JTBC’s “Itaewon Klath” was scheduled to hit the front page: it was a mega hit with original work Web toon exceeding 200 million cumulative views. Park Seo-joon Kim Dae-mi and other stars have surpassed the audience rating of 10% (Nilson Korea) in the 5th broadcast on the 14th, and the 6th episode continues to rise to 11.6%. But there is a peculiar aspect to this box office: the remake of the popular Web toon that has fallen in the past due to the poor making. So what charm of this drama is attracting many viewers?
The pole that follows the stem of the original work draws the story of young people who have been caught in the trendy space Itaewon. The main character is Park Seo-joon, a pronoun of stiffness. He has been a criminal criminal who tried to kill a chaebol because he kept his conviction. He realizes his plan to kneel down the chaebol without breaking down while he is going to the fishing boat. Itaewon Clath is a drama that aimed at the frustrating and unfair mind of viewers who had to abandon their beliefs and principles in a bleak society. Here, the vividness is added to the colorful groups of wandering youths such as the genius Soshio Pass Seo-yool Lee (Kim Dae-mi), who is tired of boring life, and the individualist SuA (Kwon Nara) who has a sick past.
But it was not a work that only leaned on original work. Son Hyun-joo Yoo Jae-myeong and other big actors' performances were a great force for the early immersion, but the Adaptation that was put on the original work was a factor of popularity. "I was saddened by the deadline when I wrote Web toon," said Gwangjin, who wrote the play after the original work. "I was careful to supplement Kahaani and save the exhaustive character in three dimensions."
The drama that moves the Comics frame is awkward, especially if it is the Itaewon Klath, which has a lot of dramatic characters like Roy. The drama has added a wide range of narratives of characters such as ambassadors and SuA that were not in Comics, and reconstructed them into realistic stories. “Many Web toon-based plays, such as Untouch Romance, have struggled because they have not melted the exaggerated tone of Comics,” said Gong Hee-jung, a drama critic. “Itaewon Klath’s rich Adaptation has a great implication for the pouring Web toon drama.”
Unlike other works that a separate writer adapts, it is also a box office point that the original worker wrote. “I suggested that there would be no one who had the character and Kahaani to continue the fun of Comics,” said a showbox official, a movie distributor who first started making dramas with Itaewon Klath. The rejuvenated Comics tone is also prominent in the neatly trimmed production, with sensory sequences such as the traffic accident scene of the swirling sex heat (Son Hyun-joo).
It is of course actors who support all these stories at the bottom. Park Seo-joon, who has been known for his original work and high synchro rate since the planning stage, leads the story steadily. Kim Dae-mi, who made his debut in the drama, is also impressive. The key character of the drama, Seo-yool Lee, was revived as a more intense character.
The weakness of the Web toon drama is that the plot and ending are open for some time. As the original work did, it seems to have to catch the eye with the scenes holding the big catharsis. “There are statistics on where fans went crazy and whether they liked it in the series of Comics,” said Gwangjin.
Predicted box office hit for JTBC mega hit 'Itaewon Klath'