Who Created The Remarried Empress? Alphatart, HereLee & SUMPUL Explained

Spoiler level: None. This guide explains the creators and publishing credits behind The Remarried Empress. It doesn’t discuss later story developments or the ending.

Who created The Remarried Empress?

You might expect a simple answer, but the official WEBTOON credits three names: Alphatart, HereLee, and SUMPUL.

They’re not three alternative names for one person.

The series began as a Korean prose web novel by Alphatart. HereLee and SUMPUL are credited with bringing that story into the illustrated webtoon format.

HereLee also shares a small language detail in the official WEBTOON biography: the Korean plant and English word behind the pen name.

Here’s who’s responsible for what—and what the official credits do and don’t tell us.

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The Remarried Empress Creators at a Glance

Creator	Official credit	Role
Alphatart	Original work by	Wrote the Korean web novel
HereLee	Adapted by	Adapted the source story for the webtoon
SUMPUL	Art by	Created the webtoon’s illustrated presentation

These credits appear on the official English WEBTOON series page.

They describe different contributions to the same property.

If you’ve only read the illustrated version, it’s easy to overlook the fact that the story existed in prose before it became a scrolling comic.

And if you’ve only heard that Alphatart wrote the novel, you may not recognize HereLee or SUMPUL when their names appear in the credits for the English webtoon or printed comic books.

Understanding the distinction also helps when you want to find other works associated with a particular creator.

Who Is Alphatart?

Alphatart is the original author of The Remarried Empress.

The story was first published in Korean as 재혼 황후, a serialized prose web novel.

On Naver Series, the original novel is credited to 알파타르트 and categorized as 로판, the common Korean abbreviation for romance fantasy.

The completed Korean novel listing contains 337 episodes.

That’s the original written work from which the later webtoon was adapted.

A prose novel depends on narration and dialogue to establish its world, relationships, and events.

When a novel becomes a webtoon, the original author’s work provides the story being adapted, but the illustrated version also requires separate creative contributions.

That is why Alphatart appears in the WEBTOON credits as the original author rather than being automatically identified as the person drawing each comic episode.

The distinction doesn’t make the original author’s contribution less important. It identifies where the story began.

The official creator listings used for this article don’t establish private biographical details about Alphatart, so those details aren’t assumed here.

What Does a Webtoon Adapter Do?

HereLee is credited with adapting the original story for the webtoon.

An adaptation changes the medium in which a story is presented.

A prose chapter can describe a character’s thoughts, summarize a conversation, or introduce a setting through paragraphs of narration.

A webtoon has to communicate through a sequence of illustrations, dialogue, and visual pacing.

In a vertically scrolling comic, the arrangement of images also influences when readers encounter information.

That creates practical questions for an adaptation: what needs to be shown visually, what can remain in dialogue, and how should the reader move through a scene?

These are general differences between prose fiction and comics.

They help explain why an adaptation credit exists, but they’re not proof of exactly which production decisions HereLee made for any individual episode.

The official credit establishes HereLee’s adaptation role.

It doesn’t provide a complete breakdown of every storyboard, dialogue revision, or editing decision.

Making that distinction is important when discussing creative work fairly.

What Does the Name HereLee Mean?

The official WEBTOON creator biography gives a particularly interesting answer.

HereLee explains that the name is connected to a Korean plant called 히어리, known in English as Korean winter hazel.

Its scientific name is Corylopsis coreana.

The creator also connects the name to the English word here, suggesting a personal sense of presence in the pen name.

That gives HereLee a double association: a reference to a plant associated with Korea and an English word that carries another layer of meaning.

This isn’t an etymology invented by readers searching for a hidden clue.

It’s how the creator introduces the pen name on the official WEBTOON profile.

HereLee also expresses a hope to contribute, even in a small way, to sharing distinctive Korean creative work.

It’s a personal statement from an individual creator, not a claim about what all Korean webtoon artists believe.

