A Korean comic book of "genius level" strongly recommended by director Bong Joon-ho.
Netflix original series in production!

A masterpiece of our time, a collaboration between Director Yeon Sang-ho of "Train to Busan" and Writer Choi Kyu-seok of "Awl"

There is a Korean cartoon that is currently receiving a lot of attention from people around the world.
Director Yeon Sang-ho, who created the Korean zombie craze with the film “Train to Busan,” and writer Choi Gyu-seok, who sharply pointed out the flaws and classism of Korean society with the comic “Awl,” have joined forces.
The new world created by the two people joining forces is 『Hell』.

Director Yeon Sang-ho, who was invited to the Cannes International Film Festival again with “Peninsula” following “Train to Busan,” presents a powerful storytelling by unfolding hell not in a distant afterlife but in the heart of modern Seoul. Writer Choi Kyu-seok, who was praised by director Bong Joon-ho as a “genius” for his shocking animation that vividly depicts a surreal scene where the messengers of hell appear on this earth, completes the hellish picture.

The webtoon series "Hellbound" from the comic "Hellbound" garnered much attention even before its serialization was completed, as it was confirmed to be produced as a Netflix original series.
Furthermore, even before the book was published in Korea, publishers in the UK, Japan, Taiwan, France, and other countries have been inquiring about exporting the copyright, and it is attracting extraordinary interest from each country.

The door to the first world, ‘Hell’, has finally opened in this city where we live.

"The most shocking webtoon in history." Naver fine****
"The moment you see it with your own eyes, everyone's brains go blank." Naver Shin Family (sbg0****)
"Is the author experimenting with the readers?" Naver west***
"If the god I believed in targeted me, would I accept it? Would I pray? Would I beg for my life? Would he listen?" Naver sovic (rhee****)
"If you're looking at this comic to get a drink, look at something else. There's nothing like that here." Naver Gungsangi (gksg****)
"I can't even imagine what will happen." Naver Tree (ykae****)
"Yang Sang-ho's hell, depicted in the heart of Seoul, not at the ends of the earth." Naver jung****
"Hell and heaven are not somewhere beyond, but are intertwined here where people live." Naver Hju (el_1****)
“Don’t get hung up on the monsters appearing.
The monster is just a plot device, the real story is that kneeling sniper.
Naver tjralsgns(tjra****)”


“Welcome to the new world.”
A hell created by people

The days when you had to live a good life to go to heaven and avoid being dragged to hell after death are over.
Sinners are summoned to eternal hell, where they are punished by having their limbs torn and burned in front of everyone.


The story begins and before you turn five pages, you will realize:
Yeon Sang-ho and Choi Gyu-seok's "Hell" is not a metaphor for the vague anxieties or premonitions of modern people, but rather depicts the real "hell" that has descended upon the world in which people live.
One day, in the middle of Seoul, a person appears who receives a 'hell notice'.
The unidentified entity tells the target of the notice their name, the fact that they are going to hell, and the time left before going to hell, and then suddenly disappears.
And when the appointed time comes, the messengers of hell will come without fail, tearing the target to pieces and burning them to death.
It's no use trying to hide or run away with all your might.
No matter where he is or what he does, once he is condemned to hell, he dies in a merciless agony that is so painful that it is hard to bear to watch.
What is even more terrifying is that this demonstration of hell is only a part of the suffering that sinners will endure in hell for eternity.

What on earth is going on in this world?
A divine judgment that strikes unjust humans like a natural disaster.
The world is in chaos, and news and real-time search terms about 'hell' and 'demonstration' dominate portal sites.
And to cope with this surreal reality, people transform into messengers of justice, demanding repentance from one another.


In this chaotic and turbulent world, there is a person who, alone and calmly, grasps the laws of this new world and records and organizes the meaning of the demonstration.
This is the chairman of the New Truth Society, Jin-su Jeong.
Chairman Jeong Jin-su has been tracking cases of hellish events and demonstrations taking place around the world for several years and warning people to live righteously.
Is he an extraordinary prophet or seer, representing God's message? Or the leader of a cult? Yet, he demands no service or payment from the anxious masses, who only watch his words.
Rather, he shows the side of a generous and easygoing 'righteous man' who helps the underprivileged and does not spare his own life, and he humbles himself by saying that the 'New Truth Society' he created is not a religion but a study group, and he persuades people to live good and just lives.


Meanwhile, to detective Jin Kyung-hoon, the whole story is still unclear, and it's just a bloody murder case.
When a murder occurs, 'the police catch it.'
He is a fierce pursuer of all these things that are happening by impersonating God.
And as he delves into the truth of the incident, he ends up in a fateful clash with Chairman Jeong Jin-su.


At this time, an incident that shook the public and the media broke out.
Park Jeong-ja, a mother of two who has been working hard to make a living in Seoul without a husband, receives a notice that she will go to hell in five days.
Park Jeong-ja doesn't wonder why she was notified or what the meaning of this demonstration is.
As a mother, she is afraid that she may die soon, that she must leave her two young children behind, and that after she leaves, her children will be abandoned in this city, more terrifying than hell, with no adults to look after them.
Park Jeong-ja agrees to a proposal to live-stream the scene of her going to hell, and agrees to receive payment for it.

What crime did Park Jeong-ja commit?
Will the hellish demonstration be fully realized in front of countless cameras?

As we witness the shocking sight of Park Jeong-ja and countless other sinners being dragged to hell, the book transforms from a terrifying horror story to a mystery with no clues to easily follow, to a thriller where even the next page is impossible to follow, gripping our hearts.


Then, at some point, you will come to a cold realization.
What is more shocking and heartbreaking than the demonstration of hell planned and presented by God in this book is that there is another hell created by people on this earth in order to avoid going to hell, out of fear of hell.


Director Yeon Sang-ho, the best storyteller who shows off his boundless imagination by crossing the boundaries of movies, dramas, and comics, to the point that the term 'Yeonniverse (Yeon Sang-ho + universe)' has been circulating recently, and artist Choi Gyu-seok, a dedicated artist who makes us believe in the unbelievable existence of 'hell' and 'hell's messenger' in an instant, collaborated on the comic 'Hell' and built a new universe with such an overwhelming degree of perfection.

Directed by Yeon Sang-ho, "Hellbound," currently in production as a Netflix original series, will soon transform from a comic book into a live-action drama and be presented to people in 190 countries around the world.


Hell was closer than I thought.
The human hell, the dark entity that has been coiled within each of our hearts, has already arrived here.