Episode 1: Only with My Strength
Episode 2: Pioneer
Episode 3: Splendid Times
Episode 4: Summer in Manchuria
Episode 5: Embarking on a World Tour
Episode 6: The Beginning of a Breakup
Episode 7: The Happiness of Not Forgetting Me
Episode 8: Entering a New Life
Episode 9 Comrades, Ladies
Episode 10: This World Made of Tears
Episode 11: Born as a Woman
Episode 12: This Low and Flat Place
Episode 13 Any of Us
Episode 14: Walking through a snow-covered field
Episode 15: Being Alive
Episode 16: Tomorrow, Walking Alone

Author's Note
Na Hye-seok's chronology
References

Vividly captured in a cartoon
The face of 'that woman'

Na Hye-seok is remembered with such colorful epithets as “a new woman ahead of her time,” “Korea’s first female Western-style painter,” “the woman who traveled around the world,” and “the woman of unconventional love and divorce.”
But such images alone cannot give us a proper view of his entire life.
Of course, Na Hye-seok was a person with a way of thinking that was ahead of her time, and at the same time, she was someone who chose to live a life without fear.
But behind all that courage and determination, loneliness and pain always followed like a shadow.
"Let's not forget even one thing in my heart" captures the two sides of such life without reservation, and allows us to look at "that woman" Na Hye-seok, who has been consumed only as an image of a strong fighter through the media and re-examination of women's narratives, with a deeper and broader perspective.

"Let's not forget my heart" vividly captures Na Hye-seok's life more than anything else.
Expressions, gestures, street scenes, and interactions with people that could not be felt through existing text or a few photos come to life entirely in the form of comics.
As novelist Park Seo-ryeon sent a recommendation saying, “I guess this is what it must have looked like,” readers feel a sense of reality and empathy as they turn each page, as if they are following a person’s life.
In this way, Na Hye-seok is no longer a historical figure stuffed in records, but rather a living person who laughs, cries, and worries alongside us.
Na Hye-seok as a lonely intellectual, Na Hye-seok wavering between love and motherhood, Na Hye-seok laughing with friends and sometimes frustrated.
This book breathes new warmth into the name Na Hye-seok through such multi-layered aspects.

“Before being a woman, you are a human being.”
The never-ending struggle

Meanwhile, Na Hye-seok's struggle for women's independence and freedom is still not over at this moment.
The criticism and oppression that the society of the time imposed on her, the atmosphere that tabooed her freedom of love, work, and self-expression because she was a woman, are still repeated in various forms today.
The social perspective that forces choices surrounding marriage, childbirth, and childcare on women as if they were a "natural duty" rather than a matter of individual life, structural discrimination such as career breaks and wage gaps, and the repeated hatred and ridicule toward women in online spaces as if they were part of everyday life are still prevalent in our society.
It is also still not easy for women to freely express their voices.
Various stigmas and ridicule are commonplace, and attempts to denigrate or silence women's very existence are constant even on social media and in comment culture.

Therefore, reexamining Na Hye-seok's life is not simply an effort to restore or commemorate the past.
It is an act of reflecting on what it means to exist as a woman in the society we live in, here and now, and confronting the challenges that remain unresolved. It is in itself a question and declaration for the present and the future.
Can women be respected as individuals?
What is the place of women in love, work, family, and society?
What does it mean to live without losing your own voice?
Her cry, “Before being a woman, I am a human being,” still resonates with us and remains a powerful message to those who dream of a better world.

The first female cartoonist,
With my heart towards my senior writer

Na Hye-seok in “Let’s not forget one thing in my heart” was reborn through the hands of cartoonist Yoo Seung-ha.
For artist Seung-ha Yoo, who has featured Na Hye-seok in his works three times, starting with a short cartoon in 2014 and continuing with this book, Na Hye-seok is, above all, the 'first female cartoonist.'
In fact, the prints that Na Hye-seok published in the magazine New Women in 1920 vividly captured the figure of her friend Kim Il-yeop, who was the same age as her, balancing household chores and women's movement, in a format similar to today's four-panel cartoons, filled with wit and humor.
In particular, this print work is produced as a sticker and is available in a limited first edition.

Artist Seung-ha Yoo's wish to one day draw a comic dedicated to a senior artist has come to fruition with this work's in-depth direction and animation.
Through the medium of comics, which anyone can read, it was completed as an open book that not only adult readers who are curious about Na Hye-seok but also teenagers can read without burden.
This book, which deals with a figure who left an indelible mark on our history, allows us to approach Na Hye-seok's story in a friendly and affectionate way rather than in a heavy and difficult way. Through this book, Na Hye-seok returns to us as a living face as we turn the pages.

Author's Note

I had always harbored a desire in a corner of my heart to draw Na Hye-seok's life as a painter into a cartoon.
Although she has been given many titles as the first, to me, she was the first female cartoonist in our country.
I wanted to draw a comic dedicated to a senior writer.
(…) There were two previous projects, but this time I was able to focus solely on Na Hye-seok.
As I myself grew older and reached the age when Na Hye-seok was ending her life, I was able to look at Na Hye-seok as she was, without the many adjectives attached to her.
The path he walked, art, feminism, and Buddhism, was the path to saving the world and was also Na Hye-seok's ultimate goal in life.
I would like to say that through this work, I was able to get a little closer to Na Hye-seok's heart, and that every part of her life was perfect and fulfilling in itself.

July 2025
Yoo Seung-ha