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| Lookism | |
|---|---|
 Comprehend of Lookism volume i | |
| 외모지상주의 Oemojisangjui | |
| Genre | Drama |
| Author | Park Tae-joon |
| Publisher | Daewon and Book |
| Webtoon service |
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| Original run | November 20, 2014 – ongoing |
| Volumes | 19 |
Lookism is a Southward Korean webtoon written and illustrated by Park Tae-joon.[one] It was first published online weekly on Naver WEBTOON since November 2014. The story revolves effectually a high school student who can switch between 2 bodies—1 that is fat and ugly, and the other that is fit and handsome.[2]
Plot [edit]
Park Hyung Seok is an unpopular and bullied high school pupil who is looked downward upon by the entire student torso. Due to being constantly bullied and harassed every solar day past a runaway, he often takes out his anger verbally on his mother and before long asks for a school transfer. Resolving to run away from his current problems and to first fresh, he moves to Seoul alone and plans to attend a new high school. Notwithstanding, a few nights earlier he begins school, he obtains a new body that is tall, muscular, and extremely handsome. When one body is in use, the other falls asleep, and he is able to switch between the bodies by waking up the sleeping body.
His days are always split between the two bodies, his handsome form for the daytime and the original for the night. As Daniel lives his life with his two bodies, he begins to see only how much the world discriminates against people for being unattractive or different, hence the titular name of "Lookism".
He experiences the world's discrimination and hate through his original body, while also seeing the kindness and special treatment through the other. His new body takes him through numerous life experiences including condign a social media influencer, a trainee for an entertainment company, and a model for clothes. Once the day turns to nighttime, however, this rosy dream turns back into a harsh reality of what the world really is later on Daniel switches back to his original torso.
Characters [edit]
Main characters [edit]
- Daniel Park/Park Hyung Suk: Daniel Park, from the Fashion Department, is a naïve high school student who was bullied by Logan Lee at the start of the series. Just earlier transferring to Jae Won Loftier to run away from his bullies, he wakes up one day with a slimmer and more attractive torso next to his chubby i. With his new ability, he makes new friends and learns about the world and himself through two perspectives. The slimmer body was based on Park Hyung Suk, a fit model.
- Vasco/Lee Eun Tae: Vasco, from the Architecture Department, has the reputation of being a "Robin Hood" like figure, as he stands upwards for the weak and bullied. He is one of the strongest characters in the series and is the leader of the loyal gang, Burn Knuckles, who "punish bullies" and "bad guys". His tough exterior is misleading as he is very sweetness and seeks the friendship of those he deems as good people. He is too the babyhood friend of Jace Park. The graphic symbol Vasco is inspired by real-life K-rapper with the same name.
- Jay Hong/Hong Jae Yeol: Jay Hong, from the Fashion Department, is a quiet and mysterious character. He is rich, fights using systema and kali martial arts, and helps those that he likes. Information technology is implied throughout the series that Jay has romantic feelings towards Daniel Park through his deportment such as keeping a coupon with Daniel's face up on information technology in his wallet (the coupon is from "Gian Shop"; see "Fitting Model"), adopting Inu'due south puppies despite his fear of dogs (see "Abandoned Domestic dog Inu" and "Jay Hong and Inu's Pups"), and Jay giving Daniel his vesture and ways to style it after overhearing people making fun of Daniel's clothing (Chapters 20 and 162).
- Zack Lee/Lee Jin Sung: Zack Lee, from the Fashion Department, is a boxer and very aggressive, with the exception to his babyhood friend, Mira Kim, who he is in dearest with. As Mira dislikes violence, Zack stops bullying others, diminishes the number of times he gets into fights, becomes more patient, and overall matures. He and Mira were once friends with Johan Seong, though Johan disappeared after the God Dog cult story arc (chapters 132–138). When Johan resurfaces, Zack tries to befriend him again and even promises to help Johan take revenge on Jong Gun, who severely crush upwards Johan for not taking proper command of his crew "God Dog".
- Mira Kim/Kim Mi Jin: Mira Kim, from the Fashion Department, is a compassionate, caring, and patient person. She is very observant when it comes to human emotions and sees the expert in everyone. She dislikes fighting and believes at that place are improve means to solve problems, which is why she gets upset when Zack gets into fights. She is the childhood friend of Johan Seong and Zack Lee. They both were in love with her, but she never exactly reciprocated either of their feelings.