Nor does the plant reference mean that The Remarried Empress contains a hidden botanical message.

The connection belongs to the creator’s chosen name.

For international readers, it’s a reminder that a romanized creator name may carry references that aren’t immediately visible in English.

Who Is SUMPUL?

SUMPUL is credited with the webtoon’s artwork.

That means SUMPUL is the artist named on the official WEBTOON adaptation, distinct from both Alphatart’s original writing and HereLee’s adaptation credit.

The visual presentation of a palace romance fantasy is particularly noticeable because characters, clothing, rooms, and changes in expression all become visible parts of the reading experience.

But describing the role of artwork is different from claiming that an individual artist personally completed every production task without assistance.

The official credit identifies SUMPUL as the artist.

It doesn’t, by itself, establish the full internal workflow, team size, or division of labor behind each episode.

So when readers ask who drew The Remarried Empress, SUMPUL is the name confirmed by the licensed webtoon’s published art credit.

Why Does One Webtoon Have Three Creator Credits?

The easiest way to understand the three names is to follow the story from its first published format to the later comic.

First came the Korean prose story.

Alphatart wrote The Remarried Empress as a web novel.

Then came the illustrated adaptation.

HereLee is credited with adapting that story for the webtoon, while SUMPUL is credited with the art.

The result is a licensed comic based on the original fiction.

This isn’t unusual in Korean digital publishing. A web novel and its webtoon adaptation may have different contributors, even though readers commonly refer to both versions by the same title.

But each work’s official credits still matter.

A single title doesn’t mean every creator performed the same job.

And an adaptation credit shouldn’t be treated as evidence that the adapter replaced the original author or independently created the underlying story.

The credit structure is a way of preserving the distinction between the source and its later presentation.

Are the English WEBTOON and Printed Books by Different Creators?

The main creative credit structure remains connected to the same original work and comic adaptation.

The English WEBTOON identifies Alphatart, HereLee, and SUMPUL in their respective roles.

Ize Press, the Yen Press imprint publishing collected English comic editions, also identifies the underlying original author, adaptation, and artwork.

A printed edition may have additional publishing contributions such as translation, lettering, editing, or book production.

Those are important tasks, but they don’t mean the book is automatically a new prose novel written by another author.

The Ize Press volumes collect the illustrated webtoon rather than translating Alphatart’s original prose into conventional English novel volumes.

If you’re trying to distinguish the editions rather than the creators, see the The Remarried Empress Reading Guide.

That guide explains the Korean original, official English comic, and printed editions in more detail.

Does the WEBTOON Follow the Novel Exactly?

The official credits establish that the webtoon is an adaptation of the original novel.

They don’t establish that every event is reproduced identically.

Prose and comics have different tools for pacing, narration, and visual expression.

A webtoon adaptation may need to make editorial and artistic choices because readers encounter its story in a different format.

However, knowing that a work has an adapter is not enough to identify specific cuts, added scenes, altered dialogue, or changes to a character’s personality.

Those claims require checking the relevant novel passages against the actual comic episodes.

This article doesn’t make a scene-by-scene comparison.

Its purpose is to explain the people behind the editions, not to invent an account of exactly what they changed.

If you’re comparing versions yourself, the most useful starting point is to know who created the source material and who is credited with adapting it.

That gives you an accurate foundation before evaluating any specific differences.

Start With the Credits

The three official credits show the publishing journey clearly.

Alphatart created the original story. HereLee adapted it for the webtoon. SUMPUL provided the artwork.

That is the essential answer to who made The Remarried Empress in the different formats.

For the original premise, Korean romance fantasy background, and adaptations, visit The Remarried Empress Hub.

Official Sources

• WEBTOON — The Remarried Empress — official creator credits and HereLee’s biography.
• Naver Series — 재혼 황후 — Alphatart’s original Korean prose novel.
• Yen Press / Ize Press — The Remarried Empress — official collected English comic editions and credits.