๐ ํ๊ตญ์ด ํด์๋ณธ์ ์ถ๊ฐํ์์ต๋๋ค & Where would Su-ho and Si-eun’s friendship have ultimately ended up?
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Introduction
Hey everyone! This is gonna be one of my final Weak Hero analysis posts, and honestly, it’s been such a dream-like journey these past two months with all of you.
์๋ ํ์ธ์, ์ ๋์ ๋๋ค! ์ ๊ฐ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ชจ๋ ์์์ ๊ทธ์ ์ฝํ์์ ์ ์ฌ๋ํ๋ ํฌ์ผ๋ก์์ ๊ฐ์ธ์ ์ธ ๋ถ์์ด๋๊น, ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ณผํ ๋ถ์์ด ๋ถํธํ๋ค๋ฉด ์ธ์ ๋ ๋ค๋ก๊ฐ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌ์ฃผ์ธ์. ์ด ์์์ด ์๋ง ์ ์ ์ฝํ์์ ์ ๋ถ์ํ๋ ๋ง์ง๋ง ์ํผ์๋๊ฐ ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ์ง๋ ๋ ๋ฌ ๋์ ์ฝ๋ฉํฐ๋ถ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ปํ ์๊ฐ์ด ์ ๋ง ๊ฟ๊ฐ์์ต๋๋ค.
I know my long-form analysis style is pretty old-school next to all the visual content taking over feeds these days, and in this fast-paced world of shorts, there probably aren’t many readers who’ll stick around for in-depth content… But maybe, like Seong-je would say, being stupidly romantic is exactly what passes the vibe check.
์ ํ๋ธ ํผ๋๋ฅผ ์ฅ์ ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๋น์ฃผ์ผ ์ฝํ ์ธ ๋ค์ ๋นํด ์ ์ค๋์ค ์ค์ฌ ์คํ์ผ์ด ๊ฝค ์ฌ๋์ค์ฟจ์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ฑธ ์๊ณ ์๊ณ , ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋์๊ฐ๋ ์ธ์์์ ์ผ์ธ ๊ฐ ์ฃผ๋ฅ์ธ ์๋์ ๋กฑํผ ์ค๋์ค ์ฝํ ์ธ ๋ฅผ ๋๊น์ง ๋ค์ด์ค ๋ถ์ด ๋ง์ง ์์ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ๋ ์์์… ํ์ง๋ง ์ฑ์ ์๋๋ก ๋ฐ๋ณด๊ฐ์ด ๋ก๋งจํฑํ ์ง์ ํด์ ‘๋ญ๋ง์ ํฉ๊ฒฉ’ ํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค.
It’s honestly mind-blowing that readers who are just as old-school and romantic as me keep finding this blog and hanging out here. Thanks for going the distance with me.
์ด๋ฌํ ๊ตฌ์์ ์๋ค ์คํ์ผ์ ๊ณ์ ํ๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฒฐ์ ํ๋๋ฐ, ์ค์ ๋ก ์ ๋ฌด ๋ฒ์์์ ๊ทน๋ณตํ๋ ๋ฐ ๋์์ด ๋์ต๋๋ค. – ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋๊น ๋ก๋งจ์ค๊ฐ ์ ๋ง ํตํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๊ธด ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ ๋งํผ ์ฌ๋์ค์ฟจํ๊ณ ๋ก๋งจํฑํ ๋๊ธ๋ฌ๋ค์ด ๊ณ์ ์ด ์ฑ๋์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ๊ณ ์ด๊ณณ์์ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ณด๋ด์ฃผ์๋ ๊ฒ ์ ๋ง ๋๋ผ์์. ์ ์ ํจ๊ป ์ด ๊ธด ์ฌ์ ์ ๋ฌ๋ ค์ค์ ๊ณ ๋ง์ต๋๋ค.
Now, for today’s post – What if Su-ho had never slipped into a coma? Where would Su-ho and Si-eun’s friendship have ultimately ended up? After binge-watching Class 1 multiple times, I think I’ve finally gotten closer to figuring this out.
์ด์ ์ค๋์ ์ํผ์๋๋ก ๋์ด๊ฐ์ – ์ํธ๊ฐ ํผ์์ํ์ ๋น ์ง์ง ์์๋ค๋ฉด? ์ํธ์ ์์์ ์ฐ์ ์ ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์ผ๋ก ์ด๋๋ก ํฅํ์๊น์ ๋ํด ๋ค๋ค๋ณด๋ ค๊ณ ํด์. ํด๋์ค1์ ์ฌ๋ฌ ๋ฒ ์ ์ฃผํํ ํ, ๋๋์ด ์ด ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ํ ๋ต์ ๊ฐ๊น์์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค.
Director Yoo’s Deep Dive Into Teen Psychology
So here’s something I picked up on about Director Yoo. Through several interviews, I became convinced that he wasn’t just trying to whip up a simple high school action story, but was also trying to weave in meaningful social commentary.
์ ์๋ฏผ ๊ฐ๋ ๋์ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ธํฐ๋ทฐ๋ฅผ ํตํด, ๋จ์ํ ๊ณ ๊ต ์ก์ ์ฅ๋ฅด์ ์คํ ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค๋ ค๋ ๊ฒ ์๋๋ผ ์๋ฏธ ์๋ ์ฌํ์ ํจ์์ ๋ ผํ์ ๋งํ๊ณ ์ถ์ดํ์ จ๊ตฌ๋ ๋๋ ์ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
Director Yoo actually went undercover in teenage chat rooms while putting together the Weak Hero script. Fashion groups, study circles, health forums, even chat rooms where teens struggling with depression would hang out. He disguised his age and name to get a real feel for what teenagers are actually going through.
์ ๊ฐ๋ ๋์ ์ค์ ๋ก ์ฝํ์์ ๋๋ณธ์ ์ฐ๋ฉด์ 10๋ ์ฑํ ๋ฐฉ์ ์ ์ ํ๋ค๊ณ ํฉ๋๋ค. ํจ์ ๊ทธ๋ฃน, ์คํฐ๋ ์ํด, ๊ฑด๊ฐ ํฌ๋ผ, ์ฌ์ง์ด ์ฐ์ธ์ฆ์ ์๋ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ 10๋๋ค์ด ๋ชจ์ด๋ ์ฑํ ๋ฐฉ๊น์ง. ๊ทธ๋ ์์ ์ ๋์ด์ ์ด๋ฆ์ ์จ๊ธฐ๊ณ 10๋๋ค์ด ์ค์ ๋ก ๊ฒช๊ณ ์๋ ์ผ๋ค์ ์ง์ง๋ก ๋๊ปด๋ณด๋ ค๊ณ ํ์ จ๋ค๊ณ ํด์.
What hit Director Yoo the hardest during this undercover work was finding out just how many kids were seeing mental health professionals and getting sleep medication because of stress. He said in an interview:
์ด ์ ์ ์์ ์์ ์ ๊ฐ๋ ๋์ด ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ๋ฐ์ ์ ์ ์ ๋ง ๋ง์ ์์ด๋ค์ด ์ ์ ๊ฑด๊ฐ ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋๊ณ ์คํธ๋ ์ค ๋๋ฌธ์ ์๋ฉด์ ๋ฅผ ์ฒ๋ฐฉ๋ฐ๊ณ ์๋์ง ์๊ฒ ๋ ์ ์ด์๋ค๊ณ ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ธํฐ๋ทฐ์์ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๋ง์ํ์ จ์ฃ .
I was genuinely shocked to discover that so many young people are living under this kind of stress.
์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๋ง์ ์ฒญ์๋ ๋ค์ด ์ด๋ฐ ๊ฐ๋์ ์คํธ๋ ์ค ์์์ ์ด๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ์๊ฒ ๋์ด ์ ๋ง ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ด์์ฃ .

