What If Su-ho Had Never Fallen Into a Coma?

๐Ÿ“ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ํ•ด์„๋ณธ์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•œ ์š”์•ฝ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ”— ์›๋ฌธ์€ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—์„œ ๋ณด์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It speaks for thousands of kids who walk the line between brilliance and collapse.
์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์•„์ด๋“ค์ด ์ฒœ์žฌ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋ถ•๊ดด ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„์„ ์„ ๊ฑท๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Weak Hero isn’t just an action dramaโ€”it’s a cautionary tale.
์•ฝํ•œ์˜์›…์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์•ก์…˜ ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€”๊ฒฝ๊ณ ์˜ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

And a call to listen before it’s too late.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋Šฆ๊ธฐ ์ „์— ๊ท€ ๊ธฐ์šธ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์™ธ์นจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

from my dear subscriber, Elaine
์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ตฌ๋…์ž ์ผ๋ ˆ์ธ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ

โš ๏ธ Warning: This post contains in-depth content about adolescent psychology and mental health. There may be triggering elements, so please go back or close this window if you find it overwhelming.
โš ๏ธ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ : ์ด ๊ธ€์€ ์ฒญ์†Œ๋…„ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์™€ ์ •์‹  ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‹ฌ์ธต์ ์ธ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠธ๋ฆฌ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ, ๋ถˆํŽธํ•˜์‹œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์–ธ์ œ๋“  ๋’ค๋กœ ๊ฐ€๊ธฐ๋‚˜ ์ฐฝ์„ ๋‹ซ์•„์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.


์ธํŠธ๋กœ

Hey everyone! This is gonna be one of my final Weak Hero analysis posts.
์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„! ์ด๋ฒˆ์ด ์ œ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์•ฝํ•œ์˜์›… ๋ถ„์„ ๊ธ€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Honestly, it’s been such a dream-like journey these past two months with all of you.
์†”์งํžˆ, ์ง€๋‚œ ๋‘ ๋‹ฌ ๋™์•ˆ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ •๋ง ๊ฟˆ๊ฐ™์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

I know my long-form analysis style is pretty old-school next to all the visual content taking over feeds these days.
์š”์ฆ˜ ํ”ผ๋“œ๋ฅผ ์žฅ์•…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋น„์ฃผ์–ผ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋“ค์— ๋น„ํ•ด ์ œ ๋กฑํผ ๋ถ„์„ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์ด ๊ฝค ์˜ฌ๋“œ์Šค์ฟจ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

In this fast-paced world of shorts, there probably aren’t many readers who’ll stick around for in-depth content.
์‡ผ์ธ ๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ๋ฅ˜์ธ ์ด ๋น ๋ฅธ ์„ธ์ƒ์—์„œ, ์‹ฌ์ธต ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋ฅผ ๋๊นŒ์ง€ ์ฝ์–ด์ค„ ๋…์ž๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.

But maybe, like Seong-je would say, being stupidly romantic is exactly what passes the vibe check.
ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์„ฑ์ œ ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๋งํ•˜์ž๋ฉด, ๋ฐ”๋ณด๊ฐ™์ด ๋กœ๋งจํ‹ฑํ•œ ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ‘๋‚ญ๋งŒ ํ•ฉ๊ฒฉ’์ธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.

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.
์ €๋งŒํผ ์˜ฌ๋“œ์Šค์ฟจํ•˜๊ณ  ๋กœ๋งจํ‹ฑํ•œ ๋…์ž๋“ค์ด ๊ณ„์† ์ด ๋ธ”๋กœ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋จธ๋ฌผ๋Ÿฌ์ฃผ์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์ •๋ง ๋†€๋ผ์›Œ์š”.

Thanks for going the distance with me.
์ €์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ด ๊ธด ์—ฌ์ •์„ ๋‹ฌ๋ ค์ค˜์„œ ๊ณ ๋ง™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This old-school chatty style has actually helped me overcome work burnout.
์ด ๊ตฌ์‹ ์ˆ˜๋‹ค ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์ด ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์—…๋ฌด ๋ฒˆ์•„์›ƒ์„ ๊ทน๋ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋์–ด์š”.

