Civil Servant Battles Demons in New Korean Webtoon Hit

Han Maru, a protagonist who failed the Grade 9 civil service exam four times, suffers an unexpected accident. When he regains consciousness, he learns he has been hired as a special appointee at an agency under the Ministry of Environment—a position he never applied for. But the price of acceptance proves harsh: his job is to wage life-or-death battles against "Nachal," monstrous creatures that descend into the human world to kill and devour people.

"Special Appointee" is a unique genre work combining the realistic premise of civil service examinations with fantasy action featuring demon-slaying monsters. The script comes from writers Kwon So-ra and Seo Jae-won, who established the distinctiveness of Korean occult genre through dramas "Bulgasal" and "The Guest." The series has built a solid fandom on Naver Webtoon, with approximately 250,000 users adding it to their favorites.