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A man who lives in our house – A wired Cohabit
CONIST | 탁정은
| 2020-01-16 16:33
The main character, Hong Na-ri, is a veteran flight attendant with a professional spirit. And she lives with her fiance together.
She takes good care of her fiance’s mother and buys some groceries in the evening for her fiance, but she forgets her birthday. She lives for other people not for herself.
When she reminisces of her deceased mother who sends seaweed soup every birthday, she realizes her mother's death anniversary was long ago. Her life was crazy enough to forget the day her mother passed away. She goes to her mother’s grave right away and meets a young man who was her mother’s boyfriend.
This man insists he is her mother’s husband. But Na-ri can’t admit that . Rather she thinks he is a fraud. It’s about to go crazy because he’s a husband of her mother, this man lead her to the mother’s house as it's been a while since she came home. He says he used to run a little dumpling diner with her mother but now he is alone. Although police says they registered their marriage and her mother couldn’t tell her because she would oppose her mother’s second marriage, Na-ri thinks this man has deliberately hit on her mother's property.
But even if he married her for money, they already had more debt. Besides Na-ri can’t meet her busy fiance who can’t remember her birthday. And Na-ri and her best friend drift apart after she had a baby. The part that everything changes is the point all that surrounds her life, which she knew only to be perfect, is hard on her.
Even worse Na-ri finds out that her fiance cheated on her and her health problem at the same time. She has nowhere to go as she has lived in her fiance’s house. So she moves to her mother’s house. 
The artist of this webcomic, Yoo Hyon-sook, has two works that are made to Tv Drama. They are ‘ I peek at him Everyday.’ (a.k.a. ‘My pretty handsome neighbor’ on TV) and ‘ Hogu’s love’ ( Hogu means a pushover or a sucker). Going well with drama means that storytelling is natural.
Her works are not complicated and all of them are fun. The setting itself is not ordinary but ridiculous somehow, but the characters act normally except some. Her stories are almost based on’ the love and hate relationship’or ‘seeing someone’, ‘ family trouble’, ‘ friendship and love’ and the communication each other. They have a power that makes readers think ‘ It happens.’ and understand by empathizing the readers naturally
The man who loves to be a single mom classmate in her previous work ‘Hogu’s love’ , the woman who gets sneak peek at a man who lives next door in ‘ I peek at him Everyday.’ and now the woman who lives together a man who was her mother’s very young lover in ‘A man who lives in our house’. The synopsis of this work looks a bit ridiculous by summarizing in a few lines, but if you look into it, you think ‘ It happens.’ and get to understand that everyone has a story.
In my previous review of the work, ‘Juju’s Diary’, I said that artists who focus on "drama" or "movie" works are far from reflecting as artists. In fact, the public in the past had a tendency to be biased to find only masterpieces and to see only proven works. But I think that 'byeongmat', the surreal off-the-wall humor cartoon served as the middle bridge of the frame that art should be heavy and serious. In that the japanese surreal off-the-wall humor cartoons like ‘ the extroversion: Sexy Komando the Great Masaroo’, ‘the Ping Pong Club’ and ‘ SUPER RADICAL GAG FAMILY’ are not welcomed by all the public in the past, the influx of 'byeongmat' comics made the public to be generous to less serious works, and as a result, Byeongmattoon , the surreal off-the-wall humor webcomic ,made a stepping stone from the shade to the sun. Now that the boundary between the standard and class is blurred, we may have a better understanding of diversity.
If a surreal off-the-wall humor cartoon breaks the overall stereotype of cartoon or art, it means that not all art needs to be heavy and serious. Honestly, I‘m not sure whether Yoo Hyun-sook works only for dramatization or not. I just think judgment should be left to the conscience of the reader and the writer just as there's been a history of 'byeongmat' or B-list comics being part of the mainstream