So I guess the romance really worked.
๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ๋กœ๋งจ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์ •๋ง ํ†ตํ•œ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋„ค์š”.


Now, for today’s postโ€”What if Su-ho had never slipped into a coma?
์ด์ œ ์˜ค๋Š˜์˜ ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœโ€”๋งŒ์•ฝ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ํ˜ผ์ˆ˜์ƒํƒœ์— ๋น ์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๋ฉด?

Where would Su-ho and Si-eun’s friendship have ultimately ended up?
์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์™€ ์‹œ์€์˜ ์šฐ์ •์€ ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์–ด๋””๋กœ ํ–ฅํ–ˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?

After binge-watching Class 1 multiple times, I think I’ve finally gotten closer to figuring this out.
ํด๋ž˜์Šค1์„ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฒˆ ์ •์ฃผํ–‰ํ•œ ํ›„, ๋“œ๋””์–ด ์ด ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‹ต์— ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์ง„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.

์‹ญ๋Œ€๋“ค์˜ ๋ฉ˜ํ„ธ ์ด์Šˆ

So here’s something I picked up on about Director Yoo.
์œ ์ˆ˜๋ฏผ ๊ฐ๋…๋‹˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋œ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

Through several interviews, I became convinced that he wasn’t just trying to whip up a simple high school action story.
์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด, ๊ฐ๋…๋‹˜์ด ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๊ณ ๊ต ์•ก์…˜ ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๋ ค๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๋Š” ํ™•์‹ ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ์–ด์š”.

He was also trying to weave in meaningful social commentary.
์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ๋…ผํ‰์„ ๋‹ด์œผ๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•˜์…จ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑธ์š”.

Director Yoo actually went undercover in teenage chat rooms while putting together the Weak Hero script.
์œ  ๊ฐ๋…๋‹˜์€ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์•ฝํ•œ์˜์›… ๋Œ€๋ณธ์„ ์“ฐ๋ฉด์„œ 10๋Œ€ ์ฑ„ํŒ…๋ฐฉ์— ์ž ์ž…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Fashion groups, study circles, health forums, even chat rooms where teens struggling with depression would hang out.
ํŒจ์…˜ ๊ทธ๋ฃน, ์Šคํ„ฐ๋”” ์„œํด, ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ํฌ๋Ÿผ, ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ์šฐ์šธ์ฆ์— ์‹œ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” 10๋Œ€๋“ค์ด ๋ชจ์ด๋Š” ์ฑ„ํŒ…๋ฐฉ๊นŒ์ง€์š”.

He disguised his age and name to get a real feel for what teenagers are actually going through.
๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋‚˜์ด์™€ ์ด๋ฆ„์„ ์ˆจ๊ธฐ๊ณ  10๋Œ€๋“ค์ด ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๊ฒช๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ผ๋“ค์„ ์ง„์งœ๋กœ ๋А๊ปด๋ณด๋ ค ํ•˜์…จ์–ด์š”.

What hit Director Yoo the hardest was finding out just how many kids were seeing mental health professionals and getting sleep medication because of stress.
์œ  ๊ฐ๋…๋‹˜์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ๋ฐ›์€ ์ ์€ ์ •๋ง ๋งŽ์€ ์•„์ด๋“ค์ด ์ •์‹ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ณ  ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ˆ˜๋ฉด์ œ๋ฅผ ์ฒ˜๋ฐฉ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋œ ๊ฑฐ์˜€์–ด์š”.

He said in an interview:
์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ์—์„œ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ์ฃ :

“I was genuinely shocked to discover that so many young people are living under this kind of stress.”

“์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋งŽ์€ ์ฒญ์†Œ๋…„๋“ค์ด ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ฐ•๋„์˜ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค ์†์—์„œ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ์ •๋ง ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.”


๋น„์ฃผ์–ผ ๋žญ๊ท€์ง€

When you first jump into Weak Hero, you get swept up by the cute, good-looking actors without even noticing time slip by.
์•ฝํ•œ์˜์›…์„ ์ฒ˜์Œ ์‹œ์ฒญํ•  ๋•Œ๋Š” ๊ท€์—ฝ๊ณ  ์ž˜์ƒ๊ธด ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋น ์ ธ์„œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ค„๋„ ๋ชฐ๋ผ์š”.

