Is Death’s Game Based on a Webtoon?

Is Death’s Game Based on a Webtoon? By is a highly arresting K drama series that arrived on TVING on December 15, 2023, with Part 1. The first part of the fantasy thriller series is also available on Amazon Prime Video for streaming. The series stars Seo In Guk and Park So Dam. The series is based on Lee Won Sik and Ggulchan’s popular and acclaimed webtoon of the same name.

Ever since the arrival of the K drama Death’s Game Part 1 on TVING, viewers have been quite curious to learn all about the webtoon of the same title, which the ongoing has been adapted from. So, without further ado, let’s dive right in to find out all about the celebrated webtoon by Ggulchan and Lee Won Sik.

What’s Death’s Game webtoon about? The highly cherished Korean webtoon titled Death’s Game, created by Ggulchan and Lee Won Sik, was first released on April 18, 2019, on Naver. The original Korean webtoon was concluded on July 16, 2020. The main character of the webtoon is Choi Yi Jae. The storyline of the ongoing TVING series of the same name is kept quite close to the original webtoon.

In the series, Seo In Guk plays the lead role of Choi Yi Jae. The webtoon Death’s Game depicts the astounding and fascinating story of Choi Yi Jae, who decides to end his life after several failures in life. However, after his demise, he faces death’s wrath and punishment in the form of a deadly game.

The official synopsis of the webtoon reads, “He’s perennially unemployed, his ex girlfriend has moved on, and he’s just lost all his life savings to a Bitcoin scam. Burdened by societal pressures, Yijae Choi decides to take his own life.” The synopsis continues, “Insulted by his flippant attitude towards dying, Death comes to punish him with her game: he must experience death over and over again through 13 other lives.

But if he can find a way to survive the imminent death coming for these lives, he gets to live out their lifetime. His life was a bust, but what about the lives of others?” The upcoming part 2 of the K drama Death’s Game will debut on TVING on Friday, January 5, 2024. Nikita is a K Drama News Writer.

She loves to explore different genres of Korean dramas, from evergreen classics like Goblin, Descendants of the Sun, Reply 1988, Coffee Prince to the freshly launched thrillers and rom coms like The Uncanny Counter, Flower of Evil, True Beauty, Twenty Five Twenty One and many more. She is also a K Pop enthusiast and all things BTS! Share article Subscribe to our Newsletter Related.