Updated May 9, 2024 by testing

Prepare yourself for an overdose of eye candy. The most dashing Korean MCs are about to unfold before you. And they are not just handsome, they are dark, mysterious, merciless, fearless, smart, and overpowered—a total package.

I know you are super excited now so without further due let’s dive into the little recommendation list featuring the best Manhwas where the MC becomes handsome.

 

KOREAN WEBTOONS WHERE THE MC BECOMES HANDSOME (RECOMMENDATIONS)

 

15. Guard Pass

 

Transformation	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
10/20	6/10	6/10	7/10	29/50

Lim Sejun is not all that ugly face wise, however, he’s extremely fat. I mean, the guy likes to eat who can blame him.

Teased none stop at school because of his oversized body, you’d think he’d get depressed but that’s not the case. The guy is absolutely unbothered by the situation. He couldn’t care less about the opinion of others.

There was someone who’d get angry for him instead, his friend, Seo Hajin. Whenever he is being picked on, the Jiu Jitsu user would come to his rescue. He was fine with the situation until he found Seo severely beaten as retaliation and is now suffering from PTSD as a result of being assaulted.

Now that the bullies had the bad idea to hurt his friend, they’ll have to pay. But it’s impossible to get revenge as he is now. His training began, he got stronger and stronger, a perfect body came as an extra bonus for our eyes.

 

14. Legend of the Northern Blade

Transformation	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
12/20	6/10	6/10	7/10	31/50

His Korean Manhwa is set in the Murim World. At the time, the Northern Heavenly Sect, led by Jin Mu-Won’s father, was in charge of protecting the world from the Silent Night. A task they saw through till the very end.

The Leader was betrayed by his underlings and decapitated in front of his son. Only Jin was spared and left behind in the ruins of his home.

They forbid him to learn martial arts and treated him like a slave, tortured him front time to time as well. If you saw him back then, he was only a scrawny kid with only flesh of his bones. Weak and miserable, he was nothing like our usual MC.

However, things changed when a monster came barging into the Northern Heavenly Sect and drove off the invaders.

This time again, only Jin survived. He secluded himself in the mountains and started training himself in the secret ancient ways of his sect. After 7 years, he came out transformed with ripped muscles and sexy scars all over.

He was ready to seek vengeance for his father and all his brethren.

 

13. God Of Blackfield

 

Transformation	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
13/20	7/10	6/10	7/10	33/50

Kang Chan was an exceptional soldier. On the battlefield, he was feared by his enemies and worshipped by his comrades who gave him the nickname “God of Backfield”

He was betrayed by one of his own and he and his whole squad died without even having the chance to fight back. However, Kang woke up once more but not in his own body, in the body of a kid who had committed suicide at the same time that he drew his last breath.

Boiling with rage, he was hell-bent on taking revenge on the bastard who set him up. But there was nothing he could do with this weak useless body, first, intense training was necessary.

Shredded abs, no body fat, a fierce look on his face, even I could fall for him now.

 

12. I Am The Sorcerer King

Transformation	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
14/20	7/10	7/10	7/10	35/50

From one day to another, the world drastically changed. Monsters started appearing everywhere and people started awakening skills to protect themselves.

At the same time, Lee SungHoon’s mother fell into a coma while he remained a normal human. With no way to make money quickly, he decided to take the dangerous job to become monster bait.

As he was about to get eaten on the job, the memories of his past life flashed through his mind in an instant.

 He was the almighty Sorcerer King! Magic was overflowing from his body and his body was also adapting to all the power that he was accumulating.

His life was about to change, he was about to turn into a millionaire and a really good-looking one at that.

 

11. The Player That Can’t Level Up

Transformation	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
15/20	7/10	7/10	7/10	36/50

Kim GiGyu finally awakened as a player when he turned 18 and not any kind of player, one with a rare special skill.

He was overjoyed until he realized that he was the only player on the planet unable to level up. He stayed at level 1 for years until he learned how that special skill that he got worked.

And you know, when a person goes from weak to overpowered, their body usually gets an upgrade as well, plus the boost in confidence, it turns them into attractive beasts with an inflated ego.

 

10. The Blade Of Evolution

Transformation	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
15/20	7/10	7/10	7/10	36/50

In a world where power is everything, the MC awakened his unique skill. He just drew the short straw cuz his healing ability can only be described as trash.

The guys still had to work, hence they  entered a Dungeon with his team. They made a terrible mistake and released the “Last Priest”, a monster that massacred them.

Only the MC survived and got his hands on a sword that had the ability to upgrade the power of his holder.

Not only did the sword make him super strong, it looks like it made him super handsome as well.

 

9. Panlong

Transformation	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
16/20	7/10	7/10	7/10	37/50

Linley is the heir of a once very powerful and well  respected clan of nobles. Wishing to reinstate his family’s honor and influence, he set alone on an adventure.

On the road, he stumbled on a ring, a ring that he couldn’t take his eyes off. There was something mysterious and terrifying about it. So of course, he took it.

Dragged into a battle that wasn’t his own, he got injured in the skirmish between two very powerful fighters, fighters that turned out to be nothing but bugs when the power of the ring activated.

