์• ์ดˆ์— ๋ฒ”์„์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ‘์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊นŠ์€ ๋™๊ฒฝ์€ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค-‘ ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋А๊ผˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค.

    ๋Œ€์‹ , ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ฒ”์„์ด ์–‘๋ถ€๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ “๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๋งŒํผ ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๋Œ€์ƒ์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฅผ ์‹ค๋ง์‹œํ‚ฌ ๋•Œ๋Š” ๋•Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์ณ๋ผ” ๋ผ๋Š” ๋น„ํ‹€๋ฆฐ ๊ตํ›ˆ์„ ๋ฐฐ์› ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํŒŒ์•…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์–‘๋ถ€๋Š” ๋ฒ”์„์„ ์ž…์–‘ํ–ˆ๊ณ  ์–ด์จŒ๋“  ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋‚œ์—์„œ ๊ตฌํ•ด์ค„ ๋งŒํผ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์—ฌ๊ฒจ์ง€์ง€ ์•Š๋‚˜? ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฒ”์„์ด ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์— ๋ชป ๋ฏธ์น˜๊ณ  ์‹ค์ˆ˜ํ•  ๋•Œ๋Š” ๋•Œ๋ ธ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ๋น„ํ‹€๋ฆฐ ๋…ผ๋ฆฌ์—๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์–‘๋ถ€์˜ ๋น„ํ‹€๋ฆฐ ์–‘์œก ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ์ž‘์šฉํ–ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ๋…ผ๋ฆฌ๋Œ€๋กœ๋ผ๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์• ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ์นœ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์— ๋ชป ๋ฏธ์น˜๊ณ , ์‹ค์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด.. ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋„ ๋งž์„ ์ž๊ฒฉ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ˆ ์ด ํŒฌ์˜ ๋ถ„์„์€, (๐Ÿฅถ ์ข€ ์œผ์Šค์Šคํ•˜๊ธด ํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋‚˜…ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์› ๋‹ค!) ๊ฐ™์€ ์‹œํ€€์Šค๋ฅผ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ๋„์—์„œ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ณด๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ์ž์œ ๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์—์„œ ๋ณผ๋•Œ, ๋ง ์žฅ๋ฉด์€, ๋ฒ”์„์ด ์–‘๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋Œ€ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€์˜€๊ณ , ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ†ต์ œ์™€ ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ์˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ํˆฌ์˜๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค– ๋ผ๊ณ  ํŒ๋‹จํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

    The Foundation of Obsession: Beom-seok’s Psychological Blueprint

    But to truly understand the depth of the final tragedy, we need to return to Beom-seok’s psychology, his foundation. Following the drama and script book, what emerges – though not explicitly suggested – is ultimately a portrait of someone who has never experienced unconditional love or emotional stability. (And many fans have confessed to seeing ‘themselves’ in Beom-seok…)

    ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๋น„๊ทน์˜ ๊นŠ์ด๋ฅผ ์ง„์ •์œผ๋กœ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด, ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ, ๊ธฐ์ €๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ์™€ ๋Œ€๋ณธ์ง‘์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ฝ๋‹ค๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋ช…์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์•”์‹œํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฌด์กฐ๊ฑด์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ด๋‚˜ ๊ฐ์ •์  ์•ˆ์ •์„ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•œ ์ ์ด ์—†๋Š” ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€์˜ ์ดˆ์ƒ์ด๋‹ค. (๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งŽ์€ ํŒฌ๋“ค์ด ๋ฒ”์„์—๊ฒŒ์„œ ‘์ž์‹ ’์˜ ์–ผ๊ตด์„ ๋ณธ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ณ ๋ฐฑํ•ด์™”๋‹ค…)

    As an orphan later adopted by politician Oh Jin-won, Beom-seok grew up in an environment where love was conditional and often violent. His adoptive father’s political career took precedence over nurturing, and when Beom-seok failed to meet expectations, he faced physical and emotional abuse.

    ์ •์น˜์ธ ์˜ค์ง„์›์—๊ฒŒ ์ž…์–‘๋œ ๊ณ ์•„๋กœ์„œ, ๋ฒ”์„์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ด ์กฐ๊ฑด์ ์ด๊ณ  ์ข…์ข… ํญ๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ์ž๋ž๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์–‘๋ถ€์˜ ์ •์น˜์  ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ด ์–‘์œก๋ณด๋‹ค ์šฐ์„ ์‹œ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋ฒ”์„์ด ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์— ๋ถ€์‘ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•  ๋•Œ๋Š” ์‹ ์ฒด์ , ์ •์„œ์  ํ•™๋Œ€์— ์ง๋ฉดํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

    What felt particularly unsettling about Beom-seok wasn’t his dramatic final act of violence, but the very narrative of Beom-seok that led to that destructiveness. The boy’s insatiable need for validation (especially from his most beloved friends… Su-ho and Si-eun were just ordinary seventeen-year-old boys…), his inability to accept boundaries, his tendency to test relationships through manipulation, and the learned violence that eventually erupts when situations don’t go his wayโ€”these are patterns that exist in our reality, in actual relationships, in actual schools, in actual workplaces.

    ๋ฒ”์„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํŠนํžˆ ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜จ ์ ์€, ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ทน์ ์ธ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ํญ๋ ฅ ํ–‰์œ„๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๊ทธ ํŒŒ๊ดด์„ฑ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ์„œ์‚ฌ ๊ทธ ์ž์ฒด์ด๋‹ค. ์†Œ๋…„์˜ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ์ฑ„์›Œ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ์ธ์ • ์š•๊ตฌ (ํŠนํžˆ, ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์• ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ.. ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์™€ ์‹œ์€์€ ๊ทธ์ € ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•œ ์—ด์ผ๊ณฑ์˜ ์†Œ๋…„์ผ ๋ฟ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค..) ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฌด๋Šฅ๋ ฅ, ์กฐ์ž‘์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ธ๊ฐ„ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์‹œํ—˜ํ•ด๋ณด๋ ค๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋œป๋Œ€๋กœ ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๋•Œ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋ถ„์ถœ๋˜๋Š” ํ•™์Šต๋œ ํญ๋ ฅ์„ฑโ€”์ด๊ฒƒ๋“ค์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํ˜„์‹ค์˜, ์‹ค์ œ ๊ด€๊ณ„์—์„œ, ์‹ค์ œ ํ•™๊ต์—์„œ, ์‹ค์ œ ์ง์žฅ์—์„œ ์กด์žฌํ•˜๋Š” ํŒจํ„ด๋“ค์ด๋‹ค.

    Script Book Revelations: The Deleted Scenes That Change Everything

    Because I was so obsessed with getting inside Beom-seok’s head, I ended up buying the official script book (yeah, I’m down that deep ๐Ÿ˜‚). There, I discovered details that completely changed my understanding of their relationship dynamics.

    ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์†์„ ๋“ค์—ฌ๋‹ค๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ชฐ๋‘ํ•œ ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€, ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๊ณต์‹ ๋Œ€๋ณธ์ง‘… ๊นŒ์ง€ ์‚ฌ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค (๊ทธ๋ž˜, ์ด ์ •๋„๋กœ ๊นŠ์ด ๋น ์กŒ๋‹ค ๐Ÿ˜‚). ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‚˜์˜ ์ดํ•ด๋ฅผ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๋ฐ”๊พผ ๋””๋ ‰์…˜๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.


