White Christmas episode 1

      When you fall in love with something it's really hard to write a short review of it. The point of writing a review is because you want people to love (in this case a show) as much as you do. With that let's start my review of White Christmas. 

     The show takes place in a school somewhere in the mountains of Korea. An elite School, where the only .1% attend. Basically it's a school for genius children. It’s such a tough school that students attend year around for 3 years. They only get 8 days off every winter. The story begins on December 24, with all the kids rushing to buses, ready to leave what they call "Alcatraz". Here we meet Park Moo-Yul he is staying behind making sure everything is locked. Why is he here? Is he by himself? I'm feeling bad for him. Then we hear him a a voice over. “The story I’m about to tell is about my fight with a monster, and how I had to become a monster myself for eight days to fight it.”

We then see him in his room holding a black envelope which he opens and reads.....

"You tainted me, made me pitiful.

You made me a monster in the corner.

You silenced me.

You ridiculed my false hopes.

You took the only thing I had and put it around your neck.

I held out my hand to you and let you go.

You deleted me from your eyes.

Finally, you overtook me.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

After eight days, walk up the path by the Zelkova tree.

Under the clock tower, you will see someone dead.

The night that Jesus was born, I curse you."

      0-0 what??? We now know why Moo-Yul stayed behind. He wants to know who wrote the letter? Is it real? Is someone going to die? Or is it someone's idea of a joke. I should probably also mention that the security system for this place is amazing. They have cameras everywhere, watching everything. Now we hear the PA system calling everyone to diner. The rest of the cast introduce by a boy holding a camera and recording everything. He is Yang Kang-Mo, the resident IT guy who happens to either be deaf, or have a hearing impediment since he has a hearing aid over his left ear. He introduces us to the prettiest girl in the whole school, Eung-Sung. She seems like a quiet, sad girl. Also here is a shy boy named Lee Jae-Kyu, who freezes when the camera is pointed at him. Kang-Mo pans the camera to our next guest. Yoon-Soo, a tall lanky boy that everyone calls "angel" (we later find out that they called him this because he is extremely rich, therefore no matter what he does. He never gets in trouble.) An extremely well dressed boy arrives, he is Choi Ji-Hoon the smartest boy in school. Last but not least and to Kan-Mo's displeasure we have Jo Young-Jae, the ever necessary class bully. So that's our cast six boys, a girl and the teacher that stays to take care of them, Yoon Jong-Il. One big happy happy family. Not really. The diner is fairly quiet with everyone keeping to themselves. 

      Teacher tries to keep them entertain by telling a ghost story. Yet what the teacher is most curious about is why  so  many of them stayed in school. No one gives him a straight answer, but they are saved by the campus alarms going off. Moo-Yul, teacher, Jae-Kyu and Kang-Mo ran to check. At the school gates they see a bloody hand. There's a person attached to it and he seems to also have a head wound. Once inside teacher helps the man clean up. Moo-Yul calls the emergency number only to be told that there's been a very bad accident on the highway. Since the man’s injures are not grave they can't come get him.

    Mmmmm... One more guest to our party!! How can I keep all this characters names straight. It doesn't help that for some reason all this boys are incredibly tall (including the teacher). So there's no way I can just say “the all one”. Ok.. back to the story. 

    While “accident man” is being dealt with Young-Jae has follow Kang-Mo outside. They argue and Young-Jae accuses Kang-Mo of messing with him. How can he send him a letter like this. He pulls out a black envelope from his jacket. Kang-Mo claims innocence, which only angers Young-Jae even more. They fight, only stoping when Kang-Mo says he also got one too. By now there's two more people with them Moo-Yul (who we know also has a letter) and Jae-Kyu who also admits to getting a letter. 

    The next morning finds all our seven students  gather around a table all of them holding a black envelopes. Well except Ji-Hoon who says got one too but threw it away. He admits that the only reason he stayed behind was because he wanted to do his homework in peace. (I love this guy, every line is deliver in a cold  careless tone. Yet whenever he speaks everyone listens). No one admits to sending the letters. Eung-Sung wants to tell the teacher but they also can't agree on that. They dont know if the letter is real or not, and they dont really feel innocent. Finally Eung-Sung says  “The innocent one will tell the teacher”. Then teacher walks in (everyone hides their letters) with “accident man” whose name is Kim Yo-Han. He is a psychologist, who will be staying with them till the roads clear up. Fun! The more the merrier!! 

     Moo-Yul and Jae-Kyu are now on detective mode. They begin to question everyone and start finding clues that relate to the letters. Like in Yoo-Soo case, who had been using drugs and when high he hallucinates. He sees a "blue monster in the corner”. At dinner time the radio tells them about a serial killer that's currently on the lose in the city. This leads Ji-Hoon to ask the table "are people born monsters or are they created?” Which leads to a very good argument about nature vs nurture ending with Moo-Yul saying that no matter the reason the person is guilty. They choose to commit a crime knowing it was wrong, so they have to be punished. This whole conversation is being watched on a laptop in a different room. This a new person, a boy with red hair. Ah!!!! Is this the letter sender??? Is he on school ground?? Ahhhh!!! 

    More investigating takes place, Moo-Yul and Jae-Kyu go back to talk to Yoo-Soo who is high again. They ask him about the monster he sees. Can he describe him? Does he remember anything about it? Yoo-Soo is in tears, rolling on the ground and only remembers one thing. The monster wants to eat Eung-Sung, he wants to destroy her. So where's Eung-Sung during all this? We find her talking to “accident man” who I mention earlier is a psychologist. She sits to tell him her story, then we see her walk out of the school. She seems to be in a trance, and is just walking in the snow. Now we see Moo-Yul and sidekick running trying to find her. Next shot Eung-Sung is on the ground as the camera zooms out we see that the snow is slowly turning red. Eung-Sung has cut her wrist. 

   Omo!! This is just awesome. We got so much information in one hour. Yet we don't know much yet. Who send the letters? The kid with red hair, one of the seven, another person? What did the psychologist say to Eung-Sung? Who the hell is this man, and how did he end up in the school? I can't wait for the next episode. It's a mini series so there's only 8 episodes and I hope to be able to write about all of them.