History Webcomic / Lookism

* ShownTheirWork: The author himself has mentioned on a talkshow that he interviews people in order to better to understand and depict the scenarios and stories with a more reality-grounded basis.

** Park Hyung Suk/Daniel's {{bishonen}} body looks strangely similar to [[VideoGame/{{Persona4}} Yu Narukami]]'s, only more [[CaptainObvious Korean looking]].

* {{Adorkable}}: Vasco is a big burly guy who's strong as a bull who's actually a big softy and ManChild. He for one wanted a picnic birthday, even though it was freezing outside. It has it's a darker side to it.

* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Being drunk makes Park Hyung Suk/Daniel change completely to a [[TheCasanova Casanova]] boosting with confidence. He is however [[{{Understatement}} very]] ashamed of this.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Duk Hwa is really good at rapping, but due to his looks, he is never given the chance to show it. [[spoiler:Although later chapters reveal that he's become one of the school's top three celebrities on Paprika, a social networking-ish site.]]

* FromNobodyToNightmare: "GangnamLandLord", Ha Neul's stalker. After being sent to prison for almost killing Hyung Suk, even the gangsters there are terrified of him. This was shown when he heard Kim Hyi Min admit that he is a rapist.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Jae Yeol towards Hyung Suk. [[spoiler:He gives Hyung Suk his clothes, tries to buy him in a 'slave auction' for millions of won, follows him to his hometown when he learns he was heading there, and also volunteers to take care of his puppies despite being afraid of dogs simply because Hyung Suk would visit.]]

* BullyHunter: He doesn't always fight the bullies, but Daniel befriends the bullied ones.
** Jay, however, beats the crap out of anyone who threatens to beat up Daniel.

* BreakTheCutie: Mi Jin, the first stranger to respect Daniel despite his looks, has many awful thing happening to her.
* CantHoldHisLiquor: Daniel easily gets drunk in his {{bishonen}} body, and when he's drunk he often becomes a confident and cynical young man.
* CharacterDevelopment: Daniel grows from not doing anything to prevent bullying to fighting back. He also stops relying on the second body and tries to get stronger on his own.

** Even later, [[spoiler:he manages to overcome the ire of his teachers and classmates at JTF training school and makes it up to Class B without Daniel's help.]]

** Daniel's {{bishonen}} body looks strangely similar to [[VideoGame/{{Persona4}} Yu Narukami]]'s, only more [[CaptainObvious Korean looking]].

* FatAndSkinny: Daniel and Duke are both the fats to Jiho's skinny.

* FatBestFriend: Both Daniel (type b) and Duke (mix of type a and b) are this to Jiho.
** Daniel also eventually becomes this to [[spoiler:Jay]].
* FriendlessBackground: Daniel had no friends prior starting at the new school. Because he starts gaining confidence, he also manages to make friends and get people to respect him even when he's fat.

* {{Gag Haircut}}/{{Traumatic Haircut}}: A hairdresser cut small Daniel's hair to look like [[UsefulNotes/TheRulersOfNorthKorea Kim Jong Un's]].

* GoodParents: Daniel's mother is a honest mother who does her best to make her son live a good life.

* HeroicBuild: Daniel when he's in the thin body.

* HiredForTheirLooks: Daniel got the job at the convenience store just because he came with the {{bishonen}} body first. The wage was lowered after he came back with his real body.
* HumiliationConga: What Daniel went through every day until he suddenly gained the other body.

* LimitedWardrobe: Daniel has only his school uniform and big clothes, so because of that, he mainly wears his [[SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack school uniform]] when in the {{bishonen}} body even on days without school. This is later averted by Jay giving him 10 bags of clothes that "he was going to throw away".

* LovesMyAlterEgo: Most characters find Daniel's original body gross but adores the {{bishonen}} body over anything.

* ManipulativeEditing: Duke started rapping [[spoiler:when Daniel had problems starting to sing due to PerformanceAnxiety]]. Even though everyone thought both were really good, Duke was edited out because people didn't like his looks.

* MiseryBuildsCharacter: Daniel could easily have let the status beauty go to his head and start bullying people himself. Instead, he stands befriends those who are in need of a friend in both his bodies.

* RealityEnsues: Aside from Daniel [[spoiler: and Crystal]] having two bodies, almost everything else in the series follows a fairly realistic plot line with perfectly normal everyday problems and characters having believable reactions to the situations they find themselves in, and many of this situations are easy to relate to for several readers. See ShowTheirWork below.

