Get Schooled — Chapter 192¶
Complete Detailed Panel-by-Panel Transcription¶
Scope¶
This transcription follows the 12 ordered long story strips embedded in the supplied Chapter 192 MHT, excluding the separate chapter-header asset. Readable dialogue, protest signs, phone messages, bullying history, lawsuit records, hearing notices, and major transitions are preserved where legible.
Content note¶
The chapter discusses a child’s death by suicide, long-term school bullying, online harassment, grief, financial ruin through litigation, legal malpractice or abandonment, and institutional delay.
Strips 001–003 — A one-person protest outside the Ministry¶
Na Hwa-jin walks near the Ministry of Education with a red-haired female colleague.
She complains that he walked all the way through the grounds instead of taking an easier route and says she will pick him up later when he finishes.
Na notices a middle-aged woman standing outside with a red protest board.
The sign condemns both the Ministry of Education and the justice system for “killing a victim twice.”
Na pauses.
The woman’s protest does not feel theatrical or politically organized.
He says he heard that someone had been protesting continuously outside the Ministry of Education, but this is his first time seeing her in person.
The chapter title card appears.
The story then moves backward.
After her daughter’s funeral, the woman is cleaning or organizing the child’s bedroom.
She checks the daughter’s mobile phone.
A pattern lock opens.
The screen contains thousands of messages.
Strips 003–004 — The mother discovers the hidden torment¶
The daughter is identified as Yunju, a high-school sophomore who left behind a mother who had believed she understood her life.
Inside the phone are messages such as:
- “Answer me, you disgusting bitch.”
- “I swear I’m going to kill you.”
- “You’d be better as bait.”
- “Die! Die! Die!”
The mother sees photographs of Yunju with visible injuries.
She realizes the bullying did not begin recently.
Yunju had been targeted since her second year of middle school.
The first incident was small: she accidentally bumped into one of the bullies’ desks.
That mistake became permission for a group to define her as a target.
They mocked her, isolated her, attacked her in school, and continued through private messages and group chats.
Yunju’s mother had noticed physical pain and changes in behavior but did not understand the scale of the harassment.
Strips 004–006 — Changing schools does not stop the abuse¶
The family reported the school violence.
The school’s response was limited and procedural.
One offender was transferred or separated, and adults suggested that the problem had been resolved.
Yunju later moved to another school.
The old bullies continued following her through social media.
A student at the new school was contacted and told stories about Yunju’s supposed character.
Rumors reached the new classmates before Yunju could establish a new identity.
The bullying restarted.
The torment now existed both in person and online.
The mother imagines Yunju living inside fire while adults outside saw only isolated incidents.
After the funeral, she learns that a student at the new school had been encouraged to continue what the original group began.
She swears:
THOSE DEVILS THAT KILLED YUNJU…
AND ALL THOSE RESPONSIBLE WHO STOOD BY AND DID NOTHING, I WILL MAKE THEM PAY!
Strips 006–008 — A lawsuit against the voices that surrounded Yunju¶
The mother begins a long civil battle.
The online harassment involved thousands of posts and comments. The visible narration refers to more than 6,300 malicious messages or voices surrounding Yunju.
The mother cannot sue every anonymous person.
The legal team identifies a smaller number of traceable defendants—approximately thirty-four or thirty-five people—connected to direct bullying, rumor distribution, and identifiable online attacks.
She sells or mortgages major property, including a valuable multi-story building, to finance the lawsuit.
She moves into a much smaller home.
The first trial produces a partial victory and partial loss.
The second stage also produces mixed results.
The mother does not interpret partial recovery as closure.
Every defendant excluded from liability feels like another adult telling her that part of Yunju’s pain does not count.
She continues to appeal.
Strips 008–009 — The lawyer who seemed to be her only ally¶
The mother hires a prominent attorney who describes himself as one of the top experts in this field.
He speaks confidently:
YOU CAN TRUST ME!
He says the number of people sued may be large, but the case can be won through careful appeals.
At that time, the mother believes he is the only person completely on her side.