The Visual Language of Si-eun’s Deterioration
When you first jump into Weak Hero, you get swept up by the cute, good-looking actors without even noticing time slip by, but as you binge-watch it for the second, third time, you can’t help but pick up on how deeply the drama digs into the psychological stuff teenagers are dealing with.
์ฝํ์์ ์ ์ฒ์ ์์ฒญํ ๋๋ ๊ท์ฝ๊ณ ์์๊ธด ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๋ค์๊ฒ ๋น ์ ธ์ ์๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋ ์ค๋ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ณ ๋ณด๊ฒ ๋์ง๋ง, ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ, ์ธ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ ์ฃผํ ํ๋ค ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ด ๋๋ผ๋ง๊ฐ 10๋๋ค์ด ๊ฒช๊ณ ์๋ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ค์ ์ผ๋ง๋ ๊น์ด ํ๊ณ ๋ค๊ณ ์๋์ง ๋์น์ฑ์ง ์์ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
The social problems – especially the messed-up reality of boys growing up in the shadows of divorced families, grandparent-led households, and abusive parents.
์ฌํ์ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ค – ํนํ ์ดํผ๊ฐ์ , ์กฐ์๊ฐ์ , ํ๋ํ๋ ๋ถ๋ชจ์ ๊ทธ๋์์ ์๋ผ๋๋ ์๋ ๋ค์ ๋คํ๋ฆฐ ํ์ค ๊ฐ์ ๋ถ๋ถ์ด๊ธฐ๋ ํฉ๋๋ค.

I’m not trying to pin down Si-eun’s mental state with any specific labels here, but I personally feel like the production team really ramped up their efforts in Season 2 to spell out just how much Si-eun’s psychological condition had deteriorated from Season 1.
์์์ ์ ์ ์ํ์ ํน์ ํ ๋ผ๋ฒจ์ ๋ถ์ด๋ ค๋ ๊ฑด ์๋์ง๋ง, ๊ฐ์ธ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ์์ง์ด ์์ฆ 2์์ ์์ฆ 1์ ๋นํด ์์์ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ์ํ๊ฐ ์ผ๋ง๋ ์ ํ๋์๋์ง๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๊ฐ๊ณ ์ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ์ ํ๋ค๊ณ ๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค.
When you compare Si-eun’s room between Season 1 and Season 2, the contrast is pretty 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.
์์ฆ 1๊ณผ ์์ฆ 2์์ ์์์ ๋ฐฉ์ ๋น๊ตํด๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋์กฐ๊ฐ ๊ทน๋ช ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๋ฉ๋ง๋ฅด๊ณ ์๊ธฐ ์์ด์ก๊ณ , ์๋ ์ ๊ณต๋ถ๋ฐฉ์ ์ด์ ์ฝํ ์คํ ๋์์ ์์ด๋์ค๋ ๋๊ฐ์ด ์๊ธฐ ์๋ ํ๋ ๋น์ ์ ๊ฒจ ์๊ณ , ์ฌ๋ฐฉ์์ ์ง์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์๊ฐ ์ค๋ฉฐ๋ค๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
The production team really drives home just how cold and hollow Si-eun’s world has become after losing Su-ho. Looking at Si-eun in Season 2, he’s dealing with 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.
์ ์์ง์ ์ํธ๋ฅผ ์์ ํ ์์์ ์ธ๊ณ๊ฐ ์ผ๋ง๋ ์ฐจ๊ฐ๊ณ ๊ณตํํด์ก๋์ง๋ฅผ ์ ๋ง ์ ๋๋ฌ๋ด์ฃผ์์ต๋๋ค. ์์ฆ 2์ ์์์ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๋ ์ฌ๊ฐํ ๋ถ๋ฉด์ฆ์ ์๋ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ ์๋ฒฝ 3์๊ฐ ๋์ด๋ ์ ๋ค์ง ๋ชปํฉ๋๋ค. ํ๊ต์์ ๊ณต๋ถ๋ฅผ ์ํํ ํ๊ฒ๋๊ณ , ๊ฒจ์ฐ ์ฑ ์์ ์๋๋ ค์ ์กธ๊ฒ ๋๊ณ ์.

