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If the author really wanted to show this sort of theme, they could have shown a black kid (or a japanese/chinese because iirc it's still pretty prevalent in korea) getting bullied because of his skin color and origins, and because of that, he develop this sort of "devensive" racism against koreans.
There was really no need to create this very contrived setting that end up unrealistic to the reader, and also very offensive because it ends up going for a very uncommon discrimination (korean kid getting bullied for being korean in korea, would make sense anywhere else than korea lmao) while feeling like it ignores the widespread issues of racism against, well, anybody else really.
Ngl i have a bit more faith in the author, so i do think (and hope) they were probably going for having the new warden understand that the racism of that kid comes from the discrimination he faced before, but that first chapter was so disguting for no good reason, with all the use of slurs
Difficult subject all-around, i tried to choose my words carefully, so i hope it's not insensitive