K-Drama School – Ep 116: Juvenile Justice and It Takes a Village to Neglect a Child

[Spoiler Alert] Grace discusses Juvenile Justice (Netflix, 2022) starring Kim Hye-soo, Kim Mu-yeol and Lee Sung-min. Grace compares the success of Juvenile Justice to the failure of Extracurricular in that there’s a complete story arc following Judge Sim’s hero’s journey. Grace praises Kim Hye-soo’s controlled performance on this show, as well as the show’s conscious awareness in how a society’s perpetrators come into formation through systemic and structural problems. The show poignantly states that everyone in society is culpable when a juvenile offender is created thus questioning the black-and-white tendency to frame criminals. The show also offers a critique of the lenient sentencing of femicide and rape crimes in South Korea. Follow @KDramaSchool on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok. Visit https://www.kdramaschool.com/ to learn more.