26 Years is a 2012 South Korean film based on the popular 2006 manhwa serialized online by manhwaga Kang Full. It is the fictional story of five ordinary people who band together in order to assassinate the man responsible for the massacre of innocent civilians in Gwangju in May 1980.
Promotional poster for 26 Years
Kang Full is the pen name of Kang Do-young, a South Korean webtoon artist and screenwriter. Kang began his career as a cartoonist in 1997, serializing comic reviews in Yeongseo Newspaper, then in 2002, began publishing his cartoons on his personal website. He is one of the first-generation webtoon artists in South Korea.
Kang Full on SBS Radio in 2023