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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 won. [11] In August 2020, KakaoPage acquired 49% of the multinational drama and film production company Kross Pictures for 5.8 billion won. [12]
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 ]
Indonesia and Thailand have become big markets for the webtoon industry with both Naver (under WEBTOON) and Comico offering both original webtoons and fully translated titles. Some webtoons made in Indonesia and Thailand, such as Eggnoid and Teen Mom , have even been translated and published outside the countries .
The platform, controlled by Naver and the Naver-SoftBank Group joint venture LY Corporation through a Delaware-domiciled, Los Angeles, California-headquartered holding company WEBTOON Entertainment Inc., [1] is free and can be found both on the web at Webtoons.com and on mobile devices available for both Android and iOS.
When the service was first launched, it offered a regular model of buying each individual manga and volume similar to other online shops but it has since moved to adopt the webtoon model where a user can purchase individual chapters and wait 24 hours to read some for free. [1] Korean webtoons that are offered on Kakao's services (Daum Webtoon ...
Tapas was founded by San Francisco-based Korean entrepreneur Chang Kim and Young-Jun Jang in 2012, [5] [2] [3] initially under the name Comic Panda. [8] [nb 1] The Wall Street Journal described Kim as a "serial entrepreneur"; he was once in charge of Samsung's mobile content strategy, [9] and he sold his Korean blogging company TNC to Google [5] [10] and also worked for Google on Blogger.
Tahilalats, also known as Mindblowon, is an Indonesian-language webcomic which is created, written and illustrated by Nurfadli Mursyid. First published through the Instagram account @tahilalats in 2014, the daily four-panel comic is one of the most-followed webcomics in Indonesia, being published primarily via WEBTOON and social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook.
Si Juki is an Indonesian comic series created and authored by Faza Ibnu Ubaidillah Salman or Faza Meonk. Originally published as a webcomic in 2010, the comics follow its namesake character Juki, a deviant young adult male throughout a variety of humorous scenarios and adventures.