    In the deleted Han River scene where Su-ho and Beom-seok come out after playing pool and drink beer together, the script includes specific directions: “When Su-ho puts his arm around Beom-seok’s shoulder, he smiles shyly,” “He agrees with and laughs at everything Su-ho says”

    ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์™€ ๋ฒ”์„์ด ํฌ์ผ“๋ณผ์„ ์น˜๊ณ  ๋‚˜์˜ค๊ณ , ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋งฅ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์‹œ๋Š” ์‚ญ์ œ๋œ ํ•œ๊ฐ• ์žฅ๋ฉด์—์„œ, ๋Œ€๋ณธ์—๋Š” ํŠน์ • ๋””๋ ‰์…˜์ด ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, “์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋ฒ”์„์ด ์–ด๊นจ์— ํŒ”์„ ๋‘๋ฅด๋ฉด ์ˆ˜์ค๊ฒŒ ์›ƒ๋Š”๋‹ค”, “์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์— ๋™์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์›ƒ๋Š”๋‹ค”

    When I personally felt about it, this direction didn’t seem like a portrayal of ordinary boys’ friendship. (This is a very personal perspective!) Looking at this direction, upon reflection… I couldn’t help but wonder if the production team had ever explicitly given similar directing to Si-eun when he was with Su-ho. Beom-seok “smiling shyly when Su-ho puts his arm around his shoulder” and “agreeing with everything Su-ho says”… these directions reminded me of someone whose heart is fluttering when alone with their romantic interest, like a first date scene.

    ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋А๊ผˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋””๋ ‰์…˜์€ ์ผ์ƒ์ ์ธ ์†Œ๋…„๋“ค์˜ ์šฐ์ •์˜ ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌ๋Š” ์•„๋‹ˆ๊ฒŒ ๋А๊ปด์กŒ๋‹ค. (๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์ธ ๊ด€์ ์ด๋‹ค, ๋ฌผ๋ก ) ์ด ๋””๋ ‰์…˜์„ ๋ณด์•˜์„ ๋•Œ, ๊ฐ€๋งŒํžˆ ์งš์–ด๋ณด๋ฉด… ์—ฐ์ถœ ์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ œ์ž‘์ง„์ด ์‹œ์€์ด ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์žˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์‹œ์€์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์—ฐ์ถœ์„ ๋ช…์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋””๋ ‰ํŒ… ์ค€ ์ ์ด ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ”์„์ด “์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๊นจ์— ํŒ”์„ ๋‘๋ฅด๋ฉด ์ˆ˜์ค๊ฒŒ ์›ƒ๋Š”๋‹ค” “์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์— ๋™์˜ํ•œ๋‹ค”… ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋””๋ ‰์…˜์ด, ๋‚ด๊ฒŒ๋Š” ๋งˆ์น˜ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ์ด์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋‹จ๋‘˜์ด ์žˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์‹ฌ์žฅ์ด ๋‘๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•˜๋Š” ์žฅ๋ฉด์„ ์—ฐ์ƒ์ผ€ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

    What further convinced me in my personal interpretation… was the scene right before Beom-seok meets Si-eun, Su-ho, and Yeong-i at the cafe on the weekend – the scene where Beom-seok arranges his hair while looking at himself in a full-length mirror before checking Su-ho’s Instagram. Considering that this drama had the pressure of containing all the characters’ narratives and vast storylines, and there were only 8 episodes, I viewed every scene as compressed and meaningful within itself.

    So the intentional choice to include a close-up of Beom-seok arranging his hair and checking his appearance in the mirror seemed to me like a hint – though not explicitly mentioned or defined – suggesting his sexual feelings toward Su-ho. In a drama where every minute and second of scenes are symbolic and meaningful, why would they spend time on a close-up of him fixing his hair unless they intended to convey something specific about Beom-seok’s emotional state and intentions?

    Of course, the fun of watching the precarious boundary between friendship among cute-looking boys and the intense bromance undertones throughout the drama is an emotion that anyone watching this show feels, and Si-eun and Su-ho’s strong bromance is welcomed everywhere and delights fans.

    But honestly, in terms of this drama’s direction, I didn’t feel even a single directorial ‘hint’ suggesting that Si-eun had sexual feelings toward Su-ho, compared to the ‘suggestive direction’ given to Beom-seok.

    Su-ho is officially (as the director revealed) Si-eun’s ‘first love,’ but this is because Su-ho made the thoroughly self-isolated Si-eun feel for the very first time a flood of countless emotions – friendship, respect, admiration, awe, happiness, laughter, anxiety about possibly losing someone precious – and if there was one word that could contain this flood of various emotions, it could only be platonic ‘first love.’

    ๊ฐœ์ธ์  ํ•ด์„์— ๋”์šฑ ์„ค๋“์„ ๋‹น๊ฒผ๋˜ ์ ์€… ์‹œ์€, ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ, ์˜์ด์™€ ์ฃผ๋ง์— ์นดํŽ˜์—์„œ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ „ ์žฅ๋ฉด์œผ๋กœ, ๋ฒ”์„์ด ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์˜ ์ธ์Šคํƒ€๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์ „์— ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ „์‹  ๊ฑฐ์šธ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์ •๋ˆํ•˜๋Š” ์žฅ๋ฉด์ด๋‹ค. ์ด ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ๋“  ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ์˜ ์„œ์‚ฌ์™€ ๋ฐฉ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ๋ผ์ธ์„ ๋‹ด์•„์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ์••๋ฐ•์ด ์žˆ๊ณ , ์—ํ”ผ์†Œ๋“œ๋Š” 8ํ™”๋ฐ–์— ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๋ฉด, ๋ชจ๋“  ์žฅ๋ฉด์€ ์••์ถ•๋œ ์ฑ„ ๊ทธ ์•ˆ์— ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์กŒ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.

    ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๋ฒ”์„์ด ๊ฑฐ์šธ์—์„œ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ •๋ˆํ•˜๊ณ  ์™ธ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋Š” ํด๋กœ์ฆˆ์—…์„ ํฌํ•จ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ์˜๋„์ ์ธ ์„ ํƒ์ด ๋‚ด๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ทธ์˜ ์„ฑ์• ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ์•”์‹œํ•˜๋Š”, ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋ช…์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์–ธ๊ธ‰๋˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ •์˜๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ, ์ผ์ข…์˜ ํžŒํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ์„๊นŒ ์‹ถ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  ์ผ๋ถ„์ผ์ดˆ์˜ ์žฅ๋ฉด์ด ์ƒ์ง•์ ์ด๊ณ  ์˜๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ทน์—์„œ, ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ๊ฐ์ • ์ƒํƒœ์™€ ์˜๋„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํŠน์ •ํ•œ ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์˜๋„๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๋ฉด ์™œ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋งค๋งŒ์ง€๋Š” ํด๋กœ์ฆˆ์—…์— ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ํ• ์• ํ–ˆ์„๊นŒ?

