Dear X 🔥 Kim Yoo-jung is crazy! Baek A Jin is the Born of Evil.....

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00:00At first, the posters and the cast didn't feel like the original at all.

00:04I wondered, will this really fit me?

00:07Now that I've watched it, that worry was pointless.

00:11Director Lee Youngbok shapes everything with a different touch,

00:14tight, stylish, and full of pull.

00:17From the opening, the screen is dark and strange in a good way,

00:21and the tension never lets go.

00:23It even carries a bit of that heavy, eerie mood you feel in Sweet Home.

00:28In the end, this drama isn't a copy of the webtoon.

00:32It's richer, deeper, and the feelings hit harder.

00:36Here, X means each person who stands in Beck Ajin's way.

00:41The show draws her life as if she's crossing out those X marks one by one.

00:45It begins with young Ajin giving a statement at the police station about her mother's death.

00:50It was a rainy night.

00:52Her mother, drunk as usual, hit her.

00:55Her father stepped in to protect her.

00:57Asked something of her, and Ajin simply turned her head and went upstairs.

01:02That first X disappears, and the camera cuts to Ajin in the present,

01:07cool and unreadable, baptized in harsh light,

01:10as if the world is washing her and leaving only steel behind.

01:15We jump back.

01:16The second X falls when Ajin is in high school.

01:20Her teacher has been saying nasty, cutting things to her, trying to put her in her place.

01:24Ajin sets a trap.

01:26The teacher's husband discovers her affair and chases her all the way to school.

01:31It looks like an accident from the outside, but it's Ajin's doing,

01:34and the teacher who mocked her now stands stripped and small.

01:38The third target is Sim Sonhee, the girl who fights Ajin for the top spot and never stops comparing

01:44herself to her.

01:45Ajin leans on her parents' status and finds any chance to block Ajin's path.

01:50She's always ready to poke, to mock, to shove.

01:54Ajin notices that Ajin likes Yun Joonesio, a soft spot.

01:58She decides to use it.

02:00In P1 Day, Joonesio lures Ajin to the art room.

02:04Ajin has already set the stage.

02:06Knowing Songhee is eavesdropping outside, Ajin talks with the art teacher about true love,

02:13the counseling center, and spins a small, sharp tension on purpose.

02:17Soon, kids start realizing their things are missing.

02:20Suspicions rush towards Songhee.

02:23When the lockers are opened, the proof is found.

02:26Songhee explodes, and what seems like a scandal between Ajin and the art teacher flares and

02:31then collapses, because this, too, was Ajin's plan, run through Jaewa's hands.

02:38Songhee gets kicked out, but Songhee tries to hit back.

02:42By chance, she meets Ajin's father and drags him to school, shaming Ajin in front of everyone.

02:47Ajin answers without a tremor.

02:50She drops Songhee's private notebook in the hallway so friends can read it, a notebook where

02:55Songhee ranked everyone around her like items on a shelf.

02:58That finishes it.

03:00Songhee transfers out.

03:01Life keeps chewing people up.

03:04Jaewa, the boy who helped, tries to stop his own father from beating his younger brother

03:08and ends up killing him by accident.

03:11He goes to prison.

03:12Years pass.

03:14Ajin gets into Korea University's law school.

03:17Then her father, Bek Seengyu, blows the tuition money at the gambling table.

03:22With no way to pay, her admission is canceled.

03:26The anger crystallizes into a decision.

03:28She will kill her father.

03:29She puts on a calm face at graduation, even though she can't go where she earned the right

03:35to go.

03:36On the way home, she sees a former baseball player, Choi Jong-ho, catch a pickpocket.

03:40In that moment, Ajin's eyes change.

03:43She hasn't found a person.

03:45She's found a tool.

03:46She takes a part-time job at his cafe.

03:48With a neat look and a warm air about her, she becomes the center of the room.

03:53That attention attracts a stalker.

03:56Ajin decides to use him.

03:58She takes the stalker's cap, makes sure Choi hears about the stalker, and feeds his instinct

04:03to protect her.

04:05Then she calls her father.

04:06I'll give you money, she says.

04:09She brings him to her door.

04:11Choi stands there with a baseball bat.

04:13Ajin puts the stalker's cap on her father's head and waves money as bait, letting the scene

04:18turn ugly.

04:19Choi mistakes Bek Seengyu for the stalker and swings.

04:22Bek Seengyu falls.

04:24Choi freezes in shock.

04:26Ajin sends him away with a firm look.

04:29She will finish the last hit herself.

04:32The police investigation starts, and Choi is arrested as the murder suspect.

