Jinho Ko

Jinho Ko is known for illustrating **Terror Man** and **Terror Vs. Revival**. He is known to work with Dongwoo Han.

## Biography Summary

Nothing is quite known about Jinho's personal life. He was enrolled in *"Busan Info University for department of Electronics"* and *"Busan University of the Arts in Department of Cartoon Art"* but dropped both schools.

He is highly admired for his drawing style. He is famous for his unique and high-quality perfectionism. He is a developing artist who always makes new attempts while presenting a new drawing style for each work.

During the publishing days, he worked in typical black and white + screen tone, but in the webtoon, he showed a black and white + partial coloring style(ex. Terror Man), showing a production that is different from other webtoons. Despite being a veteran cartoonist in his 28th year of debut, he is always doing new research and attempts. Artist Jaehyeon Yang of "*Hot Blood Gangho"* once praised this work method on Facebook. He has done a special lecture at YLAB academy at 2016 and his apperance is shown.

## Career Background

In 1994, while active in the cartoon club 'Taegeuk' in Busan, he worked as a pupil of cartoonist Seongwoo Park . He was active from the time of the 3rd volume of the 1st part of the Legend of the Eight Dragon Gods to the end, and from the 3rd volume he was a disciple and said that he did all the background work by himself. In 1995, he started his career as a full-time cartoonist by publishing <Scramble> serially in the comic magazine 'Shark'. He is a talented writer who ranks among the top in Korea in terms of characters, backgrounds, and directing. He has experience of serializing not only in Korea but also in Japan.

He made his debut in webtoons after serializing in published comics for a long time, and finally making Evil Eater into a web comic adaptation of Lezhin Comics' Moonlight Talk series. Based on his long experience, he shows high-quality drawing and directing that is different from other webtoons.

In 2016, YLab published Naver Webtoon's Terror Man serially. Originally, it was known that season 3 was scheduled, but it was completed in season 2 in May 2020.

As part of the promotion of the pre-series work, both Jinho Ko and Jaehan Kim, collaborated to draw an illustration for Terror Vs. Revival. This was also displayed for a certain period of time at Minam Station on Busan Line 3. In August 2021, he founded a studio called Monster Riot , which makes webtoons and web novels, and left Ylab in 2022.

## Superstring Work

### Terror Man

It is not know the development of Terror Man except that he showcase a black and white illustration with partial coloring on particular moments. In season 1, he left a short message saying to be excited for season 2. However It would seem he didn't leave a message in season 2 unlike Dongwoo Han.

### Terror Vs. Revival

In the epilogue, he and Dongwoo Han left a heart warming message of how much he enjoyed creating Terror Vs. Revival thanking his writer and Ylab. He ends off with wondering and anticipating which next work he will do.

## Trivia

* It appears that he has a long portfolio of works he has done out of all Super String related employees but is likely tied with Kyungil Yang.

## Gallery

Jaehan Kim & Jinho Ko Collab WallpaperFull Gallery Page
## References

1. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/%EA%B3%A0%EC%A7%84%ED%98%B8
2. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/%EA%B3%A0%EC%A7%84%ED%98%B8
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://namu.wiki/w/%EA%B3%A0%EC%A7%84%ED%98%B8
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://namu.wiki/w/%EA%B3%A0%EC%A7%84%ED%98%B8 - Drawing Section
5. ↑ https://blog.naver.com/ylabacademy/220748100082
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 https://namu.wiki/w/%EA%B3%A0%EC%A7%84%ED%98%B8 - Career Section
7. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/khojino/posts/4659415060793327
8. ↑ Terror Man, Season 2, Epilogue
9. ↑ Terror Man, Season 2, Epilogue
10. ↑ Terror Vs. Revival, Epilogue
11. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%96%91%EA%B2%BD%EC%9D%BC