    ๋ฌผ๋ก , ๊ท€์—ฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ธด ์†Œ๋…„๋“ค๋ผ๋ฆฌ ๋นš์–ด๋‚ด๋Š” ์šฐ์ •๊ณผ ๊ทน ์ „์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ง„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊น”๋ฆฐ ์–ธ๋”ํ†ค ๋ธŒ๋กœ๋งจ์Šค์˜ ์•„์Šฌ์•„์Šฌํ•œ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋Š” ์žฌ๋ฏธ๋Š” ์ด ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋Š” ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ๋А๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฐ์ •์ด๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ง€์ ์—์„œ ์‹œ์€๊ณผ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์˜ ๋ˆ๋ˆํ•œ ๋ธŒ๋กœ๋งจ์Šค๋Š” ์–ด๋””์„œ๋‚˜ ํ™˜์˜๋ฐ›๊ณ  ํŒฌ๋“ค์„ ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์†”์งํžˆ ์ด ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ์˜ ์—ฐ์ถœ ์ƒ ์‹œ์€์ด ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์—๊ฒŒ ์„ฑ์• ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ๊ฐ€์กŒ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋А๊ปด์ง€๋Š” ์—ฐ์ถœ์ ์ธ ‘์•”์‹œ’๋Š” ๋ฒ”์„์ด์—๊ฒŒ ์ฃผ์–ด์ง„ ‘์•”์‹œ์ ์ธ ์—ฐ์ถœ’์— ๋น„ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋‹จ ํ•œ ๊ตฐ๋ฐ๋„ ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ๋А๊ปด์ง€์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.

    ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๊ณต์‹์ ์œผ๋กœ๋„ (๊ฐ๋…๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ๋ฐํ˜”๋“ฏ์ด) ์‹œ์€์˜ ‘์ฒซ์‚ฌ๋ž‘’์ธ๋ฐ, ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ์ฒ ์ €ํžˆ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ฆฝํ–ˆ๋˜ ์‹œ์€์ด ๋‚œ์ƒ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋А๋‚€ ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ๊ฐ์ •์˜ ํ™์ˆ˜๋“ค- ์šฐ์ •, ์กด๊ฒฝ์‹ฌ, ๋™๊ฒฝ์‹ฌ, ๊ฒฝ์™ธ, ํ–‰๋ณต, ์›ƒ์Œ, ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ์กด์žฌ๋ฅผ ์žƒ์„์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•จ – ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฐ–๊ฐ€์ง€ ๊ฐ์ •์˜ ํ™์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋‹ด์„๋งŒํ•œ ๋‹จ ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋‹จ์–ด๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ํ”Œ๋ผํ† ๋‹‰ํ•œ ‘์ฒซ์‚ฌ๋ž‘’ ๋ฐ–์— ์—†์—ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋ฆฌ๋ผ ๋ณธ๋‹ค.

    Considering that this drama had the pressure of containing all the characters’ narratives and vast storylines, and there were only 8 episodes, I viewed every scene as compressed and meaningful within itself.

    The Instagram Incident: A Symbol of Deeper Rejection

    The scene that actually made me chuckle (not in a bad way) was when even at the club with Jeong-chan’s group, Beom-seok was still hanging onto his obsessive fixation on Su-ho, agonizing over whether or not to unfollow him on Instagram… that expression on Beom-seok’s face that looked like he was about to crumble at any moment.

    Beom-seok’s expression as he held drinks and went to hit on the older girls to fit in with Jeong-chan’s group also… made me chuckle (not in a bad way). Even in the moment when he went to the table with the girls and gulped down a drink, his head was still completely filled with his obsession about Su-ho.

    ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๋ณด๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆํ„ธ์›ƒ์Œ์— ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šธ ์ •๋„๋กœ ์‹ค์†Œํ•œ ์žฅ๋ฉด์€ (๋‚˜์œ ๋œป์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค) ์ •์ฐฌ ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ํด๋Ÿฝ์— ๊ฐ€์„œ๋„ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ•๋ฐ•์— ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ์ง‘์ฐฉ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ธ์Šคํƒ€๊ทธ๋žจ ํŒ”๋กœ์šฐ ์ทจ์†Œ๋ฅผ ํ• ๊นŒ๋ง๊นŒ ๋งค๋‹ฌ๋ ค ์žˆ๋˜… ๊ทธ ๋‹น์žฅ์ด๋ผ๋„ ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์งˆ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฒ”์„์ด์˜ ํ‘œ์ •์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •์ฐฌ ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ์–ด์šธ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ˆ ์„ ๋“ค๊ณ  ๋ˆ„๋‚˜๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€์‹œํ•˜๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋ฒ”์„์ด์˜ ํ‘œ์ •์€… ์—ญ์‹œ (๋‚˜์œ ๋œป์ด ์•„๋‹˜) ์‹ค์†Œ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜์˜ค๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ˆ„๋‚˜๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ํ…Œ์ด๋ธ”๋กœ ๊ฐ€์„œ ์ˆ  ํ•œ์ž” ๋ฒŒ์ปฅ ๋งˆ์‹œ๋Š” ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์กฐ์ฐจ๋„ ๋จธ๋ฆฟ ์†์—๋Š” ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ•๋ฐ•์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐจ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

    that expression on Beom-seok’s face that looked like he was about to crumble at any moment.

    The Instagram follow situation serves as the perfect microcosm of Beom-seok’s psychological state and his relationship with Su-ho. On the surface, it seems like a trivial teenage concernโ€”who follows whom on social media. But for Beom-seok, this became a symbol of acceptance versus rejection, inclusion versus abandonment.

    ์ธ์Šคํƒ€๊ทธ๋žจ ํŒ”๋กœ์šฐ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์€, ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ ์ƒํƒœ์™€ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์™€์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„์˜ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ์ถ•์†ŒํŒ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ํ‘œ๋ฉด์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์†Œํ•œ ์‹ญ๋Œ€์˜ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์‚ฌโ€”๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ์†Œ์…œ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด์—์„œ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ํŒ”๋กœ์šฐํ•˜๋Š”๊ฐ€โ€”์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฒ”์„์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ˆ˜์šฉ ๋Œ€ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€, ํฌํ•จ ๋Œ€ ๋ฒ„๋ฆผ๋ฐ›์Œ์˜ ์ƒ์ง•์ด ๋˜์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ๋‹ค.

    When Beom-seok discovered that Su-ho followed Yeong-i but didn’t respond to his own follow request, it confirmed his vague fear about his own worth and where he stood with his most beloved friend – that he might be ‘an unimportant existence.’ For a teenager with abandonment trauma, the meaning of social media interactions isn’t simple.

    Honestly, seeing news about teenagers making extreme choices because of social media isn’t uncommon, so I think addressing social media incidents in the drama was a realistic choice. The brilliance of this plot device lies in the ‘familiarity’ of our reality. Most viewers, even if they wouldn’t react as extremely as Beom-seok, can fully understand the pain of social media rejection, and this isn’t necessarily something you feel more sensitively just because you’re a ‘teenager.’

