Ron Does Stuff

It’s three for three for this show so far, so let’s continue watching it!

The end of the previous episode saw Ga Min punch a guy from the fourth floor of the school and if that guy survived that then he should be up for some award as well. The force behind that punch would have been insane!

But before we find out what happened to him — if we even find out what happened to him — we learn about the new addition to the study group, Lee Jun. It’s a parallel story to Ga Min’s, except rather than improve his academics, Lee Jun enrolled in Yusung to get better at fighting. He ends up in 17th place in the school ranking, which isn’t that bad in a school of hundreds of students if you think about it! But of course, 17th isn’t first place. That’s why he joined the study group — to learn how to fight from Ga Min.

Which of course, leads to him not getting accepted into the study group, because Ga Min legitimately wants to get better at studying. Desperate to get in, Lee Jun says he’ll actually study and is left with a math workbook to do while the rest of the group meets with a teacher. However, that decision leads Lee Jun to trouble, because now he’s been mistaken as Ga Min by someone who definitely looks like he’s part of a gang.

As he’s in the car, we find out that Lee Jun wants to get better at fighting because when he was younger, a guy saved him from being bullied but eventually left him behind when the guy got into a gang. There is definitely a lot of homo-romantic moments in this show, not gonna lie.

The guy that took Lee Jun from school is definitely a gang member and he tells Lee Jun that he can become a part of the same gang that his childhood friend is if he’s able to pass the test they’ve set up before him. And to do that he has to fight the seniors from his school who were recently accepted into the gang, most of whom are still in their teens. Are gangs like this still a thing in South Korea? I thought they’d be more tech-based now rather than the old school types.

Of course, Lee Jun gets beat up, but thanks to Gun Yeob giving the rest of the gang a head’s up, they’re able to get to the test area in time. Ga Min gets offered the test to be part of the gang if he’s able to retrieve Lee Jun from the gangsters, while Se Hyun and Hee-won head to the police station to report what’s happened.

Back at the gangster hideout, Ga Min, Gun Yeob, and Ji Woo make quick work of the gangster’s minions. However, the gangster himself is a different matter, and it’s refreshing to see someone actually stop Ga Min’s punch. It’s at the right point in the story too because audiences might get bored of him if it’s the fourth straight episode of him easily winning fights. Not only does the gangster stop Ga Min’s punch, he’s even able to swat him away a couple of times.

If this were a video game, we’d be at our first boss fight and the gang has to work together to beat him. There’s a great shot here where Ji Woo flips the gangster and for a few seconds we get to see them upside down. But in the end, the gangster still manages to fight them off. We then get to see a guy that was shown in the first episode that I didn’t think was gonna be important but here he is again, with his face still hidden, telling a younger Ga Min that what he needs is a rival to motivate him to be better. That rival turns out to be Lee Jun, who is just marginally better than he is at studying. And then Ga Min punches the gangster through a wall. To be fair, he didn’t do it with just one punch, but a ridiculous flurry of punches.

We then find out that there’s a gang member inside the car who tries to run over Ga Min and Lee Jun and who also apparently knows something about Gun Yeob’s past. Is that something we’re going to find out in this show or are they going to make this a multi-season show? I guess that’s going to depend on the ratings or whatever. Either way, Gun Yeob doesn’t catch the gangster because he manages to meet up with Han Wul, who now apparently finds Ga Min ~interesting~.

With the study group complete, we actually get a montage of the guys studying. It’s pretty quick though because they find themselves at odds with the student council once again BUT this time it’s resolved without fighting, as Han Kyeong gets them on a technicality. It’s nice to see things being turned around a bit and is a nice salve to the frustration I felt with Hyeon U’s situation in the previous episode.

Now that they’re complete and school-approved, the group heads to Seoul, and this is the moment I find out that the school isn’t even in the capital. Ji Woo, Hee-won, and Lee Jun definitely look like country bumpkins, with Se Hyun being the only normal-looking one in the group. They bump into a couple of Seoulites who calls them country bumpkins, which leads to them beating up those Seoulites in what I feel is a nice little bit of ~provincial~ revenge against Imperial Seoul.

At the school, it’s definitely a battle of socioeconomics because the Seoul kids are snotty but well-equipped and the guys from Yusung Technical are either jealous or raring to beat them up. But that’s going to be the least of their problems because they send the name of the wrong school to Ga Min and he ends up at the decrepit school right beside the one where he’s supposed to go. I wonder what’s going to happen now?