A Commenter’s Insight: Si-eun the Perfectionist
Hold on, I want to touch on this analysis that one of my most dedicated commenters dropped about Si-eun’s character patterns from Season 1.
์ ์๋ง, ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ด์ฑ์ ์ธ ์ฝ๋ฉํฐ ์ค ํ ๋ถ์ด ์์ฆ 1์ ์์์ ์บ๋ฆญํฐ ํจํด์ ๋ํด ๋จ๊ฒจ์ค ๋ถ์์ ์๊ธฐํด๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
They said: “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 for that perfection because he literally can’t handle it when his pursuit of perfection gets thrown off track.”
๊ทธ๊ฐ ๋งํ๊ธธ: ์์์ ์๋ฒฝ์ฃผ์์์์ – ์๋ฒฝ์ ์ต๋ํ ๊ฐ๊น์์ง๋ ค๊ณ ์์ ์ ์ฐข์ด๋ฐ๊ธฐ๋ ํ์ ์ด์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋ ์๋ฒฝํจ์ ๋งน๋ชฉ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ง์ฐฉํ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์๋ฒฝํจ์ ์ํด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์ํ ์์๋ค์ ํฌ์ํฉ๋๋ค. ์๋ํ๋ฉด ์๋ฒฝํจ์ด ์๊ธฐ ๊ถค๋์์ ๋ฒ์ด๋ ๋ ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ๊ฐ๋นํ ์ ์๊ฑฐ๋ ์.
They continued: “Early on in the series, Si-eun’s goal seemed to be solely about getting into a prestigious university. 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.”
๊ทธ๋ ๊ณ์ํด์: “์๋ฆฌ์ฆ ์ด๋ฐ์, ์์์ ๋ชฉํ๋ ์ค๋ก์ง ๋ช ๋ฌธ๋์ ์ ํํ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์๋๋ฐ์, ์ฑ์ – ๊ทธ์ ‘๊ฑธ์’์ด ์์ฃผ ์์ ํ ์ง์ด๋ผ๋ ์๊ธฐ๋ ์๊ฐ, ์์ ํ ์ด์ฑ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ค๊ฐ ์์ ์ฒ์์ผ๋ก ์์คํ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ด ์๊ฒผ๊ณ , ๋ฒ์๊ณผ ์ํธ์๋๋ฐ, ์ํธ๊ฐ ํผ์์ํ์ ๋น ์ง ํ์๋ ๋จ์ํ ํ ์ง์ด ์๋๋ผ – ๊ทธ๋ ์์ ์ด ๊ฐ์ง ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ฌ๋ผ์ก๋ค๊ณ ๋๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ต๋๋ค.

Conversations with a Teen Counselor
After reading this comment, I ended up having this really in-depth conversation about Si-eun’s psychology with my friend who works as a teen counselor and originally recommended this drama to me.
์ด ์ฝ๋ฉํธ๋ฅผ ์ฝ์ ํ, ์๋ ์ ์๊ฒ ์ด ๋๋ผ๋ง๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ผ๊ณ ์ถ์ฒํด์ค ์ฒญ์๋ ์๋ด์ฌ๋ก ์ผํ๋ ์น๊ตฌ์ ์์์ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ํด ๋งค์ฐ ๊น์ด ์๋ ๋ํ๋ฅผ ๋๋๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
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 was really trying to do was seriously approach and touch on teenage problems.
๊ทธ๋ ๊ฐ ๋ฌด๋ค๋คํ ๋งํ๊ธธ, ์ค์ ๋ก 10๋ ์ฒญ์๋ ๋ค๊ณผ ๋ํํ๋ค๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋๋ผ๋ง์์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ง๋ ํญ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ถ๊ดด๋ณด๋ค ํจ์ฌ ๋ค์ํ ์ ์ ๊ฑด๊ฐ ๋ฌธ์ ์ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ๋ค์ ๋ฃ๊ฒ ๋๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ด์์ด์ – ์ด ์๋ฆฌ์ฆ๋ 10๋ ์ฒญ์๋ ๋ฌธ์ ์ ๋งค์ฐ ์ง์งํ๊ฒ ์ ๊ทผํ๊ณ ๋ค๋ฃจ๊ณ ์๋ค๊ณ ํ์์ต๋๋ค.
Speaking of which, let me share some of the psychological observations that my friend, along with many commenters, have pointed out about Si-eun’s childhood experiences and attachment patterns.
์ด๋ฌํ ์๋ฏธ์์, ์ ์น๊ตฌ์ ๋ง์ ์ฝ๋ฉํฐ๋ค์ด ์์์ ์ด๋ฆฐ ์์ ํธ๋ผ์ฐ๋ง์ ์ ์ฐฉ ํจํด์ ๋ํด ์ง์ ํ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ๊ด์ฐฐ๋ค์ ๊ณต์ ํด๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค.

