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 ...

A few months ago, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power popped out of nowhere as one of the most frequently searched keywords online. Its website crashed for hours because of excessive clicks. What caused the ...

LOOKISM is streaming on Netflix and has already received appraisal from both fans and critics. With the growing popularity in the past few years, webtoons are now a huge source of income for South ...

EXCLUSIVE: When webtoon artist Joo Dong-geun published All of Us Are Dead on Korean platform Naver in 2011, he never expected that it would take 11 years for his zombie story to be turned into a ...

SEOUL (Reuters) – Netflix’s most-watched series in late November, “Hellbound”, is making a splash on TV, but it first appeared on much smaller screens as an online comic, or “webtoon”, optimised for ...

LINE Webtoon is looking to produce TV and movie adaptations of its most popular digital comics: The division of South Korean internet and search giant Naver has signed with CAA, which will exclusively ...

Korean webtoons -- online comic strips -- have in recent years become the basis of various successful drama series, including “Cheese in the Trap” (2016), “The Girl Who Sees Smells” (2015) and ...

Webtoon Entertainment, the U.S. parent company of Naver Webtoon, will partner with the Walt Disney Company to create a new ...

Korean drama series have catapulted to international fame in the past year. The K-drama world has had a record-breaking start to 2022, with historic Screen Actors Guild (SAG) nominations and a ...

International TV audiences may have fallen in love with Korean series “All of Us Are Dead,” “Itaewon Class” and “Dr. Brain” without ever being aware that each originated as a webtoon, or online comic.

Webtoons are predicted to be the next successful Korean wave, following the undeniable popularity of K-pop and K-dramas. To be more precise, the investment hedge fund GVA Assets Management predicts ...