Chimchakman officially announced his retirement as a webtoon artist.
On the 3rd, a new video titled "Life manga World Cup for manga enthusiasts" was released on the YouTube channel 'Chimchakman'.
On that day, Chimchakman held a "life manga World Cup" with webtoon artist Lee Jong-beom and continued the discussion. While talking, Chimchakman declared, "From today I will make it clear. I will even abandon the title of being a former webtoon artist."
He added, "Having the awkward label of being a former webtoon artist makes me strangely conceited. I want to approach things just as a manga enthusiast, but I'm constantly classified as an industry person, so I come off as arrogant," he confessed.
In response, Lee Jong-beom said, "It is a background after all," but Chimchakman firmly replied, "I will erase even the fact that I am a former webtoon artist," drawing attention.
Meanwhile, Chimchakman officially announced his retirement as a webtoon artist when he appeared on MBC's "Radio Star" broadcast in August. When Kim Guk-jin asked, "Do you have any thought of drawing manga again?" Chimchakman replied, "I stopped drawing and have no plans."
Chimchakman said, "My comics actually started when I posted them on an amateur comics board and the response was good, so I received an offer and started. At the time the pay was not strong, so it was 500,000 won per month and I worked part-time alongside it," and added, "My expression is lacking. To express you must continually work and train, but at the time I discovered the lure of internet broadcasting when I should have been training."
He continued, "Unlike drawing, I could express myself well with words on broadcasts, so I fell into internet broadcasting," and said he will continue to be active as a YouTuber. Chimchakman explained, "There are people waiting, and it has been recognized because I clearly said I quit comics. So I introduce myself as a former webtoon artist, current YouTuber."
Meanwhile, Chimchakman serialized "Imal-nyun series" and "Imal-nyun's Journey to the West" in 2009 under the webtoon artist Imal-nyun. He has operated a YouTube channel under the name Chimchakman since 2014, and after ending the serialization of "Imal-nyun series 2018" in 2018, he did not release a follow-up work.<
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