#Ryu Sung Joon

[wangmiao]

Ha Seok Jin as Ryu Sung Hoon and Ok Taec Yeon as Ryu Sung Joon in BLIND (2022) | Episode 16

[leedongwook]

“If you hurt my brother, I will kill you. I will kill you!”

Blind 블라인드 (2022) // Episode 9

[existingingrey]

Blind really pulled a fast one on us.

Now this is getting somewhere.

Sung Hoon pretty much sandwiched between the two and standing more towards Sung Joon makes so much sense.

PS: Why are you doing this to Sung Joon.

This concept is genius.

[hannigramislife]

Me: Let's check out this kdrama Blind

*two brothers, younger one reckless cop and older one emotionless judge, with a mysterious past, a killer set on revenge and a woman helping them get to the truth*

Me, who's watched He is Psychometric: ~ I told you once, I can't do this again, can't do this again ~

[staydandy]

Blind (2022) - 블라인드 - Whump List

List by StayDandy Synopsis : Ryu Sung Joon, an enthusiastic detective, his brother Ryu Sung Hoon, a perfectionist judge, and Jo Eun Ki, a social worker, become involved in a serial murder case involving jury members as the victims. These three individuals try to uncover the truth behind the deaths. (MDL)

Whumpee : Ryu Sung Joon played by Ok Taec Yeon • Ryu Sung Hoon played by Ha Seok Jin

Country : 🇰🇷 South Korea Genres : Thriller, Mystery, Drama

Notes : This is a Full Whump List • This drama is CHOCKFULL of whump! Like, every episode! It's wonderful! I think this is the first drama I've made a list for where literally every episode contains whump • There is a lot of childhood trauma .. I mention when there's flashbacks/memories, but I do not describe in detail what happens to the children in my list. • This is a very cerebral show. You have to pay attention! When you think you finally know what's going on.. you really don't. I enjoy shows like this every now and then, but damn do I get twisted around! • Check out my Character Key. It's how I kept track of everything through the show; what was happening, & who's who. However it has all the major spoilers in it, so beware of that.

Episodes on List : 16 Total Episodes : 16

*Spoilers below*

01 : Ryu Sung Joon rolls himself down a hill in a bag (comedic) … Attacked with a knife, cut

02 : (near end) Stabbed, collapses, passes out … nightmare of childhood trauma, wakes in hospital

03 : … continued from previous ep. ... Hospitalized … scared by a dog, flashback of childhood trauma

04 : (near end) Hood put over his head, knocked out … wakes tied up, hood still on his head ... beat up … jumps down a steep hill to escape, rolling & injured, knocked out

05 : Severely hurt, barely standing, bloody & limping .. passed out … being cared for, tied up, wakes briefly before passing out again … nightmare … running around while still injured, exacerbating his injures

06 : Nightmare

07 : In a fight … Migraine as he starts to recall forgotten childhood memories; ears ringing, collapses .. found passed out

08 : Hits himself in the head with a hardboiled egg to crack it 😂 (comedic) … (near end) Migraine as he recalls childhood memories; flashbacks, dizzy, collapses ... drugged, passes out

09 : Wounds his hands trying to pull a thin cord … in a fight, beat up ... Ryu Sung Hoon is held & strangled with a chain … slapped … Sung Joon is arrested … strangled, passes out

10 : Migraine, ear ringing, remembering childhood memories … passes out drunk … migraine, ear ringing

11 : (at end) Sung Hoon is stabbed

12 : … continued from previous ep. ... Hospitalized, comatose … Sung Joon has a nightmare

13 : Sung Hoon is attacked while still in the hospital, choked

14 : (near end) Sung Joon is pushed down some stairs, knocked a little senseless but doesn't pass out, recalls childhood memories

15 : … continued from previous ep. ... (replay) Sung Joon is pushed down stone stairs, knocked a little senseless but doesn't pass out, recalls traumatic childhood memories

16 : Sung Hoon is shot in the arm.. beat up by Sung Joon, passes out … imprisoned … attempted suicide, hospitalized

More Whump Lists for this show: love-me-a-lotta-whump

[tenderlywicked]

“Hyung, what the hell?!”

[bluishghost]

If the boys from 20 years ago had someone like Eun Ki, how would things have changed? If there were adults who didn't ignore the truth and fought to the end, could they have been able to live a life different to the ones now? If so, they'd be living well somewhere out there among us. Like these kids now.