Now, I want to be super clear here – whether it’s my friend, the commenters, or myself, none of us are trying to slap diagnostic labels on Si-eun or pin down exactly what’s going on with him. The show gives us lots of hints about different things that could be affecting him, but they were really careful not to put him in any specific box. So what we’re doing here is just speculating and thinking it all through, but we’ll never know for sure and I don’t think we’re supposed to.
๋ช ํํ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ ์ ์ – ์ ์น๊ตฌ๋ , ๋๊ธ๋ฌ๋ค์ด๋ , ์ ๋ , ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ค ๋๊ตฌ๋ ์์์๊ฒ ์ง๋จ์ ๋ผ๋ฒจ์ ๋ถ์ด๊ฑฐ๋ ๊ทธ์๊ฒ ์ ํํ ๋ฌด์จ ์ผ์ด ์ผ์ด๋๊ณ ์๋์ง ํน์ ํ๋ ค๊ณ ํ์ง ์๋๋ค๋ ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด ์ผ๋ ์๋ ์๊ฒ ์ํฅ์ ์ค ์ ์๋ ๋ค์ํ ์ ๋ค์ ๋ํ ๋ง์ ํํธ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ํน์ ํ ์์์ ๋ฃ์ง ์๋๋ก ์ ๋ง ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์ฐ์ถํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ทธ์ ์ถ์ธกํ๊ณ ์๊ฐํด๋ณด๋ ๊ฒ๋ฟ์ด๊ณ , ํ์คํ ์ ์ ์๋ ์ ์ ์๋๋ฉฐ ๊ตณ์ด ์ ์๋ด๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒ ์ค์ํ๋ค๊ณ ๋ณด์ง ์์ต๋๋ค.
The Emotional Bomb: Si-eun’s Childhood Trauma
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.
์ด๋ฆฐ ์์์ด ๋ถ๋ชจ์ ์ธ์์ ์ฟ๋ฃ๋ ์ฅ๋ฉด์์, ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ฒ์๋ถํฐ ์์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ ธ์ผ ํ๋์ง์ ๋ํด ๋ ผ์ํ๊ณ ์์๊ณ , ๋ ๋ค ์์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๊ธฐ๋ก ํ ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ๋ถ๋ช ํ ํํํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
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, and then the husband said he had no idea that Si-eun would get hurt this often.
๋จํธ์ ์๋ด์๊ฒ ์ฑ ์์ ๋ ๋๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ, ์์ด๊ฐ ์ด ์ ๋๋ก ๋ค์ณค๋๋ฐ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฐ ์ด๋ ์์๋์ง ๋ฌป๊ณ , ์๋ด๋ ์ข์ ๊ฐ์ ์์๋ถ์๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ฌ์ ๋จํธ์ ์์์ด ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์์ฃผ ๋ค์น ์ค ๋ชฐ๋๋ค๊ณ ๋งํฉ๋๋ค.
Imagine a little kid directly overhearing their parents say they regret having him in the first place. This goes way beyond simple emotional neglect. It’s like dropping an emotional bomb that could fundamentally shape how that child interacts with the world, society, and people as he grows up.
์ด๋ฆฐ ์์ด๊ฐ ๋ถ๋ชจ๊ฐ ์ฒ์๋ถํฐ ์์ ์ ๋ณ์ ๊ฒ์ ํํํ๋ค๊ณ ๋งํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ง์ ๋ฃ๋๋ค๊ณ ์์ํด๋ณด๋ฉด… ์ด๊ฒ์ ๋จ์ํ ์ ์์ ๋ฐฉ์์ ํจ์ฌ ๋์ด์๊ฒ ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์์ด๊ฐ ์ฑ์ฅํ๋ฉด์ ์ธ์, ์ฌํ, ์ฌ๋๋ค๊ณผ ์ํธ์์ฉํ๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ์ฑํ ์ ์๋ ์ ์์ ํญํ์ ๋จ์ด๋จ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ๊ฒ ์ฃ .
Little Si-eun must have become convinced that to his career-obsessed, busy parents, he was an unwanted burden. So he retreated to his room, locked the door, and started obsessively working through math problems.
์ด๋ฆฐ ์์์ ์์ ๋ค์ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์ด์ ๋ฐ์ ๋ถ๋ชจ๋ค์๊ฒ ์์ ์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ ์ง์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํ์ ํ๊ฒ ๋์์ ๊ฒ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ๊ทธ๋ ์์ ์ ๋ฐฉ์ผ๋ก ๋์๊ฐ ๋ฌธ์ ์ ๊ทธ๊ณ ์ํ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ฅผ ํธ๋ ๋ฐ ์ง์ฐฉํ๊ธฐ ์์ํฉ๋๋ค.

