Lookism (manhwa)

• Daniel Park/Park Hyung Suk: Daniel Park, from the Fashion Department, is a naïve high school student who was bullied by Logan Lee at the start of the series. Just before transferring to Jae Won High to run away from his bullies, he wakes up one day with a slimmer and more attractive body next to his chubby one. With his new ability, he makes new friends and learns about the world and himself through two perspectives. The slimmer body was based on Park Hyung Suk, a fit model.
• Vasco/Lee Eun Tae: Vasco, from the Architecture Department, has the reputation of being a "Robin Hood" like figure, as he stands up for the weak and bullied. He is one of the strongest characters in the series and is the leader of the loyal gang, Burn Knuckles, who "punish bullies" and "bad guys". His tough exterior is misleading as he is very sweet and seeks the friendship of those he deems as good people. He is also the childhood friend of Jace Park. The character Vasco is inspired by real-life K-rapper with the same name.
• Jay Hong/Hong Jae Yeol: Jay Hong, from the Fashion Department, is a quiet and mysterious character. He is rich, fights using systema and kali martial arts, and helps those that he likes. It is implied throughout the series that Jay has romantic feelings towards Daniel Park through his actions such as keeping a coupon with Daniel's face on it in his wallet (the coupon is from "Gian Shop"; see "Fitting Model"), adopting Inu's puppies despite his fear of dogs (see "Abandoned Dog Inu" and "Jay Hong and Inu's Pups"), and Jay giving Daniel his clothing and ways to style it after overhearing people making fun of Daniel's clothing (Chapters 20 and 162).
• Zack Lee/Lee Jin Sung: Zack Lee, from the Fashion Department, is a boxer and very aggressive, with the exception to his childhood friend, Mira Kim, who he is in love with. As Mira dislikes violence, Zack stops bullying others, diminishes the number of times he gets into fights, becomes more patient, and overall matures. He and Mira were once friends with Johan Seong, though Johan disappeared after the God Dog cult story arc (chapters 132–138). When Johan resurfaces, Zack tries to befriend him again and even promises to help Johan take revenge on Jong Gun, who severely beat up Johan for not taking proper control of his crew "God Dog".
• Mira Kim/Kim Mi Jin: Mira Kim, from the Fashion Department, is a compassionate, caring, and patient person. She is very observant when it comes to human emotions and sees the good in everyone. She dislikes fighting and believes there are better ways to solve problems, which is why she gets upset when Zack gets into fights. She is the childhood friend of Johan Seong and Zack Lee. They both were in love with her, but she never exactly reciprocated either of their feelings.
• Zoe Park/Park Ha Neul: Zoe Park, from the Fashion Department, is a beautiful girl who, in the beginning, tried to use her charm to get what she wanted. However, after Daniel's original body saves her from a stalker, she develops feelings for his original body, proving that she doesn't care about appearances as much as before.
• Crystal Choi/Choi Soo Jung: Crystal Choi, the daughter of the HNH Company Chairman, is the second character that is discovered to have two bodies. She first appears as an obese student that transfers to the Fashion Department in Daniel's school. Yet, unlike Daniel Park, Crystal Choi chooses to live in her original body during the daytime. This shows that she feels a hint of pride in her first body. The different treatment to both of her bodies leads her to strongly believe that "all men are the same" and that the world judges those with different appearances without reason. This explains her initial dislike towards Daniel in his handsome form, though her treatment of Daniel shows her hypocrisy as she treats him badly and looks at him as an egotistical bully based only on his looks. She is shown to like Daniel's old body more due to his personality.

• Daniel's Mother/Mrs. Kim Park: Daniel's single mother is a hardworking and patient woman. After seeing Logan bully Daniel and later getting yelled at by her son, she transfers Daniel to Jae Won High. She works twice as hard to allow Daniel to enter J High, with the work ranging from folding and selling empty boxes to working part-time waiting tables. She sacrifices everything for her son to just to see him happy and content. This leaves her with no free time and she never gets to do anything for herself. As the series progresses, Daniel begins to realize how much his mother cares for him and little by little, he returns her sacrifices.
• Jace Park/Park Bum Jae: A student of the Architecture Department, Jace is the number two of the Burn Knuckles and childhood friend of Vasco. He is the one who helped Vasco overcome his aichmophobia and even got a tattoo that said "My Hero ET", ET standing for Eun Tae.