- Zoe Park/Park Ha Neul: Zoe Park, from the Fashion Department, is a beautiful girl who, in the outset, tried to use her amuse to get what she wanted. However, after Daniel'south original torso saves her from a stalker, she develops feelings for his original trunk, proving that she doesn't care about appearances as much as before.
- Crystal Choi/Choi Soo Jung: Crystal Choi, the daughter of the HNH Company Chairman, is the 2nd grapheme that is discovered to take two bodies. She first appears as an obese student that transfers to the Fashion Department in Daniel's school. Yet, unlike Daniel Park, Crystal Choi chooses to alive in her original body during the daytime. This shows that she feels a hint of pride in her first body. The different treatment to both of her bodies leads her to strongly believe that "all men are the same" and that the globe judges those with dissimilar appearances without reason. This explains her initial dislike towards Daniel in his handsome course, though her treatment of Daniel shows her hypocrisy as she treats him desperately and looks at him as an egotistical smashing based just on his looks. She is shown to similar Daniel's old body more than due to his personality.
Supporting characters [edit]
- Daniel's Mother/Mrs. Kim Park: Daniel's single mother is a hardworking and patient woman. Subsequently seeing Logan bully Daniel and later getting yelled at by her son, she transfers Daniel to Jae Won High. She works twice every bit hard to allow Daniel to enter J Loftier, with the piece of work ranging from folding and selling empty boxes to working part-time waiting tables. She sacrifices everything for her son to simply to run into him happy and content. This leaves her with no gratis time and she never gets to exercise anything for herself. As the series progresses, Daniel begins to realize how much his mother cares for him and fiddling by little, he returns her sacrifices.
- Jace Park/Park Bum Jae: A student of the Compages Department, Jace is the number two of the Burn Knuckles and childhood friend of Vasco. He is the i who helped Vasco overcome his aichmophobia and even got a tattoo that said "My Hero ET", ET standing for Eun Tae.
- Duke Pyeon/Pyeon Duk Hwa: A brusque and chubby pupil from the Vocal Dance Department and an aspiring rapper. Due to his body, he was bullied by others and rejected by producers. Upon meeting and collaborating with Daniel, he gained confidence and started to stream on Paprika Boob tube. He also becomes a fellow member of PTJ Amusement, when he was brought forth by Daniel (through his insistence) and was part of the party that freed Aru. Afterwards Daniel helped Duke become a member of PTJ's B rank, and Knuckles became famous for his rapping ability, despite his body size. Later on, he became a famous rapper.
- Jiho Park/Park Ji Ho: A boy who faced much bullying at J Loftier until Daniel took him under his fly. Throughout the series he is obsessed with power and societal standards; Jiho also showed signs of an inferiority complex and eventually goes to juvenile prison for the attempted murder of Daniel Park and James Gong. During the Juvenile arc, he loses his sanity in juvenile prison and becomes influenced past Jake Kim. Interestingly, Jiho'southward life is of stark contrast to Duke, even though both were bullied and looked down upon, Jiho decides to bet on risky decisions and never changes his behavior or perspective throughout the story. He died after a fight with Daniel, ruling out a suicide because he fell off the edifice he was in.
- Logan Lee/Lee Tae Sung: A strong, large teen who used to bully Daniel Park frequently in his former school and original trunk. Logan was the primary reason why Daniel moved to Seoul. Unfortunately, Logan also moved to Seoul and coincidentally entered the same school as Daniel. Daniel afterwards stands upwards to Logan in his original torso and the two get somewhat neutral with each other (although one could brand the case that Logan nevertheless hates Daniel since he harbors romantic feelings towards Zoe who is enamored by both forms of Daniel). Logan now resides in the Animation Department (come across "Troubled Transfer" arc), after expelled after he assaulted his own counselor.
- Vin Jin/Jin Ho Bin: An arrogant member of Vocal Trip the light fantastic Section. He claims that he'southward better than the everyone else and particularly dislikes Daniel and Duke. He never takes off his sun glasses. He has a fear of losing his shades, revealing that he becomes berserk one time they are removed. (He likewise seems to have inverted eyes with his shades gone, like to Gun, Goo and later Daniel. His secret was also revealed, he had polycoria in his left eye.)
- Mary Kim: Mary is a blonde haired girl who is friends with Vin Jin and is a student of the Vocal and Trip the light fantastic Section. She is pretty and well known in Cheonliang (her and Vin Jin's hometown) as the "Empress of Two Seconds" considering she is corking at fighting and many of her peers merits that she can defeat her opponents in ii seconds. She also has a strange fascination with Jace's ears. She hates revealing her by equally an overweight woman who excelled in Judo, she took plastic surgery.