The message carried out in this series was very important and one that should never been taken lightly.

Don't turn away from the suffering, pain and the injustice that's being done to others. Don't turn the blind eye to the evil and wrongdoings, don't be a bystander - help instead. Speak up. Stand up. It might just make all the difference.

[pointparadox]

My Issues With Blind (In No Particular Order)

Now I am not above admitting I was wrong so if these questions are answered in the drama and I just missed it then please do tell but so far here are all my qualms: 

1. How did Yoon-Jae and Sung-Hoon actually get Sung-Joon to believe he was Yoon-Jae? 

I understand the whole story about Yoon-Jae pushing Sung-Joon off of the playground set and everything, but `1) amnesia would definitely not happen from such a minor fall like that, especially when he did not fall headfirst and 2) How did they get Sung-Joon to remember the fact that he is Yoon-Jae from the Hope Center but not the fact that the information is coming from Sung-Joon? It just seemed like tacky plot armor. I literally rolled my eyes when Sung-Joon conveniently remembered that after Yoon-Jae pushed him down a flight of stairs (another thing that would not cause someone to regain memory). I know Yoon-Jae made some off-hand comment about “the shock therapy working” but there is no way in hell that LITTLE BOY got his hands on a torture device. 

2. Why did the parents adopt Sung-Hoon? 

I don’t understand what part of the story explained the reasoning for this. Sung-Hoon delivers the personal account of the atrocities of the Hope Center, Judge Ryu ignores them, and then somehow time skips to the judge adopting him? Like it would be one thing if they adopted him out of shame for what happened at the center but it seemed like he didn't care when he dismissed Sung-Hoon’s petition so what really changed? 

3. Why did Sung-Hoon admit he was an accomplice -- better yet, how did he even get sentenced? 

This one irks me the most because, unlike Yoon-Jae, all of the evidence against Sung-Hoon was circumstantial. Yes, Sung-Hoon saw him leave the wedding banquet but the cameras did not--even if Yoon-Jae testified against him there was not a single time in which it was implied that there was anything that connected him so why the hell did he confess? It makes me feel like there must have been some scenes that I was missing because one second he is fighting with Sung-Joon out in the rain and the other he is in jail; I don’t think we even saw anyone read him his rights. 

4. How were the police so inefficient? 

Now I understand that they were working under a corrupt chief but it is not like anyone listened to that dude--they were essentially working on their own. How does the police not have software that can show them what Yoon-Jae would realistically look like 20 years later--I know it’s a thing that exists also faces do not really change *that* much so upon seeing Yoon-Jae and Sung-Hoon the police chief and Crazy Dog should have realized it was them way sooner. 

5. What is the point of making Yoon-Jae and Crazy Dog fight to the death? 

I guess there's no technical issue with this It just seemed like such a big fuck you to victims of abuse that might have resonated with the character kind of. Like did he really have to lose his life just to avenge the other children? I am in no way saying Yoon-Jae is a saint (though I firmly believe he is also not a psychopath) but c'mon why couldn’t he get this one win against someone who was a lot worse than him

6. What is the random switch-up between Sung-Hoon, Sung-Joon, and Yoon-Jae? 

I saved my biggest issue for last but I feel like these characters all acted in such a contradictory way to how they have been written since the beginning of the drama. To start with Sung-Hoon; I think his switching up on Sung-Joon out of nowhere in the last few episodes and completely dropping the facade is so tacky. It’s not like Sung-Hoon was ever an emotional character, to begin with so I feel like they didn’t have to try and make him comically evil with the whole “Ooo guess what I'm going to do next Sung-Joon ooo I never liked you I just wanted to use you Sung-Joon oooo I don’t care about you at all Yoon-Jae” bullshit. I find it hard to believe he didn’t care about Yoon-Jae at all, and while I think it’s fair for him to say that maybe he never thought of Sung-Joon as a brother (since it’s probably hard to think of the man who raped your sister and his wife as parents) I don’t think it’s fair to say that he never cared about Sung-Joon. I wish they dug into that concept of Sung-Hoon maybe not feeling any brotherly connection to Sung-Joon but still looking out for him because he feels bad for him. We know Sung-Hoon can feel emotions towards people: he felt genuine hurt and rage when Yu-Na was killed so I find it hard to believe that he didn’t have any sort of connection to Sung-Joon (especially when he also told Yoon-Jae to spare Eun-Ki and made sure her only punishment would be finding out about who her father really was) since he is essentially the same as Eun-Ki in the sense of being born to people who did bad things. 