• Duke Pyeon/Pyeon Duk Hwa: A short and chubby student from the Vocal Dance Department and an aspiring rapper. Due to his body, he was bullied by others and rejected by producers. Upon meeting and collaborating with Daniel, he gained confidence and started to stream on Paprika TV. He also becomes a member of PTJ Entertainment, when he was brought along by Daniel (through his insistence) and was part of the party that freed Aru. Afterwards Daniel helped Duke become a member of PTJ's B rank, and Duke became famous for his rapping ability, despite his body size. Later on, he became a famous rapper.
• Jiho Park/Park Ji Ho: A boy who faced much bullying at J High until Daniel took him under his wing. Throughout the series he is obsessed with power and societal standards; Jiho also showed signs of an inferiority complex and eventually goes to juvenile prison for the attempted murder of Daniel Park and James Gong. During the Juvenile arc, he loses his sanity in juvenile prison and becomes influenced by Jake Kim. Interestingly, Jiho's life is of stark contrast to Duke, even though both were bullied and looked down upon, Jiho decides to bet on risky decisions and never changes his behavior or perspective throughout the story. He died after a fight with Daniel, ruling out a suicide because he fell off the building he was in.
• Logan Lee/Lee Tae Sung: A strong, large teen who used to bully Daniel Park frequently in his former school and original body. Logan was the primary reason why Daniel moved to Seoul. Unfortunately, Logan also moved to Seoul and coincidentally entered the same school as Daniel. Daniel later stands up to Logan in his original body and the two become somewhat neutral with each other (although one could make the case that Logan still hates Daniel since he harbors romantic feelings towards Zoe who is enamored by both forms of Daniel). Logan now resides in the Animation Department (see "Troubled Transfer" arc), later on expelled after he assaulted his own advisor.
• Vin Jin/Jin Ho Bin: An arrogant member of Vocal Dance Department. He claims that he's better than the everyone else and particularly dislikes Daniel and Duke. He never takes off his sun glasses. He has a fear of losing his shades, revealing that he becomes berserk once they are removed. (He also seems to have inverted eyes with his shades gone, similar to Gun, Goo and later Daniel. His secret was also revealed, he had polycoria in his left eye.)
• Mary Kim: Mary is a blonde haired girl who is friends with Vin Jin and is a student of the Vocal and Dance Department. She is pretty and well known in Cheonliang (her and Vin Jin's hometown) as the "Empress of Two Seconds" because she is great at fighting and many of her peers claim that she can defeat her opponents in two seconds. She also has a strange fascination with Jace's ears. She hates revealing her past as an overweight woman who excelled in Judo, she took plastic surgery.
• Yui Kim: Introduced during Paprika TV Streaming Arc, she was the leading streamer on the website until Zoe joined. During the story arc, her boyfriend finds out from Zach that she had been flirting with Daniel, which causes him to start beating Yui until the scene is interrupted by Zack. This causes her to develop feelings for Zack. She joins Crystal's own MCN.
• Doo Lee/Lee Hyun Do: A student of the Fashion Department, he is one of Zack's "friends" who acts as Jiho's main tormentor. He stays around Zack and Daniel mainly to boost his own popularity, but helps them out in the story whenever he is needed. A notorious streamer on Paprika TV, Tae Joon collaborates with him to taunt Shin Dae Hoon, leading to the two of them being caught by his gang before they were eventually bailed out by Vasco, Zack, and Daniel. Afterwards, Doo shows a brief moment of kindness towards Jiho by lending him his gym clothes.

He also sometimes joins the alliance, one of them against Alexander, and later on becomes one of the masked crew of the 2nd affiliate.

• Tae Joon Park: Introduced in the Attention Whore Arc, Park is from the Architectural Department. He was a famewhore who taunted a gangster named Shin Dae Hoon in worked shoots. During the story arc, Park and Doo Lee are eventually caught Hoon and his gang. They are released by Vasco, Zack, and Daniel after a brief fist fight. He shares the same name as the author and PTJ Entertainment.
• Leon Lee: A freshman from the Architectural Department. Initially mysterious, she is eventually revealed to be a girl, though she convinces everyone in J High that she is a boy. It is implied that she has feelings for Vasco and seems to hold a tsundere-like personality around him.
• Joy Hong/Hong Jae Hye: Jay's little sister and an Aboki model. When she first met Daniel (in his handsome body during the model arc) she immediately developed a crush. Joy later entered J High to see Daniel more often.
• Nam Su Lee: One of the nerdy classmates, he was initially tasked by Zack to buy shoes for him, but when he tried to obtain the shoes, it ended up being a scam. After the issue was settled, he bought a Chrome Hearts ring and started a rumor that Daniel was poor and had no fashion sense, which led to Jay giving Daniel a bunch of expensive clothes.
