| “ | Hahaha, they were your friends... and you just pushed them from the fourth floor? Hahahaha. Haha. Well... good work. You're pretty fucking cool, haha. That means... you... won. Don't tell me you think you were being a coward? Who cares about fairness? People might talk shit for getting plastic surgery but have you seen anyone giving a naturally pretty girl shit? Does that mean the natural guys were playing fair and the ones with surgery cheated?! Then what's the point of private tutoring and cram school? If fairness is all that matters, they should only learn at school. The world is an unfair place. Why is fighting against that cowardly? There's no such thing as fairness in this unfair world. You beat the system. You think pure effort will make you better at soccer than Ronaldo? You need to take one of his legs, for it to be fair. If you want to win... you fight by taking away the legs they stand on. When you fight, you have to be prepared to kill them... AND YOU WON. | „ |
| ~ Jiho's inner mind talking to himself, showing how he views himself and the world. |
Jiho Park is a major antagonist in the webtoon Lookism.
Like Daniel Park and Duke Pyeon, he is one of the unpopular students at Jae Won High School and becomes friends with them. While his friends become better people, Jiho spirals down a dark path however as he thirsts for popularity until he goes to far and ends up in prison.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- Despite being rescued by Daniel, Vasco, Zach and the other classmates multiple times and even having them treating him like one of their friends for the most part, he never learns any lessons or shows any gratefulness towards them, only viewing them as a status to gain popularity, which isn't even good enough for him later on since he starts to desire more power.
- While he was severely bullied, Duke and Daniel went through the same thing, arguably worse and came out good people. Not to mention, Jiho's bullying isn't written as sympathetic and he came from a financially stable family unlike them.
- While he has a few likeable moments in the early story, such as his friendship with Duke and Daniel, he subverts these qualities with his later actions.
- While he is legitimately psychotic and suffers from hallucinations caused by his schizophrenia, he is fully sane and calculative when committing most of his crimes, nullifying this prevention.
- He has much less resources than villains such as Gun Park, Goo Kim, Charles Choi and Eugene.
- Steals money from Daniel's store after losing his money due to gambling, hoping to win it back. After another failure, he nearly gambles away all of his family's money and house property, which ends up dragging his friends into taking down a crime syndicate.
- Almost breaks a car windshield with a brick to look cool in front of his new thug friends.
- Gives James Gong his credit card out of pragmatism to fit in with his group. This indirectly causes a chain of events due to James selling the card to a group of scammers who happen to be a crime syndicate. His friends come to his rescue again by fighting tooth and limb to stop this organization, but he never ends up being thankful for them or learning from his mistakes once again.
- Brings a knife planning to murder James Gong out of revenge for spending his money.
- While Daniel is trying to save Jiho from James, he pushes them both out of a fourth-story floor, despite Daniel doing nothing wrong and always being there for him despite not need too, causing both to enter a comatose state. Instead of feeling remorse for this action, he immediately is only concerned about himself and what will happen to him, so he hides all the evidence and lies to the police. After this, he prays to God to let them never wake up so they can't tell the truth. He does end up reverting this but only because he'll be charged with homicide if they don't wake up. After this, he tries to work together with a corrupt detective and ends up crying, not because he felt guilt for his actions, but because he wanted to lie and says it's his fault that the two fought each other. He feels no remorse for their deaths.
- He bragged about attempting to murder Daniel and James to look tough in front of the other prisoners, threatening to do the same to them.
- Nearly murders his fellow inmate Darius Hong (although he arguably deserved it for abusing him).
- Goes insane while he's locked in solitary and develops a new homicidal mindset. He regrets brutally injuring Darius, not because he severely wounded him but because he didn't finish the job by killing him, so he fights him with homicidal intentions once he gets out of solitary. During his fight, he bites flesh out of his nose when his guard is down. While getting beat, he spits his teeth into Darius's eyes then tries to strangle him to death with a towel, only stopping due to the wardens interfering.
- Terrorizes multiple of his fellow inmates during his sentence using a mentally ill drug-addicted inmate named Wally to assist him (with it seemingly Wally doesn't want to hurt others), likely even raping them. This includes a new cellmate who he tells not to cry and threatens to stab his eye out.
- Uses Wally to nearly murder Jason Yoon by pushing his head next to a saw for beating him and insulting him earlier, proceeding to arrogantly tell the wardens that Wally did the crime. During this confrontation, when asked if he regretted pushing his friends, Jiho mockingly said he did regret it, saying he should have had somebody else do the pushing for him to avoid punishment.
- Bites off the ear of Brad Yoon during their fight to prove cowardly methods can help him win a fight.
- Pretends to feel remorse for his actions in prison to manipulate his parole guard (who offers Jiho a chance to redeem himself) and ends up assaulting him by smashing his teeth out with a metal tray then publicly putting a fidget spinner up his throat and mocking him for thinking he could be saved. Other prisoners covered for him out of fear for not getting hurt by Jiho.
- Pretends he needs to attend his grandma's funeral as a means to leave prison and then perform a jailbreak.
- Pretending to be the legendary James Lee, he allies himself with the Ansan Trio to fight against Daniel, Zach and Vasco. While he's with them, when 7 prostitutes express their desire to quit working for Ansan, he pulls out 7 teeth from their manager to threaten them and prevent them from having such thoughts.
- Attempts to murder Daniel out of revenge for imprisoning him, though it is his own fault things ended up like they did. When he loses his fight, he has Wally escape prison too and try to sneak up and kill Daniel, but this fails so he escapes.
- Holds a bus driver hostage with a knife to escape the police.
- Threatens two Big Deal members and tries to force them to let him speak to Jake.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- While he goes well beyond the point of having his tragedy excuse his actions, his death is played with some sympathy as he is miserable and alone, ending up being pushed off a roof by an imaginary fragment of his former self. Even though their relationship was strained, Daniel tried to save his life. Though this is a very minor prevention, considering every bad thing he did.
Trivia[]
- Him and Olly Wang are the only Lookism Near Pure Evils.
- Him, Olly Wang, Yun Choi, Pet Shop and Baekmorae are the only WebTOON Near Pure Evils not created by Carnby Kim.
External Links[]
- Jiho Park on the Lookism Wiki
- Jiho Park on the Villains Wiki
- Jiho Park on the Hate Sink Wiki
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