She waits outside court while he promises to handle the procedure.
Then delays begin.
The attorney repeatedly asks for hearings to be changed or postponed:
- his wife is giving birth,
- he is ill,
- a family emergency occurred,
- a beloved pet is sick,
- another unavoidable event requires attention.
Each excuse may sound plausible in isolation.
Together, they turn the lawsuit into years of uncertainty.
The mother accepts the explanations because changing lawyers would mean restarting trust, spending more money, and admitting that the person she depended on may not be dependable.
Strips 009–010 — The appeal collapses through nonappearance¶
A third appeal hearing approaches.
The attorney again tells the mother not to worry and says he will arrange the next date.
The court has already warned that repeated absence may be treated as withdrawal.
The lawyer does not appear.
The plaintiff also fails to enter the hearing correctly because she relied on his instructions.
Under the procedural rule described in the chapter, an appeal may be considered withdrawn when the parties repeatedly fail to appear or proceed.
The mother’s long case is therefore terminated without the new judgment she expected.
The earlier partial result becomes final.
Narration explains that:
- the appeal was not rejected after a full hearing,
- it was deemed withdrawn,
- even the part the mother believed she could still win disappeared,
- and the partial victory against one defendant was overturned or left unenforceable.
Eight years of litigation end with an empty, exhausted feeling.
The mother has spent her savings, property, health, and grief on a process that does not reach a final examination of every claim.
Strips 010–011 — The lawyer calls it a misunderstanding¶
The mother confronts the attorney.
She asks why he skipped the hearing.
He tells her to calm down and calls the matter a misunderstanding.
He says he missed court because of illness or a family emergency and insists cases are decided through evidence and documents, not emotion.
He admits that the situation is unfortunate but minimizes the procedural damage.
The mother says she trusted him one last time.
The attorney promises there may still be another route and tells her not to give up.
She waits for him again.
At the next scheduled moment, he does not answer his phone.
The mother panics.
She realizes the person responsible for preserving Yunju’s legal claim may once again be unavailable.
Strip 012 — A man from eight years ago approaches¶
The mother returns to the Ministry grounds with her protest sign.
Na and the red-haired colleague watch from a distance.
A well-dressed older man approaches the protester.
He addresses her as Kim Youngshin—the romanization is slightly uncertain in the scanlation—and says:
YOU’VE BEEN THROUGH A LOT, KIM YOUNGSHIN-SSI.
YOU KNOW WHO I AM, RIGHT?
He reminds her:
IT HAPPENED EIGHT YEARS AGO.
The woman recognizes him but cannot immediately speak.
Na says the case is not an ordinary school incident the TRPA can simply reopen. The dispute has passed through civil courts, appeals, and attorney conduct.
The older man invites her:
COME ON IN.
LET’S HAVE A CUP OF TEA IN MY OFFICE.
The chapter ends with the protester stepping toward someone connected to the original case, while Na realizes the agency may be entering a conflict involving legal procedure rather than classroom violence.
Chapter-level continuity notes¶
The mother learns the scale only after Yunju’s death¶
The phone becomes the archive of a life Yunju hid from her family: threats, injuries, rumors, and thousands of hostile messages.
Transfer does not remove a digital reputation¶
Old offenders can recruit new classmates, send screenshots, and carry the victim’s stigma into another school.
The civil case becomes a second form of attrition¶
The defendants are not the only source of pain. Costs, postponed hearings, mixed judgments, and procedural rules consume the mother over eight years.
The lawyer’s repeated excuses matter cumulatively¶
Any single absence might be human and understandable. Repeated nonappearance in a case near procedural dismissal becomes professional abandonment.
The protest sign’s phrase “killed twice” has two meanings¶
Yunju died after bullying. Her mother believes the Ministry, courts, and legal representatives then destroyed the remaining chance for recognition.
The new arc lies near the edge of TRPA authority¶
The agency can investigate educational harm, but it cannot simply reverse a civil judgment. Na must determine whether there is a new violation, corruption, or institutional misconduct it can lawfully address.