Yoon Tae-ho
| Yoon Tae-ho | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 27, 1969 Gwangju, South Jeolla Province, South Korea |
| Occupation | Manhwa artist |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Agent | Nulook Media |
| Website | https://web.archive.org/web/20060720163806/http://www.taiotaio.com/ |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 윤태호 |
| Hanja | 尹胎鎬 |
| Revised Romanization | Yun Tae-ho |
| McCune–Reischauer | Yun T'aeho |
Yoon Tae-ho (born September 27, 1969) is a South Korean manhwa artist. He is best known for writing the webtoons Moss and Misaeng.
Yoon Tae-ho grew up in a rural town of Gwangju, South Jeolla Province. He 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.
Transferring schools frequently due to his father's ups and downs in business, Yoon didn't have many friends. Drawing was his outlet to escape from reality, and he began at a young age, with a four-frame comic strip in the newspaper of his elementary school in Gunsan, North Jeolla Province. His single-mindedness about art won him special treatment from his teachers, who would sometimes allow him to paint watercolors instead of finishing his homework.
When he wasn't accepted by the university he applied for and with his family circumstances showing no signs of improving, Yoon moved to Seoul at the age of 19 to pursue his dream of becoming an artist. Since he didn't know anyone in the city, at first he was homeless for a while. He 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. He also became an assistant to cartoonist Jo Woon-hak.
Yoon 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. But his new job filled him with hope and passion, and he spent all of his free time at night practicing drawing. He was rejected eight times by publishers, before making his writing debut in 1993 with Emergency Landing (Hangul: 비상착륙), a serial comic published in the magazine, Monthly Jump (Hangul: 점프). His own worst critic, he later derided his first work, "The story was terrible and the drawings were too showy." So he put more emphasis on storylines rather than the details of the drawings, with the goal of reflecting the spirit of an era.
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