Youn In-wan (, born July 27, 1976) is a South Korean

manhwa Manhwa () is the general Korean term for comics and print cartoons. Outside Korea, the term usually refers to Korean comics. Modern Manhwa has extended its reach to many other countries. These comics have branched outside of Korea by acce ...

writer. In Japan, he is known for his work ''

Blade of the Phantom Master /() is a South Korean-Japanese manga series created by Youn In-wan and illustrated by Yang Kyung-il. The story takes place in a world reminiscent of ancient Korea, and follows the Korean-folktale-inspired adventures of Munsu, one of the few ...

''. Prior to that, he worked on the manhwa ''

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'' (아일랜드) with illustrator

Yang Kyung-il Yang Kyung-il (; born March 26, 1970) is a South Korean ''manhwa'' artist from Incheon, South Korea. In 2009, he and frequent collaborator Youn In-wan began serializing their manga '' Defense Devil'' in '' Shonen Sunday''. Works * '' Area D ...

. After the publication of the seventh and last volume of ''Island'', he wrote a novel, ''The Island'', in which he described the past of the characters in his manhwa. He has also been featured in the Korean weekly magazine ''Deja Vu'' (데자뷰). He is known for adding comments at the end of every chapter in ''Blade of the Phantom Master''. In ''

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'' style shorts, he is represented as being a lean bespectacled character who is a brash loud mouth, and who is often shown leading his quiet illustrator Yang around. After the success of their one shot , they have begun to work on '' Defense Devil'' for the weekly

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magazine '' Shōnen Sunday''. Youn was a part time Japanese professor for the

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from 2011 to 2015, and started as a producer for company YLab in 2010. It was reported in 2020 that Yoon will be the

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for

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Career

Korea

Youn debuted in 1996 with the manhwa series ''Bom'' (봄, Spring) in the Korean weekly magazine ''Deja Vu'' (데자뷰).

Japan

Youn debuted in Japan in December, 1999 with ''The Fools'' in a Japanese youth magazine '' Weekly Young Sunday''. He serialized his work ''

'' from 2001 to 2007 at the magazine ''

Monthly Sunday Gene-X , often abbreviated as , is a manga magazine published by Shogakukan. Like many other manga magazines, it is an "anthology magazine", with each issue featuring new chapters of several manga series. The series are also published in form under t ...

''.

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* South Korean manhwa writers Living people 1976 births {{Manhwa-stub