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I totally agree with you! IF only author-nim squeezed bits of pieces of jaekyung's past and a bit of explanation in the story, a bit of his POV and thoughts, then we could have had understood him better as a character... i just don't see it yet why author-nim did what he did on the flow of the story... i swear, jaekyung is not a bad person just his personality and temper as it wasn't shaped properly due to his lack of guidance and love as a child.. again, he is NOT A BAD PERSON..
come on people, don't actike you don't have any problems with your personality and temper... even dear dan has problems despite being such a sweet person..
Look, I do feel bad for his situation. I figured if was something like this and boxing saved his from that situation, using anger and determination to fuel his wins. I figure the other fighter JK faught used to curse out his mother or would say shit like she abandoned him for being a whore or him not being good enough etc etc, I can see that happening.
HOWEVER, overall story wise, I wish there could have been more instances of JK showing glimpses of his past or more friendlier interactions, because barely having it 70 chapters later is very off putting after everything that's happened.
In my opinion, there should have been more scenes of Jk having trauma responses, his hatred for drugs, alcohol, loan sharks, poverty etc etc etc... There should have been more elaborated scenes of small things set up like his friendliness with granny, the bickering side we see with grandpa coach, something that brought flashbacks like seeing a pay phone, him looking at an ad of his old gym or an article of a gym sponsoring a poor kid like him and he looks at it in contemplation... There could have been conversations that triggered his childhood, or even moments at the gym... But nothing. HELL even something like his he easily dropped alcohol when he was drinking, the author could have given us his version and how he left it because saaaay... It reminds him of his poverty days.
There's so many missed opportunities that I feel could have made his relationship with Dan feel different, and the readers feel the character development or build up early on. But no... Everything seems very spontaneous and for what? All just to enter a sob back story and make people forget all the bullshit he pulled. Imo it's very stupid that we have only one instance of seeing a different side of JK, and that was when he met granny for the first time.