Zombies in a postapocaliptical world, repression and rock&love, a great and ambitious setting.
But it's trying to be cool when it's not, trying to be refreshing and failling again, trying to be funny just to be dumb.
All the time making references to his own work as a manwha artist, something common in webtoons wich seems unprofessional and narcissistic to me. I wan't to feel this world as something real! I want to dive in it, but then he get me out with constantly reminding me about his pressence spoiling the magic.
It lacks consistency, if the author just would center more about the feelings of the main character, the romance and improving the progression of the story this could be some great manwha, but yet again he is trying to make it so cool that results in something bizarre and shallow. I guess the author is being ambitious with the manwha, but probably lacking in experience to make something so great, just an assumption.
It's painfully obvious how he don't know where the story goes and is a bit conceited telling that to his readers in the afterword at the end of seasson 1...
Any fiction author creates a world with some rules, and then he goes with the story with those rules in mind, in "Wake up dead man" i think Kim Yong-hwan is just making what he feels in a wim of coolness...
Even with all that said the author has amazing artistic skills and the creative potential to make something good, maybe something less cool but more human.
Of course it's always easier to criticize than create, the drama is good, the revolutionary message hidden "everybody is a walking dead nowadays in this dull society, so Wake Up Deadman!!", that's rock, so even with all my badmouthing, please try reading Wake up deadman.