A Korean’s Discovery (Korea・Cine 21) 2015-09-22

The supplement comics to the boy’s magazines published at the end of 60’s in Korea tempted Korean boys.
“Tiger mask”, “Primitive boy Aaron”, “Super boy BaBa” and “Challenger hurricane” were published serially on “Boy Center”. “Ultra Seven”, “Iron man 28-go” and “Strong fencer” on “Crossing shoulders” and “Water Margin”, “Babel II” and “Kamen Rider X” on “New boy”.
When I was a 4th year in elementary school and in the winter vacation, I watched something from the bus toward the house of my grandmother. There was a bunch of the magazines in the secondhand bookseller in front of the stop where the bus stopped. I saw the colorful Japanese letters there. They were Japanese boys’ comics. They were a little expensive. So I was not able to buy all, but I could buy half-dozen. When I came back to my house and opened the books, I received a big shock. “Babel II”, “Win a typhoon” and “Challenger hurricane” that I had read were ･･････ No, most of the comics that I had read were Japanese comics.

On that day thereafter, I went to the alley of Myondong where bookstores selling Japanese books formed a line and I bought Japanese boy comic books such as “Weekly Shōnen Magazine”, “Weekly Shōnen Sunday”, “Weekly Shōnen Jump” and “Weekly Shōnen Champion”. I understood Korean comics had copied Japanese comics. The comics that the government and mothers thought were bad did not include the comics that copied Japanese comics. On the other hand, the comics that parents felt relieved were the comics that were made with putting tracing paper on Japanese comics.