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Kara, the manhwaga-s behind poplular fantasy Mawang Ilgi, consists of Yoon-Jeong Kim, who takes care of the organisation and the storyboard, and Eun-Sook Jeong, who does the pen touch and the colouring. Mr.K invited Kara, whose name means 'to invite', 'to become famous' in Hebrew.

It is said that you made your debut with "Terra", winning a prize at the Cake contest. How did you first meet each other?

We were both working as assistants for Mrs. Eun-Young Hong, and when we left, we left together. We didn't really plan to work together from the beginning, but when preparing for our debut, we realized that becoming a manhwaga wasn't so easy after all. As assistants, we had mostly drawn sunyun manhwas, so our drawing style, the stories we came up with, and so on were influenced much by that. Naturally, the work we wanted to create would become like that.
And, well, in sonyun manhwas, you have to show a lot of action, which is quite difficult to do all on your own. And since we were beginners back then, of course we didn't have any assistants. So we began working together.

If you count the story writer, then there are three of you, working on one manhwa. What's the process like?

When it comes to the story, getting the story from someone else allows you to encouter various different genres. But since the story writer isn't the one who finally creates the manhwa, in the stage of the story writing, the storyboard doesn't show many manhwa-like features. So we have to read it over, adding and deleting... You could say that we re-create the story. But of course we respect the writers opinion and always ask when we change something, because it mustn't contradict the writer's intentions. In the end, we take over the basic frame of the original story and the text, and only edit minor things, that might increase the fun of the manhwa. For instance, adding gags or getting rid of text that is too long, things like that, you know.