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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]
Webtoons are a sub-menu of the gate companies that began with South Korean portal services Daum and Naver. Webtoons are a type of episodic digital comic that originated in South Korea usually meant to be read on smartphones. Posting comic content for free caused the $3 billion South Korean book and comic industry to rapidly collapse.
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 ]
Tower of God [a] is a South Korean manhwa released as a webtoon written and illustrated by S.I.U. It has been serialized in Naver Corporation's webtoon platform Naver Webtoon since June 2010, with the individual chapters collected and published by Young Com in 17 volumes as of October 2024.
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.
Soon after WEBTOON was released in Indonesia in April 2015, Orange Marmalade became the most popular webtoon in the country. [7] Orange Marmalade currently has a 9.68/10 rating on WEBTOON. References
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.
After the success of Sweet Home, Kim collaborated with webtoon illustrator Hongpil for its prequel titled Shotgun Boy [b] which was released in Naver Webtoon starting February 22, 2021, with Hwang providing editorial supervision. The webtoon tells the story of the titular "shotgun [high school] boy" Han Kyu-hwan and the events prior to Sweet Home.