Yoon Tae-ho is best known for writing the webtoons Moss and Misaeng.
10 Facts About Yoon Tae-ho
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Yoon Tae-ho grew up in a rural town of Gwangju, South Jeolla Province.
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Yoon Tae-ho came from a poor family with an abusive, strict father, and Yoon suffered from the skin disease eczema which severely affected his self-esteem as a child.
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When he was not accepted by the university he applied for and with his family circumstances showing no signs of improving, Yoon Tae-ho moved to Seoul at the age of 19 to pursue his dream of becoming an artist.
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Yoon Tae-ho then met renowned manhwa artist Huh Young-man, and when he learned that Huh lived on the street close to where he was staying, Yoon hounded him until he was finally accepted as Huh's pupil and assistant in 1988.
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Yoon Tae-ho described himself as an angry man during his twenties, always getting into fights with strangers whom he assumed looked down on him for his small physique.
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Yoon Tae-ho was rejected eight times by publishers, before making his writing debut in 1993 with Emergency Landing, a serial comic published in the magazine, Monthly Jump.
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Yoon Tae-ho became best known for writing the webtoons Moss and Misaeng, leading literary critics to call him as one of the leading voices of the next generation of Korean cartoonists.
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Yoon Tae-ho used the game of baduk as a metaphor for the cutthroat trading industry culture, and his painstaking research of the realities at trading companies provide a vivid description of life as a corporate underling.
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In March 2012, Yoon Tae-ho led several groups of cartoonists in protesting the plan of state censorship body Korea Communications Standards Commission to designate 23 webtoons as "harmful to youth," saying it undermines freedom of expression.