[a] First published in Naver Webtoon from April 2, 2018, to June 28, 2023,[1] it centers on a young woman who mastered the art of makeup in her teenage years in order to transform herself into a gorgeous "goddess" after being bullied and discriminated because of being perceived as ugly.

In her teenage years, Ju-kyung Lim has been treated unfairly by her family and bullied by her enemies due to being perceived as ugly.

She masters the art and her makeover proves to be gorgeously transformative as she quickly rises to fame and people become awed at the sight of her newfound beauty.

This, combined with her penchant for fashion and cosmetics, helped her conceptualize True Beauty[8][2] which would later be published as a formal Naver Webtoon beginning with April 2, 2018, and has been running on a weekly basis on Monday.

[1] Various official translations of True Beauty were published on Naver's non-Korean Webtoon platforms as early as May 2018, when the Thai and Indonesian versions were released starting on the 14th and 19th, respectively.

[6] The plan to adopt the Webtoon into a television series was revealed in July 2019,[18] and the casting of Moon Ga-young, Cha Eun-woo and Hwang In-yeop was confirmed by August 2020.

[19] Written by Lee Si-eun and directed by Kim Sang-hyeop, the series focuses on the original Webtoon's high school story arc but with considerable changes in plot and characterizations.