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 teenage psychology.
ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ, ์„ธ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ •์ฃผํ–‰ํ•˜๋‹ค ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ด ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ๊ฐ€ 10๋Œ€ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๊นŠ์ด ํŒŒ๊ณ ๋“œ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ˆˆ์น˜์ฑ„์ง€ ์•Š์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์–ด์š”.

The social problemsโ€”especially the messed-up reality of boys growing up in the shadows of divorced families, grandparent-led households, and abusive parents.
์‚ฌํšŒ์  ๋ฌธ์ œ๋“คโ€”ํŠนํžˆ ์ดํ˜ผ๊ฐ€์ •, ์กฐ์†๊ฐ€์ •, ํ•™๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ชจ์˜ ๊ทธ๋Š˜์—์„œ ์ž๋ผ๋‚˜๋Š” ์†Œ๋…„๋“ค์˜ ๋’คํ‹€๋ฆฐ ํ˜„์‹ค์ด์š”.

I’m not trying to pin down Si-eun’s mental state with any specific labels here.
์‹œ์€์˜ ์ •์‹  ์ƒํƒœ์— ํŠน์ •ํ•œ ๋ผ๋ฒจ์„ ๋ถ™์ด๋ ค๋Š” ๊ฑด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—์š”.

But I personally feel like the production team really ramped up their efforts in Season 2.
ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ œ์ž‘์ง„์ด ์‹œ์ฆŒ 2์—์„œ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์˜ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋А๊ปด์š”.

They wanted to spell out just how much Si-eun’s psychological condition had deteriorated from Season 1.
์‹œ์ฆŒ 1์— ๋น„ํ•ด ์‹œ์€์˜ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์  ์ƒํƒœ๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์•…ํ™”๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋ ค๊ณ ์š”.

When you compare Si-eun’s room between Season 1 and Season 2, the contrast is pretty stark.
์‹œ์ฆŒ 1๊ณผ ์‹œ์ฆŒ 2์—์„œ ์‹œ์€์˜ ๋ฐฉ์„ ๋น„๊ตํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋Œ€์กฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ทน๋ช…ํ•ด์š”.

Everything has become barren and lifeless.
๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฉ”๋งˆ๋ฅด๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ธฐ ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”.

The boy’s study room is now bathed in that same lifeless blue light seeping out from a weak desk lamp.
์†Œ๋…„์˜ ๊ณต๋ถ€๋ฐฉ์€ ์ด์ œ ์•ฝํ•œ ์Šคํƒ ๋“œ์—์„œ ์ƒˆ์–ด๋‚˜์˜ค๋Š” ๋˜‘๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ๊ธฐ ์—†๋Š” ํŒŒ๋ž€ ๋น›์— ์ž ๊ฒจ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

Heavy shadows creep in everywhere.
์‚ฌ๋ฐฉ์—์„œ ์ง™์€ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ž๊ฐ€ ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ ์š”.

The production team really drives home just how cold and hollow Si-eun’s world has become after losing Su-ho.
์ œ์ž‘์ง„์€ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ์žƒ์€ ํ›„ ์‹œ์€์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ฐจ๊ฐ‘๊ณ  ๊ณตํ—ˆํ•ด์กŒ๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ์ •๋ง ์ž˜ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด์คฌ์–ด์š”.

Looking at Si-eun in Season 2, he’s dealing with severe insomnia, unable to fall asleep even past 3 AM.
์‹œ์ฆŒ 2์˜ ์‹œ์€์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๋Š” ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•œ ๋ถˆ๋ฉด์ฆ์— ์‹œ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์ƒˆ๋ฒฝ 3์‹œ๊ฐ€ ๋„˜์–ด๋„ ์ž ๋“ค์ง€ ๋ชปํ•ด์š”.

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.
์ด ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ํ•™๊ต์—์„œ ๊ณต๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์†Œํ™€ํžˆ ํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ฒจ์šฐ ์ฑ…์ƒ์— ์—Ž๋“œ๋ ค์„œ ์กธ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์ฃ .