On the topic of brotherly connection, I also find it unrealistic that Sung-Joon can switch to hating his brother so quickly. I don’t expect him to condone Sung-Hoon’s action’s in any way, but the scene where Sung-Hoon tried to take his life and then Sung-Joon came and called him a coward and said that he hoped he would live in pain for the rest of his life or whatever was so random? I was expecting an emotional outburst, yes, but I feel like something that would be more in character for him would be the continuation of the whole “How could you do this to me when I did all this for you” thing they have going on (which is how the interaction did start but alas). I just thought it was weird. 

Finally, for Yoon-Jae, why did they make him so comically evil after the reveal? Every interrogation scene made me roll my eyes because they just made him act like the Joker in all of them and it was just so overdone. Sung-Joon calling him a “psycho who is obsessed with murder” was annoying too because it’s like--you’re missing the whole point he’s not doing this cause he enjoys killing people he’s doing this cause he was backed into a corner by his abusers. It’s one thing to not condone his actions but to completely ignore what got him to that point just seemed foolish (which is also what I have to say about Eun-Ki). 

I personally think that the show should have gone more into the brotherly relationship between Yoon-Jae and Sung-Hoon because it’s like yeah we see that Yoon-Jae feels betrayed by Sung-Hoon but why should he be? They did no development on that and honestly hindsight 20/20 the whole “Sung-Joon on the run” arc should have been a lot shorter to allow more time to develop this relationship. 

7. Why is everyone except Sung-Hoon allowed to be corrupt?

The whole basis of this show is how corrupt bad people can be (the police chief, the guy trying to bribe Sung-Hoon in episode 1, the producer, the taxi driver, Crazy Dog) so I don’t see why Sung-Hoon, Yoon-Jae, and Charles couldn’t have gotten off under the same basis of corruption. Like you cannot tell me this man is gonna work his ass off and become a judge, orchestrate a whole string of murders with literally nothing technically connecting him to them, and then go to jail because of his OWN CONFESSION when he could have just used his status as a well-known judge (and one that refuses to do anything that isn't by the books) to just deny (hell, he wouldn't even look guilty so he doesn't even need to do that) and then stack the jury so Yoon-Jae could get a not guilty charge. Call it tacky, but them doing that would make so much more sense than them just putting their hands in the air and going to jail/committing suicide. 

That’s all I got for now but if I think of anything I guess I’ll add it. The ending of this show just seems so drab and dull; I don’t really understand what the theme or point is supposed to be. Sung-Joon’s monologue about “oh if they had someone like Eun-Ki things would have probably been different...what a shame :/” like no shit sherlock if Eun-Ki was there they probably also wouldn’t be used for slave labor like...it was just so random. The acting was great, but the writing and plotting just took a nosedive I am afraid. 

Also. the bury your gays (or idk homosexual leaning) thing that happened with Charles and Yoon-Jae was so tacky I’m sorry. 

[reallyverybored]

Sung-hoon's little head shake after this ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[unreliablesnake]

After 10 episodes it's safe to say that I came for Sung-joon and stayed for Sung-hoon. I don't make the rules.

[wangmiao]

For those who want something lighter after Blind’s finale, this might help: Ok Taec Yeon and Ha Seok Jin trying to dance to “Candy in My Ears” on Amazing Saturday

[leedongwook]

“If what you’re saying is true, this means you’re innocent. Then why did you run? I didn’t run. I just hid for safety. Detective Kang shot a live round out of nowhere. And after that, I was abducted, and I lost consciousness.”

Blind 블라인드 (2022) // Episode 6

[existingingrey]

Yoon Jae: My brother

Sung Joon: MY brother *a bit louder than Yoon Jae*

Yoon Jae: MY BROther *with a little more force than Sung Joon*

Sung Joon: MY BROTHER *loudest*

Sung Joon wins round one.

[hannigramislife]

Me: Sung Hoon doesn't actually care about Sung Joon and I made my peace with that

*remembers how Sung Hoon made Sung Joon food because he thought Sung Joon was upset with him*

Me:

[staydandy]

Blind (2022) - 블라인드 - Character Key

Major Spoilers!!!

This is a very cerebral show. You have to pay attention! When you think you finally know what's going on.. you really don't. I enjoy shows like this every now and then, but damn do I get twisted around! So I made this list just to keep track of what's happening, & who's who! Hell.. I'm still not 100% sure I got everything right.

