Let Dai
Encyclopedia
Let Dai is a Korean
manhwa
series by Woon Soo-yoon (원수연). It is published in English by Net Comics
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Let Dai is a tragic tale of forbidden love and unforgivable betrayal. Set in a soulless neo-Seoul ruled by young punks and pleasure-seekers, an amoral teenager named Dai is the living embodiment of the city's beauty and cruelty. As the leader of the vicious Furies gang, Dai seduces everyone who lays eyes on him, only to blind them to his own barbaric nature.
When an honest schoolboy named Jaehee rescues a beautiful girl from being mugged by the Furies, he can't possibly realize how this brief encounter will plunge him into a downward spiral of unbridled passion and unfathomable pain. From his brutal gang initiation to an unspeakable act committed against his girlfriend, Jaehee wavers uncomfortably between revulsion and fascination. And in Dai he finds a tender, caring friend one moment and a heartless sociopath the next, awakening strange and unhealthy desires in Jaehee that he could never before have imagined.
[Cited from the summary on NetComics website as of 12-19-2007]
Jaehee is just a normal high school kid who buys a rose for his girlfriend on Valentine's Day until he meets Dai. In the midst of pain and suffering Dai inflicts on him, Jaehee is drawn to Dai through doubts and love.
Dai Lee
Dai's very existence proves that evil is real. With his unpredictable and unreasonable violent behavior and madness, Dai shows the Devil himself. He shows his dry and empty inside through his encounter with Jaehee.
Eunhyung Song
Eunhyung is Jaehee's girlfriend and Yooneun's younger sister.
She has a bright and cute personality, but an assault by the Furies changes her life forever.
Yooneun Song
Yooneun is Eunhyung's older sister who gets involved with Dai when she gets in trouble with the Furies and saved by Jaehee. Having fallen in love with Jaehee, Yooneun tries to bring Jaehee, who is drawn to Dai, back to his innocent days.
Naru Hagi
A close friend of Jaehee, he falls in love with Eunhyung but fate brings them apart. Always wears different wigs and hats.
South Korea
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manhwa
Manhwa
Manhwa is the general Korean term for comics and print cartoons . Outside of Korea, the term usually refers specifically to South Korean comics. The term, along with manga, is a cognate of the Chinese manhua...
series by Woon Soo-yoon (원수연). It is published in English by Net Comics
Net Comics
Netcomics is a distributor of manhwa and manga in the United States, based in Glendale, California. It was established in 2005 by South Korean publisher Ecomix Media Company....
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Plot
Is this desire for freedom the very thing that entrapped us?Let Dai is a tragic tale of forbidden love and unforgivable betrayal. Set in a soulless neo-Seoul ruled by young punks and pleasure-seekers, an amoral teenager named Dai is the living embodiment of the city's beauty and cruelty. As the leader of the vicious Furies gang, Dai seduces everyone who lays eyes on him, only to blind them to his own barbaric nature.
When an honest schoolboy named Jaehee rescues a beautiful girl from being mugged by the Furies, he can't possibly realize how this brief encounter will plunge him into a downward spiral of unbridled passion and unfathomable pain. From his brutal gang initiation to an unspeakable act committed against his girlfriend, Jaehee wavers uncomfortably between revulsion and fascination. And in Dai he finds a tender, caring friend one moment and a heartless sociopath the next, awakening strange and unhealthy desires in Jaehee that he could never before have imagined.
[Cited from the summary on NetComics website as of 12-19-2007]
Characters
Jaehee YooJaehee is just a normal high school kid who buys a rose for his girlfriend on Valentine's Day until he meets Dai. In the midst of pain and suffering Dai inflicts on him, Jaehee is drawn to Dai through doubts and love.
Dai Lee
Dai's very existence proves that evil is real. With his unpredictable and unreasonable violent behavior and madness, Dai shows the Devil himself. He shows his dry and empty inside through his encounter with Jaehee.
Eunhyung Song
Eunhyung is Jaehee's girlfriend and Yooneun's younger sister.
She has a bright and cute personality, but an assault by the Furies changes her life forever.
Yooneun Song
Yooneun is Eunhyung's older sister who gets involved with Dai when she gets in trouble with the Furies and saved by Jaehee. Having fallen in love with Jaehee, Yooneun tries to bring Jaehee, who is drawn to Dai, back to his innocent days.
Naru Hagi
A close friend of Jaehee, he falls in love with Eunhyung but fate brings them apart. Always wears different wigs and hats.