๊ตฌ๋…์ž๋“ค์˜ ํ†ต์ฐฐ

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.
์ž ๊น, ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์—ด์„ฑ์ ์ธ ์ฝ”๋ฉ˜ํ„ฐ ์ค‘ ํ•œ ๋ถ„์ด ์‹œ์ฆŒ 1์˜ ์‹œ์€ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ ํŒจํ„ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋‚จ๊ธด ๋ถ„์„์„ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.

They said: “Si-eun is a perfectionistโ€”the type who’ll tear himself apart trying to get as close to perfection as possible.”
๊ทธ๋ถ„ ๋ง์”€: “์‹œ์€์€ ์™„๋ฒฝ์ฃผ์˜์ž์˜ˆ์š”โ€”์™„๋ฒฝ์— ์ตœ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์ง€๋ ค๊ณ  ์ž์‹ ์„ ์ฐข์–ด๋ฐœ๊ธฐ๋Š” ํƒ€์ž…์ด์ฃ .”

“He’s blindly obsessed with being perfect, and he’ll sacrifice basic life necessities for that perfection.”
“๊ทธ๋Š” ์™„๋ฒฝํ•จ์— ๋งน๋ชฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ง‘์ฐฉํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•จ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์ƒํ™œ ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์„ ํฌ์ƒํ•ด์š”.”

“He literally can’t handle it when his pursuit of perfection gets thrown off track.”
“์™„๋ฒฝํ•จ์„ ํ–ฅํ•œ ๊ทธ์˜ ์ถ”๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ถค๋„์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚  ๋•Œ ๋ง ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ฐ๋‹น์„ ๋ชป ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”.”

They continued: “Early on in the series, Si-eun’s goal seemed to be solely about getting into a prestigious university.”
๊ทธ๋ถ„์€ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ: “์‹œ๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ ์ดˆ๋ฐ˜์— ์‹œ์€์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” ์˜ค๋กœ์ง€ ๋ช…๋ฌธ๋Œ€ ์ž…ํ•™์ธ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์˜€์–ด์š”.”

“But the moment his gradesโ€”his ‘masterpiece’โ€”got even the tiniest scratch, he completely lost it.”
“ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์„ฑ์ โ€”๊ทธ์˜ ‘๊ฑธ์ž‘’โ€”์— ์•„์ฃผ ์ž‘์€ ํ ์ง‘์ด๋ผ๋„ ์ƒ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์ด์„ฑ์„ ์žƒ์—ˆ์ฃ .”

“Then, for the first time in his life, he had precious friends. That was Beom-seok and Su-ho.”
“๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์•  ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์ด ์ƒ๊ฒผ์–ด์š”. ๋ฒ”์„๊ณผ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์˜€์ฃ .”

“But after Su-ho slipped into a coma, it wasn’t just a simple scratch anymoreโ€”he felt like everything he had was gone.”
“ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ํ˜ผ์ˆ˜์ƒํƒœ์— ๋น ์ง„ ํ›„์—๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ํ ์ง‘์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผโ€”์ž์‹ ์ด ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ์‚ฌ๋ผ์กŒ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋А๋‚€ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.”

์ฒญ์†Œ๋…„ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ ์ƒ๋‹ด์‚ฌ ์นœ๊ตฌ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜

After reading this comment, I ended up having this really in-depth conversation about Si-eun’s psychology.
์ด ์ฝ”๋ฉ˜ํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ฝ์€ ํ›„, ์‹œ์€์˜ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊นŠ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ฒŒ ๋์–ด์š”.

It was with my friend who works as a teen counselor and originally recommended this drama to me.
์ €์—๊ฒŒ ์ด ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ์ถ”์ฒœํ•ด์ค€ ์ฒญ์†Œ๋…„ ์ƒ๋‹ด์‚ฌ๋กœ ์ผํ•˜๋Š” ์นœ๊ตฌ์™€์š”.

She casually mentioned that when she actually talks with teenagers, she hears about mental health issues way more varied than what’s shown in the drama.
๊ทธ๋…€๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด๋ค๋คํžˆ ๋งํ•˜๊ธธ, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ 10๋Œ€๋“ค๊ณผ ๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ์—์„œ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ •์‹ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ๋ฌธ์ œ๋“ค์„ ๋“ฃ๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.

