A Monstrous First Day

Description

Secretary Han Seungmoon ran for office with no hope of winning, but when his opponent's unexpected arrest makes him the victor, he winds up as the youngest assemblyman in South Korea. As he's being sworn into office, he thinks his life couldn't get any better... but that all comes crashing when a monster falls through the roof of the National Assembly! Now, with an eerie blue gate unleashing horrors onto the city, Seungmoon and his party members must find a way to save Seoul from destruction.

Original Novel:
KakaoPage, Naver Series, Ridi, Tocsoda, Onestory, BookCube, Joara, Mootoon, MrBlue, Munpia

Original Webtoon:
KakaoPage, Daum

Official Translations:
English, Japanese, Thai

Type

Manhwa

Related Series

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Associated Names

A Gate Opened on My First Day as a Politician

任期初日にゲートが開いた

임기 첫날에 게이트가 열렸다

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Latest Release(s)

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Status in Country of Origin

52 Chapters (Ongoing,on hiatus)

S1: 52 Chapters (1~52)
S2: TBA

Completely Scanlated?

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

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User Rating

Average: 7.2 / 10.0 (33 votes)

Bayesian Average: 6.75 / 10.0

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21%

Last Updated

February 26th, 2025 8:04pm PST - 8 months ago

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Genre

Drama Fantasy Shounen
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Recommendations

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Author(s)

Piajoa [Add]

Zephygaru

Artist(s)

Zephygaru

Year

2022

Original Publisher

Daon

Daum

Kakao

Serialized In (magazine)

KakaoPage (Kakao)

Kakao Webtoon (Daum)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Tapas

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #545

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Monthly Pos #1976 (No change)

3 Month Pos #3499

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6 Month Pos #4980

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Year Pos #6635

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List Stats

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On 58 wish lists

On 10 completed lists

On 16 unfinished lists

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Any news of Season 2

by CoolOtamegane
2 years ago

Rating: N/A

I like this, a Fresh Story from GATE korean genre
This about VERY BEGINNING EVENT GATE from politicians PoV
. But its been one year, do anyone have news, when season 2 started

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Fresh take on gate

by Zhangorphne
2 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

Honestly I'm really glad to find a different take on the gate idea. the main character is a bit self-interested but not to the point where they are unlikeable or ununderstandable

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A good read

by Squared
2 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

It’s a good story, honestly (read until the end of season 1), I do recommend it, it has really good world building, and explains common tropes, go read it 👍

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original

by Belkar
3 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

Monsters come to earth. Not 5 years ago, not 100 years ago, but the gate opens right now. This is not a story about a random teen getting instant superpowers and 'slowly' becoming a god. Rather it is a fairly realistic scenario involving politics and the military. So far it's pretty good.

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Somewhat good

by PZcolo
3 years ago

Rating: 6.5 / 10.0

An in depth take into the "portals open in earth" kind of setting. While most manhwa get over with the holocaust and the first few years after it in a couple of chapters to get into the meat of the guilds and a BS society where players are the new cream of the crop, this manhwa chose to slowly go through that tumultuous time period in great detail. So far, 21chs, it's been the story of a civil servant that starts his politician's career in the same day of the portals open, how he struggles to survive and how his analytical and self-serving mind struggles with rare spouts of empathy with fellow people trying to survive, this part is a bit overblown imo since the monsters are so ubiquitous and persistent that it's a surprise anyone survives at all. Also, as the name implies, it centers on the government's role and reaction to the crisis. It will be interesting to see how far it will go since the long term goal of the story in note clear, by a long shot.
The characters are interesting and realistic, the MC is a bit too detached emotionally imo, but he's who he is. All the secondary cast is also interesting, mainly his "mentor" and the chief military guy and their schemes.
Pace can be a bit slow but there's always something happening so it's fine. Art is ok, not particularly good for manhwa but it's fine. Dialogues are interesting and meaningful when needed.
Overall, it's an interesting read an a change to the copy paste I'm used to in the setting while still using the same story frame. It's a bit soon to tell for the story and there isn't anything particularly great about it (nor bad), so it's ok so far but not great, time will tell.

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