I've always been curious too like hasn't Skip Beat been going for like 8 years with like 28 volumes
But nevertheless I really like her works. If I get too curious I'll like go to Korea and stalk her or something

Lol ChocoKun.

I like her work. Like Idol Shopping, Love Like Crazy, Looking for Oppa!, She's Scary, Advent of Snow White of the Hell, For the Sake of Dulcinea, Cutie Boy, etc.

Her ex-assistant's work Han Yu-Rang work. Like Do You Remember, Mogwa; Fallen Angels, Love In The Mask, My Boyfriend Is A Vampire, Mok Yuna's Honeymoon Diary, Forbidden Kiss, and Don't Cheat On Me!.

@Comel: You might be able to find out some info here: Hwang Mi Ri's Official Website


Hwang Mi Ri is either a girl because her cartoon pic on mangaupdates or is a "Flamboyant" person. (Has nothing to do with my title )

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uh, maybe hwang mi ri isnt a woman, but a group like clamp? +_+
her works all just the same, and I got bored quickly.
and I dont like her artwork.

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It is possible; SARUWATARI Tetsuya stated in an interview that he used to draw approximately 300 pages per month in his earlier days as manga (I'm assuming in the late 80's early 90's). He didn't say whether it was with the help of assistants or not, but I'd assume it was.

Hawng Mi Ri's volumes are generally ~160 pages from what I've seen. That's almost drawing at a rate of two volumes per month if she goes as fast as Saruwatari does. I'm also safely assuming she has a lot of assistants. Saruwatari had three assistants for the whole of Koukou Tekken-den Tough, which lasted 42 volumes, so if he had, say, six, theoretically he could draw ~600 pages a month, but that's just theoretically.

All in all, she's a definite work-a-holic, but she probably has a lot of assistants helping.

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I don't care about how she can produce so many manhwa as much as why~!!!
Seriously, all her plot lines, characters' looks and personalities are just recycled over and over and over and over. I hate her works so much.
She's the reason why I rarely read manhwa, 'cause she seems to have created 80% of them.

...it's that 80% of the groups that work on shoujo manhwa use her series.

It's more of a comment on the scanlation groups not on the shoujo manhwa community in Korea.

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Fair enough.
Although I wonder how they don't get bored translating the same manga again and again.

I wouldn't get bored working on SARUWATARI Tetsuya series even if they aren't all different one from another, so I guess they wouldn't either.

I definitely need to do more Saruwatari series... Getting off topic...

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From what I hear, Hwang Mi Ri and Han Yu Rang are not actualy "people".
http://kin.naver.com/qna/detail.nhn?d1id=3&dirId=305& docId=46030906&qb=7Zmp66+466as&enc=utf8& section=kin&rank=6&search_sort=0&spq=0
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A Korean portal site page with basic info about it. There are many other rumors about this.

It's actually quite rumored around the internet that Hwang Mi Ri, Han Yu Rang and these other "robot" manhwa makers are "factory manhwa makers". These factory manhwa makers are a giant group of hired assistant working to make manhwas with the same art very quickly (at times, there is an actual "author", but there's still that giant group of assistants helping). They do not actually put in the time and effort to make the manhwa- they merely draw- so obviously the quality of the manhwa drops tremendously. Hwang Mi Ri herself is not at a high demand in the Korean manhwa market (or at least, in my opinion, it seems that way) but "she" still survives anyways, probably because the companies have enough resources to profit out of the actual "buying income".

It's a rumor, but hey, it's a pretty believable rumor, considering the speed these are being published, and this rumor has been going around the internet for a while (there are actual authors that have previously confessed to being "factory manhwa makers").

This would explain a lot. Awesome find. This has been gnawing at me forever, lol.
Although the excellent point about how she recycles pretty much everything makes perfect sense, too.

Too bad she concentrate on quantity and not quality. For HMR, if you read 1 story, you're read them all. Same characters, same plot, almost same settings. So yeah, her works are a big no for me, thought shoujo fans seem to like her this days. And there are 2 other korean artists that seem to follow her. They probably have a lot of assistants.


We do get bored, but a title from HMR or HYR gets 10 more downloads than any other manhwa out there [except for Saver and Goong and probably bride of water good]. We've worked on so many good manhwas with good plot and great art, but in the end fans prefer and demand her works. It's a mystery to me too, but, numbers do motivate scanlation groups and as long as so many people download her works and read them and comment: "OMG! It's so good, I want more" we can't do anything else than to give them what they want.

Edit: did I mention how easy to translate and edit her series are? Almost no SFX, not much text either...

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she's actually got some where the girl is kinda meek. like [m]advent of snow white of hell[/m] and love like crazy . plain and simple though. and honestly, this argument is said over and over but, if u don't like 'em, don't read 'em.

It was one of the most interesting threads ever. I'm not an aspiring manga artist but I was always interested in the details of their work.
I wonder if her manga is not that popular in Korea and if it's truly produced by a group of people in a purely mercenary way--why won't they try changing the plots and the character types to appeal to a wider audience?

That would make so much sense. And Hwang Mi Ri isn't that popular in Korea? It would make sense. Korea has all those dramas and movies and webcomics with pretty colored art, and other superior manwhas...

Either way, she has the quantity, but not the quality...

If she could do quantity AND quality, then she'd be epic. However....>.>

I don't see art evolution either (which generally happens when someone has a long series) so that could be proof that it's factory produced manwha...

She's pretty thoroughly tainted manhwa for me. When I see something Korean now, I automatically think "omg hwang mi ri". Even though I know they have a ton of different comics, I thank this (group of people?) woman for making it hard for me to want to read Korean comics. :< Slowly, I'm getting over it, but still...

I wish I could read Korean on that website that tsubasa22 posted. This is a truly interesting topic to me. I kinda figured she couldn't be one person...if anyone can figure out more about this, do post! This is one of my favorite threads on here lol.