    ๋ฒ”์„์ด ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ์˜์ด๋ฅผ ํŒ”๋กœ์šฐํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ํŒ”๋กœ์šฐ ์š”์ฒญ์—๋Š” ๋‹ตํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜์™€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์• ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ์นœ๊ตฌ์—๊ฒŒ์„œ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์œ„์น˜๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋””์ธ์ง€ ๋ง‰์—ฐํžˆ ‘์ค‘์š”ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์กด์žฌ๋Š” ์•„๋‹๊นŒ…’ ๋ผ๋Š” ๋ง‰์—ฐํ•œ ๊ทธ์˜ ๋‘๋ ค์›€์„ ํ™•์ธ์‹œ์ผœ์ฃผ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋ฒ„๋ฆผ๋ฐ›๋Š”๋‹ค๋Š” ํŠธ๋ผ์šฐ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ์‹ญ๋Œ€์—๊ฒŒ ์†Œ์…œ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ์ƒํ˜ธ์ž‘์šฉ์ด ๊ฐ€์ง€๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค.

    ์†”์งํžˆ, ์†Œ์…œ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ทน๋‹จ์ ์ธ ์„ ํƒ์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹ญ๋Œ€๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‰ด์Šค๋„ ์‹ฌ์‹ฌ์น˜ ์•Š๊ฒŒ ์ „ํ•ด์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๊ทน์—์„œ ์†Œ์…œ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋‹ค๋ฃฌ ๊ฒƒ์€ ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์ธ ์„ ํƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด ํ”Œ๋กฏ ์žฅ์น˜์˜ ํƒ์›”ํ•จ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ํ˜„์‹ค์˜ ‘์ต์ˆ™ํ•จ’์— ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์‹œ์ฒญ์ž๋“ค์€ ๋ฒ”์„๋งŒํผ ๊ทน๋‹จ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ˜์‘ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋”๋ผ๋„ ์†Œ์…œ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€์˜ ์•„ํ””์„ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์ดํ•ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ  ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ‘์‹ญ๋Œ€’๋ผ์„œ ๋”์šฑ ๋ฏผ๊ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋А๋‚€๋‹ค- ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

    What makes this incident even more heartbreakingly dramatic is that Su-ho probably had no idea about the importance Beom-seok placed on social media interactions that weren’t particularly valuable to him. Su-ho’s casual approach to social media versus Beom-seok’s desperate obsession with recognition and acceptance also represented a fundamental mismatch between the two friendsโ€”in how those two boys processed their emotions.

    ์ด ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์„ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ€์Šด์•„ํ”„๊ฒŒ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋งˆ๋„ ๋ฒ”์„์ด… ๋ณธ์ธ์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋‹ฅ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์†Œ์…œ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ์ƒํ˜ธ์ž‘์šฉ์— ๋‘๋Š” ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ „ํ˜€ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์ผ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์†Œ์…œ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์˜ ๊ฐ€๋ฒผ์šด ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋Œ€ ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ์ ˆ๋ง์ ์ธ ์ธ์ •๊ณผ ์ˆ˜์šฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ•๋ฐ•์€ ๋‘ ์นœ๊ตฌ์˜ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ๋ถˆ์ผ์น˜๋ฅผ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ๋‹คโ€”๊ทธ ๋‘ ์†Œ๋…„์ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์— ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๋ง์ด๋‹ค.

    The Test of Violence: Su-ho’s Physical Aggression as Betrayal

    One of the most interesting analyses I encountered from international fans was when they offered a new perspective from a scope that many people missed or didn’t think about. Su-ho’s physical violence toward Beom-seok – the visible violence and how it started to derail the two boys’ relationship – for instance, Su-ho forcefully pushing Beom-seok against the wall at the karaoke room or (though it was due to Beom-seok’s provocation…) Su-ho’s choice to deliberately push Beom-seok in the school cafeteria to teach him a lesson – these weren’t simply moments of conflict. From Beom-seok’s perspective, there was a comment saying it was a destructive betrayal by his friend.

    ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ํ•ด์™ธ ํŒฌ๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ ‘ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์› ๋˜ ๋ถ„์„ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋†“์น˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ƒ๊ฐ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋˜ ๋ฒ”์œ„์—์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ๊ฐ์„ ์ œ์‹œํ•  ๋•Œ ์˜€๋˜ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. ๋ฒ”์„์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€ํ•ด์ง„ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์˜ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ํญ๋ ฅ, ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ๋ˆˆ์— ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜๋Š” ํญ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์ด๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋‘ ์†Œ๋…„์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋น—๊ฒจ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€, ์ด๋ฅผํ…Œ๋ฉด ๋…ธ๋ž˜๋ฐฉ์—์„œ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋ฒ”์„์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฒฝ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ€์น˜๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„๋‚˜ (๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ๋„๋ฐœ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด์„œ์˜€์œผ๋‚˜…) ํ•™์ƒ ์‹๋‹น์—์„œ ์˜๋„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฒ”์„์—๊ฒŒ ๊ตํ›ˆ์„ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฐ€์น˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์˜ ์„ ํƒ์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ๋‹คโ€”๋ฒ”์„์˜ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์นœ๊ตฌ์˜ ํŒŒ๊ดด์ ์ธ ๋ฐฐ์‹ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ ์ฝ”๋ฉ˜ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

    Even if Su-ho and Si-eun didn’t fully understand the extent of abuse Beom-seok endured, they were aware that Beom-seok was a major victim of school violence. Looking at this narrative through that lens, for a boy with deep trauma from various forms of violence like Beom-seok, violence from Su-ho would have been even more destructive, regardless of his intentions.

    ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์™€ ์‹œ์€์€ ๋ฒ”์„์ด ๊ฐ๋‚ดํ•˜๋Š” ํ•™๋Œ€ ์ •๋„๋ฅผ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋”๋ผ๋„, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ฒ”์„์ด ํ•™๊ต ํญ๋ ฅ์˜ ํฐ ํ”ผํ•ด์ž์ธ ์ ์„ ์ธ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์„œ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋น—๋Œ€์–ด ๋ณด์ž๋ฉด, ๋ฒ”์„๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ชจ์Šต์˜ ํญ๋ ฅ์— ๊นŠ์€ ํŠธ๋ผ์šฐ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ์ง€๋‹Œ ์†Œ๋…„์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ์˜ ํญ๋ ฅ์ด ๊ทธ ์˜๋„๊ฐ€ ์–ด์ฐŒ๋๋“  ๋”์šฑ ํŒŒ๊ดด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์™”์œผ๋ฆฌ๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์ด๋‹ค.

    ‘This guy is done… he’s crossed my ‘boundary’

    Through this lens, the cafeteria scene became particularly tragic, according to a comment. Beom-seok seemed to be testing Su-hoโ€”would Su-ho treat him the same way his adoptive father and those bastards from Moon-gang High did? From Beom-seok’s perspective, when Su-ho succumbed to his sense of justice and feelings of anger toward his corrupted friend, he failed miserably in Beom-seok’s test.

    ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ Œ์ฆˆ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ณผ ๋•Œ ์‹๋‹น ์žฅ๋ฉด์€ ํŠนํžˆ ๋น„๊ทน์ ์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค, ๋ผ๋Š” ์ฝ”๋ฉ˜ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋ฒ”์„์ด ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ์‹œํ—˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹คโ€”์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ์˜ ์–‘์•„๋ฒ„์ง€, ๋ฌธ๊ฐ•๊ณ ์˜ ๊ทธ ์”น์ƒˆ๋ผ๋“ค์ด ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋Œ€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€? ๋ฒ”์„์ด์˜ ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œ๋Š”, ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋ณธ์ธ์˜ ์ •์˜๊ฐ๊ณผ ๋ณ€์งˆ๋œ ์นœ๊ตฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ถ„๋…ธ์˜ ๊ฐ์ •์— ๊ตด๋ณตํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฒ”์„์ด์˜ ์‹œํ—˜์—์„œ ์ฒ˜์ฐธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์‹คํŒจํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

    The fact that Su-ho looked at Si-eun for so long before forcefully pushing Beom-seok against the table, signaling ‘This guy is done… he’s crossed my ‘boundary’ suggests that Su-ho perfectly understood and controlled what kind of physical penalty would be imposed on Beom-seok, and this also represents the death of the idealized, admired friend within Beom-seok.