** Daniel [[spoiler:still responds to the cues he was conditioned for during years of bullying in middle school. He also folds like paper when in Logan Lee's presence, even in his handsome body.]]

* TrueCompanions: Daniel, Duke and Jiho -- the unpopular kids. [[spoiler:Also Hyung Suk and Jae Yeol. And there's no truer companionship than that of Jace's and Vasco's.]]
* UnwantedHarem: Daniel doesn't like that there's so many clingy girls, wondering what they want from him...

** The Stalker Arc results in Crystal suspecting Daniel to have two bodies, just like [[spoiler: herself]].

* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Being drunk makes Daniel change completely to a [[TheCasanova Casanova]] boosting with confidence. He is however [[{{Understatement}} very]] ashamed of this.
* WorkingForABodyUpgrade: Daniel becomes motivated to become better rather than rely on his new body, so he begins working out [[spoiler:with Vasco's help]].

* FromNobodyToNightmare: The guy who almost killed the MC, treated his crippled father like shit, didn't have anything to do, wasn't considered a real threat. However, after he was sent to prison it was shown that even the gangsters there are terrified of him. This was shown when he heard Kim Hyi Min admit that he is a rapist.
* {{Gag Haircut}}/{{Traumatic Haircut}}: A hairdresser cut Daniel's hair to look like [[UsefulNotes/TheRulersOfNorthKorea Kim Jong Un's]].

* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Many share portions of their names which sometimes makes it difficult to remember who's who. The one exception possibly being Lee Eun Tae whose nickname ('Hercules Vasco') really stands out.
* OrphanageOfLove: Mi Jin and Lee Jin Sung grew up in one. [[spoiler:Turns out it became a OrphanageOfFear along with using Christianity as a ReligionOfEvil with having living crucified {{Human Sacrifice}}s after they moved out]].

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In a society where looks mean everything, Park Hyung Suk, short, overweight and unattractive, is viciously bullied and abused on a daily basis, but never tells his overworked mother about it. One day, when his mother witnesses this abuse, she sends him to a better school. But unfortunately, he finds that this new school is just as cruel as the other.

* BullyHunter: He doesn't always fight the bullies, but Hyung Suk befriends the bullied ones.
** Jae Yeol, however, beats the crap out of anyone who threatens to beat up Hyung Suk.
** Vasco is famous for this, but one can wonder why he didn't do anything earlier to help Ji Ho and Duk Hwa. Then again, he's an [[DumbMuscle idiot]].

* BasedOnATrueStory: The author himself has mentioned in a [[https://youtu.be/GPV7_Yb5dFY?t=3764 talkshow]] that the overall story is based on his own past experience.
* BreakTheCutie: Mi Jin, the first stranger to respect Hyung Suk despite his looks, has many awful thing happening to her.
* CantHoldHisLiquor: Hyung Suk easily gets drunk in his {{bishonen}} body, and when he's drunk he often becomes a confident and cynical young man.
* CharacterDevelopment: Hyung Suk grows from not doing anything to prevent bullying to fighting back. He also stops relying on the second body and tries to get stronger on his own.

** Hyung Suk's {{bishonen}} body looks strangely similar to [[VideoGame/{{Persona4}} Yu Narukami]]'s, only more [[CaptainObvious Korean looking]].

** Jae Yeol uses Systema, a Russian martial arts which is a martial art practiced by the Russian Spetsnaz.

* FatAndSkinny: Hyung Suk and Duk Hwa are both the fats to Ji Ho's skinny.

* FatBestFriend: Both Hyung Suk (type b) and Duk Hwa (mix of type a and b) are this to Ji Ho.
** Hyung Suk also eventually becomes this to [[spoiler:Jae Yeol]].
* FriendlessBackground: Hyung Suk had no friends prior starting at the new school. Because he starts gaining confidence, he also manages to make friends and get people to respect him even when he's fat.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: The guy who almost killed the MC, treated his crippled father like shit, didn't have anything to do, wasn't concidered a real threat. However, after he was sent to prison it was shown that even the gangsters there are terrified of him. This was shown when he heard Kim Hyi Min admit that he is a rapist.
* {{Gag Haircut}}/{{Traumatic Haircut}}: A hairdresser cut Hyung Suk's hair to look like [[UsefulNotes/TheRulersOfNorthKorea Kim Jong Un's]].

* GoodParents: Hyung Suk's mother is a honest mother who does her best to make her son live a good life.

