I think that most people expect a "perfect victim" just like shown in most stories. I mean isn't it easier to support a victim if they are only miserable and depressed whose waiting for their savior... lots of people don't like to accept the very negative affects that victims who has gone through so much trauma have psychologically that make them do so many terrible things.
I have seen in real life how people are so supportive of victims fighting against their abuser but the moment they do something terrible as a result of their trauma, they are like questioning the victim and saying things like "the abuser was right"
It's not about forgiving either. It's about understanding what lead them to do that and preventing it happening to another person.
Whenever I see characters like this I can't help but wonder if they do deserve to have such a miserable life till they die. I mean when does their pain ends? Don't they deserve happiness or someone to tell them what's wrong and how to come to the right path?
And I can't help but wonder what whould I have done if I was him. Maybe I wouldn't have gone as far as he went, or I could have been worse. I'll never know becouse I have never gone through what he went through. It's easier to tell "I whould never do that" when we are just watching from the sidelines but if we are in the actual situation it's a whole different story
Those who say they hated uke and that he deserved it, are young, immature, apathetic folks who, forget about child psychology, not even know the basic human psychology and lack empathy.
Children are vulnerable. Whether Those who have parents and especially those who have no one to rely on, no one to take care or protect them.
Uke, Minjoo, an abandoned child lived in orphanage. He’s a vulnerable child, who suffered bullying, beating, and sexual abuse daily in his childhood for years. For years! From his parent, in orphanage, in school…It’s the crucial age where children are developing cognition, personality etc. They’re learning about the world. And Minjoo had no one to teach him about right or wrong, no one to bring him up well, no one to protect him, and only adult monsters were around him that took advantage of this child, and bullies who gave him physical pain daily. This child was broken. Scars, traumas left in childhood are the one of the hardest to cure depending on the severity. And everyone cops with them differently.
And peeps expect of him to have healthy, righteous mind when this child lived in darkness all his life? How should he not feel resentment, hatred, jealousy etc, negative emotions? And this child, who was always given darkness, gave it back and did a grave mistake in his childhood while feeling such dark, negative emotions and hurt.
But he never gets forgiveness for his childhood mistake. Juvenile prison was better for him rather than what was done to him by his “savior”.
So, Instead, he gets another cruel punishment in the cruel revenge. An adult starts planning revenge on this broken child. He adopts him, fills his heart, manipulates him, gives him happiness to break him in the worst way. Again, he’s broken and by his most precious person—his savior, his hero—in a cruel way.
The adult chose revenge over forgiveness in the end. He let hatred win. Well, I hated him for that. I wanted Minjoo, at least one broken child, to be finally happy in whatever way. And the story ends.
People look at problems, but not the root of those problems. Those bullies and society that wrong those vulnerable children, are still free and roaming around.
I hope, with both protagonists’ friends testimonies and psychological screening from shrink, Minjoo is released and starts recovery from childhood and this new big trauma together with his friend/lover(forgot his name). He loves Minjoo much, he won’t leave him in despair for life.
Also, we also don’t know if the father really dies at the end since we don’t see any such confirmation. We don’t see him being taken to hospital as story ends before that. I think author deliberately ended it at that to leave it to readers imagination.