Don't read below if you want to figure it out yourself!

I wrote a Full Whump List for this show too!

*Spoilers below*

Mains Ryu Sung Joon played by Ok Taec Yeon — Detective — Biological son of Ryu Il Ho & Na Kuk Hee — Adoptive younger brother to Ryu Sung Hoon — Lost his memories from a childhood accident — Had false memories planted / brainwashed by Ryu Sung Hoon to make him think he is Jung Yoon Jae; an adopted child, & one of the Center Number children : 13

Ryu Sung Hoon played by Ha Seok Jin — Judge — Adopted son of Ryu Il Ho & Na Kuk Hee — Adoptive older brother to Ryu Sung Joon — Center Number child : 11 — Original name : Gabriel — Quasi- older brother to Jung Yoon Jae (was in the Center together, not blood-related) — Brainwashed Ryu Sung Joon into thinking he was Jung Yoon Jae — The Mastermind behind the Serial Revenge Murders — Attempted suicide in prison — Sentenced to Life Imprisonment

Members of the Jury Jo Eun Ki — Social worker — Helps Ryu Sung Joon when he's a falsely accused wanted criminal — Baek Moon Kang’s [unknown] daughter

Jung In Seong — Center Number child : 13 — Original name : Jung Yoon Jae — Pretends to be Jung In Seon, the missing child of the Restaurant Auntie. — Serial murderer — Murder 10, killed by Baek Moon Kang / Crazy Dog in prison

Bae Chul Ho — TV producer — Recorded what the Center was doing but never exposed them — Murder 8, killed on Chief of Police Yeom Ki Nam's order, by a Center henchman

Kang Young Ki — Retired executive — Delivered items to the Center but never helped the children (?) — His daughter, Ha Na, is Murder 5

Kim Sook Hee — Restaurant Auntie — Mother of missing child, Jung In Seon

Charles — aka : Lee Jung Soo — Chef & owner of a sushi restaurant — Younger brother of missing child Lee Hyun Soo — Accomplice to Jung In Seong in his revenge murders — Committed suicide by eating (what I'm guessing is) the poisonous part of a pufferfish

Choi Soon Gil — Taxi driver — Was a guard at the Center — Murder 4

Yeom Hye Jin — Influencer: CocoMom — Daughter of Police Chief Yeom Ki Nam — Murder 2

Kwon Kyung Ja — Self-proclaimed psychic : Eungam-dong — Witnessed the atrocities of the Center but didn’t report it

Ahn Tae Ho — Business Manager ... has a limp — Center Number child : 7 — Betrayed the other Center Children by telling the Guards their escape plan — Murder 6

Involved with Center Yeom Ki Nam — Chief of Police — Dirty Cop that helped the Center — Father of Influencer, Yeom Hye Jin

Baek Moon Kang — CEO — aka : Crazy Dog — Helped run the Center — Father of Baek Ji Eun — Murder 9, killed by Jung Yoon Jae in prison

Na Kuk Hee — Running for Minister of Health & Welfare — Mother of Ryu Sung Joon — Adoptive mother of Ryu Sung Hoon — Helped hide what the Center was doing

Ryu Il Ho — Retired Judge — Father of Ryu Sung Joon — Adoptive father of Ryu Sung Hoon — Ignored a plea for help from Sung Hoon as a kid — Participated in a child sex ring run by the Center

Jo In Sook — Nurse — Mother of Jo Eun Ki — Nursed the children at the Center but never reported it

Supporting Baek Ji Eun — Child of CEO Baek Moon Kang — Murder 1, the trial that started it all

Jung Man Chun — Accused of murdering Baek Ji Eun — The trial that started it all — Murder 3, his wife & son were also murdered (in order to "tie up all the loose strings")

Kwon Yoo Na — Taken care of by social worker Jo Eun Ki — Murder 7

Jung In Seon — Missing child of the Restaurant Auntie — Center Number child : 12 — Foot was caught in a bear trap when trying to escape the center, severely injured — Was killed as a child by Jung Yoon Jae

Jung Yoon Jung — Older sister of Jung Yoon Jae — Killed as a child at the Center

Lee Hyun Soo — Older brother of Charles/Lee Jung Soo, the Chef — Center Number child : 24 — Went missing as a child — Hit by a car & killed trying to escape the Center

Kim Jin Gu — Center Number child : 45 — Developed a mental disability because of his time at the Center

[bl3ssed-cursxd]

Did You Ever See Me As Your Brother?