Coping Through Predictability
Many commenters have pointed out that obsessively focusing on math problems can provide “a source of comfort through predictability and control, and a way to cope with an unstable or unpredictable world.” So when little Si-eun overheard his parents’ fight – their indirect but clear regret about having him – he went back to his room, locked the door, and instead of lying on his bed crying, he obsessively worked through math problems. This could be an example of that kind of coping mechanism.
๋ง์ ์ฝ๋ฉํฐ๋ค์ด ์ํ ๋ฌธ์ ์ ์ง์ฐฉ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ชฐ๋ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด “์์ธก ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ๊ณผ ํต์ ๋ฅผ ํตํ ์์์ ์์ฒ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ถ์์ ํ๊ฑฐ๋ ์์ธก ๋ถ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ์ธ์์ ๋์ฒํ๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ”์ ์ ๊ณตํ ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ์ธ๊ธํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด๋ฆฐ ์์์ด ๋ถ๋ชจ์ ์ธ์ – ์์ด๋ฅผ ์์กํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ํ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ด์ง๋ง ๋ช ํํ ํํ๋ฅผ ์ฟ๋ค์์ ๋, ์์ด๋ ์์ ์ ๋ฐฉ์ผ๋ก ๋์๊ฐ ๋ฌธ์ ์ ๊ทธ๊ณ , ์นจ๋์ ๋์ ํํ ์ฐ๋ ๋์ ์ํ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ฅผ ์ง์ฐฉ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ๊ธฐ์์ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฌํ ์ข ๋ฅ์ ๋์ฒ ๋ฉ์ปค๋์ฆ์ ์๊ฐ ๋ ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ์ง์ ํฉ๋๋ค.
Several commenters have also brought up that Si-eun’s characteristics – his obsessively intense focus on academics, the childhood episodes where he would suddenly lose consciousness and collapse, how he socially isolates himself, his difficulty regulating emotions especially when anger builds up, and the extreme stress he experiences when his own routines get disrupted – that these patterns might suggest he processes the world differently than neurotypical kids do, which I totally agree with.
์ฌ๋ฌ ์ฝ๋ฉํธ์์ ๋ํ ์์์ ํน์ฑ๋ค์ด ์ธ๊ธ ๋์์ต๋๋ค. – ํ์ ์ ๋ํ ์ง์ฐฉ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ฌํ ์ง์ค, ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ ์์์ ์๊ณ ์ฐ๋ฌ์ง๋ ์ด๋ฆฐ ์์ ์ ์ํผ์๋๋ค, ๊ทธ๊ฐ ์ฌํ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ค์ค๋ก๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ฆฝํ๊ฑฐ๋ ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ๋๋ ๋ฐฉ์, ํนํ ๋ถ๋ ธ๊ฐ ์์ผ ๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์กฐ์ ํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ด๋ ค์์ ๊ฒช๋ ๊ฒ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ ๋ง์ ๋ฃจํด์ด ๋ฐฉํด๋ฐ์ ๋ ๊ฒช๋ ๊ทน์ฌํ ์คํธ๋ ์ค – ์ด๋ฐ ํจํด๋ค์ด ๊ทธ๊ฐ ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ์์ด๋ค๊ณผ๋ ๋ค๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ธ์์ ์ฒ๋ฆฌํ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ์์ฌํ ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ํ๋๋ฐ, ์ ๋ ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋์ํฉ๋๋ค.

Su-ho: The Knife Through Butter
And then Su-ho came slicing through Si-eun’s walls like a knife through butter, suddenly throwing open the door to his world through that misdirected food delivery.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ํธ๊ฐ ๋ง์น ๋ฒํฐ๋ฅผ ์๋ฅด๋ ์นผ์ฒ๋ผ ์์์ ๋ฒฝ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅด๊ณ ๋ค์ด์ต๋๋ค. ์๋ชป ๋ฐฐ๋ฌ๋ ์์์ ํตํด ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ ์์์ ์ธ๊ณ๋ก์ ๋ฌธ์ ํ์ง ์ด์ด์ ํ๋๋ค.
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 overwhelming waves. Su-ho opens that tightly shut front door when he mistakenly delivers to the wrong address.
์ํธ๊ฐ ์ค์๋ก ๋ฐฐ๋ฌ์ ์๋ชป ์ค๋ฉด์ ์์์ ๊ฝ๊ฝ ๋ซํ ํ๊ด๋ฌธ์ ์ฌ๋๋ฐ, ์ด๋ก์ธํด ์์์ ๊ทธ๊ฐ ๋ถ๋ชจ๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋น์ฐํ ๋ฐ์์ด์ผ ํ ๊น์ ์ ์ฐฉ, ํ๋ณต, ์์ ๊ฐ, ์ฌ๋ – ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ฐ๋๋ฏธ์ฒ๋ผ ์งง์ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์ ๊ฒฝํํ๊ฒ ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
It makes you wonder – if Su-ho hadn’t mistakenly found his way to Si-eun’s door, would he have been able to break out of his shell?
์ํธ๊ฐ ์ค์๋ก ์์์ ๋ฌธ์ ์ฐพ์ง ์์๋ค๋ฉด, ์์์ด๋ ์์ ์ ๊ป์ง์ ๊นจ๊ณ ๋์ฌ ์ ์์์๊ฒ๋๋ค.

