Roh Jeong-eui, Lee Chae-min, Kim Jae-won In , Netflix’s latest Korean drama series, the heirs to Korea’s top chaebol – family-run corporations – rule the roost at the prestigious Jooshin High School, but the strict social order they have imposed starts to crumble following the arrival of a dashing scholarship student who does not respect the established order. It’s hardly the most original story set around a chaebol to start with, yet still manages to disappoint: the promise of social upheaval comes to nothing and soon the series is veering between vacuous high-school romance and bland revenge drama. It all begins – how else? – on a dark night with a handsome young man running away from something, only to be mown down and killed by a speeding car.
We soon learn that the victim was Kang In-han, a scholarship student at Jooshin High. The perpetually grinning Ha is in no way intimidated by the strict social order at Jooshin, where the lower-class scholarship students are identified by different-coloured ties. Ri-an is so powerful that school assembly does not end until he gets up and leaves, with everyone following behind him.
Jae-i has just spent the last three months in America. Upon her return, the quartet meet at a racetrack, where Jae-i challenges Ri-an to a supercar race, with the loser granting the winner’s wish. Jae-i prevails on the track and her wish is to break up with Ri-an without a fuss.
To the horror of the rest of the student body, the cocky Ha in.