• David, Dylan and Sarah Park: Daniel's cousins. Dylan is a wannabe rapper and Duke's fan. David is a college student who is the "star" of the Park family. Sarah is Dylan's sister, who has a crush on Daniel Park's handsome body.
• Hong Ki Tae: Jay's older brother and the head of H Group.
• Samuel Seo: Initially alluded to be Jake Kim's half-brother (later confirmed not related), also ONE MCN's executive. Jong Gun hired him to oversee Workers MCN until its downfall. He later meets up with the newly formed K House. He took over the affiliates Alexander and Vivi once held in exchange for serving Eugene.
• Alexander Hwang: President of Workers 4th affiliate and a long time "friend" of Samuel. After MCN's disbandment, he goes missing.
• Like What and So Funny: Two girls who ran away from their troubled homes and joined the Runaway Fam, a branch of Hostel A. They were forced into prostitution scams by their Runaway Fam and later joined Hostel B, as it was a more stable and was a non-abusive environment. In fear that they would be kicked out of Hostel B if they didn't earn money (as this frequently happened in some Runaway Fams), they began streaming on ONE MCN for money. They were returmed to the Hostel.
• Warren Chae: One of Hostel's original members. He and Sally went looking for Eli after he went off the grid. He is known as the "Gangdong's Mighty Warren Chae" and often speaks in broken and missing sentences. Later on, he dropped his broken sentences, and joins Daniel in his mission.
• Eli Jang/Jang Hyun: Beauty department's only male member. He is the single father of a baby girl named Yenna, the daughter of his teenage sweetheart Heather. Jong Gun had his eyes on him for his fighting prowess but also because Eli created the original Hostel.
• Sally Park: One of the Hostel's original members, she is looking for Eli after he went missing. During the Eli Jang arc, she is shown to be an orphan who lives in an abandoned building that she inherited from her grandmother in America. She is usually seen with Warren Chae.
• Max Kang and Derek Jo: Two of the original Hostel members. The two are currently tteokbokki dealers and club promoters.
• Olly Wang: Former member of the original Hostel, but created another one called Hostel A after the original disbanded due to his manipulation and role in Heather's death. Commits suicide after knowing what the source of his inability to feel pain.
• James Gong: Formerly Jiho's psychotic bully, who loved wounding his enemies and doing dirty actions. He duped Jiho by selling a bank account Jiho made for him and was pushed out of a building window along with Daniel. He survived the incident, but became more and more mentally insane afterwards.
• Jasmine Huh: Daniel's classmate, and a mythomaniac. In a side story she initially accused Vasco of stealing her purse, then scammed fetishists with used items, lying that it belonged to Joy, Zoey, Mira and Mary. After the fiasco, she disappeared, joining James Gong and eventually Olly Wang's Hostel A. Due to her father's abusive nature, she left home, and now lives with James and the child soldiers Olly trained, while riding a bus stolen during the chaos.
• Johan Seong: Zack and Mira's childhood friend. He was always bullied because he was poor and his mother was becoming blind. He had a crush on Mira but felt embarrassed as he was always beat up by his peers and rescued by Zack. During the Cult arc, his mother's mental state deteriorated and a local church minister persuaded her to join the God Dog cult. After the story arc, Johan abandoned all those he cared about and took over one of the four major crews: God Dog, taking the cult's mascot as his own. He asked Daniel to join him, but was turned down and his own crew betrayed him. Gun appeared and disqualified Johan after berating him for losing control of his crew and later beats him up after Johan refused to back down. He appeared later in the webcomic again, aiding Jace in Cheonliang, getting into a small fight with Jin, and witnessing the end of Hostel A. Afterwards, Johan joins the White Tiger Job Center under Tom Lee.
• Jong Gun/Jang Dong Gun: Jong Gun is Crystal Choi's gangster bodyguard, who used to extort money from the various groups. He has reverse-colored eyes, and is arguably the most ruthless fighter in the story. Gun also used to manage several gangs called the "Four Crews" in Seoul before passing the job onto Joon Goo. Throughout the series, Gun shows signs of sadomasochism. He willingly revealed his true colors to Daniel.
• Joon Goo/Goo Kim: Introduced during Vasco's Arc, Goo is a fighter who frequented juvenile centers. After a massive and brutal fight, he became Jong Gun's equal and is in charge of Jong Gun's extortion racket after the latter lost interest in it.
• Jake Kim: Jake Kim is the leader of a Seoul's major crew called Big Deal, and is an excellent fighter. He was put in juvenile prison for an illegal betting ring and later became influenced by Jiho's dirty fighting style in juvie. He later on reforms his crew, always at odds with Daniel.
