Euicheol Shin (Author)

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Euicheol Shinalso known as IRON Shin is the author and illustrator of **Kuku Kuku (Webtoon)**.

## Biography Summary

He was a class of 1996 at the Department of Art Education, College of Education, Korea University, and after graduating from college, he said that he worked as an art teacher at Yangil Middle School. During his serialization of "School Holic", he has two jobs: an art teacher and webtoon author, but he quit his job as a teacher to continue his webtoon. In addition, he was in a relationship with a teacher at the same school during the serialization. After marriage, he is now the father of a son. His son is in elementary school as of 2021.

He was a student of author Lee Myungjin, and when Myungjin returned as a cartoonist with Soul Ark after 10 years, he left a message on Facebook saying that he was a student 20 years ago.

## Career Background

He made his debut with *"School Holic"* during his time as an art teacher. It is a daily toon that made use of his experience as a middle and high school art teacher. Originally, it was serialized on the author's personal homepage (Cyworld Paper) and published in a way that it was uploaded together on Bboom, but around December 2008, Cyworld Paper disappeared and comics in Bboom were integrated with Challenge Comics and Best Challenge, Naver Best Challenge. He started serializing in <Naver> and debuted after signing an official contract with Naver.

Even after leaving the school, he continued to be a schoolholic with his webtoon using school related aspects. After ending the series of School Holic, it has been published in various genres.

He was YLAB academy's first director until he resign during 2017 for unknown reason.

## Trivia

* His name in Korean sounds like "Iron of God".
* According to his webtoon, *"Sidekick,"* his birthday seems to be on December 15th. In the very first episode of School Holic, Episode 88, National Day, December 14th was written as a birthday.
* He likes *"Yukari Tanizaki"* from Azumanga Daioh and actually wrote this character education policy when he was a middle school teacher. He soon gave up not long after being accused of being an irresponsible teacher by his students.
* His heroine "Lamia Lilith" from *"Sidekick"* has a sexy body that it drew attention. To the extent that many fans are drawing fan art.
* Supposedly, it seems that he has enjoyed playing FIFA and Winning for more than 10 years evidenced by his webtoon, "Sidekick." He also played FM during the checkerboard days. In those days, it was all a checkerboard anyway, but this FM seems to have been doing it for quite a long time. Soccer drips often appear in various episodes.
* He was impersonated by a middle school student at the time. However, because it was such a clumsy impersonation, the student was immediately discovered. Legal action could have been taken for defamation, but Euicheol forgave the person who caused the incident on the condition that he promise not to do such a thing again.

## References

1. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%82%AC%EC%9D%B4%EB%93%9C%ED%82%A5(%EC%9B%B9%ED%88%B0)
2. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%8B%A0%EC%9D%98%EC%B2%A0 - Overview Section
3. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%8B%A0%EC%9D%98%EC%B2%A0 - Overview Section
4. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%8B%A0%EC%9D%98%EC%B2%A0 - Digression Section
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%8B%A0%EC%9D%98%EC%B2%A0 - Overview Section
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%8B%A0%EC%9D%98%EC%B2%A0 - Digression Section
7. ↑ https://ylabac.kr/%ec%99%80%ec%9d%b4%eb%9e%a9-%ec%95%84%ec%b9%b4%eb%8d%b0%eb%af%b8/%ec%97%b0%ed%98%81/
8. ↑ https://www.webtoons.com/en/super-hero/sidekicks/list?title\_no=92