* HeroicBuild: Hyung Suk when he's in the thin body.

* HiredForTheirLooks: Hyung Suk got the job at the convenience store just because he came with the {{bishonen}} body first. The wage was lowered after he came back with his real body.
* HumiliationConga: What Hyng Suk went through every day until he suddenly gained the other body.

* LimitedWardrobe: Hyung Suk has only his school uniform and big clothes, so because of that, he mainly wears his [[SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack school uniform]] when in the {{bishonen}} body even on days without school. This is later averted by Jae Yeol giving him 10 bags of clothes that "he was going to throw away".

* LovesMyAlterEgo: Most characters find Hyung Suk's original body gross but adores the {{bishonen}} body over anything.

* ManipulativeEditing: Duk Hwa started rapping [[spoiler:when Hyung Suk had problems starting to sing due to PerformanceAnxiety]]. Even though everyone thought both were really good, Duk Hwa was edited out because people didn't like his looks.

* MiseryBuildsCharacter: Hyung Suk could easily have let the status beauty go to his head and start bullying people himself. Instead, he stands befriends those who are in need of a friend in both his bodies.

* TheQuietOne: Jae Yeol

* SharedFamilyQuirks: Everyone in Ji Ho wears squared glasses.

* TeenGenius: Duk Hwa is excellent at making music, but due to his looks [[DudeWheresMyRespect nobody listens to his creations]].

* TrueCompanions: Hyung Suk, Duk Hwa, and Ji Ho -- the unpopular kids. [[spoiler:Also Hyung Suk and Jae Yeol. And there's no truer companionship than that of Bum Jae's and Vasco's.]]
* UnwantedHarem: Hyung Suk doesn't like that there's so many clingy girls, wondering what they want from him..
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Being drunk makes Hyung-Suk change completely to a [[TheCasanova Casanova]] boosting with confidence. He is however [[{{Understatement}} very]] ashamed of this.
* WorkingForABodyUpgrade: Hyung Suk becomes motivated to become better rather than rely on his new body, so he begins working out [[spoiler:with Vasco's help]].

* CuteMute: Jae Yeol looks pretty good, but never says a word so he might be a mute or, more likely, [[http://www.selectivemutismcenter.org/aboutus/whatisselectivemutism selective mute]] as he sometimes seems like he is going to talk at times only to hesitate and not do it after all.

Lookism is a [[KoreanWebtoon Korean]] [[FightingSeries Fighting]], [[GagSeries gag]], PsychologicalHorror, [[WidgetSeries wok]], RomanticComedy, [[KoreanWebtoon webtoon]] [[GenreBusting series]], that started in 2014 and is drawn and written by [[https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=27393 Park Tae Joon]]. Can be read in Korean [[http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list.nhn?titleId=641253 here]].

* FromNobodyTHan oNightmare: The guy who almost killed the MC, treated his crippled father like shit, didn't have anything to do, wasn't concidered a real threat. However, after he was sent to prison it was shown that even the gangsters there are terrified of him. This was shown when he heared Kim Hyi Min admit that he is a rapist.

* ManChild: Vasco, he has his [[DarkAndTroubledPast reasons]].

* PermaStubble: Vasco

* {{Trigger}}: [[spoiler:Vasco started shivering if he sees a pen or needle due to abuse. He gets over it by getting tattoos in the span of about 3 years.]]

* FromNobodytoNightmare: The guy who almost killed the MC, treated his crippled father like shit, didn't have anything to do, wasn't concidered a real threat. However, after he was sent to prison it was shown that even the gangsters there are terrified of him. This was shown when he heared Kim Hyi Min admit that he is a rapist.

* BigBeautifulMan: Hyung Suk in his real body and Duk Hwa changes between this and {{gonk}} at random.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Duk Hwa is really good at rapping, but due to his looks, he is never given the chance to show it.

* {{Narm}}: InUniverse reaction to Vasco looking {{badass}} in ''an inflatable [[http://static.dudeiwantthat.com/img/style/costumes/inflatable-dinosaur-costume-9860.jpg ridin' dinosaur]] costume''.

* DumbMuscle: Vasco is famous for this as he protects the weak and tends to presume the good-looking guys are bad. He's known as... "The Strong Idiot".

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Mi Jin and Lee Jin Sung, with him as the InsecureLoveinterest.

* Based on a True Story: The author himself has mentioned in a [[https://youtu.be/GPV7_Yb5dFY?t=3764 talkshow]] that the overall story is based on his own past experience.