I recently saw a comic book about my childhood, a great hit that I was noticed in World, Death Note. It is the story of a high school student who accidentally picked up a dead body when he wrote someone's name as it is. It is a work that recorded mega hit in Japan and then spread to North America beyond Asia and sold more than 30 million copies. It is no exaggeration to say that it is the top sales volume of comics published in the 21st century, and it is a hit that shook World.
high school student who picks up notes and kills people and police officer who tracks him to arrest him. The contents seem simple, but it is quite complicated, because the high school student who picked up the notebook, Raito is a master of the national level of the mock test, so it is quite intelligent. He dreams of a just society as a lawyer and a lawyer at Tokyo University. He gets a note and then he chooses only the "evil" to write for the justice of the World. All the felons who are identified on TV are written down in their notebooks, because if the wicked people continue to die suddenly, they will not be able to commit crimes because they are afraid of death.
With the whole country slowly panicking, public opinion divides into two divisions: "No matter how many criminals you choose and kill, every murder. "and"killing the wrong people is a fair punishment. What do you think? The latter public opinion is stronger in the cartoon. And the first careful protagonist gets more and more justified in his actions: "I am justice."
Anyway, I happened to see this comic again. I saw so much as a child, I memorized the development, and I kept turning the page even though I knew the ending. It was not the only thing that happened. In the first time I met, I felt like a fantasy in a cartoon, and in 2020 in Korean society, it was like a reality that happens publicly. and someone points to one person, and then they're going to die. Not just paper notes, but Electronic keyboards.
There were two "justice" incidents that heated up the Internet community a while ago, the so-called Bobburger incident and The ally restaurant red bean curd noodles. Jia Qing, who resembles talent Park Bo-gum, had a high school student who did not resemble at all and a public 's punishment' for the head of the red bean curd collection who ignored the feedback of the ally restaurant Baek Jong-won. The former high school student became impossible to live with swearing and cyber terrorism, and the latter president of the red bean curd soup cried and said, "I did wrong people. Please help me. "Their charges were to ignore the resemblance of Park Bo-gum and the words of Representative Baek Jong-won. Death Note: The killer targets in the cartoon are a big difference from being a murderer and a rapist, right?
Of course, there is something in common. A person who has no authority to take over the right to exterminate others is a judge by pretending to be 'justice'. If you see all the attacks justified by the logic that "we condemn you because you are wrong", it overlaps with the figure of Jia Qing, "I am justice itself" in Death Note.
Do you want to know what the ending is? The main character dies, too. He's got his name on Death Note. And then, later, he tells the reader three things and closes his eyes, that he was not qualified to wield a knife. The wrong man needs punishment, but he has no authority to do so, and finally, when the sword that he wielded was not his part, he eventually hurts himself.
Jang Jae-yeol, CEO of Young Children's Counseling Center