Lookism Character Guide: Main Cast, Crews and Anime Voices

This Lookism character guide starts small, because the story does: Daniel Park, Vasco, Zack, Jay and Mira carry the first arcs at J High (Jae Won High School). Crystal is the second person with two bodies. Gun, Goo, Jake Kim and Charles Choi run the later story. We use the English names Wikipedia and MyAnimeList give, with the Korean names next to them, and keep the big reveals out.

Updated November 4, 2026: We rewrote this guide. New: Gun, Goo, Jake Kim, Johan, Samuel, Kitae and DG, the Netflix anime's voice cast, and the current Gapryong Kim arc. An earlier version said "Gun Park" didn't appear in our sources; that was wrong, he is Park Jong-geon. The crew descriptions now stick to what Wikipedia and MyAnimeList say.

Lookism has run on Naver Webtoon since November 20, 2014, written and drawn by Taejun Pak, and WEBTOON publishes it in English. For whether it's worth starting, see our Lookism review; for arcs and episode numbers, the Lookism reading guide.

The cast at a glance

MyAnimeList lists four main characters for the manhwa: Park Hyung-seok, Lee Eun-tae, Lee Jin-seong and Kim Gi-myeong. Everyone else on its list of more than a hundred is supporting cast, Crystal included.

Daniel Park's two bodies

Daniel is bullied at his old school, mostly by Logan Lee (Lee Tae-seong). He asks his mother for a transfer and moves to Seoul. A few nights before classes start, he wakes up next to a second body: tall, muscular and handsome. When one body is in use, the other sleeps. He switches by waking the sleeping one.

So he splits his days. The new body goes to school, makes friends and gets the kind of treatment the old one never did. The original body works nights at a convenience store and gets treated the way it always has. MyAnimeList lists the jobs he picks up along the way: streamer, clothing model, idol trainee. Later on, Wikipedia says, the story moves from looks to the darker side of Korean society, and then to Daniel fighting crime.

Official Lookism volume 1 cover. Credit: Taejun Pak / Daewon C.I. The ghost outline behind him is his original body.

The J High crowd

Vasco (Lee Eun-tae) is one of the first people to treat Daniel's original body decently. He leads Burn Knuckles, a gang that goes after bullies, and Wikipedia calls him a Robin Hood type. His childhood friend Jace Park (Park Beom-jae) is his second-in-command.

Zack (Lee Jin-seong) is a boxer. He was aggressive with everyone except Mira (Kim Mi-jin), his childhood friend, whom he loves. Mira dislikes violence, so Zack stops bullying people. Read those two as a pair.

Jay (Hong Jae-yeol) barely talks, is rich and fights with Systema and Kali. His father Steve Hong and his younger sister Joy both turn up later.

Zoe Park (Park Ha-neul) is in J High's fashion department. Two more classmates matter early: Duke (Pyeon Deok-hwa), a short, bullied aspiring rapper who finds his confidence once he works with Daniel, and Vin (Jin Ho-bin), who can't stand losing his sunglasses.

For a smaller, finished cast with the same hidden-strength hook, see the Weak Hero character guide →.

Crystal, the second case

Crystal Choi (Choi Soo-jung) has two bodies too. In her original one she is short and overweight, and she transfers into the fashion department at Daniel's school. She is the daughter of the HNH chairman and one of his "10 Geniuses," and she prefers Daniel's original body to the handsome one. If the body swap is what hooked you, she is the character to watch.

Gun, Goo and Charles Choi

Charles Choi (Choi Dong-soo) is Crystal's father, the chairman behind HNH. He raised a group known as the 10 Geniuses and built the four major crews. When Daniel starts digging into where his second body came from, Charles is the one who tells him to stop.

Gun (Park Jong-geon; Wikipedia writes Jong Gun) was Crystal's bodyguard and collected money for Charles Choi. He came out of the yakuza: Wikipedia says he destroyed his old clan out of boredom, and MyAnimeList calls him heir to the Yamazaki Syndicate in Japan. MyAnimeList's bio opens with the name "Gun Park."

Goo Kim (Kim Joon-goo) takes over the money-collecting after Gun loses interest. MyAnimeList's bio calls him Charles Choi's bodyguard and the debt collector for HNH Group's illegal money.

The crews and the generations

Jake Kim (Kim Gi-myeong) is the fourth name on MyAnimeList's main list. His father is Gapryong Kim, the "0th generation" legend who, Wikipedia says, fought Shingen Yamazaki's clan with his Fist Gang. Jake's half-brother Kitae Kim became a gang leader in Mexico and, per MyAnimeList, held the title King of Seoul in the first generation.

Samuel Seo (Seo Seong-eun) was Big Deal's No. 3 before he moved over to the Workers and took over their fallen affiliates. MyAnimeList lists him as president of the 3rd and 4th affiliates. Wikipedia says his goal is to become "King."

