The timeline below shows where the term Bowibu appears in Nothing to Envy. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 12
...Hyuck was arrested just after his 16th birthday, a fleet of undercover police from the Bowibu, the national security agency that investigates political crimes, brought him to a holding center where...
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Chapter 15
...to change how her superiors saw her. When she received a surprise visit from a Bowibu agent who asked if she was planning to defect, however, she realized she’d never be...
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Chapter 16
...her first day of the mission, she was caught again and turned over to the Bowibu. Oak-hee was tied together at the thumbs with two other women—the Bowibu did not have...
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