Get Schooled — Chapter 194¶
Complete Detailed Panel-by-Panel Transcription¶
Scope¶
This transcription follows the 16 ordered long story strips embedded in the supplied Chapter 194 MHT, excluding its separate title/header asset. Readable legal dialogue, press questions, disciplinary terminology, and major transitions are preserved where legible.
Content note¶
The chapter discusses attorney negligence, professional discipline, school-violence litigation, financial loss, grief, and political influence over institutional reform.
Strips 001–002 — A case with little financial logic¶
The new lawyer explains the economics of suing Lee Janghyup.
Attorney-negligence cases often result in only a few million won in compensation. Even a relatively favorable judgment may fall somewhere around ₩3–10 million, far below the roughly ₩200 million the mother wishes to claim.
Her earlier school-violence litigation concerned an amount closer to ₩500 million, but proving that Lee’s absence caused the entire loss will be extremely difficult.
She may fight for years and recover only a small fraction of what the process costs emotionally.
He asks whether she still wants to proceed.
The mother says yes.
The attorney asks how she found him.
He usually represents young defendants and people from disadvantaged backgrounds—including some of the kinds of youths she now despises because of what happened to Yunju.
She replies that the identity of his usual clients is not the issue.
She heard that he takes responsibility for the cases he accepts.
Strips 003–004 — The hidden recommendation¶
The chapter reveals how the introduction occurred.
Choi Gang-seok and the long-haired man struggled to find a lawyer willing to take a case widely described as hopeless.
The long-haired man eventually approached the mother outside and asked whether she was having trouble finding representation.
He said he knew a lawyer with an unusually strong sense of responsibility, though the lawyer did not particularly like him.
He asked her not to mention the recommendation.
In the present, the mother tells the new lawyer:
WHO YOU REPRESENT DOESN’T MATTER.
WHAT MATTERS IS WHETHER YOU DO YOUR BEST AFTER TAKING RESPONSIBILITY.
The lawyer accepts the case.
The long-haired man later tells Choi that he introduced someone trustworthy.
Choi says his own role in the civil dispute is now finished.
Strips 005–006 — The first civil hearing against Lee¶
The damages trial begins.
The new lawyer argues that Lee’s repeated failure to appear caused the mother to lose the opportunity to recover the large amount claimed in the original action.
The harm is not only financial.
For eight years she organized her entire life around the lawsuit, only to have the final appeal treated as withdrawn because the attorney did not appear and failed to manage the procedure properly.
The requested ₩200 million therefore includes emotional and consequential loss.
Lee’s side argues that the original case was unwinnable and that no attorney can be responsible for a result that would have occurred anyway.
The court must decide not only whether Lee was negligent, but what his negligence actually caused.
Strips 007–008 — Press attention and a separate disciplinary case¶
Reporters surround the mother outside court.
She says the amount requested is not the point.
THIS LAWSUIT IS TO SEE WHAT JUDGMENT THE KOREAN COURT MAKES.
A reporter asks about a separate proceeding before the Korean Bar Association.
The new lawyer explains that professional discipline and civil damages are independent.
The Bar Association is examining Lee’s repeated failures to appear in several cases, including first-instance and appellate hearings.
A lawyer has duties that extend beyond avoiding criminal conduct:
- attend proceedings,
- communicate with clients,
- preserve deadlines,
- and protect the client’s legal opportunity.
Strips 009–010 — Why the mother demands disbarment¶
The new lawyer says the likely sanction may be a suspension of several months.
The mother asks why Lee cannot simply be stripped of his license.
The current system makes permanent disbarment difficult when the misconduct consists principally of nonappearance and neglect rather than a qualifying criminal conviction.
A substantial suspension can still be serious because the lawyer may not accept cases or earn legal fees during that period.
The mother finds the answer inadequate.
To her, a professional who destroyed the final stage of an eight-year case should not be allowed to resume business after a short pause.
The chapter criticizes a profession perceived as protecting its own “family,” even while acknowledging the rules governing the available sanctions.
Strip 011 — Three months¶
The disciplinary committee announces a three-month suspension.
Lee appears relieved or defiant.
The mother holds Yunju’s portrait and collapses in grief.
Three months feels insultingly small beside eight years of struggle and a child’s death.
The result also confirms her fear that professional institutions measure harm differently from the people forced to live with it.
Strips 012–013 — Why keep fighting?¶
The mother wakes from a nightmare, vomits, and struggles to stand.
The new lawyer asks why she continues a battle with so little realistic profit.
Is this revenge? Does she simply want Lee destroyed?
She says she was an ordinary mother without university training or legal knowledge.
The eight-year fight forced her to study court procedure, school-violence systems, evidence, and professional responsibility.
One reason now keeps her moving:
NO OTHER VICTIM SHOULD GO THROUGH WHAT I DID.
Her case may become the record another client uses before a lawyer decides that missing court carries no meaningful consequence.
She walks toward another disciplinary meeting holding Yunju’s portrait.
Strips 014–016 — The Bar Association president appears¶
Reporters gather outside the committee room and predict another limited sanction.
Then Kim Taeseon, president of the Korean Bar Association, appears personally.
His attendance is unexpected.
He notes that the victim is present and that national media are watching.
Inside, the committee reaches a unanimous decision.
The scanlation withholds the exact sanction until the following chapter, but the reactions show it is far more severe than the expected three months.
The mother stares in shock.
Elsewhere, Choi Gang-seok receives a telephone update.
He does not ask for the number.
He smiles and says:
POWER IS USED IN CASES LIKE THIS!
Lee reads the result in disbelief.
The chapter ends by making clear that the disciplinary institution has chosen an exceptional punishment.
Chapter-level continuity notes¶
The mother pursues precedent, not economic gain¶
Her requested damages are unlikely to restore what the litigation consumed. She wants a public standard for lawyer responsibility.
The civil and disciplinary proceedings answer different questions¶
One asks what loss Lee caused the mother. The other asks whether his conduct is compatible with professional membership.
The recommendation remains intentionally hidden¶
The new lawyer is meant to accept the case on professional conviction, not because a Minister orders him.
Choi uses visibility as leverage¶
The presence of the Bar Association president and national press turns a routine disciplinary file into an institutional test.
The exceptional sanction is politically useful and substantively meaningful¶
The next chapter explores how reform, public theater, professional ambition, and justice overlap.