Johan Seong (Seong Yo-han) grew up with Zack and Mira. When his mother joins the God Dog cult, he takes it over. Later he joins the White Tiger Job Center, a private security firm owned by Tom Lee. He copies moves from other fighters' martial arts, and his eyesight keeps getting worse.

DG (Kang Da-gyeom, Diego Kang in English) is a famous K-pop idol at PTJ Entertainment. His past is tied to the name James Lee, and Wikipedia ranks him as probably the strongest fighter of the first generation. The full story is a late reveal, so we'll stop there.

Eli Jang (Jang Hyun) gets one line from us: Wikipedia credits him with founding the original Hostel crew.

Where the story is now

On November 3, 2026, WEBTOON's English list ended at Ep. 620, "Gapryong Kim (11)," dated October 31, 2026 (WEBTOON shows US time), with three more episodes in the app. Episodes 611 to 620 are all titled Gapryong Kim (2) to (11), one a week. The series is ongoing and has no end date.

The Netflix anime's voice cast

Studio Mir's eight-episode anime came out on Netflix on December 8, 2022. It only adapts the opening, with episode titles that run from "Change" to "Wall." The Japanese and English voices below are the ones Wikipedia and MyAnimeList both list; the Korean voices come from Newsweek's cast rundown and Netflix's own cast list.

Lookism, Netflix anime key visual by Studio Mir (via AniList).

Blank cells are ones our sources don't fill in. Spellings differ in two places: Wikipedia has "Garrett Galego" where MyAnimeList and Newsweek have "Gallego," and Wikipedia spells Duke's English voice "Eugene Kon" where the other two have "Eugene Ko."

Step-by-Step

1. Get Daniel's two bodies straight first. Who knows about which body explains half the early scenes.

2. Meet Vasco and Burn Knuckles. They set the series' sense of right and wrong before the crews arrive.

3. Read Zack and Mira as a pair. Their history comes before Daniel, and Johan belongs to the same childhood.

4. Keep Jay on his own track. He's rich and quiet, and his family, Steve Hong and Joy, gets its own storylines.

5. Note Crystal the moment she shows up. She proves the two-body condition isn't Daniel's alone.

6. Learn Charles Choi, Gun and Goo before the crew arcs. Wikipedia says Charles built the four major crews with Gun and his other geniuses.

Tips

Two naming systems. Vasco is Lee Eun-tae, Zack is Lee Jin-seong, Jay is Hong Jae-yeol, Mira is Kim Mi-jin, Crystal is Choi Soo-jung, Jake is Kim Gi-myeong, Gun is Park Jong-geon. For the J High cast, Wikipedia lists the Korean name first and the English one after it, and MyAnimeList files everyone under the Korean name.

Gapryong Kim matters now. The current arc is named after him, so his family (Jake and Kitae) is worth knowing before you catch up.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Daniel Park in Lookism?

Daniel Park is the English name for Park Hyung-seok, the protagonist. A bullied student who moves to Seoul, he wakes up with a second body that is tall and handsome. When one body is in use the other sleeps, so he lives in the new body by day and the original one by night.

Who is Gun Park in Lookism?

Gun is Park Jong-geon (Jong Gun on Wikipedia), a fighter who served as Crystal Choi's bodyguard and worked for her father, Charles Choi. He came out of the Japanese yakuza world. Goo Kim is the fighter who takes over his money-collecting work.

Who is Jake Kim in Lookism?

Jake Kim is the English name for Kim Gi-myeong, one of the four characters MyAnimeList lists as main characters of the manhwa. He is the son of Gapryong Kim and the half-brother of Kitae Kim.

Who voices Daniel Park in the Lookism anime?

In the Netflix anime's Korean cast, Shim Kyu-hyuk voices Daniel's original body and Han Shin his new one. Yoshitsugu Matsuoka voices him in Japanese. The English dub also splits him: Nicky Endres for the original body, Garrett Gallego for the new one.

Is Lookism finished or still ongoing?

Ongoing. On November 3, 2026, WEBTOON's English list was at Ep. 620, Gapryong Kim (11), dated October 31, 2026 in US time, with three more episodes in the app.

How we checked this: on November 3, 2026 we read Wikipedia's Lookism article (characters, infobox and anime section), MyAnimeList's character lists for the manhwa and the anime plus 19 of its character pages, Newsweek's December 2022 voice-cast article, Netflix's Lookism title page and WEBTOON's Lookism episode list. We didn't re-read the webtoon for this update. Last reviewed: November 3, 2026.

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References

1. Lookism (manhwa) on Wikipedia: plot, character list, infobox and anime cast.
2. Lookism on MyAnimeList (manga) characters: main and supporting cast.
3. Lookism anime on MyAnimeList, characters and voice actors: voice cast by language.
4. Jonggeon Park on MyAnimeList
5. Joongoo Kim on MyAnimeList
6. Gitae Kim on MyAnimeList
7. Lookism on WEBTOON: episode list and status.
8. Who Stars in the Voice Cast of Netflix's Korean Anime 'Lookism'? (Newsweek): Korean and English voice cast.
9. Lookism on Netflix: cast list.