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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 ]
Various official translations of True Beauty were published on Naver's non-Korean Webtoon platforms as early as May 2018, when the Thai and Indonesian versions were released starting on the 14th and 19th, respectively. [9] [10] The Chinese version followed on June 29, 2018 [11] while the English version was released on August 14, 2018. [12]
Han Hee-sung, a Korean blogger, launched Lezhin Comics in June 2013. By November 2014, it hosted over 400 webtoons and cartoons , making it South Korea's largest webtoon publisher as of 2014. [ 2 ] The content is created by professional and amateur cartoonists including 2013 Korea Content Awards winner Lee Jin-young (Yool Lee) and 2014 Today's ...
It was serialized via Naver Corporation's webtoon platform, Naver Webtoon, from March 2019, with the individual chapters collected and published into 17 volumes. The manhwa has been published in English by Line Webtoon. A South Korean animated series produced by Durifix, EBS, and Studio N was released. [1]
Romance 101 (Korean: 바른연애 길잡이; RR: Baleun-yeon-ae giljab-i) is a South Korean manhwa released as a webtoon written and illustrated by Namsoo. It was serialized via Naver Corporation's webtoon platform, Naver Webtoon, from March 2018 to July 2021, with the individual chapters collected and published into 12 volumes.
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 ]
The term "Webtoon" (웹툰) is a portmanteau of the Korean words 웹 meaning web and 카툰 meaning cartoon. The term was first coined on 8 August 2000, by Chollian, one of South Korea's oldest and now discontinued internet service engines. [18]