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Bastard by Carnby Kim: Mystery and high efforts in an exciting family drama.
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Money Game by Bae Jinsoo: A brutal social experiment with alliances and power play.
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Zero Game by the Zelbasen: A Battle for Survival and Supremacy in a life -changing competition.
Octopus is a series of lots of heights and lowness, and definitely one of the Korean audience's favorites. But it has already exceeded SK's borders and has become a global phenomenon. Even manhwa Fans are looking for similarities between Hwang Dong-Hyuk Hit and some Korean series.

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Bastard
Mystery, family drama and high efforts
- Genre: Psychological, thriller, drama, mystery, horror, excitement
- Author: Carnby Kim
- Artist: Youngchan hwang
What would readers do, if one day they discovered a secret so horrible that can change how they see their families forever? That's what the main character of Bastard Must deal with when he finds out that his father is a ruthless serial killer.

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Carnby Kim, An award-winning writer and novelist from Korea takes readers through the pages of this incredible mystery thriller, with non-stop action and dark turns that make them shake. The level of excitement and efforts is constantly high: an emotional mountain and coaster that can be compared to Octopus in stimulation and plot structure.
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Money games
A brutal social experiment goes wrong
- Genres: Thriller, psychological, mystery
- Author and artist: Bae jinsoo
This popular Manhwa gave life to the Netflix series with the title 8 -ShowWhere eight total strangers with a great need for money participate in a social experiment to win an incredible money pool. They will have to survive 100 days living under the same roof, in a secluded space while being constantly monitored.
Alliances will be forged, schedules will be planned and power movements will play in a game where the winner will take the prize home, and the losers risk more than just a pure expulsion from the house. Readers are warned: This series contains psychological and physical violence and can also handle certain adult subjects.
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Zero play
All or nothing in a struggle for supremacy
- Genres: Action, drama, fantasy, romance
- Author and artist: Zelbasen
The protagonist of this series, a desperate young woman named Yoo Hanra (Hanna in the English version), receives a shady proposal in the form of an e-mail from her deceased father: participating in a competition called “Zero Game.“The rules are simple: survived the many challenges in a comprehensive fight against other competitors, forging alliances and outmaneuver enemies until only one remains.
The winner gets the chance to make their lives again and the losers die. But when he enters the arena, every participant gets incredible superhuman abilities, and Hanra gets one of the highest. Will she be able to survive enough to assert what she wants the most? Or will she be crumbled under the weight of the endless cycle of violence?
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Pig Pen
An underrated thriller by the author of Bastard
- Genres: Thriller, mystery, psychological, horror
- Author: Carnby Kim
- Artist: Beom Sick Cheon
A psychological horror thriller where nothing is what it seems, told by the author of BastardThe This Manhwa is about a young boy who suddenly wakes up on a mysterious beach, isolated from civilization. He has no idea who he is, and to give an insult to injury, a scary family welcomes him at his table.

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Since he does not remember anything, he plays with, while the atmosphere is becoming more and more tense while the strange family of two daughters, a son, father and mother is trying to lean into her subconscious. But the action is thickened when the young protagonist begins to figure out something smells fishy in this strange place. The secrets of this mysterious family are soon revealed in a series of dark and incredible turns.
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100
Based on the famous PUBG game
- Genres: Thriller, Action, Battle Royale, Drama
- Author: Hyeong Eun
- Artist: Yunyeol choi
Hoyoung Cheon is one of the selected competitors who dive into Battlegrounds. He and 99 other participants will be sent in an isolated battlefield and will have to kill each other until only one remains. The winner will have the prize (and the Chiken dinner) while the losers are left to feed the worms.
But Cheon has a secret: he is an infiltrator in this sick game, and his mission is to find a person of interest that examined the mysterious organization behind this Battle Royale. Armed with a gun and a frying pan, Cheon must fight to survive if he wants to complete his mission and evacuate before anyone turns him into a point point. Manhwa is based on the famous Player Unknown's Battlegrounds Video games, and it's a short series found on Webtoon.

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