I don't know if Korea does couponing to the extreme like the US does, but let's say it does in Solo Leveling's version of Earth.
Sung Jinwoo would 100% be that guy who treats it like an extreme sport with 10 books of coupons stashed on his desk and when he goes to check out his $250 worth of groceries, he whips out his coupon BINDER and the cashier starts crying.
And then Jinwoo's receipt shows that he paid $2.14 for all of that.
That's the story of how Jinwoo and Jinah scraped by when he was still an E ranked hunter.
You know Sung Jinwoo gets his haircut by going to a nearby beauty school that trains hairdressers. The institution offers free haircuts... under the condition that you let them do whatever they want to it.
Imagine a Sung Jinwoo that reawakens as S ranked hunter except he's got that bleach blonde curly ramen hair LOL
#in my country the dentist uni does this too#the prof does it but you are surrounded by a bunch of students#i can totally see sjw doing that#gotta make due with an e ranker salary#while paying hospital bills#he knows all discount days by heart#his kitchen is stashed with perishables because there was a discount coupon that gave him 50 tuna cans so now they have a lot#also would he shop for clothes at thrift shops or would jinah drag him there since he doesn't care about clothes?#i can totally see him going to a thrift store for like small kitchen appliances though via @caranmerya
Once Jinwoo gets his teleportation skills, imagine him going to US because they have the cheapest beef prices and then hopping over to Europe for the cheese and wine. Make a pit stop in Brazil for coffee beans.
Other people shop at 4-5 supermarkets to find the best deals. Then there's Jinwoo who shops in 4-5 continents to find the best prices.
#oh 100% this guy coupons as much as possible and marks down sale days and scours for bargains in between jobs @z-the-outback-cryptid
You bet that when Jinwoo goes into gate that takes many days to clear, he's always very disappointed whenever he finds out that he missed some big special deal.
(So he starts considering if he can/should shadow-teleport out of the gate to snag the special while his shadow soldiers continue working on clearing the gate.)
#as someone who did customer service i would have left on the spot with the coupon book#not hating on people who think smart with the coupon game#but as someone who does not have the mental capacity for computing all those discounts i will cry @mayarii-darling
Sung Jinwoo's anti-fan base mainly consist of cashiers that have encountered Jinwoo's Coupon Book before.
#omg he would#gotta get cheap stuff#on Wednesday there's a discount on fruits and veggies in this very specific store in the middle of nowhere south america#you know sjw is showing up#does he need that many tangerines? no but it's cheap#also teleporting to get cheaper electronics#solo leveling#man I'm so jealous#I've always thought teleportation was the most useful superpower @caranmerya
At that point, Jinwoo probably is skipping the middleman. He's jumped straight to negotiating deals directly with the farmers because he's his own truck, warehouse, and transport to getting his gigantic haul of fresh fruits and vegetables back home.
(Farmers would LOVE him when they have all these tons of delicious fresh produce just sitting out in the fields about to rot because there's a shortage of trucks and/or warehouses that can take more goods in the area - which is actually a real issue that happens btw.)
Somehow the image of Jinwoo just carrying around like 1000 pounds of concord grapes and his phone is still ringing with more farmers begging him to take half of the rest of their unsold grapes if he hauls the other half to XYZ store in some random ass town he's never heard of in France that's apparently known for wine production.
#sjw could just quit being a hunter and haul produce lol#can you imagine the world is ending you turn yhe tv on to look at the last stand#and it's the weirdo who buys all the discolored apples no one will buy at half priece#he's apparently a big deal @caranmerya
No but really, with all the gates popping up everywhere, escaped gate monsters, hot tempered high ranked hunters fighting in public... the railroad system, roads, and more must be a mess with traffic being diverted to all sorts of places and roads that weren't meant to take on such load.
Just imagine all the shortages and supply chain issues happening. Not simply because of large scale events like Kamish destroying US's West Coast but also all the little gates adding up enough to bring a country's logistic system on the brink of failure.
Some people might really go on to say that Jinwoo is needed more to the world to solve the supply chain crisis (delivering food to communities cut off from the rest of the world's road system because of natural and gate disasters in addition to ensuring that all these farms and agricultural laborers retain their businesses/jobs) than as a hunter.