Blind TVN, Blind 2022, Blind Kdrama, Oneshot

Ryu Sung Joon & Ryu Sung Hoon

notes: posted on ao3 as well. this show literally destroyed me anyways here's the oneshot i claimed id post like uh 6+ months ago ?? idek anymore. they may be slightly OOC but oh well 🤡

Word count: 711

"Father, you are under arrest for attempted murder," Ryu Sung Joon said as he put the handcuffs on his own father. "You have the right to remain silent, you have a right to an attorney..."

Rain poured upon the three, including Ryu Sung Hoon who was still on the ground. After making sure his father was cuffed properly, Sung Joon got up and went over to his brother. He felt so betrayed and furious—Sung Hoon was working with Yoon Jae the entire time?

"Are you happy now?" Sung Joon scoffed. "It turned out the way you wanted to."

Silence. Spare for the rain hitting the ground. It was too loud.

Sung Joon balled his fists, hands trembling.

"Are you happy now?!" he shouted, hating the silence. For once, his brother had nothing to say. Well, how could one possibly excuse lying to him for so many years?

In a fit of rage, he went and pulled Sung Hoon up by the front of his shirt. He braced himself for the one final question he had.

The question he was scared to ask. Or rather, the answer he was terrified to hear.

"Did you-" Sung Joon took deep breaths, the adrenaline of forcing the gun out of his father's hands from earlier wearing off. "Ever, just once ," his voice took on a pleading tone, "think of me as your brother?"

Sung Hoon finally snapped. "What do you take me for?"

"ANSWER ME!" Sung Joon shook him. Perhaps he was being selfish, there were more pressing matters to get to, like taking his father and brother to the station, but he had to know.

Did Sung Hoon really hate him? Has he ever truly cared about him?

"You thought I didn't because Yoon Jae told you, don't you?" Sung Hoon asked simply. Sung Joon wanted to pull out his hair in frustration.

"You came from Hope Welfare Center."

"Scary men there would hurt you."

"Don't tell our parents or they'll send you back there."

The necklace.

"I gave you that necklace because I think of you as my real brother."

"You're still pathetic, though," with a hint of a smile.

"You said you gave that necklace to me because you considered me as your real brother!" Sung Joon screamed, voice breaking. He pushed Sung Hoon away and made him fall right back on the ground. "Why did you lie? Why did you make me get my hopes up?"

"Ryu Sung Joon!" Sung Hoon shouted, wincing and bringing a hand to the wound on his side. "Stop speaking nonsense, I didn't lie. Why are you being like this?"

"If you meant it, why did you lie and make me believe I was adopted? That I was Yoon Jae?" Sung Joon couldn't help it, his eyes watered. The tears threatened to spill. He shook his head vigorously. No need to make himself look more pathetic.

He was already practically begging his brother to love him—like a child.

"I… I projected my… experiences onto you," Sung Hoon admitted. "I’m… You didn't deserve that. I understand if you never forgive me. I’m… I’m sorry,” he swallowed.

Sung Joon stared at him, feeling hyper aware of the sounds of the ocean waves behind them. The sounds of the waves, almost calming if it weren't for the situation at hand. The pitter patter of the rain, how his clothes stuck to his body. He felt sick. Sick to his stomach.

His brother disgusted him, but at the same time, he apologized. Sung Hoon never apologized. Granted, perfect Ryu Sung Hoon never had a reason to. Their parents adored him, Sung Hoon was never the one recklessly getting into fights and trouble.

Why would he have apologized before?

“You… you tricked me,” Sung Joon whispered, voice breaking. “Why did you have to lie?”

“How much do you… recall? Those memories… Yoon Jae w-” Sung Hoon began, but the second Yoon Jae’s name came out of his mouth, Sung Joon snapped.

"It's always Yoon Jae!" Sung Joon let out an unamused huff of laughter. "Yoon Jae this, Yoon Jae that! Has it always been about Yoon Jae? Your real brother?”

"At some point in time," Sung Hoon exhaled, pushing himself off the ground. “It stopped being about Yoon Jae.”

HAHA THE END MY MOTIVATION ENDED THERE

might make pt 2?? but last time i said that it never happened so honestly imma just say Inshallaah 🤠