Korean drama heroines are usually sweet, harmless and innocent. However, in the drama 'Itaewon Class', the female lead Jo Yi-seo is a woman who has an anti-social personality, acts boldly and has a strong character. It's not easy to play such a character well and win the hearts of the viewers. However, actress Kim Da-doi managed to do it and gained a lot of fans with this role.
In 'Itaewon Class', there was a scene of bullying in the school where a few delinquent girls were bullying a female classmate, and instead of stopping it arbitrarily, Jo Yuri recorded the bullying on her cell phone and uploaded it to her SNS. Iris Zhao is a blogger with many followers on SNS, and once this video was uploaded, it immediately attracted attention from all walks of life. In this way, Jo Eri educated the girls who bullied others. Although she did so, she remained cool and indifferent on the surface, nicely portraying the heroine's character who is decisive, smart and doesn't care about anything.
The characterization of Zhao Yirui is not perfect in itself. While she delivers justice, she also feels that the hero is stupid and doesn't know the shortcut when he refuses to bow down to the rich second generation. This shows that there is a worldly side to Jo I-seo within her as well, however, instead of making viewers sick at heart when portraying this aspect of the drama, Kim Dome feels that she just doesn't understand the male lead's situation yet, which is a rare thing. Just like Princess Hwa in the drama "Legend of Zhen Huan", who was clearly an antagonist, she didn't manage to make people hate her, which is still related to the actor's own acting skills.
Zhao Yirui from rebellious, selfish, indifferent, change for the sake of others, in the middle of the need for actors strong psychological construction and acting skills slowly spread, if the transformation is too fast, the audience will feel weird, the transformation is too slow and will not be able to keep up with the script of the progress of the actress in the tempo of the control of the actress is also very on point. Overall, this drama without a silly white sweet heroine, is considered more successful.