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Dokgo Rewind (독고 리와인드)

Dokgo Rewind (독고 리와인드; revised romanization Dokgo Riwaindeu) is a 2018 South Korean web drama and mobile film that serves as a prequel to the popular webtoon Dokgo, following three boys who come together to fight against school violence.¹ It premiered on September 7, 2018 on the platforms Kakao Page and oksusu, and it starred EXO's Sehun and gugudan's Mina in the leading roles.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Format	Web drama / mobile movie, 20 episodes of about 10 minutes each; also distributed as 4 episodes of roughly 48 minutes on Viki²^•³^•⁴
Premiere	September 7, 2018, on Kakao Page and oksusu¹
Source material	Webtoon Dokgo Rewind by writer Meen and illustrator Baek Seung Hoon, first published March 7, 2014²
Main cast	Sehun as Kang Hyuk, Kang Mi Na as Kim Hyun Sun, Cho Byeong Kyu as Kim Jong Il, Ahn Bo Hyun as Pyo Tae Jin²
Director and writers	Choi Eun Jong (director); Oh Young Suk and Lee Se Eun (screenwriters), from the webtoon by Meen and Baek Seung Hoon²^•⁵
Production	Samhwa Networks and Toyou's Dream, with production support from SM C&C⁶^•⁷
Franchise position	Prequel set one year before Dokgo, which began serialization in December 2012; the series also includes Dokgo 2⁸^•⁹

Spoilers

Story

The story begins one year before Dokgo, before Kang Hyuk seeks revenge for his twin brother.⁸ Kang Hyuk (Sehun) is good at fighting and has dropped out of school, spending his time with two friends who are also dropouts.² One day he saves Kim Kyu Soon (Yoo In Hwan) from disorderly students. Kyu Soon asks Kang Hyuk to teach him how to fight so that he can protect his younger sister Hyun Sun (Kang Mi Na), and the two become friends.²

Kyu Soon is later beaten to death, and Kang Hyuk decides to take revenge on the students responsible.² Two others join him: Kim Jong Il (Cho Byeong Kyu), a talented fighter who wants to leave his school gang and is falsely accused and indefinitely suspended by thugs of Gicheon High School, and Pyo Tae Jin (Ahn Bo Hyun), the wrestling champion of Dangyoung High School who is expelled after trying to save his girlfriend.²^•⁴ Together the three take on the union of the Gicheon and Dangyoung high school gangs that controls the whole school area, though the union's boss, Jo Kang Hoon, described as "the best fist," remains standing at the end of the conflict.⁴

The final episode closes the prequel's arc and sets up the original story: after the trio's fight, Kang Hyuk's twin brother is beaten to death and his family is destroyed, and Kang Hyuk prepares another revenge.⁶

Origin and the Dokgo series

The adaptation draws on a webtoon franchise published by Toyou's Dream. The series began with Dokgo, serialized from December 2012 by writer Meen and illustrator Baekdoo (Baek Seung Hoon), and consists of Dokgo, Dokgo 2, and Dokgo Rewind, which tells the story before Dokgo.⁹ The Dokgo Rewind webtoon was released on KakaoPage in April 2016, and the Japanese platform Piccoma released it in February 2018.⁹ The webtoon is also available on Lezhin Comics, where it is listed as an action title by Meen (writing) and Baek Seung Hoon (art).¹⁰

The parent webtoon was a commercial success: Soompi reported that Dokgo drew approximately five million views every week and earned 2.3 billion won (about $2 million) in total sales, and it was published as a book in 2016.¹^•¹¹ Toyou's Dream, a webtoon IP studio established in 2009, counts Dokgo Rewind among its screen adaptations alongside Tong Memories, Item, and Shark.⁴ The Korea Creative Content Agency's WelCon directory describes the title as a mobile movie of the globally popular Dokgo series, rated for teens, with 20 entries of 10 minutes each.⁴

Production and release

Unlike most webtoon adaptations, which become drama series, Dokgo Rewind was produced as a mobile prequel movie with a full movie production crew, a pairing that Soompi reported fans expected to yield high-quality action.¹¹ The production leaned on stylish action scenes set in schools, with teasers, posters, and stills emphasizing the way the fights were filmed.¹¹ The cast paired idols, EXO's Sehun and gugudan's Mina, with then up-and-coming actors Jo Byung Kyu and Ahn Bo Hyun.¹¹

Release details vary by platform. The original web broadcast ran as 20 short episodes on Kakao and Oksusu beginning September 7, 2018.² Rakuten Viki later carried the series internationally as four episodes of about 48 minutes each, with subtitles in English, Korean, and more than 20 other languages.³ Apple TV lists the studio credit as Samhwa Networks and Toyou's Dream.⁶

Reception and legacy

On Rakuten Viki the series holds a user rating of 9.3 from more than 11,000 ratings.³ AsianWiki users rate it 93 out of 100 from 950 votes.² Viewer comments on AsianWiki repeatedly asked for a second season in the years after release, and readers commonly point to the Dokgo manhwa itself for the continuation of the twin brother's story, since Dokgo Rewind is a prequel.²

The adaptation is also cited as evidence of the franchise's screen potential. The WelCon directory entry for a planned Dokgo television drama notes that the IP "has already proven its screen potential, having been adapted into the 2018 Wavve original mobile film Dokgo Rewind, starring EXO's Sehun," and that all global adaptation rights across television and film are held by Moving Pictures Company.¹² A Korean financial news report likewise lists Dokgo Rewind among the webtoon-based films and dramas produced by Studio TOYOU, the video production arm Toyou's Dream launched in 2021.¹³

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Unscripted, reality, and web-native series › Web-native and streaming-original series › Korean and East Asian web series

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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