[Words from Chi] Apology for Committing the Same Mistake Again – Putting Welcome to Room 305 on Indefinite Hiatus & Picking Up Utopia

Hello, this is Chi again. It has been awhile since I’ve posted or released anything since I’ve been swamped with college.

It has been brought to my attention that Naver has struck down another popular series by removing all the raws and moving it to purchase or “renting” the chapters. All the raws were originally available for a long time, even during the time I was actively working on this series. Only an 11 chapter preview is left.

I am extremely ashamed in myself because I did this exact same thing with Blind Märchen as I did with Welcome to Room 305. I put too much faith that I had enough time to lackadaisically download the raws since they stayed up for so long so I thought they’ll always be up. I was dumb. I should’ve known Naver was just slowly moving old series’ chapters into their new system for sales. Although I’m mad at how Korea makes it so hard for foreigners to purchase items online on a majority of their sites, I can only blame myself because they gave me every chance to claim all the raws.

It is all my fault and I take full responsibility for my dumb actions. I apologize to all of you. I hyped you all up and I fucked up by being lazy. I really should’ve downloaded everything but I didn’t do it because my own arrogance. I really am unprofessional and should’ve taken every chance to get the stuff I needed to work on this wonderful project. I didn’t even need to download it all in one go I had weeks to do it…it’s my fault for not paying attention actively to Naver’s movements. All I can say is the repeated typed apologies that I have already typed up back when I dropped Blind Märchen.

I am very sorry you guys. I really suck and all I can do is kick myself a million time and even that’s not enough. It’s all my fault. 110%. I really really suck and deserve all the hate I can get for being a horrible webtoon scanlator.

With this development, I will be putting Welcome to Room 305 on indefinite hiatus (potentially dropping) after I release the remaining chapters I have on hand. (Ch. 110-113). After that I’ll have to halt releases due to lack of raws. Maybe in the future it’ll be officially released in English on either the official Line English Webtoons or Taptastic.

Below will be my future plans for what I’ll be working on since I got this news.

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