- Yui Kim: Introduced during Paprika Goggle box Streaming Arc, she was the leading streamer on the website until Zoe joined. During the story arc, her boyfriend finds out from Zach that she had been flirting with Daniel, which causes him to start beating Yui until the scene is interrupted by Zack. This causes her to develop feelings for Zack. She joins Crystal'due south ain MCN.
- Doo Lee/Lee Hyun Do: A student of the Fashion Section, he is one of Zack'due south "friends" who acts every bit Jiho'due south main tormentor. He stays around Zack and Daniel mainly to heave his own popularity, but helps them out in the story whenever he is needed. A notorious streamer on Paprika TV, Tae Joon collaborates with him to taunt Shin Dae Hoon, leading to the two of them existence caught by his gang before they were eventually bailed out by Vasco, Zack, and Daniel. Later, Doo shows a brief moment of kindness towards Jiho past lending him his gym clothes.
He too sometimes joins the alliance, 1 of them against Alexander, and subsequently on becomes ane of the masked crew of the 2nd affiliate.
- Tae Joon Park: Introduced in the Attention Whore Arc, Park is from the Architectural Section. He was a famewhore who taunted a gangster named Shin Dae Hoon in worked shoots. During the story arc, Park and Doo Lee are somewhen caught Hoon and his gang. They are released by Vasco, Zack, and Daniel later on a cursory fist fight. He shares the same proper name as the author and PTJ Entertainment.
- Leon Lee: A freshman from the Architectural Section. Initially mysterious, she is somewhen revealed to exist a girl, though she convinces everyone in J Loftier that she is a boy. It is implied that she has feelings for Vasco and seems to agree a tsundere-similar personality around him.
- Joy Hong/Hong Jae Hye: Jay's little sister and an Aboki model. When she first met Daniel (in his handsome body during the model arc) she immediately developed a vanquish. Joy later entered J High to see Daniel more oft.
- Nam Su Lee: Ane of the nerdy classmates, he was initially tasked by Zack to buy shoes for him, just when he tried to obtain the shoes, it ended up being a scam. After the effect was settled, he bought a Chrome Hearts ring and started a rumor that Daniel was poor and had no mode sense, which led to Jay giving Daniel a bunch of expensive apparel.
- David, Dylan and Sarah Park: Daniel'due south cousins. Dylan is a wannabe rapper and Duke's fan. David is a college student who is the "star" of the Park family unit. Sarah is Dylan's sister, who has a vanquish on Daniel Park's handsome body.
- Hong Ki Tae: Jay'southward older blood brother and the head of H Group.
- Samuel Seo: Initially alluded to exist Jake Kim'southward half-blood brother (later confirmed not related), also Ane MCN's executive. Jong Gun hired him to oversee Workers MCN until its downfall. He later meets up with the newly formed K Firm. He took over the affiliates Alexander and Vivi in one case held in exchange for serving Eugene.
- Alexander Hwang: President of Workers 4th affiliate and a long fourth dimension "friend" of Samuel. After MCN's disbandment, he goes missing.
- Like What and So Funny: Two girls who ran away from their troubled homes and joined the Delinquent Fam, a branch of Hostel A. They were forced into prostitution scams by their Runaway Fam and later joined Hostel B, equally it was a more stable and was a non-calumniating environment. In fright that they would be kicked out of Hostel B if they didn't earn coin (as this frequently happened in some Delinquent Fams), they began streaming on ONE MCN for money. They were returmed to the Hostel.
- Warren Chae: One of Hostel'due south original members. He and Sally went looking for Eli subsequently he went off the grid. He is known as the "Gangdong's Mighty Warren Chae" and frequently speaks in cleaved and missing sentences. Afterwards, he dropped his broken sentences, and joins Daniel in his mission.
- Eli Jang/Jang Hyun: Dazzler department'due south but male member. He is the unmarried father of a baby girl named Yenna, the daughter of his teenage sweetheart Heather. Jong Gun had his eyes on him for his fighting prowess simply also because Eli created the original Hostel.
- Sally Park: One of the Hostel's original members, she is looking for Eli after he went missing. During the Eli Jang arc, she is shown to be an orphan who lives in an abandoned building that she inherited from her grandmother in America. She is usually seen with Warren Chae.
- Max Kang and Derek Jo: Two of the original Hostel members. The two are currently tteokbokki dealers and club promoters.
- Olly Wang: Former member of the original Hostel, but created another one called Hostel A after the original disbanded due to his manipulation and role in Heather'due south death. Commits suicide subsequently knowing what the source of his inability to experience pain.
