Kdrama 2019

Beautiful World (Kdrama Review & Summary)

• Genre: Youth, School, Bullying, School Violence, Cover-up, drama, melodrama
• Release Date: 5 April 2019
• Origin: South Korea
• Kdrama: 16 Episodes

Cast:

• Choo Ja Hyun as Kang In-Ha
• Park Hee-Soon as Park Moo-Jin
• Nam Da-Reum as Park Sun-Hoo
• Kim Hwan Hee as Park Soo- Ho
• Lee Chung-ah as Kang Joon-ha
• Cho Yeo-Jeong as Seo Eun-Joo
• Oh Man-Seok as On Jin-Pyo
• Seo Dong Hyun as Oh Joon-Seok
• Yoon Na-moo as Lee Jin-Woo (Homeroom Teacher)
• Lee Jae-In as Han Dong-Hee (female schoolmate)
• Kim Do Hyung as Detective Kim

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Episode 1

The first episode showed the stark truth of how our society had become.

It is a scary, violent world!

And perpetrators were from the future of our society, aided and abetted by their parents.

It is not a beautiful world!

It starts with Park Sun Hoo plummeting from the rooftop of his school building.

Episode 2

Park Sun Hoo is in a coma.

The initial investigation by the police was that he committed suicide.

But his parents, especially his mother would not accept such a verdict, afterall there was no palpable reason at all why he would choose to end his life.

There is more to his accident.

Seo Eun-Joo, the mother of Park Sun Hoo’s best friend, Oh Joon-Seok, seems to know what she lets on.  She was trying to plus a school blazer button on the toilet which her husband caught her doing.

Park Sun Hoo’s mobile phone and diary are also missing.

Seo Eun Joo and Oh Joon-Seok were really worried about the missing phone and diary.

The police closed the case as an attempted suicide.

In Ha and Moo-Jin cannot convince the police to keep the case open without concrete evidence.

Park Soo Ho managed to open her brother’s tracking email and found out that he went to visit a school mate Da Hee on the day of his accident.

Episode 3

In Ha and Moo-Jin was absolutely devastated to find out that their son was a victim of gang bullying.  They received a video of Park Sun Hoo being beaten by his purported best friends at school, who assured them that it has a zero tolerance on bullying.

The video almost created a massive strife between In Ha and Moo-Jin because In Ha bitterly asked him why he refused to take a call from their son.  It would have taken him two minutes to answer the call.

In Ha went to a mother of one of the friends who had beaten Park Sun Hoo.

The mother was instantly wary and nervous and therefore In Ha quickly surmised that she knew the bullying and the existence of the video all along.

In Ha & Moo Jin brought the video to the police who still refused to do anything because the video only evidenced that their son tried to commit suicide because of bullying.

The four students were interviewed by the school.

Oh Jin Pyo told his son to tell the truth (a sanitised truth as Jin Pyo father sees it) to the school disciplinary board.  Oh Jin Pyo is a director of the school.

Meanwhile, Soo Hoo went to Da Hee’s house to speak with her but the mother would not let her and bin the flowers whe brought with her for Da Hee.

With stress and coupled with frustration. Soo Hoo threw a stone at Da Hee’s house causing a window to break.

Episode 4

The police at last has reopen the case but with reluctant manpower.

Soo Hoo finally went to see her comatose brother.  She had been going to the hospital regularly but short of going inside to see her brother.  She promises herself to see him when he was awake but now had a change of mind.

Episode 5

In Ha and Moo Jin further found evidence that their son did not try to kill himself.

They noticed that the laces on the trainers given back to them by the police were tied in ribbons.  Their son never tie ribbons in his trainers.

The police though again would not take this seriously.

More truths are coming out.

Joon Seok is finally revealed as the last person Park Sun Ho saw on the day of his accident.  They were fighting on the rooftop and Joon Seok accidentally pushed him to his fall.

Seo Eun Jo found her son crouched in despair on the rooftop.  Instead of calling for an ambulance immediately, she arranged the scene to make it like it was a suicide.

Seo Eun Jo took off Park Sun Ho’s trainers and put them on the rooftop, she also tied the laces and arranged them neatly.

Epidose 6

Jin Pyo was surer that his wife had something to do with the accident and he saw her arguing with their son, who told his mother that if Park Sun Ho dies, then she was the killer.  She should have told the police and called an ambulance rather than covering for him.

This episode also showed why the best friends ended as enemies.  Apparently, Park Sun Ho had a crush on Da Hee but Joon Seok got in their first and then played with her, breaking her heart and then dumped her unceremoniously.

Seo Eun Joo found out that Park Sun Ho might wake up soon as he started moving his fingers more and more.  She went to the hospital and tried to turn off his life support machine.

In Ha is getting suspicious of Eun Joo.

Eun Joo went directly to meet her contact.  It was the school caretaker/school security officer, who was a former policeman.  He was the one who anonymously sent the video to Park Sun Ho’s parents.

Episode 7

The security man told Eun Joo to keep her cool and not to make any mistake because if she goes down, she will drag him along with her.

Moo Jin and In-ha had a heart to heart.  In Ha said that they had to start being happy despite Sun Hoo still in a coma.  They owe a happy solid relationship to their children.

Moo Jin had told In Ha that he was going to take a year sabbatical from school.

Moo Jin had been helping his student as he found out why he was in trouble again.  He was set up by his employer as a thief so he didn’t have to pay him his wages.  Moo Jin then found out that his student was already working very hard because he looks after his sister.

Moo Jin student confessed to him that his sister goes to the same class as Sun Ho and she knows something about what happened.  He also said that it was him who told his sister not to get involved.

He took his sister to meet Moo Jin and In Ha.  His sister told them that she knew Sun Hoo was meeting someone at the school but she was not sure who he was meeting.

She then said that she was sure Sun Hoo did not commit suicide because that day she was going to kill herself but Sun Hoo told her that if she was brave enough to kill herself then she should be brave to face her bullies, who are the real ghost.