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(Date Posted:08/29/2005 11:55 AM)
Chewrining, one of the most popular web manhwaI translated and uploaded five comics from the seriesChewrining, one of the most popular web comics in South Korea. There are a variety of web comics in South Korea,but usually the most popular ones are the commercial serieses on websites of daily Sports & Entertainment newspapers (which are mainly targeted at young and older men, so the comics do reflect that tendency as well). Since it is a daily comic and three volumes in print books have come out to date, which means a lot of episodes, so please understand that these five are only a sampling. The series is by two creators, artist Jung-Rok Gook and writer Sang-Shin Lee.http://sibauchi.namoweb.net/chewri.htmlThe official website is here:http://cartoon.stoo.com/choriing/html/It was highly popularnot only because ofits useof timingand humour or the stark but striking art style, but because it utilized a lot of mental images, experiences and sentiments that Koreans are familiar to. The episodes about public institutions (i.e, the schools or the military) which half or all of the population went under are especially popular to the readers. The army episodes in particular seem to appeal greatly to Korean men who have been there before (unless if they couldn'tperform their duty of service because they were physically imapaired, homosexual, Jehovah's Witness, or have too many tattoes on their body), althoughChewriningis not necessarily the type of overtly-macho comic that turns awayfemale readers, either. Well, hope you get a taste of what it's like. I have to fly now. (not literally...for the time being.)
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