She said the series was really trying to seriously approach and touch on teenage problems.
์ด ์‹œ๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ๋Š” 10๋Œ€ ๋ฌธ์ œ์— ๋งค์šฐ ์ง„์ง€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ ‘๊ทผํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๋ ค ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ ์š”.

Speaking of which, let me share some of the psychological observations that my friend, along with many commenters, have pointed out.
๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ œ ์นœ๊ตฌ์™€ ๋งŽ์€ ์ฝ”๋ฉ˜ํ„ฐ๋“ค์ด ์ง€์ ํ•œ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์  ๊ด€์ฐฐ๋“ค์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.

These are about Si-eun’s childhood experiences and attachment patterns.
์‹œ์€์˜ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ ๊ฒฝํ—˜๊ณผ ์• ์ฐฉ ํŒจํ„ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.

One thing my friend emphasised was this:
์ œ ์นœ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•œ ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋Š” ์ด๊ฑฐ์˜€์–ด์š”:

More accurately, my friend pointed out that the range of emotions Si-eun felt toward Su-ho was so overwhelmingly intense and wave-like.
๋” ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๋งํ•˜๋ฉด, ์ œ ์นœ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง€์ ํ•œ ๊ฑด ์‹œ์€์ด ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋А๋‚€ ๊ฐ์ •์˜ ๋ฒ”์œ„๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜ ์••๋„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ•๋ ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ํŒŒ๋„ ๊ฐ™์•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.

If these two boys existed in reality, there might have come a point where Si-eun became emotionally over-dependent on Su-ho.
๋งŒ์•ฝ ๋‘ ์†Œ๋…„์ด ํ˜„์‹ค์— ์กด์žฌํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์‹œ์€์ด ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ง€๋‚˜์น˜๊ฒŒ ์˜์กดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š” ์ง€์ ์ด ์™”์„ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ ์š”.

What I totally agreed with was this:
์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ „์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋™์˜ํ•œ ์ ์€ ์ด๊ฑฐ์˜€์–ด์š”:

Just like Si-eun had treated his perfect grades as a lifeline, that same perfectionist streak would likely have shifted over to his other lifelineโ€”his friend Su-ho.
์‹œ์€์ด ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ์„ฑ์ ์„ ์ƒ๋ช…์ค„๋กœ ์—ฌ๊ฒผ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ, ๋˜‘๊ฐ™์€ ์™„๋ฒฝ์ฃผ์˜์  ์„ฑํ–ฅ์ด ๊ทธ์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ƒ๋ช…์ค„์ธ ์นœ๊ตฌ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์—๊ฒŒ๋กœ ์˜ฎ๊ฒจ๊ฐ”์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋†’๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์ฃ .

She went on to say that from a counselor’s standpoint, the attachment the boy showed toward Su-ho couldn’t be written off as completely healthy friendship patterns.
์ƒ๋‹ด์‚ฌ์˜ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์†Œ๋…„์ด ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์ธ ์• ์ฐฉ์„ ์˜จ์ „ํžˆ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์šฐ์ •์˜ ํŒจํ„ด์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€์–ด์š”.

Even his willingness to get his own hands bloody or take beatings in place of his friend came across more like desperate behaviour.
์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ์นœ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์‹ ํ•ด์„œ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์†์— ํ”ผ๋ฅผ ๋ฌปํžˆ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋Œ€์‹  ๊ตฌํƒ€๋ฅผ ๋งž์€ ๊ฒƒ๋„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ ˆ๋ง์ ์ธ ํ–‰๋™์— ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์› ๋‹ค๊ณ ์š”.

Like this kid who’d never experienced stable attachment was picking up on the fact that losing this precious person would trigger an uncontrollable breakdown.
์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ์• ์ฐฉ์„ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•ด๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์—†๋Š” ์•„์ด๊ฐ€, ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•ด์ง„ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์„ ์žƒ์œผ๋ฉด ํ†ต์ œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์  ๋ถ•๊ดด๊ฐ€ ์˜ฌ ๊ฑฐ๋ž€ ๊ฑธ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ ์š”.

