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One High School Heroes – K-drama Episode 5 Recap & Review
The New Transfer Student
Episode 5 of One High School Heroes starts where we left off, with Ui-Gyeom and Yoon-ki confronting Nam-yeop. Yoon-ki and Ui-Gyeom take turns dealing with Nam-yeop until they make him kneel and apologise to the student for bullying them. Yoon-ki makes him apologise while Ui-Gyeom takes a video. They warn Nam-yeop not to bully other students anymore. If he does, Yoon-ki says he will release the video clip online.
Afterwards, Yoon-ki and Ui-Gyeom hang out and have some drinks. They then change their clothes, and Ui-Gyeom goes to his cram classes. Yoon-ki visits the boy at the hospital. He plays the video, telling him he made Nam-yeop kneel. Yoon-ki tells the unconscious boy that he will make all the remaining people also kneel. The boy's fingers twitch when Yoon-ki leaves the room.
The next day at school, Yoon-ki tells Ui-Gyeom that they have determined the next target and will deal with him the following day. Meanwhile, Hong-II and Jin-woo try to make Seung-joon join the gang again. Ui-Gyeom and Yoon-ki stop them.
Ui-Gyeom is glad that Seung-joon has started boxing again. Seung-Joon tells them that the school bullies, including Ji-hyuk, Seung-ki, Sung-wook and others, were not initially arrogant. However, once they realised the power of their fists, it got to their heads. Seung-Joon tells Ui-Gyeom that he is now arrogant like Seung-ki and the rest.
A new student, Lee Geol-jae, joins the school and is assigned to Seung-ki's class. Unknowingly, he takes Seung-ki's seat, making Seung-ki pick a fight. However, Geol-jae's aura is more domineering, and his fighting skills are even better. He does not fight back, but expertly avoids Seung-ki's attack. The teacher shows up and stops their confrontation.
Later, Seung-ki comes up with the idea of pitting Ui-Gyeom and Geol-jae against each other. He sends Hong-II to incite a fight. Hong-II tells Ui-Gyeom and Yoon-ki that Geol-jae is trying to take over the school. Ui-Gyeom and Yoon-ki head to his class to face up to Geol-jae.
Geol-jae does not want to fight, so he takes them to the roof for a talk. Ui-Gyeom is hot-headed, and all he wants is to fight. However, Yoon-ki recognises Geol-jae's fighting and stops the fight.
According to Yoon-ki, Geol-jae transferred from a well-known unnamed school. The school is like a juvenile detention centre created to absorb the excess detainees from overcrowded centres. The school supports fighting with teachers overseeing fights among the students.
The students are put in a group fight where everyone fights, and the last one standing gets a chance to transfer to a normal school. Therefore, seeing that Geol-jae joined their school, he was the last in the competition.
Seung-ki gets the update that the fight he had orchestrated did not happen. Therefore, after school, his gang plans to ambush Geol-jae. Geol-jae is under strict orders not to fight or lose his chance, so he bolts when he sees Seung-ki following him after school. They think he is running away, so they chase after him.
Geol-Jae was not running away but leading the group away from the school to a secluded location where he could beat them up without getting caught.
Seung-ki and Sung-wook did not land any punches on Geol-jae, but he easily left them wounded and unable to stand. Yoon-ki takes a video of the fight. He uses it to negotiate with Geol-jae. Yoon-ki tells Geol-Jae that he owes him a favour and that he should help him in the future when he needs help.
During class, Ui-Gyeom is distracted as he keeps thinking about something Geol-jae said on the roof. Ui-Gyeom told Geol-jae that they only fight the bad guys. Geol-jae asked him how he differentiates good from bad. Can he say Geol-jae is a good guy? Is he, Ui-Gyeom, a good guy? Ui-Gyeom is distracted during class and fails the exams.
Later, at home, his father scolds him for failing. Seok-tae is angry that Ui-Gyeom is not focused. He has been missing classes or arriving late and is now failing exams. Seok-tae slaps Ui-Gyeom. Da-bin steps in to defend Ui-Gyeom. She tells Seok-tae that his way of disciplining her is wrong. She wants them to talk, not fight, and Seok-tae should stop forcing Ui-Gyeom.
Later that night, Ui-Gyeom and Yoon-ki face their next gang of bullies. The students they save from bullies take a video of the fight. One of them attacks Ui-Gyeom with a rod. Ui-Gyeom keeps hitting him nonstop while he begs for his life. Haunted by the memories of his father, Ui-Gyeom becomes uncontrollable.
The Episode Review
The mysterious transfer student, Lee Geol-jae, has piqued our curiosity. He is rumoured to be a skilled fighter, and in this episode, we see how outstanding he can be by handling Seung-ji and Sung-wook effortlessly. The power dynamics in the school will shift. How will Ui-Gyeom react to the changes? Geol-jae is a strong opponent.
Also, the fist's power might be getting into Ui-Gyeom's head. In this episode, Seung-joon warns him. Also, someone else had told him that getting into fights never ends well. As seen at the end of the episode, Ui-Gyeom is impulse-driven and has underlying psychological issues. He uses fights as a way to relieve the pressure. When so much is happening in his head, especially about his father, it is hard to restrain himself. Will this cause challenges between him and Yoon-ki in the next episodes?
Some students recorded their fight with the bullies. Although they are wearing masks, it might not be difficult for some people to recognise them. If the video is posted online, their identities will unravel, and they might face serious consequences for their vigilante actions.
