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[Webtoon Review] See You at the Crosswalk: odd and strange push and pull between three men

임하빈 기자 | 2019-10-13 09:19
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This work, Second Place Winner of the 1st Webtoon World Contest, does not have suggestive scenes unsuitable for high schoolers (?), but it makes the readers dazed with sweet push and pull of three men in the work.


The man in the middle is Lee Jinho, a rookie cop in his second week of the job. He’s has a very good and tender personality, which is, to give a hard name, easy to be manipulated. The man on the right is Lee Hwanung, a school nurse. He likes cute things and he’s a good teacher for kids, but as he smirks a lot, so he’s giving a bit bad impression to other teachers and the vice-principal. (The reason why he became an elementary school nurse in the first place is not very sound.) The work is mostly filled with Jinho being swayed and having a hard time from Hwanung. In fact, their first meeting was a bit comic. While Jinho was doing traffic direction in front of a crossroad of an elementary school, he spotted Hwanung, who was wearing a sleeveless shirt, short pants and a trench coat, and he tried to arrest him by mistaking him as a pervert. From there their relationship begins. 


The man on the left is Ha Bumjoon, a grandson of a street food shop where Yang Haein, a policeman senior to Jinho. He’s a brusque man of the same age with Jinho, an engineering student currently taking a leave of absence, who meets Jinho for the first time when he was helping his grandma’s shop and gets visited by Jinho and Haein. As time passes by, he came to think more of Jinho, and came to oppose (?) with Hwanung, who is a friend with Jinho. Well, to good-natured Jinho, he’s only a good friend of the same age. Season 2 began on January 9, 2016.


Though it has no suggestive scenes like I wrote, you will understand why this work is awarded the second place in the contest when you see the sweet push and pull between Jinho and Hwanung and the clash between Hwanung and Bumjoon around Jinho. Despite it’s not all sweet, it has comic scenes here and there. Other than them, there are unsolved hints like the man stood in an alley near the crossroad of an elementary school and a friend of Haein. I recommend this webtoon to the readers who want to read BL but can’t set their feet on it easily.



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