Youn In-wan (, born July 27, 1976) is a South Korean ''

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, he is known for his work ''

Blade of the Phantom Master /() is a South Korean-Japanese manhwa series created by Youn In-wan and illustrated by Yang Kyung-il. The story takes place in a world reminiscent of ancient Korea, and follows the Korean-folktale-inspired adventures of Munsu, one of the few r ...

''. Prior to that, he worked on the manhwa ''

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'' (아일랜드) with illustrator

Yang Kyung-il Yang Kyung-il (born March 26, 1970) is a South Korean ''manhwa'' artist from Incheon, South Korea. In 2009 he and frequent collaborator Youn In-wan began serializing their manga Defense Devil in '' Shonen Sunday''. Works * '' Area D: Inō Ry� ...

. After the publication of the seventh and last volume of ''Island'', he wrote a novel, ''The Island'', in which he described the past of the characters in his manhwa. He has also been featured in the Korean weekly magazine ''Deja Vu'' (데자뷰). He is known for adding comments at the end of every chapter in ''Blade of the Phantom Master''. In

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style shorts, he is represented as being a lean bespectacled character who is a brash loud mouth, and who is often shown leading his quiet illustrator Yang around. After the success of their one shot , they have begun to work on ''

Defense Devil ''Defense Devil'' (stylized as ''DEFENSE DEVIL'') is a Japanese manga series written by Youn In-Wan and illustrated by Yang Kyung-il. It was serialized by Shogakukan in ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from April 2009 to June 2011. The story is about ...

'' for the weekly

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magazine '' Shōnen Sunday''. Youn was a part time Japanese professor for the

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (abbreviated as HUFS; Korean: 한국외국어대학교) is a private research university based in Seoul, in South Korea. HUFS consistently ranks as one of the best universities in South Korea. The university ...

from 2011 to 2015, and started as a producer for company YLab in 2010. It was reported in 2020 that Yoon will be the

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Career

Korea

Youn debuted in 1996 with the manhwa series 'Bom(봄, spring)' in the Korean weekly magazine ''Deja Vu'' (데자뷰).

Japan

Youn debuted in Japan in December, 1999 with 'The Fools' on a Japanese youth magazine

Weekly Young Sunday was a weekly manga magazine published by Shogakukan in Japan since the first issue on March 27, 1987. It replaced ''Shōnen Big Comic'' in Shogakukan's lineup of shōnen titles, and many of the titles in ''Shōnen Big Comic'' were continued in ' ...

. He serialized his work

from 2001 to 2007 at the magazine

Monthly Sunday Gene-X , often abbreviated as , is a ''seinen'' manga magazine published by Shogakukan. Like many other manga magazines, it is an " anthology magazine", with each issue featuring new chapters of several manga series. The series are also published in '' ...

References

External links

* South Korean manhwa writers Living people 1976 births {{Manhwa-stub