massstar (

Hangul The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, . Hangul may also be written as following South Korea's standard Romanization. ( ) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The let ...

: 맛스타) is a South Korean

webtoon Webtoons (), are a type of digital comic that originated in South Korea usually meant to be read on smartphones. While webtoons were mostly unknown outside of Korea during their inception, there has been a surge in popularity internationally ...

artist. She is best known for her

webcomic Webcomics (also known as online comics or Internet comics) are comics published on a website or mobile app. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers, or comic books. Webcomics can be co ...

unTouchable.

Career

massstar developed a love of drawing when she was young, and wanted to be a

comics artist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and g ...

since she was in

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. However, she hesitated to take up comics due to a belief in Korea that comic artists are unable to feed themselves. When she was in university, she decided that she should try to follow her passion because she "only lived once." massstar participated in a comic competition held by

Naver Naver (Hangul: 네이버) is a South Korean online platform operated by the Naver Corporation. It was launched in 1999 as the first web portal in South Korea to develop and use its own search engine. It was also the world's first operator to in ...

, which gave her the chance to debut. massstar created the webtoon ''unTouchable'', a story about vampires who absorb energy as a source of life through

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rather than drinking blood. From February 2014 onwards, ''unTouchable'' was serialized on

WEBTOON Webtoons (), are a type of digital comic that originated in South Korea usually meant to be read on smartphones. While webtoons were mostly unknown outside of Korea during their inception, there has been a surge in popularity internationally ...

. In July of the same year, the Chinese and English translated versions of ''unTouchable'' were serialized on the service as well. In February 2015, massstar attended the Taipei International Comics and Animation Festival together with fellow webtoon artist

Oh Seong-dae Oh Seong-dae (Hangul: 오성대, Hanja: 吳城垈; born November 18, 1982) is a South Korean webtoon artist. He is best known for creating a horror comics, horror thriller (genre), thriller Anthology series, anthology webtoon '':ko:기기괴� ...

. Both of them hosted autograph sessions in the WEBTOON booth. unTouchable was later adapted into a Chinese television series in 2017. The series stars Zhang Yuxi and

Xing Zhaolin Xing Zhaolin (, born 22 July 1997) is a Chinese actor, model and singer. He is best known for his roles as Yue Qi in ''Princess Agents'' and Mo Liancheng in ''The Eternal Love ''The Eternal Love'' ( Chinese: 双世宠妃) is a 2017 Chinese te ...

, and gained a significant following.

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