Why Did Beomseok Do It?

Why did Beomseok kick Suho's head? When Si-eun asked "Why did you do it?", Beomseok answered "I don't know." But we're still trying to figure out why.

Wait.

Suho—the guardian angel who protected friends within his boundaries, who seemed like a "hyung" to everyone—his behavior reminded Beomseok of bullies?

I've always felt distant from interpretations that only see Beomseok as an Instagram attention-seeker desperate for Suho's validation. He's not that shallow.

Here's what really happened:

Look at the karaoke scene again.

When Suho physically stops Beomseok from using that metal microphone to attack the Moon-gang bullies—grabbing him, asserting control—he's not being malicious. He's just being Suho: direct, physical, protective.

But to Beomseok? That's his adoptive father. That's every Moon-gang bully who ever cornered him.

When Suho responds to Beomseok's anger with physical force (pushing him in the cafeteria), he mirrors exactly how Beomseok's trauma taught him that power works.

In that moment, Suho transforms. Not because he changed. But because Beomseok's broken lens turned his best friend into his worst enemy.

It's like seeing someone you love suddenly wearing your abuser's face. The person hasn't changed—your trauma has hijacked your vision.

This is where it gets uncomfortable.

Not because Suho IS a bully.

But because his natural behavior patterns—the very things that make him charismatic—are psychologically identical to the patterns that traumatized Beomseok.

Think about Suho's social presence:

To us? That's leadership. To Si-eun? That's comfort—Si-eun shares some of those same elements. To Beomseok? That's triggering as hell.

One subscriber (with what I suspect is a psychology degree) pointed out something chilling: Beomseok was testing Suho.

"Would you hit me like my father did? Like the Moon-gang bullies did?"

Watch Suho's face before he pushes Beomseok. He looks at Si-eun for a long moment—a silent signal: This guy crossed my line.

Then he pushes Beomseok against the table. Controlled. Deliberate. Public.

For Suho, this was discipline—a friend teaching another friend a lesson.

For Beomseok, this was the death of an ideal.

The friend he'd placed on a pedestal—the one person who was supposed to be different from everyone who'd ever hurt him—just proved he could inflict the same violence.

Beomseok's test? Failed. Their friendship? Doomed.

Larger. Than. Life.

Think about what that means. Beomseok didn't see Suho as just a strong friend. Maybe he saw him as invincible? Untouchable? Someone who couldn't be hurt?

Which means when Beomseok was kicking him in that ring, some part of his brain genuinely didn't believe Suho could actually be damaged. He was kicking at a myth. A symbol. Someone too big to break.

Until he wasn't.

Asuka—a subscriber who's been working with me on Weak Hero character analysis and fictional arcs as a hobby—poetically described the moment when an "invincible hyung" suddenly transformed into a fragile being on life support:

"Just become meat."

That phrase. That's what Beomseok did. He reduced his hero—his "invincible older brother"—to meat.

And then Beomseok started to understand what he'd done when Suho collapsed unconscious, immediately regretting it...

It's the same psychological mechanism as a child who doesn't understand their actions have consequences, I think. Beomseok seemed emotionally stuck at that developmental stage.

The tragedy isn't just that Beomseok hurt Suho. It's that he genuinely didn't think he could.

Asuka shared a literary observation about the distinct characteristics of Suho, Si-eun, and Beomseok:

Neither needs followers. Neither craves the pack's validation. They're content in their own space, and when they found each other, it was recognition—not competition.

But Beomseok? Beomseok desperately wants to be an alpha.

He needs the pack to see him. He needs status markers—Instagram follows, public acknowledgment, proof that he matters.

And here's the gut-punch: Even in an alternate universe where that brutal incident never happened, Suho could never be as close to Beomseok as he is to Si-eun.

Because their fundamental natures are incompatible.

Beomseok needed constant reassurance. Suho gave loyalty through action.

Beomseok needed explicit validation. Suho showed care through teasing and physicality.

Beomseok needed to be told "you matter." Suho assumed that was obvious.

Beomseok only knew two ways to say "I love you."

Money. And violence.

Watch how Beomseok tries to show affection: "I'll buy it! Let me pay!"

