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 thriller anthology webtoon series Tales of the Unusual. His other works include The Cliff, a survival miniseries about two men who trapped at the edge of a cliff; My Wife's Memories, a supernatural drama follows a middle-aged man who witnesses the ghostly impression of his wife’s memories after she suddenly passes away in a tragic accident; and Beauty Water, a body horror story about a young woman who addicted to regain her perfect beauty using a latest cosmetic product goes accidentally wrong cause a terrible side effect.

Oh Seong-dae
Born(1982-11-18)November 18, 1982
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 RomanizationO Seong Dae
McCune–ReischauerO Sŏng Dae
This is a Korean name; the family name is Oh.
Oh Seong-dae at Taipei International Comics and Animation Festival 2015

Life and career

Oh Seong-dae was born on November 18, 1982 in Seoul, South Korea. He developed a love of drawing since he was in elementary school. He graduated from Seoul National University of Science and Technology. He also studied subjects about art and design. He started working as a designer, but he quit shortly afterwards. Seong-dae went into webtoons as he participated in a comic competition held by Naver, which gave him the chance to debut.[1]

From October 2009 to November 2010, Author J was published on Naver WEBTOON follows an eponymous deceased writer whose consciousness is transferred into an AI and encased within the computer. From April 2011 to August 2012, Bonbon au Chocolat was published on Naver WEBTOON is about a funny love story between the two middle school students and from July to August 2012, The Cliff was published on Naver WEBTOON focused on two men who go hiking in the woods then accidentally get trapped at the edge of a cliff, while waiting to save their lives, one of them has to die.

On May 8, 2013, Seong-dae created an anthology webtoon series, Tales of the Unusual, which has been published on Naver WEBTOON. Compared to his previous webtoons, Tales of the Unusual contains horror and thriller genres, with elements of mystery, supernatural, psychological, black comedy, drama, science fiction, and modern-dark fantasy. In contrast to Author J, which used mild-realistic imagery with bright, primary colors, Seong-dae opted for an art style and visuals in Tales of the Unusual using monochromatic black-and-white with muted, toned down colors.

Seong-dae described the series as "unusual, strange, and mysterious thriller", Tales of the Unusual consisting of standalone, self-contained short stories, and usually with an unusual and unexpected plot twist follows characters (or recurring protagonists from previous webtoons), who find themselves in strange, surreal, and unusual experiences, usually involving an urban legends, bizarre creatures and supernatural entities or witnesses an absurd situations and unexpected incidents.

An influences has cited on Tales of the Unusual was inspired by the works of Junji Ito, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, R. L. Stine, Franz Kafka and Haruki Murakami; as well as korean horror films; anthology television series, such as The Twilight Zone, Goosebumps, The X-Files, and Black Mirror; and films directed by Jason Blum, M. Night Shyamalan, Darren Aronofsky, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock, and Stanley Kubrick.

In June 2013, an anthology film Horror Stories 2 was released on June 5, 2013. One of the stories is adapted from The Cliff.

From July to August 2014, the Chinese and English translated version of The Cliff has been published on WEBTOON. From July 2014 to now, the English language version of Tales of the Unusual has also been published on WEBTOON.

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 to now, the Chinese translated version of Tales of the Unusual has been published on WEBTOON.

On February 11 2015, Seong-dae attended at Taipei International Comics and Animation Festival along with fellow webtoon artist massstar. Both of them hosted autograph sessions in the booth of 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, Seong-dae thanked the Chinese readers on Facebook in Chinese.[9]

On October 2, 2015, Seong-dae also attended and gave fansigns to his webtoon fans with fellow webtoon artist Jo Seok, Son Jae-ho, and Lee Kwang-soo at China International Comic Festival EXPO. On October 19, 2015, WEBTOON released an animated trailer for Tales of the Unusual was created by an animation agency Delpic Design Studio.

On December 18, 2015, Seong-dae received a "Webtoonist of the Year" for his webtoon, Tales of the Unusual on WEBTOON's Webtoonist Day. On June 9, 2016, Seong-dae also attended and gave fansigns to his webtoon fans in the booth of WEBTOON at Beijing Comic-Con along with fellow webtoon artist Jo Seok.

In 2017, the Japanese television series Yo nimo Kimyō na Monogatari was released. One of the episode is adapted from My Wife's Memories.

In 2018, A first print volume features a collection of the stories based on Tales of the Unusual has been published on June 10, 2018. On February 21, 2019, A first animated anthology web series based on Tales of the Unusual was released on Naver Webtoon YouTube Channel.

On September 18, 2019, Seong-dae announced that he had been renewed the series for a second season after the first season concluded, which has been published on May 21, 2020.