• Jerry Kwon: Jake Kim's number two, also known for his strength as the "Sword of Jake Kim". He took care for the Hostel's cat, Leon. And had a quite gentle stance, except when Jake told him otherwise.
• Jin Jang: Formerly Johan's lieutenant, but betrayed his "friend". He starts spying on J High, and headed a plot to put various students against each other. He also goaded Eli and Olly to fight, which dismantled Hostel A. Afterward he revived his "K House" crew from the fallen "God Dog"
• Kouji/Ko Woo Ji: Another one of HNH Chairman's minions. As a genius hacker, he duped the illegal toto operators and hacked the security feed of the store that Daniel works at.
• Charles Choi: Crystal's father and the chairman of HNH Group. It is revealed that he worked at a convenience store years ago until he was recruited by Jong Gun to be the leader of the Four Major Crews.
• Steve Hong: Ki Tae, Joy and Jay's father and chairman of H Group. He has known Charles Choi for many years but it is implied that the two are not friends. Later in the webtoon, Hong becomes Daniel's secret ally to take down the four crews.
• DG/Diego Kang/James Lee: A kpop talent of PTJ, later CEO of the agency, and one of Charles Choi's 10 Geniuses. It is implied throughout the story that he knows of Daniel's ability. He was modeled after G-Dragon. The truth is, he was James Lee, one of the 1st Generation member, then became one of Charles Choi's 10 Geniuses, then discarded his identity, becoming DG in the process.
• Oliver Jang/Jang Udon/Woo Dong Jang: A PTJ trainee talent for 6 years and ARU's former boyfriend. Oliver was stuck as a C-Rank trainee alongside La Sol because of ARU's bias against them. Near the end of the PTJ entertainment arc Oliver debuts in a new group called Inspirit.
• La Sol/Ra Sol: Another PTJ trainee talent and ARU's former best friend. She was stuck as a C-Rank trainee alongside Oliver Jang due to ARU's bias against them. Later Sol becomes PTJ's resident A-Rank trainer.
• ARU: Formerly Oliver's girlfriend and a PTJ main star. She was caught in a casting couch by a major PTJ investor in her desperation to become famous, but was saved.
• Tom Lee: One of Charles Choi's 10 geniuses, and the owner of the private security agency that ONE MCN has. It is stated that Tom Lee trained both Gun and Goo. He also was a part of Generation Zero.
• Justine Peng and Chuck Kwak: Two illegal Chinese immigrants initially rejected by Jake Kim, but later accepted by Olly Wang. After the Hostel arc and destruction of Hostel A, they built up a skewer store, and witnessed Johan and Zack fight each other. They later reappear where Eugene offered them the same opportunity as the others.
• Vivi: A Chinese woman who fled to Korea to escape her drug cases in China, head of a powerful family who built a club and hotel to cover up her continued drug addiction and inviting elites to join her in drugged and doped hobbies. She was loyally served by Xiaolung. After the arc, she was taken off to China with Xiaolung. She is the 3rd affiliate Head.
• Xiaolung: Vivi's servant, so loyal to her that he even became a eunuch just to be close to her.
• Alexander Kwang: The 4th affiliate head, who used Kwitch to cover up his rackets by imprisoning promising vloggers and forcing them to act inside his company. Daniel forcefully ended the 4th affiliate.
• Sofia: A muscular Russian woman and Steve Hong's bodyguard. She roughens up Daniel whenever she has the opportunity to, and was tasked to train Daniel, which reduced his weight due to her Spartan training.
• Eugene: Head of the 4th major crew, where Samuel is now employed, and made deceiving invitations under Olly Wang's name. He offered the other crews to join forces against Charles Choi, which Jake and both Justin and Chuck accepted, while Johan and Eli declined. He has a handful of skilled people as his bodyguards. He took Daniel as his new apprentice, but still doesn't trust him. He always had Mandeok beside him.
• Hudson Kim, Jacky Lee and Channing Choi: Leaders of the Ansan Public, a group trying to establish a footing in Seoul. Allied with Jiho and Darius Hong to form the James Lee Crew. Returned to Ansan after being beaten by Daniel, Zack and Vasco. Hudson the head of the trio, Jacky the most agile of them, and Channing, a sadist who uses tattoo guns to doodle his enemies.
• Mitsuki/Neko: Leader of the 2nd affiliate and the emcee of the underground deathmatch club. Has feelings for Sinu.
• Ryūhei/Nōmen: Fellow Japanese and knows Mitsuki. He wears a Nōmen mask.
• Hyottoko and Daruma: Two masked men. Hyottoko is a sumo wrestler, Daruma was a mysterious identity until he was revealed to be with the players, unmasked.