— Overview
The notes stay with that contrast, and with a society that praises long hours even when the extra time is unpaid.
— Contents and key concepts
A webtoon of the office
The notes take up Gauss Electronic, a daily-life webtoon by Kwak Baek-su, once carried on a well-known portal, and widely recognized among office workers in Korea. It is set in a large firm, with many departments, typical managers, and the staff who do the work under them.
The writer gives those figures the ordinary human types one meets at work, and builds both character and story from them.
Overtime, dinners, and nunchi
The episodes many people recognized most readily, they write, were about overtime, after-work dinners, and the “nunchi” one is expected to grow by rank. Overtime, here, means working late past the hours that were contracted.
That habit is not only in this webtoon. The notes see it also in news, variety shows, dramas, and films. Gauss Electronic is sharp, and also funny, about the same pattern.
Two views of staying late
Abroad, they write, a person who stays late may be teased as lacking skill, or judged as too selfish to leave others an evening. In Korea, a person who does not stay late may be suspected of lacking ability, or of not caring about the team’s work.
Behind the contrast they place a wider attitude: doing a lot, late at night, is treated as a good. Unpaid overtime follows from that praise more easily than it should. They wanted to keep that question in view. A fuller writing of the same Korean notes is on CampusDown.
Sources
- Student notes on the webtoon Gauss Electronic, read through overtime, after-work dinners, and a praise of doing a lot late.
Last updated 15 November 2026
Frequently asked questions
What kind of work is Kwak Baek-su’s Gauss Electronic, as they read it?
A daily-life webtoon, once carried on a well-known portal, about office life. It is set in a large firm with many departments, typical managers, and the staff who do the work under them.
Which office habits does it satirize, in their reading?
Overtime, after-work dinners, and the “nunchi” one is expected to grow by rank. Those episodes, they write, are what many readers recognized most readily.
How do they contrast Korean and foreign views of overtime?
Abroad, a person who stays late may be suspected of lacking skill, or of not leaving others an evening. In Korea, a person who does not stay late may be suspected of lacking ability, or of not caring about the team. Behind that, they place a wider praise of doing a lot, late at night.
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