    The friend that Beom-seok, with his fundamental anxiety about people, had placed on the inner scale and pedestal as the most admired and loved – that friend who should have been different from all the other people who had hurt Beom-seok – proved in that moment that he too could inflict the same violence on him. For Beom-seok, this wasn’t simply a humiliating moment that triggered his inferiority complex.

    ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋ฒ”์„์„ ํ…Œ์ด๋ธ”๋กœ ํž˜๊ป ๋ฐ€์น˜๊ธฐ ์ „์— ์‹œ์€์—๊ฒŒ ‘์ด ๋…€์„์€ ๋” ์ด์ƒ์€ ์•ˆ๋ผ… ๋‚ด ‘๋ฐ”์šด๋”๋ฆฌ’๋ฅผ ๋– ๋‚ฌ์–ด’ ๋ผ๊ณ  ์‹œ๊ทธ๋„์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด๋ฉฐ, ์‹œ์€์„ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ดค๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋ฒ”์„์—๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋–ค ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ํŽ˜๋„ํ‹ฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€ํ•ด์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ธ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์ปจํŠธ๋กคํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์„ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฒ”์„์—๊ฒŒ ์žˆ์–ด ๊ทธ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ์ด์ƒํ™”๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋˜ ๋™๊ฒฝํ•˜๋˜ ์นœ๊ตฌ์˜ ์ฃฝ์Œ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

    ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ทผ์›์ ์ธ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฒ”์„์ด ๋‚ด๋ฉด์˜ ์ €์šธ, ๋ฐ›์นจ๋Œ€์— ์˜ฌ๋ ค๋†“์•˜๋˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋™๊ฒฝํ•˜๊ณ  ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์นœ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€, ๋ฒ”์„ ๊ทธ ์ž์‹ ์„ ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ํ•ด์ณค๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ๋Š” ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ทธ ์นœ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€, ์ž์‹ ์„ ๊นŠ์ด ๋ง์ณ๋†“์•˜๋˜ ๋™์ผํ•œ ํญ๋ ฅ์„ ์ž์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ ํ–‰ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค-๋ผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ์ž…์ฆํ•ด๋ณด์ธ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๋ฒ”์„์—๊ฒŒ ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์—ด๋“ฑ๊ฐ์„ ์ž๊ทนํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชจ์š•์ ์ธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋งŒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

    The “Line” That Beom-seok Crossed: Su-ho’s Boundaries

    Su-ho operates with clear emotional boundaries, and once someone crosses his line, he cuts them off completely. This becomes evident in episode 6 when Yeong-bin asks Beom-seok, “Hey, didn’t Ahn Su-ho block your number?”

    ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋Š” ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ๊ณ ๋ฅด๋Š” ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ์˜ ์„ ์„ ๋„˜์œผ๋ฉด ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์ฐจ๋‹จํ•ด๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์ด์—ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ 6ํ™”์—์„œ ์˜๋นˆ์ด ๋ฒ”์„์—๊ฒŒ “์•ผ, ์•ˆ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ ๋ฒˆํ˜ธ ์ฐจ๋‹จํ•œ ๊ฑฐ ์•„๋‹ˆ์•ผ?”๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฌผ์„ ๋•Œ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํ•ด์ง„๋‹ค.

    We can’t be sure if Su-ho actually blocked him, but what matters is Beom-seok’s reaction to this teasing. His scary expression and angry reaction reveal how deeply the possibility of being permanently ‘blocked’ by Su-ho affects Beom-seok. What’s striking is that Beom-seok had never talked back to Yeong-bin’s group like this beforeโ€”this was the first time we saw Beom-seok react so defensively and emotionally to their mockery, directly showing how sensitive this boy was about his relationship with Su-ho.

    ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ฐจ๋‹จํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์—†์ง€๋งŒ, ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ด ๋†€๋ฆผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ๋ฐ˜์‘์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ฌด์„œ์šด ํ‘œ์ •๊ณผ ํ™”๋‚œ ๋ฐ˜์‘์€ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์˜๊ตฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ‘์ฐจ๋‹จ’ ๋˜์—ˆ์„์ง€ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด ๋ฒ”์„์—๊ฒŒ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๊นŠ์ด ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š”์ง€ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ธ๋‹ค. ์ด์ƒ‰์ ์ธ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€, ๋ฒ”์„์ด ์ด์ „์—๋Š” ์˜๋นˆ ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋ง๋Œ€๊พธํ•œ ์ ์ด ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹คโ€”๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์กฐ๋กฑ์— ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋ฐฉ์–ด์ ์ด๊ณ  ๊ฐ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ˜์‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ์ฒซ ํ‘œํ˜„์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ด ์†Œ๋…„์ด ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์™€์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋ฏผ๊ฐํ•œ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ง์ ‘์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค.

    The physical violence they inflicted on each other had already damaged their friendship, but being completely cut off from Su-ho’s ‘line’ of rational emotional handling seems to have been one of the psychological blows, a reaction from ‘rejection’ that slowly spiraled Beom-seok toward his final and destructive ending.

    ์„œ๋กœ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ํญ๋ ฅ์€ ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์šฐ์ •์„ ์†์ƒ์‹œ์ผฐ์ง€๋งŒ, ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๋Š” ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์˜ ‘์„ ์—์„œ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์ฐจ๋‹จ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฒ”์„์„ ์ตœ์ข…์ ์ด๊ณ  ํŒŒ๊ดด์ ์ธ ๊ฒฐ๋ง๋กœ ์„œ์„œํžˆ ๋‚˜์„ ํ˜•์œผ๋กœ ๋–จ์–ด์ง€๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“  ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ํƒ€๊ฒฉ, ‘๊ฑฐ๋ถ€’๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ์˜ ๋ฐ˜์ž‘์šฉ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜€์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ณด์—ฌ์ง„๋‹ค.

    The Language Barrier

    The fundamental problem wasn’t that these boys didn’t care about each otherโ€”it’s that they spoke completely different emotional languages.

    ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š” ์ด ์†Œ๋…„๋“ค์ด ์„œ๋กœ๋ฅผ ์•„๋ผ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฐ์ •์˜ ์–ธ์–ด๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

    Think about it this way:

    if you wanted something from someone you cared about, would you directly ask for it, or would you drop hints and hope they’d figure it out? Su-ho operates in the direct communication camp. If Beom-seok had simply said during their Han River beer session, “Hey, why didn’t you follow me back on Instagram?” Su-ho would have probably laughed, said he deleted the app, and immediately re-downloaded it. Problem solved in thirty seconds. But Beom-seok was the type to run countless mental simulations before taking actionโ€”wondering how Su-ho would react, how he might judge him, whether he’d appear too desperate. He overthought every possible scenario, paralyzed by the fear of seeming too needy.

    ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด์ž:

    ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ์•„๋ผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์›ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ง์ ‘ ์š”์ฒญํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ํžŒํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ์•Œ์•„์ฐจ๋ฆฌ๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ž„ ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€? ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์ง์ ‘ ์†Œํ†ตํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์›€์ง์ด๋Š” ์œ ํ˜•์ด๋‹ค. ๋งŒ์•ฝ ๋ฒ”์„์ด ํ•œ๊ฐ•์—์„œ ๋งฅ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์‹œ๋ฉฐ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ “์•ผ, ์™œ ์ธ์Šคํƒ€๊ทธ๋žจ ํŒ”๋กœ์šฐ ์•ˆ ํ•ด์คฌ์–ด?”๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์•„๋งˆ ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉด์„œ ์•ฑ์„ ์‚ญ์ œํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฆ‰์‹œ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋‹ค์šด๋ฐ›์•˜์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. 30์ดˆ ๋งŒ์— ๋ฌธ์ œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฒ”์„์€ ํ–‰๋™ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „ ์ˆ˜์—†์ด ๋งŽ์€ ์ •์‹ ์  ์‹œ๋ฎฌ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ๋Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํƒ€์ž…์ด์—ˆ๋‹คโ€”์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜์‘ํ• ์ง€, ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํŒ๋‹จํ• ์ง€, ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ ˆ๋ฐ•ํ•ด ๋ณด์ผ์ง€ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•˜๋Š”, ๊ทธ๋Š” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์ผ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ•๋ฐ•์œผ๋กœ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์‹œ๋‚˜๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋ฅผ ๊ณผ๋„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

    Su-ho’s Way of Loving: Actions Over Words

    Here’s what people misunderstand about Su-ho: he wasn’t emotionally unavailable or uncaring. He was just seventeen years old and expressed affection the way most teenage boys doโ€”through actions, not words.

    ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์˜คํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€, ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌด๊ด€์‹ฌํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ฌด์ • (์‹œ์€๊ณผ ๋ฒ”์„์ด์— ๋น„ํ•ด) ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Ÿ๋‚˜? ๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์ธ๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ง€ 17์„ธ ์†Œ๋…„์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ 10๋Œ€ ์†Œ๋…„๋“ค์ด ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹โ€”๋ง์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ํ–‰๋™โ€”์œผ๋กœ ์• ์ •์„ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

    “You always buy stuff! Today hyung will pay for everything!”

    The language through which Su-ho cherished these two friends, Si-eun and Beom-seok, was his physical strength and his presence as Su-ho himself.

    He naturally showed his role as a protector by having them call him “hyung,” and when Beom-seok kept insisting on paying, he would show Su-ho’s style of care by saying “What, are you always the one buying? Today this hyung will buy everything! Just tell me what you want.” (Of course, from Beom-seok’s perspective, buying a few… or even dozens of bread and milk from the school store wouldn’t have drained his allowance..)

    But Su-ho’s situation was different. Su-ho was a young head of household who had to be responsible for his grandmother’s and his own livelihood… he was a young breadwinner in difficult family circumstances, even watching investment videos at such a young age, so for Su-ho, it wasn’t something he could dismiss as just ‘money.’ He wasn’t accepting Beom-seok’s ‘money’ and taking advantage of his goodwill like Jeong-chan’s group did, but was reciprocating in his own way.

    When Beom-seok confessed that he had suffered serious school violence from Moon-gang bullies and even received psychological treatment, Su-ho immediately offered to give up his part-time job and help get an apology. In Su-ho’s situation and his world, that was great loyalty to a friend, and it was the most sincere and high-level gesture Su-ho could make in showing friendship. But when their fundamental disconnect bubbled to the surface, Beom-seok snapped at him with ‘Are you showing off?’

    ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์€๊ณผ ๋ฒ”์„, ์ด ๋‘ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์•„๋ผ๋Š” ์–ธ์–ด๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ํž˜๊ณผ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ ์ž์ฒด๋กœ์„œ (๋†’์€ ์ž์กด๊ฐ์„ ์ง€๋‹Œ) ์กด์žฌ๊ฐ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ž์‹ ์„ “ํ˜•”์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ฅด๋ฉฐ ๋ณดํ˜ธ์ž๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์—ญํ• ์„ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์—ฌ์คฌ๊ณ , ๋ฒ”์„์ด ์ž๊พธ ๋ˆ์„ ๋‚ด๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋ฉด, “๋ญ, ๋งจ๋‚  ๋‹ˆ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฐ๋ฐ? ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์ด ํ˜•์ด ๋‹ค ์‚ด๊ฒŒ! ๋ง๋งŒ ํ•ด”๋ผ๋ฉด์„œ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ ์‹๋Œ€๋กœ์˜ ๋ฐฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค. (๋ฌผ๋ก , ๋ฒ”์„์ด ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œ ๊ทธ๊นŒ์ง“ ๋งค์ ์—์„œ ๋นต์ด๋‚˜ ์šฐ์œ  ๋ช‡ ๊ฐœ.. ํ˜น์€ ์ˆ˜์‹ญ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๋”๋ผ๋„ ์šฉ๋ˆ์ด ๋งค๋งˆ๋ฅผ ์ผ์€ ์—†์—ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์˜ ์ƒํ™ฉ์€ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์†Œ๋…„ ๊ฐ€์žฅ์ด๋ฉฐ, ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ์™€ ๊ทธ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ƒ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์ฑ…์ž„์ ธ์•ผํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ.. ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ๊ทธ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ๋‚˜์ด์— ์žฌํ…Œํฌ ๊ด€๋ จ ์˜์ƒ์„ ์‹œ์ฒญํ•  ์ •๋„๋กœ, ์–ด๋ ค์šด ๊ฐ€์ • ํ˜•ํŽธ์— ๋†“์ธ ์†Œ๋…„ ๊ฐ€์žฅ์ธ๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ๊ทธ๊นŒ์ง“ ‘๋ˆ’์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๋ฒ”์œ„์ด๋‹ค..)

    ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฒ”์„์ด์˜ ‘ํ™”ํ’๋ฅผ ์ •์ฐฌ ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋“ค์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋‹น์—ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๊ณ  ํ˜ธ์˜๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ž์‹ ๋งŒ์˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๋ณด๋‹ตํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ”์„์ด ๋ฌธ๊ฐ•๊ณ  ์ผ์ง„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ํ•™๊ต ํญ๋ ฅ์„ ๋‹นํ•˜์—ฌ ์ •์‹ ์ ์ธ ์น˜๋ฃŒ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Œ์„ ๊ณ ๋ฐฑํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์ฆ‰์‹œ ์•„๋ฅด๋ฐ”์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ํฌ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‚ฌ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•„์ฃผ๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ œ์•ˆํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์˜ ์ƒํ™ฉ๊ณผ ๊ทธ์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ–‰๋™์€ ์นœ๊ตฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํฐ ๋กœ์—ดํ‹ฐ์˜€๊ณ , ์šฐ์ •์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ๋ฐ ์žˆ์–ด ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ง„์ •์„ฑ์žˆ๊ณ  ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ์ œ์Šค์ฒ˜์˜€๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด ๋‘˜์˜ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์–ด๊ธ‹๋‚จ์ด ์ˆ˜๋ฉด ์œ„๋กœ ๋ถˆ์‘ฅ ์˜ฌ๋ผ์˜ฌ ๋•Œ, ๋ฒ”์„์€ ์ด๋ฅผ ‘์ƒ์ƒ‰๋‚ด๋ƒ?’ ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ผ๊ฐˆํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

    But here’s the tragic irony: every gesture Su-ho made to show care was filtered through Beom-seok’s trauma-informed interpretation system, where actions were analyzed for hidden meanings and potential signs of rejection.