04:37A sharp detective picks at the story, presses Ajin, and slowly fits the puzzle together.

04:43It looks like Ajin is about to be sent to the prosecutor.

04:46Then Yoon Joon SEO's statement takes a turn that could trap her again.

04:50At that moment, CEO Sio Miri appears.

04:54Sio Miri makes an offer.

04:56Don't go to the prosecution.

04:58I'll help you debut.

05:00Don't meet Yoon Joon SEO again.

05:02Ajin agrees.

05:03Joon SEO clings like a child, but Ajin turns away, without shaking.

05:09Sio Miri moves the industry's wheels, and the case sinks under the surface.

05:13But the memory of that first murder from episode 1 doesn't go away, and the show plants a question.

05:19If Ajin could take down her father, could she one day take down Sio Miri too?

05:24What follows is loud and cold, and hard to look at.

05:27Ajin barely escapes her father only to risk becoming Sio Miri's tool.

05:32Ajin is the kind of person who clears anyone who stands in her way.

05:35She debuts in bright lights, and episode 4 cuts to black on her shining face.

05:41Watching episodes 1 to 4, the feeling is simple, jackpot.

05:46The drama is harsher and more desperate than the webtoon, and the R rating makes sense.

05:51Episode 3 is especially raw.

05:53Not just to shock, but to show Ajin's change as she crosses a line and can't come back.

05:59The acting across the board is strong.

06:02Kim Yoong doesn't play Beck Ajin.

06:03She is Beck Ajin.

06:05Compared to the original, she feels even more driven, even more trapped, and even more human.

06:12The scene with her father, Beck Sien-gyu, is a wall of dread.

06:17Two people who look alike, both dangerous, pushing each other to the edge.

06:22Kim Yoong's laughing-while-crying moment is perfect.

06:25The face you make when your body is alive, but your soul is gone.

06:29She is scared, but she goes forward anyway.

06:31For her own future, she must kill her father.

06:35In that awful mix, she looks cruel, desperate, and, somehow, sad.

06:40You can't help pitying her and hating what she does at the same time.

06:45The directing helps that feeling land.

06:47Past and present fold together like a simple flowchart on the screen, clean and natural.

06:52The camera keeps a cool distance in the father scene, no warm filters, no soft tricks.

06:58After the blow, Ajin stands there with bluish skin, red blood across her face, and empty eyes.

07:05The meaning is clear.

07:07She's alive, but something inside her has died.

07:10The set dressing is sharp, too.

07:12In the art room, during that counseling talk, there's a Medusa painting next to Ajin.

07:17Medusa looks at herself and turns others to stone.

07:20She is beauty and curse, power and fear.

07:24In myth, she dies when her head is cut off.

07:26The show seems to whisper that Ajin's end might rhyme with that, beautiful and destructive at once.

07:33The characters shift from the webtoon in ways that make the story feel more real.

07:37In the webtoon, Ajin is ice cold.

07:40In the drama, the ice is still there, but you can see the pain moving under it, making her choices feel inevitable.

07:47Each time a crisis comes, you wonder, how will she slip out this time?

07:53The tension holds to the last minute of every episode.

07:56Yoon Joon SEO also changes.

07:59In the webtoon, he's warm, quiet, rational, almost the opposite of Ajin.

08:05Casting Kim Young-dae, who can look cool and urban, first felt odd.

08:09But in the drama, Joon SEO is more active, more forward.

08:13That cool surface makes him look closer to Ajin, and the clash between what he seems to be and what he does ends up working well.

08:21CEO SEO Miri is different too.

08:24In the original, she's closer to a straight-arrow adult.

08:27Here, she holds evidence about Ajin killing her father, and the show hints she might twist it to her own use.

08:34Will she be a villain?

08:35A mentor?

08:36Something in between?

08:37I'd love to see the late-game duel between Ajin and Seo Miri play out as a real battle of wits.

08:44Two sharks circling, each with a goal the other can't accept.

08:48Later, Joon SEO's grandfather appears.

08:51He learns Joon SEO isn't his blood grandson, and still covers him with love.

08:56In a world where nearly everyone around Ajin and Joon SEO is broken,

09:00he may be the only one who keeps his humanity to the end.

09:04Knowing the webtoon doesn't spoil the ride, the drama bends what you expect and adds fresh turns.

09:10New scenes bring new thrills, and the fear runs deeper, because you don't know where the next knife will come from.

09:16If you're curious about the original, you can read the webtoon on Naver and find videos that explain the plot and ending.

09:23But even if you know it, this version stands on its own.

09:27Dear X runs for 12 episodes, streaming every Thursday on Twing.

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