Unemployed Gye Baek-soon
Fluorescent lights flicker over towers of empty ramen cups and discarded beer cans. Outside the window, the city moves at a breakneck pace, chasing promotions and social milestones, but inside these four walls, time has completely stalled. The daily grind consists of dodging the landlord, scouring job boards with zero enthusiasm, and sinking hours into mindless scrolling to drown out the silence. It is a life of calculated invisibility where the biggest challenge is making a single convenience store run without running into someone from the past.
Gye Baek-soon, a dedicated "slacker" with a talent for procrastination, has officially reached her limit. After years of avoiding the professional world, her bank account is hitting rock bottom and the walls of her studio apartment are starting to feel like a cage rather than a sanctuary. A sudden realization that she cannot hide forever forces her to take the first tentative steps back into a society that values output over human beings. It is a messy, often humiliating attempt at building a life from scratch when everyone else already has a ten-year head start. Surviving the grind in a manhwa about the lowest rungs of society means facing the mounting debt and crippling social anxiety she buried under piles of laundry. Can she actually manage a basic recovery strategy before her world collapses entirely?
Also known as 백수 계백순, Baeksu Gyebaeksun.