one of the things that is catching me up over and over and circling in my head about Let Free The Curse of Taekwondo is the way that Do Hoe keeps telling Ju Yeong to leave, and how at no point is it because he doesn't like Ju Yeong or doesn't want him around- he usually tells him to leave when he talks about leaving himself, even- but it's the looming, inevitable feeling that it is only a matter of time before his father hits Ju Yeong like he hits Do Hoe and all the other boys, and the fact that Do Hoe wants Ju Yeong to get out before it can happen.
there's such a feeling of resignation about it when it comes to Do Hoe expecting the abuse for himself, in carrying the weight of knowing he can't protect anyone else either. and he knows that the bubble of safety that Ju Yeong arrives with because of his family and his mother and his situation can only last so long.
and the way he looks absolutely crushed when he realises that it's already happened and that Ju Yeong is hiding his wounds because he doesn't want Do Hoe to know and add to his guilt just in turn crushes me.