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Sunjeong Manhwa (순정만화, Romance Comic) is a webtoon by Kang Full.
A man in his early thirties, named Kwon Yeon-woo, lives in an apartment complex and meets, on his way to work every morning, a young high school student, named Soo-young, in the elevator. Even though they never speak a word to each other, he is looking forward to meet her every day. The girl is feeling similar, even though this was not always the case. The first few times she saw him in the elevator, she was pretty much annoyed by his old-style clothing and fashion sense. Especially annoying is the fact, that he wears the same necktie every day. But then, one day, she forgets her own necktie, which she has the wear with her school uniform and she sees no other possibility than to ask him to lend her his. From this day on the two slowly become friends and even start to wait for each other every morning.
The only problem between the two is their age difference - 12 years. Even though they really like each other, they just ignore their feelings, believing that the age difference is to big to give them any chance at all. But time goes by and their feelings only deepen. And they are not the only ones, having age problems.
Meanwhile, Sook Kang has just started to work at the district office straight after graduating from high school and falls head over heels for Ha-kyuing Kwon, a melancholy woman who always smokes in the same spot, because of her beautiful smile. Ha-kyung is still holding onto an old flame and keeps on looking for traces of that love every day. Sook Kang continues to keep wooing her, regardless of her living in the past. Can their futures lead to a happy ending?
The popularity of this webtoon, along with The Great Catsby and Moss, lead to the rise of the popularity of webtoons in general and it's "long strip" format. Around 2003, it was the norm for webtoons' format to be a comic book page. It was also one of the earliest webtoons to have a serial storyline. Most webtoons at the time were the first generation, of which were illustrated blogs or gag comics. It has since been adapted into a South Korean live action movie titled, "Hello, Schoolgirl".
- May-December Romance: This one of the main themes of this comic
- Salaryman: Kwon Yeon-woo