My friend said that while it was good that Su-ho helped Si-eun break out of that solid shell, the relationship between these two boys was almost too emotionally intense to be called typical friendship.
์ ์น๊ตฌ๊ฐ ์ฝ๋ฉํธ๋ฅผ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ ์ฎ๊ฒจ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ํธ๋ก ํ์ฌ๊ธ ์์์ด ๋จ๋จํ ๊ป์ง์์ ๋ฒ์ด๋๋๋ก ๋์์ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฒ์ ์ข์์ผ๋, ์ด ๋ ์๋ ์ ๊ด๊ณ๋ ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ์ฐ์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ฅด๊ธฐ์๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋๋ฌด ๊ฐ๋ ฌํ์ต๋๋ค.
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 might have come a point where Si-eun became overly dependent on Su-ho emotionally.
๋ ์ ํํ ๋งํ๋ฉด, ์์์ด ์ํธ์ ๋ํด ๋๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๋ฒ์๊ฐ ๋๋ฌด๋ ์๋์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ฌํ๊ณ ํ๋์ ๊ฐ์์, ๋ง์ฝ ๋ ์๋ ์ด ํ์ค์ ์กด์ฌํ๋ค๋ฉด, ์์์ด ์ํธ์๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ง๋์น๊ฒ ์์กดํ๊ฒ ๋๋ ์ง์ ์ด ์์ ์๋ ์๋ค๊ณ ์ง์ ํ์ต๋๋ค.
What I totally agreed with was this:
์ ๊ฐ ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋์ํ ์ ์,
Just like Si-eun had treated his perfect grades as a lifeline, that same perfectionist streak and intense focus he’d developed for anything he started holding dear would likely have shifted over to his other lifeline, his friend Su-ho.
์์์ด ์ํ์ง ์์ ์๋ฒฝํ ๋๊ทธ๋ผ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์๋ช ์ค๋ก ์ฌ๊ฒผ๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ, ๊ทธ๊ฐ ์์คํ๊ฒ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์์ํ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ํด ๋ฐ๋ฌ์ํจ ๋๊ฐ์ ์๋ฒฝ์ฃผ์์ ์ฑํฅ๊ณผ ๊ฐ๋ ฌํ ์ง์ค์ ๊ทธ์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์๋ช ์ค์ธ ์น๊ตฌ ์ํธ์๊ฒ๋ก ์ฎ๊ฒจ๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ด ๋๋ค๋ ์๊ฒฌ์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
She went on to say that from a counselor’s standpoint, just looking at the surface of the attachment the boy showed toward Su-ho, this couldn’t be written off as completely healthy friendship patterns.
์๋ด์ฌ์ ๊ด์ ์์ ๋ณด์์ ๋, ์๋ ์ด ์ํธ์๊ฒ ๋ณด์ธ ์ ์ฐฉ์ ํ๋ฉด๋ง ๋ด๋, ์จ์ ํ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ ์ฐ์ ์ ํจํด์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ณด๊ธด ์ด๋ ต๋ค๊ณ ๋ง๋ถํ๋๋ค.


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.
์ฌ์ง์ด ์น๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋์ ํด์ ์์ ์ ์์ ํผ๋ฅผ ๋ฌปํ๊ฑฐ๋ ๋์ ๊ตฌํ๋ฅผ ๋ง์ ๊ฑด ๊ฑฐ์ ์ ๋ง์ ์ธ ํ๋์ ๊ฐ๊น์ ๋ค๊ณ ๋ด ๋๋ค – ์์ ์ ์ธ ์ ์ฐฉ์ ๊ฒฝํํด๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์๋ ์์ด๊ฐ, ๋ง์ฝ ์์คํด์ ธ๋ฒ๋ฆฐ ์ฌ๋์ด ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง ๋ ์์ ์๊ฒ ๋ฅ์น ํต์ ํ ์ ์๋ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ๋ถ๊ดด๊ฐ ์์ ์ด ํํ ์ ์ฒด์ ๊ณ ํต๋ณด๋ค๋ ํจ์ฌ ๋ ๊ฒฌ๋ ์ ์์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ฌ์ค์ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ์งํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ต๋๋ค.
In other words, Si-eun’s coping mechanism of sacrificing himself to this extent for things like his perfect grades or Su-ho might not have been the healthiest thing for Si-eun himself.
๋ค์ ๋งํด, ์ํ์ง์ ์๋ฒฝํ ๋๊ทธ๋ผ๋ฏธ๋ ์น๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ํด ์ด ์ ๋๊น์ง ์์ ์ ํฌ์ํ๋ ์์์ ๋์ฒ ๋ฉ์ปค๋์ฆ์ ์์ ์์ ์๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ์ง ์์ ๊ฒ์ผ ์ ์์์ด์.

In this context, I think Si-eun having to go through the trauma of losing Su-ho was brilliant direction.
์ด๋ฐ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์์, ์ ๋ ์์์ด ์ํธ๋ฅผ ์๋ ํธ๋ผ์ฐ๋ง๋ฅผ ๊ฒช์ด์ผ ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ํ๋ฅญํ ์ฐ์ถ์ด์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค.
For Si-eun to keep his life going rather than continuing to harm himself, he probably had to go through another painful but necessary growth phase, and sending Su-ho into a coma was – sorry to Su-ho, who ended up spending more than half his high school years in bed – I think it was a dramatically brilliant directorial choice.
์์์ด ์์ ์ ์ถ์ ์ง์์ํค๊ธฐ ์ํด์๋, ๊ณ์ ์ํด๋ฅผ ํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.. ์๋ง๋ ๊ณ ํต์ค๋ฝ์ง๋ง ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ํ์ํ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฑ์ฅ ๋จ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ณ์ผ ํ์ ๊ฒ์ด๊ณ , ์ํธ๋ฅผ ํผ์์ํ์ ๋น ๋จ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒ์ – ๊ณ ๋ฑํ๊ต ์์ ์ ์ ๋ฐ ์ด์์ ์นจ๋์์ ๋ณด๋ด๊ฒ ๋ ์ํธ์๊ฒ๋ ๋ฏธ์ํ์ง๋ง – ๊ทน์ ์ผ๋ก ๋งค์ฐ ํ๋ฅญํ ์ฐ์ถ ์ ํ์ด์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํด์.

