Lee Do-yeong can be considered the first modern Korean illustrator. He tried to capture the negative spirit of the Korean people in his satirical and didactic comics and illustrations under the title 'Saphwa'. His work appeared in the Daehanminbo daily from 2 June 1909. A year later, the magazine was forbidden by the Japanese colonists. He then founded an association for calligraphy and painting, of which he assumed the direction from the 1920s.
