Let Dai

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Let Dai is a Korean comic book series (Manhwa) by Sooyeon Won. It is published in English by NET COMICS. As of April 2008, 12 of the 15 total volumes have been published.

[edit] 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]

[edit] Characters

Jaehee Yoo
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