Kim Hye-rin (artist)

In 1983, Kim debuted with The Star of the North Sea. in 1986, she published Bird born to be wild in the man's world on Cartoon Plaza, a comic magazine. She showed interest in the wounds of Koreans and how they overcame them. However, Bird born to be wild in the man's world did not get much attention. After she finished The star of the North Sea in 1987, she presented The Dance in the Sky in 1988, a work that explored East Asia. She introduced the work Thermidor, a work that depicts a frustrated human race with the French Revolution as background. This work was for the comic magazine Renaissance. Thermidor got a good response and The Dance in the Sky succeeded. Kim became one of the most popular manhwa artists of her time. After The Dance in the Sky, Kim started to serialize The Sword of Fire on Daeng-gi since 1992, her longest series. However, Daeng-gi stopped publishing, the work was not completed and drifted thereafter. After several other serials were discontinued due to the closure of the magazines that carried them, The Sword of Fire was finally completed in 2005. Since the 2000s, the Korean cartoon publishing market has been stagnant due to the boost of 'webtoon' market.