Works

Long comic
  • Author J (소설가J, October 2009 to November 2010, 48 episodes)
  • Bonbon au Chocolat (봉봉오쇼콜라, April 2011 to August 2012, 69 episodes)

Short comic
  • The Cliff (절벽귀, July to August 2012, 9 episodes)
  • Bunker Man (벙커맨, September 2012, 1 episode)
  • The Woman in the Celling (공포의 만화책, June 2013, 1 episode)
  • Invocamus (Invocamus, July 2014, 1 episode)
  • S.O.S (S.O.S, July 2015, 1 episode)
  • Machine Ghost (June 2016, 1 episode)
  • Shadow Makeover (그림자 성형, August 2019, 1 episode)

Anthology comic
  • Tales of the Unusual (기기괴괴, May 2013 – Now, 73 stories)
  • Season 1 (8 May 2013 – 18 September 2019)
    • 2013 – 2014 (10 stories)
      • 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, November to December 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 2014, 5 episodes)
    • 2014 – 2015 (9 stories)
      • 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)
    • 2015 – 2016 (9 stories)
      • Regeneration Seed (재생종자, August 2015, 3 episodes)
      • The Ghost App (심령어플, September 2015, 1 episode)
      • The Ghost Polaroids (고스트 폴라로이드, September 2015, 2 episodes)
      • Jayce's Pen (제이스의 펜, September to October 2015, 4 episodes)
      • Insomnia (불면증, October 2015, 1 episode)
      • The Break-In (도난, November 2015, 2 episodes)
      • Lucidity Controller (루시드컨, November to December 2015, 5 episodes)
      • Earth Warrior Taletron (지구용사 기괴트론, December 2015 to January 2016, 4 episodes)
      • Bone Dice (본 다이스, January to February 2016, 4 episodes)
    • 2016 – 2017 (12 stories)
      • Kiveiru's Library (키베이루의 서재, May to June 2016, 8 episodes)
      • Real Implant (Real Implant, June 2016, 1 episode)
      • Revenge (복수, July 2016, 1 episode)
      • Drawings (그림, July 2016, 2 episodes)
      • Lurker (Lurker, August 2016, 4 episodes)
      • The Pet Wig (애완가발, September 2016, 3 episodes)
      • The Future Spirit (미래사령, September to November 2016, 10 episodes)
      • The Teleporter (순간이동기, November to December 2016, 4 episodes)
      • Demonic Bloodweed (마혈초, December 2016 to January 2017, 3 episodes)
      • Mini-Me (미니미, January 2017, 2 episodes)
      • Ghost Home Care (고스트 홈케어, February 2017, 2 episodes)
      • The Package (택배, February 2017, 2 episodes)
    • 2017 – 2018 (14 stories)
      • Eternal Life Pills (영생환, March to May 2017, 11 episodes)
      • A Special Meal (특식, May 2017, 2 episodes)
      • Soul Trapping (봉혼, May to June 2017, 4 episodes)
      • The Hole (Hole, June to July 2017, 2 episodes)
      • Ghost Design (고스트 인테리어, July 2017 2 episodes)
      • Gold Motel (골드모텔, July to August 2017, 4 episodes)
      • 14K (14K, August to October 2017, 6 episodes)
      • The Bug (벌레, October 2017, 2 episodes)
      • The Mole Stitcher (점잇귀, October to December 2017, 7 episodes)
      • Scene Box (Scene Box, December 2017 to January 2018, 4 episodes)
      • Hair (머리카락, January 2018, 3 episodes)
      • More Days (More Days, January to February 2018, 3 episodes)
      • The Carbonated Virus (탄산바이러스, February 2018, 2 episodes)
      • Confinement (감금, March 2018, 3 episodes)
    • 2018 – 2019 (18 stories)
      • The Tournament (대회, June 2018, 2 episodes)
      • The Unusual Hospital (기괴병원, June 2018, 2 episodes)
      • Growth Mountains (성장산, July 2018, 3 episodes)
      • The Human Door (인간현관, July to September 2018, 7 episodes)
      • Friends (친구, September 2018, 2 episodes)
      • Watermelon (수박, October 2018, 2 episodes)
      • Brain Contamination (뇌오염, October to November 2018, 4 episodes)
      • Change (Change, November 2018, 2 episodes)
      • A Boy and a Murderer (소년과 살인마, November 2018 to January 2019, 7 episodes)
      • Acc Plants (Acc Plants, January to February 2019, 6 episodes)
      • The Stationery Store (문방구, March 2019, 2 episodes)
      • Magnet (Magnet, March to April 2019, 5 episodes)
      • Makeover (성형귀, May 2019, 4 episodes)
      • Cafe (카페, June 2019, 2 episodes)
      • Head (Head, June to July 2019, 5 episodes)
      • VR (VR, July 2019, 2 episodes)
      • Karaoke and an Odeng Truck (노래방과 오뎅트럭, August 2019, 2 episodes)
      • Thief (도둑, August to September 2019, 4 episodes)
  • Season 2 (21 May 2020 – Now)
    • 2020
      • Beauty Water 2 (뉴성형수, May to July 2020)

Adaptations
  • Horror Stories 2 (2013)
  • Yo nimo Kimyō na Monogatari (2017)
  • Tales of the Unusual (2019)

References
  1. "【TiCA15】WEBTOON《觸不可及》及《奇奇怪怪》漫畫家獨家專訪" [[TiCA15] Exclusive Interview of the 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. "「WEBTOON 每日漫畫」宣布參加 2015 動漫節" [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，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 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.
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