Koogi

Koogi
Hangul	쿠기
English	Koogi
Personal Information
Gender	Female
Social Media	Twitter: @koo_gi
Birth Year	1994

Koogi (쿠기) is the writer and illustrator of Killing Stalking (킬링 스토킹). She first conceived the series before even entering college, drawing inspiration from her surroundings. As she observed the buildings, dirty alleys, signs, and crumpled flyers on the ground, she said, "The story was born inside me without me realizing it."

Killing Stalking was published online in Korean and English by Lezhin Comics, and upon its success, it won the ₩100,000,000 Grand Prize Award at the Second Lezhin World Comics Contest.

Biography

Koogi is a graduate of Cheonggang Cultural Industry University who majored in comics (manhwa). Koogi wanted to tell stories since primary school, but her dream was to become an oil painter. When She was ready to become a traditional painter in high school, she realized that she had a passion for telling stories instead.

Trivia

• When Koogi was writing Killing Stalking, she said she liked reading Dark Heaven by JUNS. She described the artwork as beautiful and the writing as sophisticated.
• When experiencing artist’s block, Koogi turns on movies or music that are in stark contrast to Killing Stalking. For example, she’ll watch musicals or listen to a calm melody.
• The pen name Koogi comes from her last name, 'Koo,' but she regrets not putting more thought into it since she says her friends keep making fun of it. 쿠 (Koo) = derived from her last name 구, and 기 (Gi) = an added syllable, likely for stylistic or phonetic purposes.

Interviews

Below is a list of interviews featuring Koogi. While they are not in English, they can be translated.

• Koogi: "I didn't want Killing Stalking to seem like a romantic story." (March 11, 2017)
• Lucca 2017, J-POP: Interview with Koogi, author of Killing Stalking (December 12, 2017)
• A killer, a stalker: love or madness? Koogi herself tells us about it. (January 5, 2018) Here's a fan translation
• Koogi, interview with the author of ‘Killing Stalking’, a Korean web phenomenon (January 30, 2018)
• Koogi: "Killing Stalking is not just violence, I also tell the story of love." (June 21, 2019)
• 'Killing Stalking', a craze in Europe... The author talks about the 'secret to success' (June 22, 2019)
• An interview with Koogi-sensei to celebrate the completion of "Killing Stalking" (February 3, 2024)
• Interview with Koogi Sensei

Published Works

Cover	Title	Year Published	Description
	Killing Stalking	2016-2019	Yoon Bum is a broken, beaten, and scarred human being, whose mental instability and loneliness have led him to unhealthy outlets for his pent up emotions. With his weakened mind, Bum has found solace in watching his handsome classmate Oh Sangwoo; Bum's love runs so deep, in fact, that he has begun stalking him. While creeping in Sangwoo's house one day, Bum makes a horrifying discovery—a torture chamber and a naked young woman tied up, gagged, and pleading for help.
	Welcome to Undead Park	2025-	The largest theme park in America has been overrun by a zombie virus. Sung-heon finds himself trapped with his daughter among zombies and foreign tourists with whom he cannot communicate. In this unprecedented disaster where any moving living creature, not just humans, is turned into a zombie, Sung-heon struggles with his injured leg to save his daughter. They must survive—against the zombies, and each other.

Media

Live video of Koogi drawing Yoon Bum from Lucca Comics & Games in 2017.

Live Illustration with Koogi (Killing Stalking)