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"A Fraction of Time" by Lisa Frühbeis is Part 1 of 4 of the webtoon series "Scroll Down to Proceed - Femaie Lives in Webtoons", initiated by the Goethe-Institut Korea featuring four renowned artists from Germany and Korea. "A Fraction of Time" is the story of a single mother, who is working creatively and was just left by the father of their children. Struggling to needs to make ends meet, she moves into the tiny vacation house of her uncle on an isolated island. While the situation with her children and her own work gets worse, she finds an escape: a parallel world that is shut off from everything. When the children start following her, this leads to a dangerous situation... We will publish a new episode each Tuesday and Thursday. Stay tuned!

Two old friends, Anna, a third-generation Korean-American woman, and Brian, a white male, came to Korea and got hired as native-language teacher at an English kindergarten. However, the attitudes toward Anna and Brian are significantly different in Korea. One rainy day, heavily drunk Anna and Brian drink a suspicious 'flower wine' at a suspicious bar, and they wake up the next morning with their bodies swapped. Since Brian got trapped in the body of a Korean woman, he starts to experience inconceivable sexism and racism that he has never even imagined before. Brian pleads to Anna (in Brian's body) about his experiences of victimization, but Anna smiles bitterly and replies that was the world she went through. As the time goes by, Brian slowly become dismal and obsessively looking for the way back into his body.

A woman with a below-average family, below-average appearance, and below-average education. Life doesn't allow her to have a stable job, a proper home or friendships. She makes ends meet with poorly paid and precarious jobs and works as a temporary help at a kindergarten or as a salesperson at a convenience store. Then, one day, while bringing her employer's child to kindergarten, a passerby insults her. It doesn't upset her because she is a person on the less emotional side. However, as she keeps getting abused verbally, she eventually begins to react to the disdain.