Nationality South Korea Area(s) webtoon artist | Pseudonym(s) Seongdae Oh Name Oh Seong-dae | |
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Notable works The Cliff, My Wife's Memories, Beauty Water | ||
Oh Seong-dae (Hangul: 오성대, Hanja: 吳城垈) is a South Korean webtoon artist. His notable works are The Cliff, My Wife's Memories and Beauty Water.
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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.
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.
May 2013 onwards, Tales of the Unusual, containing several short stories, has been serialized in NAVER Webtoon. In June of the same year, the movie 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 The Cliff 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, 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. 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, 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. He also met and gave fansigns to his webtoon fans at Comic festival in 2015 October . He also got the award from naver, by his series 기기괴괴 "Webtoonist of the year 2015 " on Annual webtoonist day .