Sorry, I'm watching Sungkyunkwan Scandal right now and he is sooo damn cute in it! I just wanna take a bit outta him! rawrr.
He says things that are kinda wacky in this offhanded, flamboyant manner that makes you question if he's being serious or not, but everything he says actually rings true and is surprisingly insightful.
For instance, when Yun-shik and the gang go to intern at the city government office, Yong-ha arrives wearing one his outlandishly colorful outfits (and top of that, he spins to show it off) instead of the required uniform.
When Yun-shik asks why he's not wearing a uniform, he hilariously responds- "Do you know why Joseon is in such a shit state right now? It clothes all its officials in the same uniform without regard to individuality or expression of personal taste (essentially squelching them). How could any good policies come from those hard heads?"
It's such a scathing critique of the ruling ideology disguised in entertaining pizzaz, which makes him my favorite little dissenter. I'm hoping there's more substance to that pizzaz and that he's got some serious opinions and backstory going on. I love how his true character is slowly being revealed to us bit by enjoyable bit. At first, he was just an elitist, hedonistic comic relief with questionable motives (lovable all the same), but then he was revealed to be best friends with the school outcast and generally pissily unkempt Jae-shin, who also happened to have a secret side job as a masked rebel fighting to bring down the corrupt ruling party, and happened to NOT be a random street rat like we all assumed, but the son of the head of the opposing party and whose older brother died fighting to bring the corruption to light (along with Yun-shik's father, as we find out).
And now Yong-ha's friends with the low-class Yun-shik and the son of the ruling party head/ left state minster, Sun-joon?
TELL ME MORE, SHOW!
I love that these kids are as politically invested and motivated as their elders, but are fueled by compassion rather than greed (which is how they're able to become friends despite their differences). I love that they try to be adult-like yet are all still so naive. I love that they all think their own ideologies are solid solutions to the world's problems but experience the gut-wrenching feeling of inadequacy when faced with the cruel reality. But what I love most of all is that they build themselves back up together through camaraderie and juvenile fun. Like Yong-ha said, individuality and freedom of expression are important, but these four go beyond that and prove the strength of their combined effort and skills.
I see them starting out as individual brick walls of differing strengths and attributes:
Yong-ha: charm, cunning, connections
Jae-shin: passion, physical prowess
Yun-shik: female perspective, lower-class perspective, intelligence, drive
Sun-joon: focus, drive, intelligence, morality
They're each stronger than most other individuals, but not enough to fight back a system of collaborative wrongdoing.
They all have a stronger sense of self (and pride) than most people, too, so it takes a lot for them to break. However, once their walls are knocked down, they happen to be together and wind up helping each other build each other's walls back up. In the process, though, they discover that they have all been working on the same wall, mixing all their special bricks and constructing one mighty wall of super-strength (think of it like the Megazord from Power Rangers :P). And that shit is cemented with love, loyalty and FUN TIMES.
exhibit A:
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| tying up some drunkenly passed out guards and writing "thief" on their faces |
They're gonna change the world, y'all! ;)
Yong-ha: "Whooooooo I love life!"
Yun-shik: "hee, boys are so fun. Hm, Yong-ha's kinda cute. and so's Jae-shin. but OMG SUN-JOON. His FACE IS SO CLOSE TO MINE. and OMG. MY HEAD. IS ON. HIS SHOULDER."
Sun-joon: This is disturbing. Why am I doing this again? Wait, am I having fun? Is this what fun is? and why is this boy next to me so pretty and why does he smell like spring blossoms and everything nice?
Jae-shin: These idiots ... why do I hang out with such fools? ...Okay, this is kind of funny. Heh. Heh heh. goddamn.
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