One that would be way more unbearable than any physical pain he chose to take on himself.
์ž์‹ ์ด ํƒํ•œ ์‹ ์ฒด์  ๊ณ ํ†ต๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๊ฒฌ๋”œ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฑธ์š”.

In other words, Si-eun’s coping mechanism of sacrificing himself to this extent might not have been the healthiest thing for Si-eun himself.
๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งํ•ด, ์ด ์ •๋„๊นŒ์ง€ ์ž์‹ ์„ ํฌ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ์€์˜ ๋Œ€์ฒ˜ ๋ฉ”์ปค๋‹ˆ์ฆ˜์€ ์‹œ์€ ์ž์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๊ฒƒ์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”.

In this context, I think Si-eun having to go through the trauma of losing Su-ho was brilliant direction.
์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์—์„œ, ์‹œ์€์ด ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ์žƒ๋Š” ํŠธ๋ผ์šฐ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ๊ฒช์–ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒŒ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์—ฐ์ถœ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์š”.

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.
์‹œ์€์ด ์ž์‹ ์„ ๊ณ„์† ํ•ด์น˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์‚ถ์„ ์ด์–ด๊ฐ€๋ ค๋ฉด, ๊ณ ํ†ต์Šค๋Ÿฝ์ง€๋งŒ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ณ์•ผ ํ–ˆ์„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.

Sending Su-ho into a coma wasโ€”sorry to Su-ho, who ended up spending more than half his high school years in bedโ€”
์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ํ˜ผ์ˆ˜์ƒํƒœ์— ๋น ๋œจ๋ฆฐ ๊ฑดโ€”๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต ์‹œ์ ˆ์˜ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜ ์ด์ƒ์„ ์นจ๋Œ€์—์„œ ๋ณด๋‚ธ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ๋ฏธ์•ˆํ•˜์ง€๋งŒโ€”

I think it was a dramatically brilliant directorial choice.
๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งค์šฐ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์—ฐ์ถœ ์„ ํƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์š”.

ํšŒ๋ณต์œผ๋กœ์˜ ํฌ๋ง

After Si-eun completely fell apart in Class 1, with nowhere willing to take him in, he barely dodged juvenile detention.
์‹œ์€์ด ํด๋ž˜์Šค 1์—์„œ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์ง„ ํ›„, ๋ฐ›์•„์ฃผ๋Š” ํ•™๊ต๋„ ์—†์—ˆ๊ณ  ๊ฐ„์‹ ํžˆ ์†Œ๋…„์›์„ ํ”ผํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.

He got shipped off to Eunjang High.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์€์žฅ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต๋กœ ๋ณด๋‚ด์กŒ์ฃ .

But thanks to that, Si-eun, who’d been living like an emotional zombie, ended up meeting Ba-ku, Go-tak, and Jun-tae.
ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ ๋•๋ถ„์—, ๊ฐ์ •์  ์ข€๋น„์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ง€๋‚ด๋˜ ์‹œ์€์ด ๋ฐ”์ฟ , ๊ณ ํƒ, ์ค€ํƒœ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ๋์–ด์š”.

His friendship with these guysโ€”not too close, not too distantโ€”gave him a much more sustainable friendship pattern to look up to.
์ด๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ์šฐ์ •โ€”๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ฐ€๊น์ง€๋„, ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ฉ€์ง€๋„ ์•Š์€โ€”์ด ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์šฐ์ •์˜ ๋ชจ๋ธ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.

His decision to let go of Beom-seok’s hand on that ring symbolized his determination.
๊ทธ ๋ง ์œ„์—์„œ ๋ฒ”์„์˜ ์†์„ ๋†“๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ•œ ๊ฒฐ์ •์€ ์‹œ์€์˜ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌ์„ ์ƒ์ง•ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.

The one that had been putting him through hellish sleepless nights.
์ง€์˜ฅ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ถˆ๋ฉด์˜ ๋ฐค์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ทธ ์†์„์š”.

It symbolized his choice to free himself from the guilt he’d been holding onto.
์Šค์Šค๋กœ ๋ถ™์žก๊ณ  ์žˆ๋˜ ์ฃ„์ฑ…๊ฐ์—์„œ ์ž์‹ ์„ ํ•ด๋ฐฉ์‹œํ‚ค๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์„ ํƒ์„ ์ƒ์ง•ํ–ˆ์ฃ .