His fragile body transformed, he was born anew, strong and unshakable.

 

8. Dungeons and Artifacts

 

Transformation	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
13/20	8/10	8/10	8/10	37/50

Greediness turns people into the most disgusting monsters on the planet. They will stop at nothing to get their hands on what they desire even if it means dirtying their hands with blood.

Stetch Atelier, a dungeon explorer, fell victim to that greediness and he was scavenging artifacts. Betrayed, trapped, and killed as Stetch was fading away all he could think about was revenge.

Revenge that he will have the opportunity to fulfill flamboyantly thanks to an artifact that will enhance everything there is to him.

This is the birth and a dark, merciless, super attractive MC.

 

7. My Dad Is Too Strong

Transformation	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
17/20	7/10	7/10	7/10	38/50

The MC of this Webtoon was nothing but a lowly civil servant with no ambitions nor desires. That was until his ancient memories came back to him and he awakened as the venerable and unbeatable Heavenly Demon.

However, the Heavenly Demon did not wish for another lifetime filled with bloodshed and death, he wanted to continue his mundane life, just upgrade it a bit more.

That was the plan until a girl asked him to pose as her dad and what wouldn’t a dad do for his lovely daughter?

All the most powerful martial arts techniques came back to him, he just needed his body to keep up with all the extra power now.

 

6. Limit Breaker

Transformation	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
17/20	7/10	8/10	8/10	40/50

The world is now overrun with Dungeons, Dungeons where horrifying monsters are lurking. To enable the population to defend themselves, an Awakening Test was established for future hunters.

Due to a bug in the system, Kim Kibong was trapped in that test for 3000 extremely long years. When he finally got out, the world he found was not his own. Dungeons broke all over the place and the Earth is infested by monsters.

He alone had the time and luxury to achieve max level while trapped and now it falls upon him to restore the Earth to the way it was.

Just so you know, he had 3000 years of training and workouts, I’ll let you imagine just how ravishing he must be now.

 

5. The King of Gaming Bugs

Transformation	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
18/20	8/10	9/10	9/10	44/50

Song An is at the very bottom of the social chain. He is an IT who’s only role is to fix bugs in the game “New World”. While he was doing so, he installed in the game a little special twist of his making, an Easter Egg.

This will turn out to be the best decision he made in his entire life since the game turned into reality and he now had an extraordinary advantage at his disposal.

With his knowledge, his ambitions, the egg that only he knows about, he will become the best player of the game, overpowered and shrewd, the best combination of a handsome MC.

 

4. Solo Glitch Player

Transformation	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
19/20	9/10	9/10	9/10	46/50

Taepung Shin is a total pro in the MMO game called Paradiso. He is so addicted to it that he memorized the integrity of the game by heart, the map, the characters, their abilities, the quests, and their rewards, all of it.

In the end that’s the only thing he is good at so might as well be the best at it. Nice thinking since when he suddenly died, he reincarnated as Jared, one of the characters of his favorite game.

And let me tell you that Jared is a fine one, even more than fine—he is mesmerizing.

 

3. Heavenly Demon Instructor

Transformation	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
18/20	10/10	9/10	9/10	46/50

A phenomenon that was later renamed “Portal Impact” ravished the world. It was a catastrophe that destroyed the lives of many and that included the life of Park Hyunsoo, this Manhwa’s MC.

His parents perished right in front of him, and his injured brother fell into a coma and has yet to wake up.

He is now the only one who can protect his unconscious sibling, however, what can a poor and weak kid do alone?

As those thoughts came to his mind, Chungyeong appeared before him. Chungyeong is a renowned martial artist from the Murim World. He travelled to the future in order to help Park in his endeavor.

From now on he is his master and Park his disciple until the apprentice surpasses the teacher, as they always should.

 

2. Solo Leveling

Transformation	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
20/20	10/10	10/10	10/10	50/50

Sung Jin-Woo’s transformation really was an epic one. The E-rank hunter, the “World’s Weakest”, inherited the Shadow Monarch’s heart and suddenly gained the ability to level up.

It’s not that his body just got shredded, he also grew taller, when from a pushover to a badass that everyone fears, became darker, even more stylish.

Sung Jin-Woo might just be the most handsome of all Korean MCs, it’s just that one transformation beat him by a hair…

 

1. Lookism

Transformation	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
20/20	10/10	10/10	10/10	50/50

Park Hyung Suk is a high school student. Their looks are everything. So imagine what happened to an ugly overweight kid.

The answer is easy, he was horribly bullied the entire time. However, he was not forgotten by the gods and a miracle happened, a miracle that will change his life 180 degrees.

His transformation is the transformation that will make history.

 

CONCLUSION

Is really weird that the presence of an attractive MC can elevate a story to another dimension. And it’s just so much better when he starts off ugly and then rises above everyone else in terms of good looks and power.

Well, all the above Manhwas match that little description. As personal preferences differ between us all I’m sure you will all agree with me on the beauty of the MC featured in those Webtoons.

Welcome to the feast for your eyes!