1000 curses upon the lawyers and executives of Kakao Entertainment. May they never know the light of heaven.
Some brave folks on the manga piracy subreddit are planning on continuing development with a fork so hope may not be lost, but Kakao said they're also going to target downstream forks so we'll see what happens.
https://old.reddit.com/r/mangapiracy/comments/195vq2e/a_tachiyomi_fork_hoping_to_be_the_spiritual/?share_id=n0uJIoRB5pcTFTdFR5eqU
Figured it was gunna' be Viz or someone with some mainstream western presence, not some Korean publisher. Stupid.
Viz is smart enough to know that people still buy merch even if they don't buy the books