And his choice to heal and grow despite his losses.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ƒ์‹ค ์†์—์„œ๋„ ์น˜์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์„ ํƒ์„์š”.

And while the drama didn’t spell it out explicitly, anyone who really gets this show could feel the hope.
๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ๊ฐ€ ๋ช…์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์„ ์ •๋ง ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋“  ํฌ๋ง์„ ๋А๋‚„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

The hope that Si-eun was slowly breaking free from the shadows of the deep psychological struggles that had been weighing him down.
์‹œ์€์ด ์ž์‹ ์„ ์ง“๋ˆ„๋ฅด๋˜ ๊นŠ์€ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์  ํˆฌ์Ÿ์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ž์—์„œ ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ํฌ๋ง์„์š”.

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.
์™„๋ฒฝํ•จ์„ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋งบ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์‹œ์€์˜ ์šฐ์šธ์ด ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ ๋‚˜์•„์ง€๋Š” ๊ฑธ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

And if he can keep those kinds of relationships goingโ€ฆ with people who’ll actually stick aroundโ€ฆ
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งŒ์•ฝ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์† ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉดโ€ฆ ์ •๋ง๋กœ ๊ณ์— ์žˆ์–ด์ค„ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผโ€ฆ

Then maybe he gets closer to just being a regular introvert.
๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋ฉด ์•„๋งˆ ์‹œ์€์€ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•œ ๋‚ดํ–ฅ์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์— ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์ง€๊ฒ ์ฃ .

Who knows how much he can recover?
์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋” ํšŒ๋ณต๋ ์ง€ ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ์•Œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?

The massive psychological breakdown Si-eun went through as the price for losing Su-ho wasn’t simply tragedy.
์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ์žƒ๋Š” ๋Œ€๊ฐ€๋กœ ์‹œ์€์ด ๊ฒช์€ ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์  ๋ถ•๊ดด๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๋น„๊ทน์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”.

It was the psychological growth he had to go through.
์†Œ๋…„์ด ๊ฒช์–ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์  ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด์—ˆ์ฃ .

It’s like a bird breaking out of its shellโ€”you can’t survive just by breaking out.
์ƒˆ๊ฐ€ ๊ป์งˆ์„ ๊นจ๊ณ  ๋‚˜์˜ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผโ€”๊ป์งˆ์„ ๊นจ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์‚ด์•„๋‚จ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ์š”.

Si-eun had to learn to live without his coping mechanismsโ€”perfect grades and Su-ho as his lifelinesโ€”to truly grow into an adult.
์‹œ์€์€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋Œ€์ฒ˜ ๋ฉ”์ปค๋‹ˆ์ฆ˜๋“คโ€”์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ์„ฑ์ ๊ณผ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋ผ๋Š” ์ƒ๋ช…์ค„๋“คโ€”์—†์ด ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋ฒ•์„ ๋ฐฐ์›Œ์•ผ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์–ด๋ฅธ์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”.

If he had kept trying to protect those lifelines by scarring his own body and shedding blood, he never could have grown up properly.
๋งŒ์•ฝ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ชธ์— ์ƒ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๊ณ  ํ”ผ๋ฅผ ํ˜๋ฆฌ๋ฉด์„œ ๊ทธ ์ƒ๋ช…์ค„๋“ค์„ ๊ณ„์† ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜๋ ค ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•ด๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ์„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.

And the people who care about Si-eun wouldn’t want him to keep hurting himself either.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹œ์€์„ ์•„๋ผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๋„ ์ด ์†Œ๋…„์ด ๊ณ„์† ์ž์‹ ์„ ํ•ด์น˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์›ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์„ ๊ฑฐ๊ณ ์š”.

So when Su-ho woke up from his long sleep and saw Si-eun running over with his friendsโ€”
๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๊ธด ์ž ์—์„œ ๊นจ์–ด๋‚˜ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‹ฌ๋ ค์˜ค๋Š” ์‹œ์€์„ ๋ณด๊ณ โ€”

The fact that he said “It looks good” out of all things he could have said carries real weight.
ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ง ์ค‘์— “๋ณด๊ธฐ์ข‹๋„ค”๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ํฐ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์š”.