When Suho and Si-eun keep refusing his money (naturally—they saw him as a true friend, not a walking ATM), Beomseok's disappointed eyes become visible. He even stole his adoptive father's watch—risking hospitalization if caught—to get enough money to "save" his friends from Gilsu.

But they refused. Because that's what real friends do.

Beomseok lost his only fluent language for love.

Now, ironically, violence became his only remaining strategy.

The bike brake sabotage. The cafeteria provocation. The final, brutal kick.

All of it—twisted translations of "I love you so much it's killing me."

Can we talk about how Beomseok literally couldn't function at a club?

On the surface: trivial teenage drama.

But for Beomseok, that unfollow (or non-follow, or whatever it was) confirmed his deepest fear: I'm not important enough to matter.

When Youngbin mocked him—"Didn't Ahn Suho block your number?"—Beomseok's expression became chillingly cold. He'd never shown such a cold look to the bully crew before.

Why? Because being cut off from Suho's "line"—from Suho's rational, bounded emotional system—was existentially threatening.

For someone whose entire self-worth dangled from Suho's approval, that Instagram follow wasn't about social media. It was about survival.

Suho probably never dreamed that he'd become both the object of admiration his closest friend wanted to emulate and simultaneously the focal point of all that accumulated rage.

Let that sink in.

I completely agree with Asuka. Si-eun would probably forgive. Because there's warmth at his core.

But Suho? Suho's moved on. Not because he's cruel. But because his mindset isn't weak enough to get stuck in the past. He's got his grandmother, Si-eun, Youngi. His life is full. Beomseok is just... not relevant anymore.

And here's the devastating kicker from Asuka:

Read that again:

That's not a metaphor. That's literally what happened in that ring. When Beomseok couldn't get Suho's attention, his approval, his acknowledgment through any healthy means, he kicked it into his skull. Violently. Desperately. Fatally.

"See me. Acknowledge me. I matter. I MATTER."

Remember the math teacher scene where Si-eun tries to mediate between them?

That's Suho and Beomseok's entire friendship: trying to solve an equation when their fundamental premises were incompatible from the start.

Suho's equation: Friendship = Actions + Loyalty + Physical Presence

Beomseok's equation: Love = Constant Reassurance + Explicit Validation + Control

One subscriber put it perfectly:

Suho was just a seventeen-year-old kid. He loved his friend the only way he knew how—through actions, teasing, showing up.

But Beomseok needed someone to carry his entire sense of self-worth.

That's not friendship. That's survival outsourced to someone who never signed up for the job.

I couldn't fit everything here—like the power dynamics theory (where Beomseok learned "love = hitting" from his adoptive father), the inner child analysis (the "big body with an unhealed kid inside"), or my full breakdown of that devastating ring scene where the camera angles deliberately mirror Beomseok's abuse flashbacks.

Plus: And why did actor Hong Kyung, who played Beomseok, leave this message to Suho in the script book: 🔗 "수호야… 너무 동경했어. 너무 사랑했어. 정말 미안해" (Suho... I admired you so much. I loved you so much. I'm really sorry)?

This is the full psychological deep dive you can't get from subtitles alone:

🔗 Full Trauma & Psychology Analysis - Camera angles, abuse patterns, and why that ring scene will haunt you forever (Korean + visual breakdown)

🔗 Why Weak Hero Is a Cautionary Tale - The full character analysis with all the deleted script book scenes (English)

Speaking of different perspectives...

Asuka and I started discussing whether the canoe trio (Suho/Si-eun/Beomseok) could realistically maintain their friendship as adults post-coma.

That conversation evolved into a mid-length fictional arc series 😂

In reality, different social classes make it unlikely they'd cross paths again.

But in our fictional deluluverse, working-class Mr. Ahn visits Dr. Yeon's clinic without an appointment 😂

What's Actually In There

Our arc isn't just fiction—it includes deep character analysis and philosophical themes we couldn't fit into YouTube videos.

Started as a joke between Asuka and me, but it's grown into deep Weak Hero character analysis plus post-coma speculation.

I'm the bricklayer adding local flavor while Asuka simmers the fictional arc soup.

The blog's getting renovated for easier reading—stay tuned.

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