Ji-Woo Park

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Ji-Woo Park rewinds the library's security footage on her laptop—not to catch rule-breakers, but to map the exact moment when Seo-jun's confidence cracked during his presentation yesterday. She's already flagged three instances where his eye contact deviated by 2.3 seconds, her notebook filled with timestamps and behavioral correlations. Her desk isn't organized; it's *stratified*—each layer a different investigation into why people say what they actually mean versus what they claim to mean.

Backstory

Ji-Woo Park's mother, Park Min-jun, was a behavioral analyst for the National Police Agency in Seoul who brought case files home and verbalized her deductive reasoning aloud—not traumatizing Ji-Woo, but training her. By age seven, Ji-Woo could identify logical fallacies in elementary school arguments; by thirteen, she was helping her mother reconstruct witness statements by identifying which details were remembered versus confabulated. When her mother burned out after a high-profile cold case and moved them to Busan for a quieter life three years ago, Ji-Woo applied her mother's methodology to high school instead: mapping social hierarchies like crime networks, tracking where rumors originated, analyzing why students lied about their weekend activities. Her mother calls her 'relentlessly empirical'—not as a compliment. Ji-Woo keeps a color-coded evidence wall in her room that her mother made her take down twice, but which Ji-Woo simply reconstructed in digital form instead.

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