Get Schooled / True Education — Chapter 55¶
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Sensitive-content note¶
This chapter depicts bullying, suicidal despair, and a suicide attempt. The source includes explicit method-related rumination. The narrative meaning is fully preserved below, but procedural self-harm details are summarized rather than reproduced verbatim.
Strips 1–4 — “Your time’s up”¶
After the chapter card and fiction disclaimer, Lee Sang-wook addresses his bully in internal narration:
“LEE SANG-WOOK. YOUR TIME’S UP.”
The exact speaker framing is stylized, then shifts into a metaphor.
Sang-wook calls rock-paper-scissors:
“THE MOST FAIR GAME IN THE WORLD.”
The simple hand game gives both players equal rules and an unpredictable outcome.
The chapter asks why his real relationship with Hong Song-hak contains no comparable fairness.
Strips 5–8 — A game Sang-wook cannot win¶
Sang-wook narrates:
“YEAH… IT’S ROCK PAPER SCISSORS…”
“THERE ARE TIMES WHEN YOU WIN~”
“AND THERE ARE TIMES WHEN YOU LOSE~”
Then:
“BETWEEN ME AND HONG SONG-HAK…”
The background becomes dark and violent.
“THERE IS NO FAIR GAME.”
The unfairness is not limited to Sang-wook.
A student is forced to hand over money under the joking statement:
“I WANT TO BORROW IT FOR ABOUT 30 YEARS…”
Someone challenges Song-hak:
“WHY ARE YOU SO FUCKING MEAN TO OTHERS?”
“WE’RE NOT EVEN IN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND YOU STILL WANT TO BE A BULLY IN HIGH SCHOOL?”
The resistance changes nothing.
Strips 9–10 — Song-hak’s power structure¶
Sang-wook explains that no one in school can touch Hong Song-hak.
Song-hak invites challengers to fight him while surrounded by loyal followers.
Three students are named as the core of his stronghold:
- Kim Won-hong
- Moon Tae-son
- Han Sang-gil
The group acts as an enforcement unit. Even when Song-hak does not strike personally, his status determines who is targeted.
Sang-wook observes that the other students also participate or remain silent.
The violence continues after school, beyond the range of classroom supervision.
Strips 11–13 — Victims as entertainment¶
When Song-hak goes out with girls, he brings bullied students along to display his power.
One victim is used as a human chair while Song-hak comments on how soft the seat feels.
Another is struck repeatedly in a “ten-hit combo.”
The boys become living toys whose humiliation entertains the group and impresses spectators.
The most unbearable abuse is verbal and familial.
Song-hak makes obscene comments using the name Jung-suk.
When Sang-wook reacts, Song-hak asks whether Jung-suk is really his mother’s name.
He orders Sang-wook to repeat a sexually degrading phrase about his own mother.
The scanlation censors portions with repeated X marks, but Sang-wook’s expression and narration make the violation clear.
Strip 14 — The moment Sang-wook wanted to die¶
Sang-wook is forced to repeat the censored insult.
His narration states:
“JUNG-SUK IS MY MOM’S NAME.”
“AT THAT MOMENT I WANTED TO DIE.”
Someone asks whether he considered telling the school.
Sang-wook already knows why that appears useless.
Strips 15–17 — The revised school-violence committee¶
Sang-wook has watched news about the revised Teachers’ Rights Protection Act.
The old school-run violence committee was abolished and replaced with a School Violence Countermeasures Deliberation Committee supervised by the Office of Education.
The new body includes lawyers and other experts.
Sang-wook initially believes this matters:
“IT’S NOT AT SCHOOL!”
“IT’S WORTH A TRY!”
He reports the abuse.
The outcome is devastating.
Only Hong Song-hak receives a five-day attendance suspension. The others are ordered to apologize and attend special education.
The disciplinary standards allocate points for:
- intentionality,
- seriousness,
- persistence,
- degree of reflection,
- degree of reconciliation.
A chart converts totals into measures ranging from written apology and school volunteer work to suspension, class change, transfer, or expulsion.
Song-hak’s conduct receives roughly twelve points out of twenty.
Strips 18–19 — “Sixty out of one hundred”¶
Song-hak hands over a mocking apology.
“HERE~ MY APOLOGY.”
“I APOLOGISE. HEHEHEHE.”
Sang-wook interprets the decision:
“12 OUT OF 20 POINTS…”
“60 OUT OF 100.”
“THAT WAS MY SUFFERING SCORE…”
“SCORED BY ADULTS.”
He imagines victims throughout the country whose experiences are similarly reduced to administrative ratings.
“FOR ADULTS THIS WAS A PROBLEM ONLY WORTH 60 POINTS…”
He had reported to the Teachers’ Rights agency before trying to die, but he assumes:
“THERE’S NO WAY THEY’LL HELP A 60 POINT CASE…”
The committee’s attempt at standardized fairness has communicated that his suffering is partial and tolerable.
Strips 20–22 — Hospital and continuing suicidal despair¶
Sang-wook survives a suicide attempt and is hospitalized.
His mother embraces him and asks:
“WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!”
“IF YOU WERE HAVING A HARD TIME, YOU SHOULD’VE TOLD ME!”
Even during the embrace, Sang-wook’s narration says he is still thinking about how to die.
The source contains explicit procedural thoughts about self-harm; these are not reproduced here.
He asks:
“MOM… GIVE ME MY PHONE…”
She says she will bring the doctor and leaves temporarily.
Sang-wook reaches for the device while crying.
Strip 23 — A reason to remain alive¶
On the phone, Sang-wook sees evidence that the Teachers’ Rights Protection Agency has taken his report seriously.
A displayed image shows the red-haired field inspector Lim Han-rim confronting or overpowering Hong Song-hak.
The visible text is partly obscured, but the message is unmistakable: the abuser is no longer beyond adult intervention.
Sang-wook breaks down.
“I WON’T DO IT AGAIN…”
“I THINK I DON’T NEED TO DIE NOW…”
He cries while holding the phone.
A second image shows Lim confronting the bully under a caption referencing the Teachers’ Authority/Protection Agency.
Hope arrives not through a better committee score but through proof that someone believes the danger is real.
Strip 24 — Emotional release and scanlation material¶
Sang-wook’s crying continues in large sound-effect balloons before the chapter transitions into Imperfect Comics advertisements and recruitment notices.
Chapter-level observations¶
1. “Fairness” becomes numerical abstraction¶
The committee’s rubric may be designed to produce consistency, but Sang-wook experiences it as adults assigning a percentage to his pain.
2. A written apology without changed power is another attack¶
Song-hak’s mocking delivery shows why reconciliation points cannot be measured from paperwork alone.
3. The bullying attacks family identity¶
Forcing Sang-wook to repeat obscenity about his mother crosses from physical dominance into an assault on his most intimate relationship.
4. Intervention changes his imagined future¶
Sang-wook does not instantly recover. He simply sees, for the first time, a future in which Song-hak may not control every return to school.