The Hope of Recovery: The Eunjang High Chapter
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.
์์์ด ํด๋์ค 1์์ ์์ ํ ๋ฌด๋์ง ํ, ๋ฐ์์ฃผ๋ ํ๊ต๋ ์์๊ณ ๊ฐ์ ํ ์๋ ์์ ํผํ๊ณ ์์ฅ๊ณ ๋ฑํ๊ต๋ก ๋ณด๋ด์ง๋๋ค.
But thanks to that, Si-eun, who’d been living like an emotional zombie, 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 sustainable friendship pattern to look up to.
๊ทธ ๋๋ถ์, ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ข๋น์ฒ๋ผ ์ง๋ด๋ ์์์ด ๋ฐ์ฟ , ๊ณ ํ, ์คํ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋๊ฒ ๋์๊ณ , ์ด๋ค๊ณผ์ ์ฐ์ – ๋๋ฌด ๊ฐ๊น์ง๋, ๋๋ฌด ๋ฉ์ง๋ ์์ – ๊ทธ์๊ฒ ํจ์ฌ ๋ ์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ์ฐ์ ์ ๋ง๋ค์ด๊ฐ๊ฒ ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
His decision to let go of Beom-seok’s hand on that ring – the one that had been putting him through hellish sleepless nights – symbolized his determination to free himself from the guilt he’d been holding onto and his choice to heal and grow despite his losses.
์ง์ฅ ๊ฐ์ ๋ถ๋ฉด์ ๋ฐค์ ๋ณด๋ด๊ฒ ํ๋ ๊ทธ ๋ง ์์์ ๋ฒ์์ ์์ ๋๊ธฐ๋ก ํ ๊ฒฐ์ ์, ์์์ด ์ค์ค๋ก ๋ถ์ก๊ณ ์๋ ์ฃ์ฑ ๊ฐ์์ ์์ ์ ํด๋ฐฉ์ํค๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ๊ฒฐ์ฌ๊ณผ ์์ค ์์์๋ ์น์ ํ๊ณ ์ฑ์ฅํ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ์ ํ์ ์์งํ์ต๋๋ค.

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 struggles that had been weighing him down. We can see his depression starting to lift when he’s able to build meaningful relationships with people who accept him for who he is without expecting perfection – and if he can keep those kinds of relationships going… with people who’ll actually stick around… then maybe he gets closer to just being a regular introvert. Who knows how much he can recover?
๋๋ผ๋ง๊ฐ ๋ช ์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ค๋ช ํ์ง๋ ์์ง๋ง, ์ด ์ํ์ ์ ๋ง ์ดํดํ๋ ์ฌ๋์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ๋๊ตฌ๋ ์์์ด ์์ ์ ์ง๋๋ฅด๊ณ ์๋ ๊น์ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ํฌ์์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์์์ ์ฒ์ฒํ ๋ฒ์ด๋๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ํฌ๋ง์ ๋๋ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ทธ์๊ฒ ์๋ฒฝํจ์ ๊ธฐ๋ํ์ง ์๊ณ ์๋ ๊ทธ๋๋ก์ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์๋ค์ด๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค๊ณผ ์๋ฏธ ์๋ ๊ด๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋งบ์ ์ ์์ ๋ ์์์ ์ฐ์ธ์ด ์กฐ๊ธ์ฉ ๋์์ง๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ณผ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค – ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ง์ฝ ์๋ ์ด ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ด๊ณ๋ฅผ ๊ณ์ ์ ์งํ ์ ์๋ค๋ฉด… ์ ๋ง๋ก ๊ณ์ ์์ด์ค ์ฌ๋๋ค๊ณผ… ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ์๋ง๋ ์์์ ๊ทธ๋ฅ ํ๋ฒํ ๋ดํฅ์ ์ธ ์ฌ๋์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๊น์์ง๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ ์ ํ๋ณต๋์ด๊ฐ์ง ๋๊ฐ ์ ์ ์์๊น์?

