Resuming the Baek Seon-yeop Webtoon on the Korea Military Academy Discontinued During the Moon Jae-in Administration

Webtoons Removed from Website in 2018
Posted on Korea Military Academy Website Since 25th Last Month
"Separate from the Claim to Install General Baek Seon-yeop's Bust"

The webtoon about the late General Baek Seon-yeop of the Korea Military Academy has been confirmed to be republished after five years. On the Korea Military Academy website's 'KMA Webtoon' section, a webtoon titled "Shoot Me If I Retreat," featuring General Baek as the main character, has been posted since the 25th of last month.

It has been confirmed that the webtoon of the late General Baek Seon-yeop has been republished after 5 years.
[Photo source: Screenshot from the Korea Military Academy website]

This webtoon was originally serialized on the KMA website from May to September 2016 over 30 episodes, recording 700,000 views. Based on General Baek Seon-yeop’s Korean War memoir "The Army and I," the story unfolds through the recollections of the duty soldier Kang Seok-tae within the webtoon.

However, the series was discontinued on the website in February 2018. At that time, the Korea Military Academy explained, "The webtoon was removed due to issues with website layout and server capacity, as other webtoons needed to be posted afterward."

After about five years and five months, the webtoon began to be republished on the KMA website on the 25th of last month. This date was the day after the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs removed the phrase "pro-Japanese anti-national act perpetrator" from General Baek’s burial record at the National Cemetery.

Regarding this, the Army stated, "The re-uploading of this webtoon is unrelated to recent calls for the installation of General Baek Seon-yeop’s statue," adding, "It is inappropriate to associate the two."

Some speculate that the military plans to remove the statue of independence activist General Hong Beom-do from the KMA and replace it with General Baek Seon-yeop’s statue, but the Ministry of National Defense and the Korea Military Academy have denied these claims.

Meanwhile, on the 24th, the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs deleted the phrase "pro-Japanese anti-national act perpetrator (pro-Japanese faction)" from General Baek Seon-yeop’s information on the National Cemetery website.

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