Abstract
This study examines the characteristics of “bodily transformation” depicted in webtoons themed around school violence, focusing on Park Tae-jun’s webtoon “Lookism” and the collaborative work “Survival Guide” by Park Tae-jun and Jeon Sun-woo. This theme involves powerless victims overturning their relationships with cruel perpetrators by obtaining supernatural bodies through chance encounters. However, despite this theme, the webtoons do not challenge the premise that the hierarchical order within the classroom is established and maintained by a group of class-conscious guardians who faithfully fulfill their roles. Characters do not share their miraculous achievements with others or attempt to change the injustices of their social world. Through these webtoons, the limitations of adolescent portrayals are observed, characterized by the absence of imagination regarding life outside school in the webtoons and the entrenchment of narrative grammar where violent problem solving, perpetrators becoming victims, and victims recovering all revolve around violence.
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