Rixe de Jungkook et Dong-hyun devant The Oak

The fight outside The Oak marks a brutal reversal in Jungkook’s relationship with his abusive father: the son who once tried to stop violence at home now becomes its perpetrator. His intoxication weakens his control, while the encounter with Dong-hyun turns years of fear and anger into a public assault that ends with a call to 911.

Causes and Background

The confrontation takes place at The Oak in Ellensburg, where Jungkook has consumed six glasses of whiskey and starts a seventh in one go. The bartender, accustomed to seeing people drink to bury their feelings, recognizes something especially alarming in Jungkook’s mood and advises him to go home and rest. Jungkook pays and leaves, but the warning cannot prevent what follows: outside, he sees a car he knows and recognizes his father.

The Encounter Turns Violent

Dong-hyun smiles when he sees his son, then pinches the bridge of his nose and heads for the bar entrance, deliberately bumping Jungkook’s shoulder as he passes. Jungkook grabs his father’s expensive jacket and turns him around. Dong-hyun mocks him for reeking of alcohol, comparing him unfavorably with his own father, then shoves him to the ground. His laughter recalls the sound that frightened Jungkook as a child, but this time Jungkook does not experience it as an unstoppable threat. When Dong-hyun grabs him by the collar and lands several blows to his face, Jungkook’s intoxication makes it difficult for him to fight back.

The assault reverses direction when Jungkook pushes Dong-hyun down, straddles him, and grips his throat. He relishes the chance to make his father feel the vulnerability of being physically overpowered—the helplessness Jungkook himself had known. Dong-hyun tries to provoke him by calling him a crybaby and taunting him to admit that he missed being beaten. Jungkook tightens his hold, lifts his father against the luxury car, and punches him in the face. The anger and adrenaline overwhelm the restraint already weakened by alcohol; Jungkook continues striking him as the grip on his throat grows tighter. The narration figures his inner demons as sitting on his shoulders and feeding on the revenge, making the violence feel both like a reversal of the old power dynamic and a renewed surrender to it.

Interruption and Immediate Aftermath

The fight becomes visible from inside The Oak. The bartender who had just urged Jungkook to leave sees the two men through the window, drops what he is holding, and rushes outside. He tries to pull Jungkook away but cannot stop him; thrown to the ground and left winded, he calls 911. The intervention ends the assault’s isolation: what began as a private collision between father and son has become a public emergency.

The immediate consequence is Jungkook’s detention. Calling Namjoon from an unfamiliar number, he says he is in custody and explains that his father is in Ellensburg. Namjoon already knows Dong-hyun has arrived because Shelby told him, and guesses that Jungkook has fought with him again. Jungkook confirms it. His brief admission frames the encounter not as a single eruption but as the latest recurrence in a conflict whose history has repeatedly pulled him back toward violence.

The Family Pattern Behind the Fight

The reversal at The Oak reaches back to Jungkook’s childhood, when his response to violence was to try to stop it. At eight, during an argument between his parents downstairs, he struggled to break free of Ye-jun, who was holding him back to keep him from rushing into the kitchen. The child’s anger and fear were already bound to a wish to intervene; in the later confrontation, that helpless witness has become the person using force.

Dong-hyun’s lesson in masculinity further sharpens the connection between the two moments. He had told Jungkook that a man never cries, and at The Oak he again uses the language of shame, taunting his son as a crybaby while beating him. Jungkook’s assault answers that old humiliation by making his father experience physical vulnerability, but it does so in the language Dong-hyun established: intimidation, blows, and control of another person’s body. The scene therefore presents retaliation as a reversal of power that does not, by itself, break the pattern.

The history of Jungkook’s injuries also makes the fight part of a longer family crisis rather than an isolated eruption. As a child, after Dong-hyun struck him, Jungkook told Sunmi that he had fought at school and that Namjoon had intervened. He later fled home at sixteen and sought refuge with Sunmi; Dong-hyun did not try to find him. Against that history, Jungkook’s brief confirmation to Namjoon that he has fought his father again carries the weight of recurrence. The episode’s significance lies in this uneasy double movement: Jungkook confronts the person who once terrorized him, yet, in overpowering him, risks reproducing the violence that shaped his own childhood.