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Lookism: unlaughable face of our society

임하빈 기자 | 2019-08-02 10:20
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There is Daniel, a timid, fatty and ugly faced protagonist, suffering from school bullying. When he manage to transfer to another school, Daniel finds his body switched with a fine-looking body, even good at fighting, and his old body where he was sleeping. Which means two bodies for a single soul. Once every 24 hours since then, his body is swapped to the other one. It is a whole new setting for manhwa: there were ones doing body switching before, but nothing had body swap between a newly appeared body and a former one. This unique setting may look somewhat familiar, but this is the essence that draws a whole new, creatively unfolding story.



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covers many social issues.

Instead of telling why bullying takes place, it offers its setting which makes readers experience bullying as a victim. For example, Zack, who is good at fighting and tends to bully and beat someone everyday, becomes the one getting beaten by this setting: presenting a natural, critical view on bullying. It seems to expose the author’s belief that persuasion is pointless, but only a natural experience and getting feeling from it can make people change from their heart.



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In episodes from , it presents a vivid picture in convenience stores’ part time job, a revealing approach on rap music, a diverse and comical approach to fighting and violence, a raw depiction of middle and high school students making money through obscene BJ activities in Paprika TV.


However, the most important message throughout the webtoon is: a criticism on people’s bipolar, two-faced reaction on the protagonist, changing by his appearance, not his soul.



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It’s like the author is whispering to the reader’s ear that ‘now let me show you how far people get low by bullying and ignoring a person just because he’s not very attractive,’ with his storytelling. Maybe this society is soaked too deep in lookism, suffering a disease that makes us not looking at a person. This webtoon invites the reader to undressed contemporary Korea, ‘the Republic of Plastic Surgery.’


Readers acclaim for not hiding the reality, enabling self-reflection and repentance. Other readers criticize it for too detailed depiction of negative aspects of the society, potentially encouraging bullying or lookism to young readers.



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is enjoying absolute popularity over teens; without reading this webtoon you can’t have conversation with teens, or so we hear. The webtoon is a shining example of webtoon industry, which is undergoing an evolution as a powerful media, possible of sharing social experience among a certain generation by a long appearance.


So we recommend , irrelevant to how this is well-made: for the reader who seeks to understand more of their teenage child or student. We also recommend that not to use this webtoon as a tool of persuasion, but use it as a reference for understanding a raw facet of their teenage.


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