There are so many foreign terms in the world of manga, manhwa, and manhua. Foreign language terms used in comics and webnovels vary widely. Common examples include the terms isekai, dao, cultivation, jianghu, and murim.
If you like reading webtoons or also manhwa and Korean webcomics with martial arts themes. Surely you are familiar with a term called
murim ?. Well this time I will discuss a little about this murim / moorim.
What is Murim ?
Usually in the development of the world that is in manhwa and Korean martial arts novels. The factions within the murim consisted of two large groups. Namely a good faction called "orthodox", and an evil faction called "unorthodox". The two faction groups attack each other in the existing world of manhwa and novels.
In addition to the two general factions, there are also two factions that are more evil than the unorthodox faction. The faction is the demon / devil sect (chaotic faction). The two factions used inhuman means to gain power. Because doing various types of rituals that are considered taboo in the murim world. Because the demon and devil factions rely on power from the outside world, in the sense of using the help of the devil.
☑ Difference between anime ova, ona, and oad
☑ Reality of life in anime and manga
☑ What are cultivation and cultivator in Chinese webnovels ?
Meanwhile, the unorthodox faction only uses dirty methods. It has nothing to do with rituals that lead to summoning demons, magic, necromancers, and the like. What the demon and devil factions usually do. The unorthodox faction only using martial arts and uses unusual underhanded methods. Such as using poison, sneak attack (surprise attack from an unexpected direction), and various other cheating tricks regardless of the existing norms.
So from here, these two demon and devil factions are common enemies of the orthodox and unorthodox sects because they endanger the murim world which is purely inhabited by martial arts warriors. And usually the most common evil faction in this murim world is called "
dark heaven" etc .
Back to our main topic this time. Basically murim in manhwa, webtoon and Korean comics means "
martial world". It's the same with martial arts world in English, and also
Wulin or jianghu in Chinese. Which we usually encounter in wuxia novels and webnovels.
Thus, we have finished our discussion this time about
the meaning of murim in Korean manhwa and webcomics. Hope it's useful. 😎✌️
