On Or Off (In Korean: 온 오어 오프) is a Korean webtoon created by A1.
The manga follows Yiyoung, a college student that is charged with presenting the app his friends made to a large company and the threatening director of the company Kang. After the presentation crashes and burns due to an accident, he decides to throw a Hail Mary and try to meet with Kang personally to sell his product, but ends up in a complicated relationship with him when a recently dumped Kang asks Yiyoung to sleep with him for him to be willing to give their product a chance.
The webtoon is available via TappyToons
, ending with 91 chapters.
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- Age-Gap Romance: Kang is 38 and Yiyoung is 23, 15 years his junior, but they are the main couple of the comic.
- Amicable Exes: Kang and his ex in the first chapter break up. The two end in good terms, and she even tells him to go for someone younger next time. She calls him amicably the next day to return his records.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The team that Yiyoung leads is made of people that are pretty bad at social interaction, but are, in exchange, exceptional in their fields. Park Donga, the programmer, is an explosive short girl with a tendency to scream and pick fights; Choi Shinja, the project planner, is riddled with anxieties and panics easily; and Moon Haji, the designer, has ADHD and easily gets sidetracked by anything. The founder of the group, Nam Mina, is also pretty odd, being brutally honestly and also being a savant on pretty much anything she tries.Kang planned to trash the project without even looking at it, but was blown away by how good the project was despite Yiyoung's shortcomings with the presentation.
- Closet Key: Kang says he didn't know he was bisexual up until he fell for Yiyoung.
- The Face: Due to his team's extreme shyness, Yiyoung is the representative of Singco and is the one to connect his team to the rest of the company.
- Foreshadowing: When Kang breaks up with his ex, she mentions how they weren't that serious, and questions that if she were to move away, would he leave with her, to which he responds he wouldn't. The comic ends with Kang deciding to quit his company in the US and stay in Korea to be with Yiyoung.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Yiyoung has blond hair and blue eyes and is the nicest character among the cast.
- Happy Ending: Team Singco's game is a hit, shooting the company into the status of a popular up-and-comer with another project already lined up. Kang concludes his role as Director of SJ, ousting the corrupt parties and quitting the company, although he is now unemployed, it's hard to think he'd stay like that for long considering his history and popularity. The two are together in a happy and serious relationship.
- Has a Type: Director Kang has a preference for older women that are Married to the Job. Yiyoung, a much younger man, is far out of his usual tastes. When he shows to his friend a picture of his lover, he is jawdropped to learn such.
- How We Got Here: The story starts with the scene of Yiyoung and Kang having sex in a hotel, and then goes back to explain how Yiyoung ended up in such a situation.
- Imagine Spot: Quite a few, by both Yiyoung and Kang.
- Yiyoung has one where if he goes to sign the contracts alone in chapter 14, he will get harassed by Kang and made to have sex with him.
- Kang has one in chapter 47 picturing that after Yiyoung kissed him, he'd like to become sultry like he was in their first night and make a move on him further, instead of Yiyoung just looking embbarassed and hopping into the first bus he saw.
- Yiyoung and Kang have one together when they decide to roleplay as a butler being punished by his master.
- Jerkass Realization: Once given time to see more of Yiyoung, Kang realizes he was a massive asshole on their first night together, taking advantage of a young man that was both genuinely capable of delivering for his company and desperate to help his friends. He feels awful and apologizes for it when they have time alone again.
- Nepotism: Part of the problem with the SJ company is that the chairman ended up giving various high positions to people connected to her family either through blood or marriage and they were not good at their respective jobs. Part of Kang's role in the company is actually to clean up the internal corruption.
- Not So Stoic: Secretary Cha seems to be Kang's always stoic secretary, but she is shown having quite a bit of fun watching the relationship of her even more stoic boss develop, which she hides under a professional façade
- Older Than They Look: Chief Kim, the chief of the Marketing Section, looks like a quite old man, but he is actually younger than Kang, who is 38.
- Perspective Flip: Chapter 46 and 47 shift the POV character from Yiyoung to Kang, and shows their various date-like outings from his perspective, revealing he was trying to bait Yiyoung into making a move on him.
- Skilled, but Naive: Kang notes that Yiyoung has a natural talent as a businessman, being capable to charm and befriend other, as well as lead and motivate his team into doing amazing work, but he is naïve and doesn't understand the corporate culture he now founds himself submerged in.
- Time Skip: The comic has a 2 weeks skip between the shooting of the commercial starring Yiyoung, in which night Kang left the country on a business trip for two weeks, and the time he returns from said trip. In that period of time, the advertisement went viral and Yiyoung's face is everywhere as he gathers a fanclub and becomes a social media darling.
- Will They or Won't They?: Director Kang and Yiyoung.
