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Webtoons (Korean: 웹툰) are a type of episodic digital comic that originated in South Korea usually meant to be read on smartphones.. While webtoons were mostly unknown outside of South Korea during their inception, there has been a surge in popularity internationally thanks to the easy online accessibility and variety of free online comic content.
Webtoon Entertainment, the serial comics platform, was founded in South Korea in 2005 by CEO Junkoo Kim, Naver. [16] Since its launch in 2013, WEBTOON has become the most popular mobile app, catering to young adults who enjoy reading comics and webcomic content. [ 17 ]
The Girl Downstairs, known in South Korea as Lee Doo-na! (Korean: 이두나!; RR: Iduna!) (Chinese: 爱上她的理由; pinyin: Ài shàng tā de lǐyóu) is a South Korean manhwa released as a webtoon written and illustrated by Min Songa.
Social storytelling platform Wattpad is being acquired by Webtoon’s Korean parent company Naver in a cash and stock transaction valued at more than $600 million, it was announced on Tuesday.
The company, owned by South Korean communications technology giant Naver Corp, operates a library of web-novel and comics available to users in over 150 countries. It was founded in 2005, as a ...
Webtoons, the vertical-scrolling iteration of digital comics that emerged some twenty years ago in Korea, along with the smartphone, are now a global medium. But they are only at the beginning of ...
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]
Wattpad, the user-generated fiction platform and entertainment company, announced that it agreed to be acquired by Korean internet conglomerate Naver, parent of digital comics platform Webtoon, in ...