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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 .
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 originally launched in 2003 by Daum, a popular web portal in Korea, as Daum Webtoon making it the first official webtoon platform in the world. It would operate under Daum up until the company merged with Kakao in 2014. [ 1 ]
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.
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.
Si Juki's first title on WEBTOON, Lika Liku Anak Kos, had over 600,000 followers. As of 2018, 5 Si Juki titles are accessible in WEBTOON. [11] Two of the printed books Berani Beda and Berani Gagal sold over 100,000 copies altogether. [12] Faza stated in 2015 that his nine-man team earned about Rp 60 million (USD 4,250) per month from the comic ...
Comico is a webtoon portal based in Japan that is part of NHN Japan Corporation.NHN Japan first launched its webtoon platform Comico in Japan in 2013. [1] It was then followed by a launch in Taiwan in 2014 [citation needed] and then in Thailand and South Korea in 2016 followed by Indonesia (defunct [2] since September 30, 2019) and Spanish language (defunct since 2019) in 2017.
For some web cartoonists, a print release may be considered the "goal" of a webcomic series, while for others, comic books are "just another way to get the content out." [ 40 ] Webcomics have been seen by some artists as a potential new path towards syndication in newspapers .