Oh Seong-dae

Oh Seong-dae
Nationality  South Korea
Area(s) webtoon artist
Pseudonym(s) Seongdae Oh
Notable works
 Tales of the Unusual, The Cliff, My Wife's Memories, Beauty Water
Oh Seong-dae
Hangul 오성대
Hanja 吳城垈
Revised Romanization O Seong Dae
McCune–Reischauer O Sŏng Dae
Oh Seong Dae
Oh seung dae

Oh Seong-dae (Hangul: 오성대, Hanja: 吳城垈) is a South Korean webtoon artist. His notable works are a thriller-horror anthology series, Tales of the Unusual, The Cliff, My Wife's Memories and Beauty Water.

Career

He developed a love of drawing when he was in primary school. He graduated from Seoul National University of Science and Technology. He also studied subjects about the arts. He started working as a designer, but he quit shortly afterwards. He came across the comic competition held by NAVER, which gave him the chance to debut.[1]

From October 2009 to November 2010, Writer J was serialized in NAVER Webtoon. From April 2011 to August 2012, Rum Chocolate was serialized in NAVER Webtoon and from July to August 2011, The Cliff was serialized in NAVER Webtoon.

In May 2013 onwards, Tales of the Unusual, an anthology works containing several short stories, has been serialized in NAVER Webtoon. The visual style and themes of his series was described as a "strange", "bizarre", and "mysterious" concept, combined with monochromatic backgrounds and minimalist art styles and loosely inspired and influenced of the works of Stephen King, Franz Kafka, and Junji Ito, as well as various media franchise including Rod Serling anthology television series, The Twilight Zone, R.L. Stine horror novels, Goosebumps and film works of Alfred Hitchcock and Tim Burton. In June of the same year, the omnibus film Horror Stories 2 was released. One of the stories is adapted from The Cliff.

From July to August 2014, the Chinese and English translated version of Tales of the Unusual was serialized in LINE Webtoon. From July of the same year to now, the English language version of Tales of the Unusual has also been serialized in LINE Webtoon and in August 2014, Sina Weibo user Yaoyaoxiaojing (妖妖小精) translated My Wife's Memories into Chinese and posted it on her Weibo. 550,000 people had shared the comic just after two days she had posted it,[2][3] making it an instant hit among the Chinese community, and gaining him fame. From October 2014 onwards, the Chinese translated version of Tales of the Unusual has been serialized in LINE Webtoon.

In February 2015, Oh Seong-dae attended the Taipei International Comics and Animation Festival with another webtoon artist massstar. Both of them hosted autograph sessions in the booth of LINE Webtoon.[1][4][5] In June 2015, Sina Weibo user Hanmansimida (韩漫思密达) translated Beauty Water into Chinese and posted it on her Weibo. As the story is close to our life and voices that concern about the present situation, it had been viewed by 1,000,000 people,[6][7][8] making it an instant hit among the Chinese community, and gaining him fame, just like last time. After knowing this, Oh Seong-dae thanked the Chinese readers on Facebook in Chinese.[9]

In October 2015, NAVER Webtoon along with Delpic Design Studio created an animated promotional trailer to promoted his webtoon to Chinese fans. He also met and gave fansigns to his webtoon fans with another webtoon artist Jo Seok, Son Jeho & Lee Kwangsu at China Internasional Comic Festival EXPO 2015. He also got the award "Webtoonist of the Year" from Naver, by his series Tales of the Unusual on Annual Webtoonist Day 2015.

Works

Short comic

  • The Cliff (절벽귀, July to August 2011)
  • Tales of the Unusual (기기괴괴, May 2013 to now)
    • The Gallery of the Damned (저주받은 갤러리, May to July 2013, 10 episodes)
    • An African Incident (아프리카에서 생긴 일, July to August 2013, 6 episodes)
    • To Kill a Magician (마술사 죽이기, September to October 2013, 6 episodes)
    • The Reset Elevator (리셋 엘리베이터, October to November 2013, 4 episodes)
    • My Wife's Memories (아내의 기억, October to November 2013, 6 episodes)
    • Camping (캠핑, January 2014, 2 episodes)
    • A Mysterious Package (상자 키우기, January to February 2014, 4 episodes)
    • The Mysterious Potter (곰보할배 도자기, February to March 2014, 4 episodes)
    • Winning Numbers (당첨번호, March to April 2014, 6 episodes)
    • Ghost Hunting (귀신잡기, May to June 2013, 5 episodes)
    • The Painting (여인화, October 2014, 2 episodes)
    • Evolving Reincarnation (진화환생법, October to December 2014, 8 episodes)
    • The Chat Room (채팅만남, December 2014, 1 episode)
    • Murderous Rage (살의, January 2015, 3 episodes)
    • Lex Talionis (Lex Talionis, January 2015, 1 episode)
    • Beauty Water (성형수, February to April 2015, 11 episodes)
    • Growth Water (괴모수, May 2015, 1 episode)
    • The Man and the Dog (남자와 개, May to July 2015, 8 episodes)
    • The Dream-sharing Stone (꿈공유석, July 2015, 4 episodes)
    • Regeneration Seed (재생종자, August 2015, 3 episode)

Long comic

  • Writer J (소설가J, October 2009 to November 2010, 48 episodes)
  • Rum Chocolate (봉봉오쇼콜라, April 2011 to August 2012, 69 episodes)

Screen adaptations

References

  1. 1 2 "【TiCA15】LINE Webtoon《觸不可及》及《奇奇怪怪》漫畫家獨家專訪" [[TiCA15] Exclusive Interview of the LINE Webtoon Artists: Writers of unTouchable and Tales of the Unusual] (in Chinese). Gamer. 2015-02-11. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
  2. ↑ 洋蔥滿點！故事「妻子的記憶」感動55萬網友：我哭好慘 [Full of Onions! Story My Wife's Memories Touches 550,000 People's Heart: I cried so badly] (in Chinese). ETtoday. 2014-08-29. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
  3. ↑ 超催淚靈異故事 《妻子的記憶》用哭50萬人 [Tear-jerking Supernatural Story My Wife's Memories: 500,000 People Shed Tears] (in Chinese). Apple Daily. 2014-08-27. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
  4. ↑ "「LINE Webtoon 每日漫畫」宣布參加 2015 動漫節" [LINE Webtoon Announce Participating 2015 Comics and Animation Festival] (in Chinese). Hong Kong Silicon. 2015-02-03. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
  5. ↑ "雙韓作家來台會粉絲，LINE Webtoon 首度進台北國際軍動漫節" [Dual Korean Writer Come to Taiwan to meet their fans, the First Time LINE Webtoon Joining Taipei International Comics and Animation Festival] (in Chinese). Hong Kong Silicon. 2015-02-11. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
  6. ↑ 重口味漫画最适合深夜转发？ (in Chinese). 文汇报. 2015-07-08. Archived from the original on 2015-07-09. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  7. ↑ 你看过奇奇怪怪漫画《整容液》但一定不了解吴城垈 (in Chinese). 北青网. 2015-07-08. Archived from the original on 2015-07-10. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  8. ↑ 朋友圈疯传恐怖漫画《整容液》 韩国漫画家讽刺整容业 (in Chinese). 观察者网. 2015-07-03. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  9. ↑ "오성대 added 2 new photos" (in Chinese). 吳城垈. 2015-07-03. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
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