He was genuinely proud of and celebrating Si-eun’s growth into a bird that could fly on its own.
์Šค์Šค๋กœ ๋‚  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•œ ์‹œ์€์„ ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฌ์›Œํ•˜๊ณ  ์ถ•ํ•˜ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฑฐ์ฃ .

Apparently, Su-ho’s original line was supposed to be “Our Si-eun has really grown up.”
์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์˜ ์›๋ž˜ ๋Œ€์‚ฌ๋Š” “์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์‹œ์€์ด ๋‹ค ์ปธ๋„ค”์˜€๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”.

์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ๊ฒฐ๋ง

Season 2 wraps up with Si-eun being able to break out of his shell of isolation again.
์‹œ์ฆŒ 2๋Š” ์‹œ์€์ด ๋‹ค์‹œ ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ์˜ ๊ป์งˆ์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋ผ์š”.

Through the help of Ba-ku, Go-tak, and Jun-tae, he steps into a society where he can connect with people and have genuine human interactions.
๋ฐ”์ฟ , ๊ณ ํƒ, ์ค€ํƒœ์˜ ๋„์›€์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜๊ณ  ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์ธ๊ฐ„์  ์ƒํ˜ธ์ž‘์šฉ์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌํšŒ๋กœ ๋ฐœ๊ฑธ์Œ์„ ๋‚ด๋”›๊ฒŒ ๋˜์ฃ .

He finally says goodbye to Beom-seok on that ring that had kept him awake.
๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ์ž ๋“ค์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ทธ ๋ง์—์„œ ๋ฒ”์„์—๊ฒŒ ์ž‘๋ณ„์„ ๊ณ ํ•ด์š”.

And builds true resilience by forgiving himself and letting go of the crushing guilt.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ž์‹ ์„ ์šฉ์„œํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง“๋ˆ„๋ฅด๋Š” ์ฃ„์ฑ…๊ฐ์„ ๋†“์•„์คŒ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ํšŒ๋ณต๋ ฅ์„ ๊ธธ๋Ÿฌ์š”.

Wellโ€ฆ We see Si-eun seems to have grown enough to convince himself that he can build something sustainable with his new friends.
์Œโ€ฆ ์‹œ์€์ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์‚ถ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ํ™•์‹ ํ•  ๋งŒํผ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•œ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ด์š”.

As Ba-ku’s father said, “Be good to those guys, they’re friends for life.”
๋ฐ”์ฟ ์˜ ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด, “๊ทธ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ž˜ํ•ด, ํ‰์ƒ ๊ฐˆ ๋†ˆ๋“ค์ด์•ผ.”

And as Si-eun’s growth comes full circle, Su-ho wakes up again.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹œ์€์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด ์™„์„ฑ๋˜์ž, ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๊นจ์–ด๋‚˜์š”.

“Have you been living well?” “It looks good.”
“์ž˜ ์‚ด์•˜๋ƒ?” “๋ณด๊ธฐ์ข‹๋„ค.”

It’s such a beautiful moment that touched everyone’s heartโ€”one of those scenes we all absolutely adore.
๋ชจ๋‘์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ๊ฐ๋™์‹œํ‚จ ์ •๋ง ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด์—์š”โ€”์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์žฅ๋ฉด ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ฃ .

What ultimately makes Si-eun’s story beautiful isn’t the revenge or violence, but this boy’s growth.
๊ถ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์€์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ต๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ณต์ˆ˜๋‚˜ ํญ๋ ฅ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์ด ์†Œ๋…„์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด์—์š”.


This will be my final Weak Hero analysis content.
์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ œ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์•ฝํ•œ์˜์›… ๋ถ„์„ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.

Thank you so much for everything.
๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์— ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Until then, keep analyzing, keep feeling, and keep falling!
๊ทธ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€, ๊ณ„์† ๋ถ„์„ํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ณ„์† ๋А๋ผ๊ณ , ๊ณ„์† ๋น ์ ธ๋“œ์„ธ์š”!


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