Are you maybe forgetting the part where he literally killed their families before bringing them to the village if they weren't useful to him?
Also punishing a man for stealing yes, that's understandable, but giving him a death sentence for stealing medicine for his sick child that he did not want to die? There is no world where that is justified. And people can't vote what they actually feel because they're too scared to cross Guwon after what he did to them.

Someone refresh my memory please but what did Guwom even do for all this revolt? Lowkey I’m on the hounds’ side. The rules are shit but they also make sense?can’t exactly be picky when you’re living in a dystopian world. Or maybe I’m not remembering parts of the story