    ์•„์ด๋Ÿฌ๋‹ˆ๋Š” ์ด ์ง€์ ์—์„œ ํญ๋ฐœํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ์ •์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์˜ ํ–‰๋™ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์ ์ธ ์ œ์Šค์ฒ˜๋Š” ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ํŠธ๋ผ์šฐ๋งˆ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋น„ํ‹€๋ฆฌ๊ฒŒ ํ˜•์„ฑ๋œ ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ๊ฐ์ •์ ์ธ ๋ฉ์–ด๋ฆฌ๋“ค์„ ํ†ต๊ณผํ•  ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค.

    The Point of No Return

    The moment that crystallized their incompatibility wasn’t the final fightโ€”it was that devastating argument where Beom-seok said, “What, are you trying to get credit from me? Should I pay you for your part-time work?” Su-ho’s face in that moment broke my heart. Look at Su-ho’s expression when he’s hurt by his friend’s words… Su-ho had big economic struggles, and Beom-seok knew exactly how much those words would hurt. ๐Ÿฅฒ

    ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์˜ ํ‘œ์ •… ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ํฐ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ์–ด๋ ค์›€์„ ๊ฒช๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋ฒ”์„์€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ง์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์—๊ฒŒ ์•„ํ”„๊ฒŒ ๊ฝ‚ํ˜€๋“ค์ง€ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค…

    One of my most insightful subscribers shared this theory: “Even if Yeong-i and Si-eun had never entered the picture, Su-ho and Beom-seok’s friendship would have eventually crumbled. Beom-seok’s needs were growing exponentially while Su-ho’s capacity to meet them remained constant. It was a mathematical inevitability.

    ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํ†ต์ฐฐ๋ ฅ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ตฌ๋…์ž ์ค‘ ํ•œ ๋ช…์ด ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ด๋ก ์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค: “์˜์ด์™€ ์‹œ์€์ด ์ „ํ˜€ ๊ฐœ์ž…ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋”๋ผ๋„, ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์™€ ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ์šฐ์ •์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์กŒ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ํ•„์š”๋Š” ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ธ‰์ˆ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ถฉ์กฑ์‹œํ‚ฌ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์€ ์ผ์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ˆ˜ํ•™์  ํ•„์—ฐ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.”

    This really hit me because it reframes their story from “what went wrong” to “what was always going to go wrong.” Their friendship wasn’t destroyed by external forcesโ€”it was slowly suffocating under the weight of incompatible emotional systems.

    ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ “๋ฌด์—‡์ด ์ž˜๋ชป๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€”์—์„œ “๋ฌด์—‡์ด ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ž˜๋ชป๋  ์ˆ˜๋ฐ–์— ์—†์—ˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€”๋กœ ์žฌ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ •๋ง ์™€๋‹ฟ์•˜๋‹ค. ๋‘ ์†Œ๋…„์˜ ์šฐ์ •์€ ์™ธ๋ถ€ ํž˜์— ์˜ํ•ด ํŒŒ๊ดด๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์–‘๋ฆฝํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๊ฐ์ •์„ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์˜ ๋ฌด๊ฒŒ ์•„๋ž˜์„œ ์„œ์„œํžˆ ์งˆ์‹ํ•ด๊ฐ”๋‹ค.

    Su-ho could never have known that for Beom-seok, their friendship wasn’t just companionshipโ€”it was survival. Beom-seok had attached his entire sense of self-worth to Su-ho’s approval and attention. When that started to waver, it wasn’t just disappointing; it was existentially threatening.

    ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋ฒ”์„์—๊ฒŒ ์žˆ์–ด ์„ธ ํŠธ๋ฆฌ์˜ค์˜ ์šฐ์ •์ด ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์นœ๊ตฌ ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ƒ์กด๊ณผ ๋งž๋‹ฟ์•„ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ทธ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ๊ฐ์ •์˜ ๊นŠ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๋ฒ”์„์€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ž์กด๊ฐ์„ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์˜ ์ธ์ •๊ณผ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์— ๋ถ™์—ฌ๋†“์•˜๋‹ค.

    From what I could see, Su-ho was just an ordinary boy who maintained friendships the way most teenage boys do. He would throw light teasing to show affection for his friends, show things through actions rather than emotional words, and he wasn’t the type to deeply analyze every little thing – he accepted or deflected emotions in a one-dimensional way without getting stressed. (And he didn’t have the circumstances to carry around all those emotional burdens anyway. Su-ho was a young breadwinner working three part-time jobs a week…)

    ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋ณด๊ธฐ์— ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ 10๋Œ€ ๋‚จ์ž์•„์ด๋“ค์ด ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์šฐ์ •์„ ์ด์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ทธ์ € ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•œ ์†Œ๋…„์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์• ์ •์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ฐ€๋ฒผ์šด ๋†€๋ฆผ์„ ๋˜์ง€๊ณ , ๊ฐ์ •์ ์ธ ๋ง๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ํ–‰๋™์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋ฉฐ, ์‚ฌ์†Œํ•œ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์„ ๊นŠ์ด ๋”ฐ์ ธ๋ณด๋Š” ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ 1์ฐจ์› ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ฐ›์•„์น˜๋ฉฐ, ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค๋ฐ›์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค. (๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ฐ์ •์ ์ธ ๋”๋ฏธ๋“ค์„ ์•ˆ๊ณ  ๊ฐˆ ๋งŒํ•œ ์ด๋Ÿฐ์ €๋Ÿฐ ์—ฌ๊ฑด๋„ ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ์— ํŒŒํŠธํƒ€์ž„ ์žก์„ 3๊ฑด์ด๋‚˜ ํ•˜๋Š” ์†Œ๋…„ ๊ฐ€์žฅ์ด์—ˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ…)

    But from my perspective, Beom-seok was a completely different boy from the opposite side of Su-ho. His messed-up childhood seemed to have conditioned him to read all interactions deeply and interpret them negatively, constantly wanting people to explicitly state their approval of him, and constantly watching for signs that someone was going to leave him. In my interpretation, the unmatured child inside Beom-seok was too wounded to just sit comfortably and accept Su-ho’s easygoing affection at face value.

    ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‚ด ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋ฒ”์„์€ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ณณ์—์„œ ์˜จ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์™€๋Š” ์ •๋ฐ˜๋Œ€์˜ ์†Œ๋…„์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์—‰๋ง์ง„์ฐฝ์ธ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ์€ ๊ทธ๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ƒํ˜ธ์ž‘์šฉ์„ ๊นŠ์ด ์ฝ๊ณ  ๋ถ€์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•ด์„ํ•˜๋„๋ก ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ž์‹ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์Šน์ธ์„ ๋ช…์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐํ˜€์ฃผ๊ธธ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋– ๋‚  ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ์ง€์ผœ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•˜๋‹ค. ๋‚ด ํ•ด์„์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ๋ฒ”์„์ด ์•ˆ์˜ ์ž๋ผ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ๋ฏธ์„ฑ์ˆ™ํ•œ ์•„์ด๋Š”, ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ํŽธ์•ˆํžˆ ์•‰์•„ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด์„œ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์˜ ์—ฌ์œ ๋กœ์šด ์• ์ •์„ ์•ก๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๊ธฐ์—” ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜๋„ ์ƒ์ฒ˜ ํˆฌ์„ฑ์ด์˜€๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค.

    The Mathematical Tragedy

    As I write this, I keep thinking about that script book message: “I admired you so much. I loved you so much. I’m really sorry… Su-ho ya…” It captures the entire tragedyโ€”the love was real, the admiration was genuine, and the sorry was necessary.

    ๋Œ€๋ณธ์ง‘ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค: “์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์•ผ… ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋™๊ฒฝํ–ˆ์–ด. ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ–ˆ์–ด. ์ •๋ง ๋ฏธ์•ˆํ•ด… ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์•ผ…” ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์€ ์ง„์งœ์˜€๊ณ , ๋™๊ฒฝ์€ ์ง„์‹ฌ์ด์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฏธ์•ˆํ•จ์€ ๋‹น์—ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.


    Their story wasn’t just about two characters in a drama. It was also about the wounds that come from loving someone in a language the other person can’t understand, the sadness of needing something from someone that they can’t give, and the painful realization that good intentions don’t always lead to good outcomes.

    ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ ์† ๋‘ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ƒ๋Œ€๋ฐฉ์ด ์ดํ•ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ์–ธ์–ด๋กœ ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์—์„œ ํ„ฐ์ ธ๋‚˜์˜ค๋Š” ์ƒ์ฒ˜, ์ƒ๋Œ€๋Š” ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€์—๊ฒŒ์„œ ํ•„์š”๋กœ ํ•˜๋Š” ์Šฌํ””, ์ข‹์€ ์˜๋„๊ฐ€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ข‹์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง€์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ณ ํ†ต์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์Œ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

    When you look at the math teacher scene where Si-eun tries to mediate between them, the teacher says: “You know why you’re all bad at math? Because you don’t understand the fundamentals and you’re always just trying to…”

    ๋‘˜ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฅผ ์ค‘์žฌํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์‹œ์€์ด ๋„ˆ๋จธ ์ˆ˜ํ•™ ๊ต์‚ฌ ์žฅ๋ฉด์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค: “๋„ˆํฌ๋“ค์ด ์™œ ์ˆ˜ํ•™์„ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„? ๊ธฐ์ดˆ๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•ญ์ƒ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ…”

    Final Thoughts: The Beauty of Inevitable Tragedy

    If you’re a fan who has watched this drama multiple times, I think you’d know that there’s never a wasted scene… every detail carries meaning. The brilliance of Weak Hero Class 1’s direction lies in how it makes us warmly watch Su-ho and Beom-seok building their friendship, then concludes their friendship so destructively and shockingly in a way that’s sudden yet all too familiar, showing why two boys with different premises couldn’t work.

    ์ด ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฒˆ ๋ณธ ํŒฌ์ด๋ผ๋ฉด, ๋‚ญ๋น„๋˜๋Š” ์žฅ๋ฉด์ด๋ž€ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ์—†๊ณ … ๋ชจ๋“  ๋””ํ…Œ์ผ์ด ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•Œ์ง€ ์•Š์„๊นŒ ์‹ถ๋‹ค. ์•ฝํ•œ์˜์›… ํด๋ž˜์Šค 1 ์—ฐ์ถœ์˜ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜๋„ ํƒ์›”ํ•œ ์ ์€, ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์™€ ๋ฒ”์„์ด ์šฐ์ •์„ ๋‹ค์ ธ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ํ๋ญ‡ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€๋„, ์•„์ฃผ ๊ฐ‘์ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ์ง€๋งŒ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜๋„ ์นœ์ˆ™ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ์„œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ „์ œ์˜ ๋‘ ์†Œ๋…„์˜ ์šฐ์ •์„ ํŒŒ๊ดด์ ์ด๊ณ  ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ์‹œ์ผœ๋ฒ„๋ฆฐ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์— ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค..

    It goes without saying that Weak Hero Class 1 is an excellent masterpiece, but it seems to make many fans unable to forget it for a long time because it deals with the boys’ broken poetry deeply and at a high level across various layers. This might be uncomfortable for ardent fans of Su-ho’s character, but for me, the scene where Beom-seok kicks Su-ho’s head (though it certainly left cinematic trauma…) is also one of Class 1’s excellent directorial moments.

    Su-ho and Beom-seok’s friendship was unsustainable from the beginning, and if Si-eun hadn’t had that ‘crazy quality’ that Su-ho always responded to and was fascinated by, Beom-seok’s final action probably would have fallen to Si-eun instead.

    Su-ho valued, recognized, and loved that crazy quality in Si-eun. That ‘courage’ was a quality Beom-seok never had from the beginning and was the huge source of Beom-seok’s inferiority complex.

    ์•ฝํ•œ์˜์›… ํด๋ž˜์Šค1์ด ๋งค์šฐ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚œ ์ˆ˜์ž‘์ธ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋งํ•  ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์—†์œผ๋‚˜ ์†Œ๋…„๋“ค์˜ ๋ถ€์„œ์ง„ ์‹œ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ธต์œ„์—์„œ ๊นŠ์ด ์žˆ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ค€๋†’๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ฃฌ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์—์„œ ๋งŽ์€ ํŒฌ๋“ค๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ์žŠํ˜€์ง€์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ์˜ ์—ด๋ ฌํ•œ ํŒฌ์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ๋ถˆํŽธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ… ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๋ฒ”์„์ด ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์˜ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๋กœ ์ฐจ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ ์žฅ๋ฉด์€ (๋ฌผ๋ก , ์—ฌ์ง€์—†์ด ์‹œ๋„ค๋งˆํ‹ฑ ํŠธ๋ผ์šฐ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ๋‚จ๊ฒผ์œผ๋‚˜…) ํด๋ž˜์Šค1์˜ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚œ ์—ฐ์ถœ ์ค‘ ํ•œ ์žฅ๋ฉด์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๋‹ค. ์• ์ดˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์™€ ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ์šฐ์ •์€ ์ง€์†๋  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋งŒ์ผ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ์‘๋‹ตํ•˜๊ณ  ๋งค๋ฃŒ๋˜์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ทธ ‘๋˜๋ผ์ด ๊ธฐ์งˆ’์ด ์‹œ์€์—๊ฒŒ ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์•„๋งˆ ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ํ–‰๋™์€ ์‹œ์€์˜ ๋ชซ์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

    ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์‹œ์€์˜ ๊ทธ ‘๋˜๋ผ์ด ๊ธฐ์งˆ’์„ ๋†’์ด ์ƒ€๊ณ , ์ธ์ •ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ‘์šฉ๊ธฐ’๋Š” ๋ฒ”์„์ด ์• ์ดˆ์— ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋˜ ์žฌ์งˆ์ด๊ณ  ์—ด๋“ฑ๊ฐ์˜ ๊ทผ์›์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

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