Hwajin Na

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Hwajin Na is the main protagonist of **"Get Schooled"**. He is one of the key figures in the Blue String Universe.

## Appearance

Hwajin has long and unkept black hair that he occasionally ties back into a ponytail, but prefers to let it loose. He has a faint stubble. In the past he had much shorter, black hair and a clean shaved face.

His main wardrobe consists of a solid black suit. Off the clock he wears a black t-shirt and black jeans. Back when he served in the military he wore a full camo uniform.

During a flashback of chapter 35, he had short but wavy black hair and wore a white t-shirt and dark blue jeans.

## Background

*Very little is known of his background. What is known is that he served in the South Korean Military for an unknown number of years.*

*During chapter 98 and 100, he has flashbacks of meeting up in a cafe with high school teacher, Gayoon Choi. She disclosed her personal turmoil on dealing with one of her students who had a nasty reputation as a delinquent. Her school’s vice principal and dean warn Gayoon to leave that student alone and while she does fear him, she refuses to give up on turning her student to the right path. Hwajin bluntly tells her the student is beyond redemption and advises Gayoon to listen to her supervisors’ concerns. Hwajin then tries to change the topic on talking about each other as Hwajin worries over her father’s hatred towards him and worries over what he should say. But Gayoon interrupts Hwajin with a karate chop to the head. Gayoon calls him out on telling her earlier that “you can’t teach an old dogs new tricks“ because it’s her own personal pet peeve. She’s well aware that a person can’t change with a few words, but doesn’t see the point of having teachers because of society giving up on those deemed a lost cause. Gayoon goes on to say that while it’s unlikely her student won’t change right away, she still believes because she was the only one that had hope, then her student might change for the better someday.*

Two years prior to the story, Hwajin and Gayoon are engaged to wed, but tragedy struck when a student of Gayoon, Gyucheol Cho murdered her because he wanted to ditch school due to the staff refuses to turn on the air conditioning before June and Gayoon tried to stop him. Gayoon’s father, Gangseok, confronted Hwajin at some point to reprimand him over drinking heavily and disheveling himself over the loss of Gayoon. While he did made his fury over his daughter’s killer getting a light sentence due to laws on minors, Gangseok made his plans to Hwajin clear that he will do something to make the general public more understanding of corporal punishment and wishes to prevent other tragedies like theirs. For the next two years, Gangseok works to pass laws and eventually founds the Teacher’s Rights And Protection Agency, with Hwajin joining at the forefront.

## Relationships

**Family**

* Gangseok Choi (father in-law) -
* Gayoon Choi (fiancée, deceased) -

**Allies**

* Hanlim Lim
* Sera Gu
* Daniel Hyeon

**Enemies**

* Gyucheol Cho
* Junbin Lee

## Abilities

* **Fighting Prowess** -
	+ Krav Maga -
	+ Weapon Handling -

## Trivia

* Hwajin is the oldest Blue String Protagonist.
	+ As Blue String is about youth (late teens to twenties), all main cast are all high school students, but Hwajin is the only one who is an adult.
* Both English and Korean readers find his appearance to be similar to "Shota Aizawa," a character from **My Hero Academia**. They both have similar appearances and both are in their 30s, educators & have fighting skills. Specifically, Korean readers finds him also resmembles "Cha Tae-sik," a character from "**Uncle**." Both are in the same a special forces unit and having a finace that died which afterwards, they grew their hair out.
	+ In regards of Aizawa, some official English readers complained that people were "disrespecting" the illustrator for keep mentioning Hwajin looks like Aizawa.

* Other similarities of other people that Korean readers find:
	+ Find him similar to Hyuk Jang, a Korean actor.
	+ Finds him similar to Dogi Kim, a character from **Deluxe Taxi**. Both were former captains of the 707 Special Task Force & similar combat skills. Also in their 30s and their precious person has been killed.
* His first name was taken from the name of the author's college classmate's older brother.
* Currently, so far Hwajin is the only one that hasn't lost a fight. With Dajun Im from **To Not Die**, being second as he hasn't lost during the second season.
* During 2021 April Fool's Day event, his appearance during his military days were revealed.
* It is unclear if he has a car or a license, as he always rides in Hanlim's car. However, seeing as he rode a motorcycle in ep. 108, it appears that he has a motorcycle and a license.
* According to Ep. 62, it seems like he has been living his life away from games and computers.
* He seems to know about magical girls:
	+ he quoted the theme song from **Sailor Moon**.
	+ he briefly mentioned **Card Captor Sakura**.

* One of the few characters (perhaps one of the few first) to appear in Blue String and Red String:
	+ Appears as a cameo easter egg in ep 56 of **This Wasn't My Plan**. Albeit, it would seem he is a character played by an actor along side Hanlim's actress in a movie about **Get Schooled**
* His stubble makes him look older, but when shaved, he gives off a different and youthful impression to
	+ During the Helper arc, when he dressed up properly by shaving and putting on glasses, Korean comments replied with praise as he was much cooler than usual.

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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 https://namu.wiki/w/%EB%82%98%ED%99%94%EC%A7%84#s-8
2. ↑ In first two official english eps. Cannot verify anymore due to english cancelation.
3. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CHFZmapHg7f/?utm\_source=ig\_web\_copy\_link