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The service operated as Daum Webtoon alongside Kakao's other service, KakaoPage, attracting many readers to its platform. It wasn't until August 1, 2021, when the service was relaunched as Kakao Webtoon in order to expand globally and management changed to the platform now being operated by Kakao Entertainment , a subsidiary of Kakao. [ 2 ]
Korean webtoons that are offered on Kakao's services (Daum Webtoon and KakaoPage) are offered through Piccoma in Japanese. [2] Kakao Japan announced that it would start offering original Japanese, Korean, and Chinese webtoons for Piccoma in Q3 2018. [3] Kakao Japan changed its name to Kakao Piccoma Corporation in November 2021. [4]
It also owned 21.9 percent of the stock in drama production company Mega Monster, which is a subsidiary of its then-sister company Kakao M. [9] In 2018, the company acquired Neobazar, Indonesia's top webtoon platform company, for 13.8 billion won. [10] In July 2020, KakaoPage invested in the US-based web-novel platform Radish for 32.2 billion ...
A webtoon adaptation of Solo Leveling was first serialized in KakaoPage on March 4, 2018; it was illustrated by Jang Sung-rak (Dubu) and the webtoon's first season concluded on March 19, 2020, followed by its second season, which was released from August 2020 to December 2021. [3] The webtoon has been licensed in English by Yen Press.
On June 23, 2021, it was announced that the 2018 film On Your Wedding Day will be adapted into a webtoon, to be serialized on webtoon platforms Naver and Kakao. [89] A webtoon based on a TV series Our Beloved Summer is a prequel about the high school days of the two main characters of the TV series (Choi Woong and Kuk Yeon-su). [90]
Tapas, formerly known as Tapastic and originally known as Comic Panda, [nb 1] is a South Korean webtoon and prose publishing website and app owned by Tapas Media, a Kakao Entertainment company. It was created in 2012 by entrepreneurs Young-Jun Jang and Chang Kim, [2] [3] who is currently Tapas Media's CEO. [5] [6]
Kakao Entertainment Corp. (Korean: 주식회사 카카오엔터테인먼트; stylized as kakao ENTERTAINMENT) is a South Korean entertainment, mass media, and publishing company founded in 2021. A subsidiary of the Internet company Kakao , it was established subsequent to the merger of the latter's two subsidiaries KakaoPage and Kakao M .
Tappytoon is a South Korean digital webtoon platform that was developed and is operated by Contents First Inc., a venture-backed media and entertainment company founded in 2013. In 2018, it was ranked the number one Android Comics App in both North America and Europe, and in the Top Five iPhone apps in the Book category. [1]