KOREAN PEPE

Printed once in a real Korean newspaper on April 28, 2022, the day of the infamous 6만전자 headline, when Samsung Electronics sank to 60,000 won and a nation of retail investors went into mourning.

In Korea, retail traders are called 개미, the ants. So the paper drew them exactly that way: pepe-faced ants in white 상복 mourning robes, tears streaming, antennae drooping, grieving over the chart of the national stock. One cartoonist, one economy page, one perfect image of every bagholder who ever held through the drawdown. It ran once in print, and the internet never let it die.

Now the newspaper frog lives onchain. $KPEPE is a genesis token of GIWA.MARKETS, the launchpad for GIWA, Upbit's Ethereum L2. It trades on Robinhood Chain today, and at GIWA mainnet launch every holder migrates 1:1 via merkle snapshot. Born in print, immortalized in a contract.

The ants held Samsung to the basement. Imagine what they'll do with a frog they actually chose.

신문에서 태어난 개구리. 개미는 지지 않는다.