Get Schooled — Chapter 196¶
Complete Detailed Panel-by-Panel Transcription¶
Scope¶
This transcription follows the 11 ordered long story strips embedded in the supplied Chapter 196 MHT, excluding its separate title/header asset. Readable courtroom dialogue, press material, political conversation, and major actions are preserved where legible.
Content note¶
The chapter discusses attorney negligence, a large civil-damages award, political influence, institutional reform, grief, and a brief physical confrontation between adults.
Strip 001 — The court awards ₩200 million¶
The civil judgment continues from the previous chapter.
The court finds that Lee Janghyup breached a lawyer’s fundamental professional duties.
Even though the mother’s original ₩500 million school-violence claim was difficult and its final success cannot be proven with certainty, Lee’s repeated failure to appear deprived her of the opportunity to have the appeal heard properly.
The judge emphasizes that lawyers occupy a position requiring unusually strict responsibility because clients entrust them with rights they cannot protect alone.
The court orders Lee to pay approximately:
₩200 MILLION
in emotional and financial damages.
Lee leaps up in disbelief.
THIS IS RIDICULOUS!
He says the award is unprecedented and announces that he will appeal.
Strips 002–003 — The mother receives a result no one predicted¶
Court staff restore order.
The long-haired observer leaves the gallery before the crowd fully disperses.
The new lawyer wonders why he attended and whether he is connected to the unusual sequence of institutional responses surrounding the case.
Outside the building, the long-haired man runs toward a black car and calls Minister Choi.
THE TRIAL RESULTS ARE OUT.
Choi answers:
I SEE. I DON’T NEED TO HEAR IT TO KNOW.
The chapter title appears.
Reporters surround the mother and her lawyer.
Most legal observers expected a much smaller award.
The mother cries:
IT FEELS LIKE THE COUNTRY IS FINALLY RAISING MY DAUGHTER.
She bows to everyone who believed her when the fight appeared impossible.
The new lawyer reminds reporters that Lee has already announced an appeal, so the result is not yet final.
Strip 004 — A judgment large enough to change other cases¶
News coverage describes the decision as unprecedented.
Commentators say it may encourage other clients to bring claims when lawyers miss hearings, abandon appeals, or fail to preserve deadlines.
Lee watches the coverage from home or his studio.
He throws a can, glass, or other object at the television.
His anger is no longer only about money.
The judgment publicly defines him as a professional whose negligence caused exceptional harm.
Strips 005–007 — The Bar president’s public opportunity¶
Media coverage also praises Korean Bar Association president Kim Taeseon as an unusually reform-minded leader.
His term is approaching its end, and commentators begin discussing a possible political future.
The new lawyer watches the coverage and realizes that the disciplinary result is serving more than one purpose.
A flashback reveals a formal meal between Choi Gang-seok and the Bar president.
Choi asks whether the Association intends to stop at the ordinary three-month sanction.
The president says that would normally be the expected result.
Choi shifts the conversation toward politics.
He says law and politics operate differently.
Politics is partly theater: the public remembers the person who acts visibly when institutions appear afraid to reform themselves.
With roughly three years of political experience ahead of him, Kim can either become a national figure or remain a short-lived professional official.
The president understands the opportunity.
The five-year sanction is therefore both a meaningful institutional response and a public performance useful to an ambitious leader.
Strips 007–009 — Why Choi interfered¶
The long-haired man later tells Choi that manipulating the environment around a disciplinary proceeding and civil trial is not his usual style.
Choi insists that he merely knew people who had the lawful power to act and made sure they looked directly at the case.
The long-haired man explains why he helped.
When he saw the mother holding Yunju’s portrait and carrying the protest sign, she reminded him of another victim who spent years fighting while an incompetent lawyer and indifferent institutions consumed the remaining hope.
The mother looked like someone carrying the misery of the entire world alone.
Choi answers that this was exactly why he intervened.
He also lost a daughter.
Unlike the mother, he possesses power.
The long-haired man warns that Choi could be ruined if the press or opposition proves he pressured independent institutions.
Choi asks:
WHY DO YOU THINK I CREATED THE TRPA?
The agency exists because conventional boundaries sometimes leave clearly wronged people without anyone willing to act.
Strip 010 — Twenty years of politics¶
The long-haired man leaves Ministry Building 14.
He jokes that after twenty years in politics, Choi has become thirty times more dangerous or unreasonable than before.
A bus passes.
The new lawyer is waiting nearby.
The two men know one another, though their relationship has not been explained fully.
They agree to smoke or drink together.
The conversation immediately becomes tense.
Strip 011 — A punch between allies¶
The new lawyer suddenly throws a punch.
The long-haired man blocks and counters.
Their brief exchange resembles sparring between people familiar with one another’s abilities rather than a random street attack.
The long-haired man smiles:
PHEW~ NOT BAD.
The new lawyer’s expression remains serious.
The chapter ends by setting up a confrontation over whether Choi and the long-haired man secretly influenced the trial the lawyer believed he won through legal work.
Chapter-level continuity notes¶
The award separates difficulty from duty¶
The original case may have been hard to win. That does not erase the damage caused by failing to preserve the client’s opportunity to be heard.
The mother interprets judgment as recognition¶
The money cannot raise Yunju. Its symbolic value is the country finally acknowledging that the second institutional injury mattered.
Reform and ambition coexist¶
Kim Taeseon’s political benefit does not automatically make the disciplinary reform false. The chapter deliberately refuses a clean separation between principle and self-interest.
Choi uses connections rather than issuing unlawful orders on-panel¶
He creates visibility and incentive around the case while claiming each institution made its own formal decision.
The lawyer’s coming conflict is about authorship¶
He needs to know whether the victory belonged to evidence and advocacy or to powerful people quietly arranging the environment.