Mr. Misang is a South Korean digital artist whose densely detailed, brightly colored illustrations and animations satirize the pressures of modern Korean corporate life. Working under a pseudonym that means unknown or anonymous in Korean, he built his reputation with Modern Life is Rubbish, a twelve-part animated series adapting illustrations he first drew in 2016.
Credited as Lee JuYong, Mr. Misang worked as a commercial illustrator, producing posters, covers, and animations for magazines and brands. The series closed in 2021 with #12. Mr Misang & Crypto World, a video piece staged inside a virtual CryptoVoxels gallery. Critics later cited #09. Company entrance, an animated MLIR illustration, as an example of NFT art purposely designed to exist only in that form. By June 2021 pieces from the series such as #10. Pantheon were circulating on SuperRare, and he had joined HanDAO, a Korean NFT collective.