- James Gong: Formerly Jiho'due south psychotic bully, who loved wounding his enemies and doing muddied actions. He duped Jiho by selling a depository financial institution account Jiho made for him and was pushed out of a building window along with Daniel. He survived the incident, but became more and more than mentally insane afterwards.
- Jasmine Huh: Daniel'southward classmate, and a mythomaniac. In a side story she initially defendant Vasco of stealing her handbag, then scammed fetishists with used items, lying that information technology belonged to Joy, Zoey, Mira and Mary. After the fiasco, she disappeared, joining James Gong and eventually Olly Wang's Hostel A. Due to her father's abusive nature, she left home, and now lives with James and the child soldiers Olly trained, while riding a jitney stolen during the anarchy.
- Johan Seong: Zack and Mira'due south childhood friend. He was always bullied because he was poor and his female parent was becoming blind. He had a crush on Mira but felt embarrassed equally he was always trounce upwardly by his peers and rescued past Zack. During the Cult arc, his mother's mental state deteriorated and a local church government minister persuaded her to join the God Dog cult. After the story arc, Johan abandoned all those he cared about and took over one of the four major crews: God Dog, taking the cult's mascot every bit his own. He asked Daniel to bring together him, but was turned down and his ain crew betrayed him. Gun appeared and disqualified Johan after berating him for losing command of his crew and subsequently beats him up later on Johan refused to back down. He appeared afterwards in the webcomic again, aiding Jace in Cheonliang, getting into a small fight with Jin, and witnessing the end of Hostel A. Afterwards, Johan joins the White Tiger Job Center under Tom Lee.
- Jong Gun/Jang Dong Gun: Jong Gun is Crystal Choi'southward gangster bodyguard, who used to extort coin from the various groups. He has reverse-colored eyes, and is arguably the most ruthless fighter in the story. Gun as well used to manage several gangs called the "Four Crews" in Seoul before passing the job onto Joon Goo. Throughout the series, Gun shows signs of sadomasochism. He willingly revealed his true colors to Daniel.
- Joon Goo/Goo Kim: Introduced during Vasco's Arc, Goo is a fighter who frequented juvenile centers. After a massive and vicious fight, he became Jong Gun'due south equal and is in charge of Jong Gun's extortion racket afterward the latter lost involvement in it.
- Jake Kim: Jake Kim is the leader of a Seoul'southward major crew called Large Bargain, and is an fantabulous fighter. He was put in juvenile prison for an illegal betting ring and later became influenced by Jiho'south dirty fighting mode in juvie. He after on reforms his crew, always at odds with Daniel.
- Jerry Kwon: Jake Kim'south number two, also known for his forcefulness every bit the "Sword of Jake Kim". He took care for the Hostel's cat, Leon. And had a quite gentle stance, except when Jake told him otherwise.
- Jin Jang: Formerly Johan'southward lieutenant, simply betrayed his "friend". He starts spying on J High, and headed a plot to put various students against each other. He also goaded Eli and Olly to fight, which dismantled Hostel A. Afterward he revived his "K Business firm" crew from the fallen "God Dog"
- Kouji/Ko Woo Ji: Another i of HNH Chairman's minions. Equally a genius hacker, he duped the illegal toto operators and hacked the security feed of the shop that Daniel works at.
- Charles Choi: Crystal'south father and the chairman of HNH Group. It is revealed that he worked at a convenience shop years ago until he was recruited by Jong Gun to be the leader of the Four Major Crews.
- Steve Hong: Ki Tae, Joy and Jay's father and chairman of H Group. He has known Charles Choi for many years but it is implied that the two are not friends. Subsequently in the webtoon, Hong becomes Daniel's secret marry to have down the four crews.
- DG/Diego Kang/James Lee: A kpop talent of PTJ, later CEO of the bureau, and one of Charles Choi'southward 10 Geniuses. It is unsaid throughout the story that he knows of Daniel's ability. He was modeled later on G-Dragon. The truth is, he was James Lee, one of the 1st Generation fellow member, then became ane of Charles Choi's 10 Geniuses, then discarded his identity, becoming DG in the process.
- Oliver Jang/Jang Udon/Woo Dong Jang: A PTJ trainee talent for 6 years and ARU's former fellow. Oliver was stuck equally a C-Rank trainee alongside La Sol because of ARU'southward bias confronting them. Virtually the finish of the PTJ entertainment arc Oliver debuts in a new group called Inspirit.
