Itaewon class
By~C
Synopsis:
An ex-con and his friends fight to make their ambitious dreams for their street bar a reality.
Plot:
The 1st episode of itaewon class shows us a flashback 15 years ago.
Park saeroyi in highschool defends a person from a bully; turns out the bully's father is the owner of the school and also a hugely successful business man. Park saeroyis father is an employee in this man's company
Park saeroyi in front of the bully's father is asked to acknowledge his mistake and apologize to which he responds he didn't do anything worng and in turn that gets him expelled.
The bully's father later on goes on to become a main villain in the story.
Park saeroyis father often vists an orphanage where his company gives funds in form of charity and there a girl oh soo ah(kwon nara) who volunteers there ( she too goes to the school where park saeroyi recently got admitted)
The bully that we saw jang geun-won (Ahn Bo-hyun) causes a car accident which kills Park saeroyis father.
The police officer interrupts the mourning, and tell saeroyi that the driver who killed his Dad turned himself in this morning.
The police officer shares the paperwork and settlement agreement. He falls to the ground in distress, and Soo-ah takes over for him.
She picks up the paperwork and recognizes the car in the photo through the “7777” license plate. She tells Sae-ro-yi that the car belongs to jang Geun-won.
Saeroyi rushes to find jang gueun won and fight erupts between them. Saeroyi is almost about to hit him on the head with a rock but at the last minute cops show up along with soo ah
Saeroyi is sent to prison for 2years. After his release he goes to meet so aah in itaewon. They part ways and we skip to 7 years later.
So aah is now working at Jang Ga the company of our dear villain.
Saeroyi is now setting up his new bar Danbam which means chestnut or sweet night and while working there, so aah runs into him.
Saeroyi works with his staff of two ma yeon hi(lee joo young) and choi seung gwon( ryu kyung soo).
Ma yeon hi is later revealed to be a transgender and her storyline is interesting as we get to see how society holds prejudice over a trans person while choi seung gwon is an ex convict.
Rest of the three characters that join danbam later are jang gueon soo ( kim dong hi) , jo yi seo( kim da mi) who are friends. Gueon soo also has unrequited feelings for jo yi seo but soon yi seo seo starts to develop feelings for saeroyi. The third character is kim toni (chris lyon).
Jo yi seo's character is explained as a sociopath by her friend gueon soo and he ( we find out later in the show)is the other son of jang dae hee our villain. Kim toni is a black man who is half korean( his fathers fathers side) and has come to itaewon to find his father.( Who as we come to know later died in a car accident years ago)
With Yi seo having a crush of saeroyi and sareoyi liking so aah (who though not stated explicitly we see she likes him back too) we get a love triangle. Its actually not quite predictable who will end up with who unlike our usual kdramas where we knows who is the main lead and who is the second lead.
The story moves forward with saeroyis main aim being to become more powerful than Jang ga company.
This team of misfits work their way up and in the end succeed and reach their goal.
Each character is unique and special to the story. Several topics such as racism, classicism, transphopia, bullying, abuse of powers etc are explored in this 16 episode kdrama that went on to be an international hit.
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