#i can already see the online debates of sjw hunter vs sjw instant delivery#what do we need more fighting power to close more gated faster or food for everyone so we can live to see the damn gates closed#sjw has no idea sbout the debate as usual he is completely oblivious @caranmerya
Sung Jinwoo has bigger problems to deal with.
Like the fact that people have started documenting and tracking which stores and farmers he's been spotted visiting and then they flocked to said stores for a number of reasons.
Generally the younger folks are trying to see him and get autographs. The older folks? They want to nab onto those deals too! Then there's the brand sales people who've been trying to reach out to Sung Jinwoo's agency for PR/sponsorships/endorsements because Sung Jinwoo was spotted buying 10 gallons of their Rhubarb Juice 18 days ago and they are hoping they have managed to predict his shopping schedule enough to catch him.
(Hey if there's that Twitter account tracking celebrity private plan routes, there's bound to be people posting on the internet their analytics and predictions on when/where Jinwoo will pop up next for his grocery funs.)
Oh the academics! Would they write case studies using Jinwoo to analyze at the economic habits of spend thrifts or S rank hunters? Imagine all the academic papers trying to psychoanalyze him and then apply it onto a tiny group.
#omg imagine sjw is spider georg#the average s ranker drinks no rhubarb juice sjw is an outlier and should not have been considered in this study lol#i love this au it keeps evolving more and mlre chaotically#there are 100% twitter accounts dedicated to tracking him#the aunties love the discounts the younger gen want to get a picture with him#jinah wants those fashion deals oppa wear this#she is mortified that one time he gets photographed with hiles in his sweatpants and a tie dye shirt she made as a child#i need reaserchers duking it out through papers over his impact and how his habits reflect on hunters and s rankers as a whole#can you imagine e rankers making videos have eating like sjw to reawaken? @caranmerya
Imagine GQ's "what's in my bag" style videos except it's stitched together fan videos compiling everything that Jinwoo purchased at XXX supermarket 4 days ago and it's the most unhinged grocery list every.
Last week's insanity was 25kg of celery, 19.3oz of elderberry, and 51 loaves of banh mi sandwich bread. This week is 46kg of elderberry liquor, 28kg of spinach, 38 boxes of lemons, and 4 pounds of pink himalaya salt.
(Jinwoo IS that guy in math problems.)
Bon Appetit is compiling all the things they think Jinwoo now has in his fridge and try to cook up the "recipes" they think Jinwoo might be eating with all those specific ingredients still in the fridge. There's a lot of talk of "so and so could still be in his kitchen if he froze/ dehydrated/ powdered XXX".
Vietnamese restaurants are highlighting their banh mi sandwich offerings on the menu as "S ranked Hunter Sung Jinwoo bought THIS last week". Then insert image of what looks to be a screencap of CCTV footage of Sung Jinwoo holding bread in greyscale and it looks more like wanted poster of a thief in action stealing bread.
#i need jinah to “secretly” film sjw cooking#and he just keeps pulling ingredients out of the nether like a weird mary poppins#jinah will be like we are out of soy sauce imma go to the store and definitely not get snacks and sjw is like we have soy sauce at home#and pulls out a 6 liters giant bottle out of nowhere#surprise grocery runs are hard to do in the sung household#it used to mean the difference between having the bills paid and not but now it's just habit#i love the idea of youtubers having segments dedicated to what you could cook with the ingredients he maybe has#the whole internet trying to guess why he might need that much bread#some argue that maybe his shadow soldiers eat and he needs to feed them#i want some guild to try to figure out sjws workout and diet for their recruits and people online to fight about it#i want some alleyway grandma's store to have a picture with sjw buying tea while brand names are fighting for him to notice them#i want chaos
Would Jinwoo be the type to also hoard snacks? Or is it healthy food only? (because fresh produce can actually go for super cheap while snacks can generally last forever with all the preservatives that are loaded up into it?)
Now that I think about it, Jinwoo's shopping list looks like it's a Too Good To Go buy: https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/aldi-shopper-hits-jackpot-after-31864157
Okay, so Jinwoo is known for the quantity he buys. But what about quality? Is he REALLY buying the good produce? or does he not mind about getting the bruised and over ripened goods because look at that price and it's just ugly but the taste is close enough?
(He's immune to poison too so I mean... maybe moldy bread now just has a very tasty flavor he's grown to enjoy much like how weirdos like eating stinky cheese, stinky tofu, and more...)

















