One High School Heroes – K-drama Episode 4 Recap & Review

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3 days ago

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Episode 4 of One High School Heroes starts where we left off after Seung-sik strangles Ui-Geum until he is unconscious. Seung-ki gets ready to fight the second victim, Yoon-ki, but suddenly Ui-Geum regains consciousness. He warns Seung-ki that if he strangles him again, he will kill him. The second round of their fight starts, and this time Ui-Geum subdues Seung-sik.
Seeing that Seung-sik is about to lose, his friend and fellow gang leader Sung-wook wants to step in, but Yoon-ki stops him. Yoon-ki tells Ui-Geum that since Ji-hyuk, there were two people left to beat, so the fighting can stop. He says that he will take care of the second person.
Yoon-ki is a skilled fighter in hiding. Sung-wook barely lands punches on him while Yoon-ki shows his superior skills. He ends the fight with a round kick called 'fans' benefits.' Seung-ki had paused the battle with Ui-Geum to watch Sung-wook and Yoon-ki's fight. Once it is done, he returns to the ground, saying he will break both their hands to warn anyone who tries to fight against them in the future.
However, Ui-Geum is not easy to beat. He does not let Seung-ki get the upper hand and finishes the fight by copying Yoon-ki's fan benefits round kick. The onlookers are baffled. Ui-Geum then chokes Seung-ki until he is unconscious, reminding him that he had warned that if he put his hands on his neck again, he would kill him.
Ui-Geum and Yoon-ki leave the band room with the warning that the rogue gang is not allowed to conduct their rogue activities at the school ever again.
Elsewhere, Ui-Geum's mother visits a psychiatrist about her panic attacks. She wants to stop getting the panic attacks, so she begs the doctor to help. The doctor tells her to face the emotions she has been avoiding. At home, Da-bin gets the courage to go into Soo-kyum's room without having a panic attack.
At cram school, Ui-Geum loses concentration as his mind wanders to the fight with Seung-ki. The teacher scolds him and does the same thing his father does, pushing his head back with a finger. Ui-Geum stops the teacher who asks him to leave the classroom if he does not want to learn. Ui-Geum chooses to go. At home, his father scolds him more and orders that they will make an apology to the teacher at the cram school the next day. Ui-Geum reluctantly agrees.
Later, Ui-Geum meets up with Yoon-ki. He wants Ui-Geum to join him in a fight against the school bullies, and his next target is from Ui-Geum's former school. Kim Nam-yeop tortures students at the school, but his crimes are easily covered up because his father is a professor at a medical university. Yoon-ki wants Ui-Geum to join him in bringing education back to its roots by dealing with the school bullies.
A student comes to thank Ui-Geum, saying he has no longer been bullied since dealing with Hong-II. Yoon-ki thinks he should not thank Ui-Geum since he was not doing that out of the goodness of his heart. He was only looking for an avenue to let out the pressure he was getting from his father, since he could not stand up to him.
Later, Ui-Geum's father drags him to a party for potential candidates of a renowned medical school, where his brother had been admitted. He meets Nam-yeop, seated at the centre table with his father and the school dean, among other respectable people.
While Ui-Geum's father openly admires Nam-yeop for his outstanding abilities in academics and sports, Ui-Geum only thinks about the video they saw of him bullying a disabled kid at school. When his father asks him to say hi, Ui-Geum asks about Wu Chengfan. He says that Nam-yeop is not one of those people who invent things to help people with disabilities, but he bullies them. Nam-yeop's father tries to say it is all rumours, but Ui-Geum insists, saying there are videos. Seok-tae takes Ui-Geum away from the table.
Ui-Geum stand up to his father and says he does not want to be like his brother. His mother opens up to the psychiatrist about what happens with Soo-Kyum. It turns out that he committed suicide in his room a month after he was admitted to medical school. Da-bin blames herself. She thinks she saw the signs but ignored them and wishes she had heard her son's cry for help.
After leaving the party, Ui-Gyeom walks to Yoon-ki's house in the rain. He agrees to catch Nam-yeop together. Nam-yeop continues to bully students as usual. At the end of the episode, Yoon-ki and Ui-Gyeom go looking for Nam-yeop wearing brown shorts, hoodies, and red face masks.
The Episode Review
In this episode, Ui-Gyeom and his mother confront the trauma of Soo-kyum's suicide. Da-bin talks to a psychiatrist and tells them what happened to Soo-kyum. She blames herself, which explains her worries whenever Seok-tae pushes Ui-Gyeom too hard. Also, Ui-Gyeom stands up to his father.
True to our deduction in the previous episode, Ui-Gyeom gets into fights not solely about confronting bullies but mostly about releasing the pressure of dealing with his father and his high expectations of him. However, at the end of this episode, he decides to do something he wants to with his new friend Yoon-ki.
Will the new vigilantes, whose only enemy is school bullies, win in the fight to bring education back to its origin? Unlike other bullies they dealt with at school, Nam-yeop has his father's backing. Do you think they will easily get him to stop bullying other students, or have Yoon-ki and Ui-Geum met their strongest rival yet?
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