Get Schooled / True Education — Chapter 8¶
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- Dialogue is preserved as closely as the supplied English scanlation permits, including profanity and awkward phrasing.
- Visual descriptions distinguish directly visible action from interpretation.
- Korean sound effects are described by function when their exact English equivalent is uncertain.
- Long blank spacers between webtoon panels are omitted from the numbering below.
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Opening — Why Hyeung-joo came to this school¶
The chapter opens with the recurring fiction disclaimer, then shifts into the internal narration of Kim Hyeung-joo, a short, freckled third-year student in a navy-and-orange technical-school uniform.
He remembers loving anything with wheels from the time he was very young. Toy cars, trucks, engines, and machinery fill the nostalgic panels. His childhood dream was not glamorous or violent: he wanted to become a car mechanic.
That dream is why he enrolled in Sanmaeg’s School for Advanced Education, specifically the automotive-engineering course.
The soft childhood imagery abruptly gives way to a classroom full of fighting students.
Desks are shoved aside. Boys swing fists at one another while others cheer. A jagged shout cuts through the room:
“DIE! DIE, YOU FUCKING BITCH!”
Another student yells:
“I’LL KILL YOU ALL!”
Hyeung-joo crouches away from the center of the violence. His shoulders are raised, sweat beads cover his face, and his hands hover defensively near his chest.
His narration asks:
“THIS HAPPENS EVERY DAY.”
“WHY?”
He finally screams that he has had enough:
“I’M SICK OF IT!”
“I’M SICK OF ALL OF THIS!”
The visual point is immediate: the school he chose for machines has become a place where fighting matters more than learning.
Na Hwa-jin arrives¶
Na Hwa-jin walks through the school in his black suit. Hyeung-joo notices him and thinks that the long-haired man seems familiar, though he cannot immediately place him.
The principal receives Na with visible relief and thanks him for arriving quickly. The man’s polite posture and careful language barely conceal desperation.
He explains that the school has become:
“A DICK-MEASURING CONTEST BETWEEN CLASSES.”
He then summarizes the institution even more bluntly:
“THIS SCHOOL IS A REAL FUCKING DUMP.”
The principal’s description is supported by images of damaged rooms, students occupying corridors in groups, and faculty who have stopped meaningfully controlling the campus.
Na listens without surprise. His expression is almost amused, as though the scale of the disorder makes the assignment more interesting.
How Sanmaeg’s hierarchy formed¶
Hyeung-joo’s narration moves backward to his first year.
At Sanmaeg, the new students did not simply introduce themselves. They fought to establish the pecking order within each class. The strongest first-year became that room’s leader.
The conflict then expanded. First-years challenged second-years; second-years confronted third-years; departments competed for supremacy. What may once have been an informal schoolyard hierarchy hardened into the school’s governing system.
Panels of crowded gymnasiums and corridor brawls show bodies piling up, students being dragged aside, and classmates calculating whom they should follow.
Hyeung-joo explains that he was never a fighter. He survived because he kept his head down and concentrated on automotive engineering. His grades and technical ability gave him a narrow reason to remain in the school, but they never protected him socially.
As the third year begins, he hopes the old chaos may finally have exhausted itself.
That hope lasts only until Lee Hong-seong, the red-haired alpha of the automotive class, turns his attention toward him.
Lee Hong-seong humiliates the top student¶
Hong-seong is physically imposing, loud, and proud of ruling the room. His academic performance in the engineering course is poor, but he wants to be recognized as the school’s overall number one.
He calls Hyeung-joo forward with exaggerated friendliness:
“HONORABLE THIRD-YEAR, KIM HYEUNG-JOO!”
“TOP OF THE CLASS!”
He helps the smaller student stand and briefly praises him for working hard. Hyeung-joo smiles nervously, unsure whether the interaction is genuine.
Without warning, Hong-seong drives a knee or heavy strike into him.
The surrounding students laugh. Hong-seong’s expression changes from false warmth to contempt.
“THIS GOOBER’S REALLY IN MY CLASS?”
“WHAT AN EMBARRASSMENT!”
He tells Hyeung-joo:
“YOU’VE DONE NOTHING, YOU PATHETIC WORM!”
“WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU EVEN DOING IN THIS SCHOOL?”
Hong-seong declares the school’s real creed:
“SANMAEG’S SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED EDUCATION, WHERE FISTS MEAN POWER!”
He reduces Hyeung-joo to an animal beneath the hierarchy:
“YOU’RE A MAGGOT!”
“WHAT IS A MAGGOT DOING IN A WOLF’S DEN?!”
