Just a short appreciation comment for Ki So-yu (or Gi So-yoo), the child actress who portrayed the younger version of Yoo Bo-na.
After a quiet 2024, So-yu had a lot of dramas, plus one movie, in 2025. One of her best performances in 2025 was her portrayal of young Ah-Jin in Dear X. The scene when her stepmother tried to kill her in the bathtub, and when she ran upstairs and the stepmother chased her -- her facial expression and dialogue with her stepmother before she threw herself off the second-floor window was a masterpiece.
After that, this year, there was a quiet period when we didn't see her much on screen until this drama, A Bona Fide Killer, aired. She portrayed the young Bo-na (or the Kingfisher). Her character's background in this drama was somewhat similar to her character in Dear X: a very dark childhood experience in an orphanage with many cases of child abuse. The way Bo-na prevented her abuser (the orphanage owner) from getting his inhaler (for his asthma) and left him to die was somewhat similar to Ah-Jin leaving her mom to die after falling off the stairs in Dear X.
I guess So-yu has now specialised in portraying dark child characters as well, and she is very good at it.
Way to go, So-yu. Looking forward to seeing you in your next dramas!
It's been a year and a half since I commented here. :)
So-yu had a lot of dramas, plus one movie, in 2025. One of her best performances in 2025 was her portrayal of young Ah-Jin in Dear X. The scene when her stepmother tried to kill her in the bathtub, and when she ran upstairs and the stepmother chased her -- her facial expression and dialogue with her stepmother before she threw herself off the second-floor window was a masterpiece.
After that, similar to 2024, there was a quiet period when we didn't see her much on screen until A Bona Fide Killer aired. She portrayed the young Bo-na (or the Kingfisher). Her character's background in this drama was somewhat similar to her character in Dear X: a very dark childhood experience in an orphanage with many cases of child abuse. The way Bo-na prevented her abuser from getting his inhaler (for his asthma) and left him to die was somewhat similar to Ah-Jin leaving her mom to die after falling off the stairs.
I guess So-yu has now specialised in portraying dark child characters as well, and she is very good at it.
Way to go, So-yu. Looking forward to seeing you in your next dramas!
Nice "meeting" with a client for a sales team member of an electronic company, from the rooftop of a church, with a very great way of concluding the meeting as well.
This is an amazing drama, but I feel the ending is a bit of a let-down. The villain fell very easily, and it was very easy for the situation to turn back. Still a great drama overall, really enjoyed this from start to finish.
Since SMD and the South Korean government have decided to separate Minji and her father, will the government be in charge of Minji, not only her security but also her well being? Surely a 19 year old still cannot fend for herself, how would the government take responsibility for her living expenses, school, food etc moving forward?
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After a quiet 2024, So-yu had a lot of dramas, plus one movie, in 2025. One of her best performances in 2025 was her portrayal of young Ah-Jin in Dear X. The scene when her stepmother tried to kill her in the bathtub, and when she ran upstairs and the stepmother chased her -- her facial expression and dialogue with her stepmother before she threw herself off the second-floor window was a masterpiece.
After that, this year, there was a quiet period when we didn't see her much on screen until this drama, A Bona Fide Killer, aired. She portrayed the young Bo-na (or the Kingfisher). Her character's background in this drama was somewhat similar to her character in Dear X: a very dark childhood experience in an orphanage with many cases of child abuse. The way Bo-na prevented her abuser (the orphanage owner) from getting his inhaler (for his asthma) and left him to die was somewhat similar to Ah-Jin leaving her mom to die after falling off the stairs in Dear X.
I guess So-yu has now specialised in portraying dark child characters as well, and she is very good at it.
Way to go, So-yu. Looking forward to seeing you in your next dramas!
So-yu had a lot of dramas, plus one movie, in 2025. One of her best performances in 2025 was her portrayal of young Ah-Jin in Dear X. The scene when her stepmother tried to kill her in the bathtub, and when she ran upstairs and the stepmother chased her -- her facial expression and dialogue with her stepmother before she threw herself off the second-floor window was a masterpiece.
After that, similar to 2024, there was a quiet period when we didn't see her much on screen until A Bona Fide Killer aired. She portrayed the young Bo-na (or the Kingfisher). Her character's background in this drama was somewhat similar to her character in Dear X: a very dark childhood experience in an orphanage with many cases of child abuse. The way Bo-na prevented her abuser from getting his inhaler (for his asthma) and left him to die was somewhat similar to Ah-Jin leaving her mom to die after falling off the stairs.
I guess So-yu has now specialised in portraying dark child characters as well, and she is very good at it.
Way to go, So-yu. Looking forward to seeing you in your next dramas!
And I feel sorry for the husband.
So happy to see Ki So-yu on the screen again (after confirming that it's really her lol).
Is the boy who was abused during Bona's childhood the same child actor who portrays Kim Dami's son in The Great Flood?
And the girl who was abused by her father and was let dangling on the second floor ledge, I remember seeing her somewhere but can't remember.
This drama is so underrated.
I enjoy this drama. LOL.