Skin Tone

The thing that bothers me the most with this is the skin colour change.
Ethan is presented as a brown-skinned man and suddenly becomes pale as a vampire. First, of all, that is not realistic. Vampires exist in folklore around the world. If you were to go on the folklore where they are undead people, why would they all be white? Why would they only have pale skin? You realize black and brown people die too right? Do you think that our melanin just leaves our bodies when we die?
Don't come and talk about it being a manhwa. Ethan has brown skin. Point blank. Plus everyone has Western names, so it's not as if this is set in Korea--where there are more than just pale people. Korean people are diverse just like everyone else. There are Korean people who don't have pale skin.
So, arguments about it being a manhwa or that vampires need to have pale skin are bull shit.
Blood Link is a manhwa with vampires and it manages to maintain the melanin of its brown-skinned vampires. Blade is a story with a black vampire. Even fucking Twilight had a black vampire (although Stephanie Meyer is racist intentionally made the only black main character a villain--she's really gross for so many reasons).
This is whitewashing. If this wasn't a factor, I wouldn't even be writing this huge thing, but people either want to make excuses for the author or don't know what whitewashing is. The author isn't stupid. Why did you even make Ethan have brown skin in the first place?! Brown skin is not a costume or makeup you put on and take off. It's like Ethan is walking around performing a watered-down minstrel show until he takes off his mask to be a stereotypical pale vampire.