The insult is not only about physical weakness. It denies that academic skill or vocational dedication gives Hyeung-joo any legitimate place in the school.
Na interrupts the “wolf’s den”¶
Na speaks from outside the students’ circle.
He points out that school is supposed to be a place for learning, not a place for boys to measure or display their masculinity.
Hong-seong turns and demands to know who he is.
Na introduces himself:
“FIELD INSPECTOR FROM THE BUREAU OF EDUCATION.”
“NA HWA-JIN.”
The name triggers recognition. Hong-seong has seen him in the news and knows that Na is the man associated with the new “Protected Education” authority.
Rather than retreat, Hong-seong warns him that Sanmaeg is different from the schools he handled before:
“DON’T FUCK OFF…”
“YOU’LL GET EATEN ALIVE!”
Na closes the distance and knocks Hong-seong down with a single decisive strike.
The action is drawn almost too quickly for the surrounding students to process. Hong-seong’s body collapses while the room falls silent.
Na then turns toward Hyeung-joo and casually calls him:
“SHORTY.”
He asks for his help.
Hyeung-joo, still shaking, identifies the fallen student as Lee Hong-seong. Na instructs everyone else to sit down.
The visual reversal is complete: the person who ruled the room through fear is unconscious, and the student treated as a “maggot” is now the person Na addresses directly.
Electrical Engineering Room 1¶
The chapter cuts to the rival department.
Jo Hong-gi, the electrical-engineering alpha, is surrounded by students who treat him as their commander. He receives word that something has happened in the automotive class.
Hong-gi orders his department to prepare an ambush. He says that Lee Hong-seong belongs to him and tells everyone else to keep their hands off that target.
His department’s belief is stated plainly:
“THE TOP CLASS IS ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.”
Like Hong-seong, Hong-gi understands the school as territory to be ruled rather than an educational institution.
Hyeung-joo’s impossible announcement¶
Na places Hyeung-joo in front of the school public-address microphone.
The smaller student is pale, sweating, and visibly terrified. Na’s plan requires him to provoke the strongest students in the school while speaking in his own name.
Hyeung-joo introduces himself over the speakers as the representative of automotive studies.
His voice trembles as he challenges the electrical-engineering department to come to the gym.
He then makes the challenge intentionally outrageous: every member of the rival class will be treated as his individual prey.
Students throughout the building stop what they are doing. Faces turn toward ceiling speakers. Anger spreads almost instantly.
Hong-gi and his group move out.
The joke is cruel from Hyeung-joo’s perspective—he has spent years avoiding exactly this kind of attention—but it also forces the school’s power structure to gather in one place.
The gym confrontation¶
Electrical-engineering students flood into the gym expecting to punish Hyeung-joo.
Instead, Na is waiting.
The first attackers rush him in a cluster. Na uses his baton and body positioning to break the group apart. One student is struck aside; another is redirected into the floor; a third freezes when he realizes the adult is not backing away.
Na tells the students:
“CHILL OUT AND TAKE A SEAT.”
The command is delivered with a casualness that makes the violence seem like classroom management.
Hong-seong’s automotive faction is also brought into the gym. The two rival departments glare at one another across the floor while Na occupies the center.
He announces the new arrangement:
“STARTING NOW, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND CAR STUDIES WILL BE HAVING JOINT LESSONS, LED BY ME.”
He names the subject:
“THE CLASS? BEHAVIORAL EDUCATION!”
The students react with disbelief. For years, the two departments have defined themselves through opposition. Na’s “joint class” removes the separation that sustains their feud.
He gives them one final opportunity to object:
“ANYONE WHO DOESN’T WANNA PARTICIPATE, STEP RIGHT UP!”
The final panels hold on Na’s relaxed stance and the students’ angry, uncertain faces.
No one yet understands what his “behavioral education” will involve.
Chapter-level observations¶
1. Hyeung-joo is the chapter’s moral center¶
The chapter begins from the perspective of a student who genuinely came to learn a trade. His fear is not cowardice in the narrative’s framing; it shows how completely the school has betrayed its purpose.
2. Technical departments have become gang identities¶
Automotive and electrical engineering are no longer fields of study. Their names function like gang banners, and academic ranking has been replaced by physical dominance.
3. Na attacks the hierarchy symbolically as well as physically¶
Defeating Hong-seong matters, but making Hyeung-joo deliver the challenge matters more. Na deliberately places the lowest-status student at the center of the school’s attention.
4. The “joint lesson” removes the excuse of factional loyalty¶
By putting both departments under one authority and one classroom structure, Na prevents either group from presenting its violence as defense against the other.