- La Sol/Ra Sol: Some other PTJ trainee talent and ARU'south sometime best friend. She was stuck as a C-Rank trainee alongside Oliver Jang due to ARU's bias against them. Later Sol becomes PTJ'south resident A-Rank trainer.
- ARU: Formerly Oliver's girlfriend and a PTJ main star. She was caught in a casting couch by a major PTJ investor in her desperation to become famous, but was saved.
- Tom Lee: 1 of Charles Choi's x geniuses, and the possessor of the private security agency that Ane MCN has. Information technology is stated that Tom Lee trained both Gun and Goo. He as well was a part of Generation Zero.
- Justine Peng and Chuck Kwak: Ii illegal Chinese immigrants initially rejected by Jake Kim, merely afterward accepted by Olly Wang. After the Hostel arc and destruction of Hostel A, they built up a skewer shop, and witnessed Johan and Zack fight each other. They afterward reappear where Eugene offered them the aforementioned opportunity as the others.
- Vivi: A Chinese woman who fled to Korea to escape her drug cases in Red china, head of a powerful family who built a club and hotel to encompass upward her continued drug addiction and inviting elites to bring together her in drugged and doped hobbies. She was loyally served past Xiaolung. After the arc, she was taken off to Mainland china with Xiaolung. She is the 3rd chapter Head.
- Xiaolung: Vivi'south servant, so loyal to her that he even became a eunuch just to be close to her.
- Alexander Kwang: The quaternary affiliate head, who used Kwitch to cover up his rackets by imprisoning promising vloggers and forcing them to human activity within his company. Daniel forcefully ended the fourth chapter.
- Sofia: A muscular Russian woman and Steve Hong's babysitter. She roughens upwards Daniel whenever she has the opportunity to, and was tasked to train Daniel, which reduced his weight due to her Spartan training.
- Eugene: Head of the 4th major crew, where Samuel is now employed, and made deceiving invitations under Olly Wang's name. He offered the other crews to join forces confronting Charles Choi, which Jake and both Justin and Chuck accepted, while Johan and Eli declined. He has a scattering of skilled people every bit his bodyguards. He took Daniel every bit his new apprentice, but still doesn't trust him. He e'er had Mandeok abreast him.
- Hudson Kim, Jacky Lee and Channing Choi: Leaders of the Ansan Public, a grouping trying to establish a ground in Seoul. Allied with Jiho and Darius Hong to form the James Lee Crew. Returned to Ansan subsequently existence beaten by Daniel, Zack and Vasco. Hudson the head of the trio, Jacky the nigh agile of them, and Channing, a sadist who uses tattoo guns to doodle his enemies.
- Mitsuki/Neko: Leader of the second affiliate and the emcee of the clandestine deathmatch club. Has feelings for Sinu.
- Ryūhei/Nōmen: Young man Japanese and knows Mitsuki. He wears a Nōmen mask.
- Hyottoko and Daruma: Two masked men. Hyottoko is a sumo wrestler, Daruma was a mysterious identity until he was revealed to exist with the players, unmasked.
Theme [edit]
The title is self-explanatory of the theme; lookism, or bias due to a person'southward physical appearance. The main grapheme is a fatty, unattractive pupil who is bullied by those stronger than him. The story also has themes including (but not limited to) gangs, extortion, animate being hoarding, cults, stalking, rape, and attempted murder.
Character designs [edit]
Daniel Park's design was inspired by a model named Park Hyung-seok, Jay Hong's design was inspired by a model named Hong Jae-yeol, DG was inspired past G-Dragon, Oliver Jang'south design was inspired by Jang Dongwoo, ARU's design was inspired by IU (vocalizer), Vasco/Euntae Lee was inspired by a rapper whose former phase name was Vasco. The creator of the manhwa is Park Tae-joon, some other model.
Adaptations [edit]
In 2019, Tencent produced the 38-episode Chinese telly series 外貌至上主义 (Wàimào Zhìshàng Zhǔyì), based on the manhwa Lookism, starring Lomon, Wayne Zhang, Wang Zi Xuan and Dino Lee as the master characters.
References [edit]
- ^ 얼짱 박태준, '외모지상주의' 작가 되다. Ten Asia (in Korean). Dec iv, 2014. Retrieved September 25, 2018.
- ^ No, Jin-ho (August xviii, 2018). 일진 미화, 여성성 왜곡…웹툰 '외모지상주의'가 전체이용가?. JoongAng Ilbo (in Korean). Retrieved September 25, 2018.
External links [edit]
- English language edition
- Korean edition
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookism_%28manhwa%29
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