The massive psychological breakdown Si-eun went through as the price for losing Su-ho wasn’t simply tragedy but the psychological growth he had to go through. It’s like a bird breaking out of its shell – you can’t survive just by breaking out. Si-eun had to learn to live without his coping mechanisms – perfect grades and Su-ho as his lifelines – to truly grow into an adult. If he had kept trying to protect those lifelines by scarring his own body and shedding blood, he never could have grown up properly, and the people who care about Si-eun wouldn’t want him to keep hurting himself either.
์ํธ๋ฅผ ์๋ ๋๊ฐ๋ก ์์์ด ๊ฒช์ ๊ฑฐ๋ํ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ถ๊ดด๋ ๋จ์ํ ๋น๊ทน์ด ์๋๋ผ ์๋ ์ด ๊ฒช์ด์ผ ํ๋ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ด์์ต๋๋ค. ์๊ฐ ๊ป์ง์ ๊นจ๊ณ ๋์ค๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ – ๊ป์ง์ ๊นจ๋ ๊ฒ๋ง์ผ๋ก๋ ์ด์๋จ์ ์ ์์ผ๋, ์์์ ์์ ์ ๋์ฒ ๋ฉ์ปค๋์ฆ๋ค – ์ํ์ง ์์ ์๋ฒฝํ ๋๊ทธ๋ผ๋ฏธ์ ์ํธ๋ผ๋ ์๋ช ์ค๋ค – ์์ด ์ด์๊ฐ๋ ๋ฒ์ ๋ฐฐ์์ผ ์ง์ ํ ์ด๋ฅธ์ผ๋ก ์ฑ์ฅํ ์ ์์๋ค๊ณ ๋ด ๋๋ค. ๋ง์ฝ ๊ทธ๊ฐ ์์ ์ ๋ชธ์ ์์ฒ๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ณ ํผ๋ฅผ ํ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด์ ๊ทธ ์๋ช ์ค๋ค์ ๊ณ์ ๋ณดํธํ๋ ค๊ณ ํ๋ค๋ฉด, ์๋ ์ ์ด๋ฅธ์ผ๋ก ์ฑ์ฅํด๋ผ ์ ์์์ ๊ฒ์ด๊ณ , ์์์ ์๋ผ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค๋ ์ด ์๋ ์ด ๊ณ์ ์์ ์ ํด์น๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ํ์ง ์์์ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค.
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 said carries real weight.
He was genuinely proud of and celebrating Si-eun’s growth into a bird that could fly on its own. Apparently, Su-ho’s original line was supposed to be “Our Si-eun has really grown up.”
๊ทธ๋์ ์ํธ๊ฐ ๊ธด ์ ์์ ๊นจ์ด๋ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ๋ฌ๋ ค์ค๋ ์์์ ๋ณด๊ณ ํ ์ ์๋ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ง ์ค์ “๋ณด๊ธฐ์ข๋ค” ๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํ ๊ฒ์ด ํฐ ์๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๋๋ค. ์ค์ค๋ก ๋ ์ ์๋ ์๋ก ์ฑ์ฅํ ์์์ ์ง์ฌ์ผ๋ก ์๋์ค๋ฌ์ํ๊ณ ์ถํํ๋ฉฐ, ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ์ํธ์ ์๋ ๋์ฌ๋ “์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์์์ด ๋ค ์ปธ๋ค”์๋ค๊ณ ํฉ๋๋ค.

The Beautiful Conclusion
Season 2 wraps up with Si-eun, through the help of Ba-ku, Go-tak, and Jun-tae, being able to break out of his shell of isolation again and step into a society where he can connect with people and have genuine human interactions, finally saying goodbye to Beom-seok on that ring that had kept him awake, and building true resilience by forgiving himself and letting go of the crushing guilt.
์์ฆ 2๋ ์์์ด ๋ฐ์ฟ , ๊ณ ํ, ์คํ์ ๋์์ผ๋ก ๋ค์ ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ์ ๊ป์ง์์ ๋ฒ์ด๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค๊ณผ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋๊ณ ์ง์ ํ ์ธ๊ฐ์ ์ํธ์์ฉ์ ํ ์ ์๋ ์ฌํ๋ก ๋ฐ๊ฑธ์์ ๋ด๋์ ์ ์๊ฒ ๋๋ฉด์, ๋ง์นจ๋ด ์ ๋ค์ง ๋ชปํ๊ฒ ํ๋ ๊ทธ ๋ง์์ ๋ฒ์์๊ฒ ์๋ณ์ ๊ณ ํ๊ณ , ์์ ์ ์ฉ์ํ๊ณ ์ง๋๋ฅด๋ ์ฃ์ฑ ๊ฐ์ ๋์์ค์ผ๋ก์จ ์ง์ ํ ํ๋ณต๋ ฅ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅด๋ฉฐ ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
Wellโฆ We see, 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.”
์… ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์์์ด ์๋ก์ด ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ ์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ์ถ์ ๋ง๋ค์ด๊ฐ ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ์ค์ค๋ก ํ์ ํ ๋งํผ ์ถฉ๋ถํ ์ฑ์ฅํ ๋ชจ์ต์ ๋ด ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ์ฟ ์ ์๋ฒ์ง๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ฏ์ด, “๊ทธ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์๊ฒ ์ํด, ํ์ ๊ฐ ๋๋ค์ด์ผ”
And as Si-eun’s growth comes full circle, Su-ho wakes up again. “Have you been living well?” “It looks good.” It’s such a beautiful moment that touched everyone’s heart – one of those scenes we all absolutely adore.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ด ๋ฌด๋ฅด์ต์, ์ํธ๊ฐ ๋ค์ ๊นจ์ด๋ฉ๋๋ค. “์ ์ด์๋?” “๋ณด๊ธฐ์ข๋ค” ํฌ๋ค์ ๋ง์์ ๊ฐ๋์ํจ ์ ๋ง ์๋ฆ๋ค์ด ์ฅ๋ฉด์ ๋๋ค – ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ์ฌ๋ํ๋ ์ฅ๋ฉด ์ค ํ๋์ฃ .
What ultimately makes Si-eun’s story beautiful isn’t the revenge or violence, but this boy’s growth.
๊ถ๊ทน์ ์ผ๋ก ์์์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์๋ฆ๋ต๊ฒ ๋ง๋๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ณต์๋ ํญ๋ ฅ์ด ์๋๋ผ, ์ด ์๋ ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋๋ค.

This will be my final Weak Hero analysis content. Until then, keep analyzing, keep feeling, and keep falling! Thank you so much for everything.
๋ค์ด์ฃผ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ณ , ์ ๋ง์ง๋ง ์ฝํ์์ ๋ถ์ ์ฝํ ์ธ ๊ฐ ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ ๋ง ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค.
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