The story is resurfacing because Korean netizens connected it to a recent cosplayer controversy related to the game Wuthering Waves, which sent people down a rabbit hole and brought this old 2019 incident back into the spotlight. The Dokdo issue is a perennial flashpoint in Korean national sentiment, so any artist found dismissing Korean sovereignty over the islands faces near-universal backlash.
Korean internet is resurfacing an old but spicy story about a manhwa (Korean comic) artist who got hit with instant karma the moment their professional career was taking off. According to the post, the artist had been writing on their personal blog that Dokdo — a set of small islands that South Korea administers but Japan also claims — belongs to Japan. In Korea, that's not just a controversial opinion. It's essentially career suicide. When netizens dug up the old blog posts, the backlash was swift and merciless, and the artist quietly disappeared from the scene. The incident originally blew up around 2019, but it's making the rounds again after being linked to a separate controversy involving a cosplayer from the game Wuthering Waves (known in Korean as 명조). One search led to another, and suddenly this old case was back in the spotlight — a reminder that the Korean internet never truly forgets.
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They really crossed a hard line with that one.
This is from like 2019 — it's an old case, not something new.
It's connected to the Wuthering Waves cosplayer drama, so just search that and you'll find everything. This artist's incident happened a few years back.
Fully deserved. That's called karma.
The positive side of social media doing its thing.
Should've kept those takes on DC Inside where they belong lmaooo (DC Inside is a Korean anonymous forum known for edgy content)
Wonder what they're up to these days...
Completely finished lmaooo
Akira Rei (appears to be the artist's name or pen name)
Pure karma. No notes.