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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]
Manta is a subscription-based service that allows all members to read unlimited amounts of content on its app at a fixed price. The app is available for Android and iOS devices, [4] and all content can be viewed from its official website. Manta is known to be the first subscription-based webcomic platform in the market. [5]
According to David Welsh of Bloomberg, comics account for a quarter of all book sales in South Korea, while more than 3 million Korean users paid to access online comic and 10 million users read free webtoons. [8] South Korea's first webtoon is Uninhabited Island (Korean: 무인도; Hanja: 無人島; RR: Muindo) by Han Hee-jak in 1996. [9]
KakaoPage's webtoons and web novels include serial novels managed by the headquarters and "Waiting for free" and books provided by various publishers. [14] " Waiting for free" is a service model that allows users to watch the next episode for free after a certain period of time from the moment they watch the first episode. [ 18 ]
Readership levels vary widely; many are read only by the creator's immediate friends and family, while some of the most widely read have audiences of well over one million readers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Webcomics range from traditional comic strips and graphic novels to avant garde comics, and cover many genres , styles , and subjects. [ 4 ]
Mage & Demon Queen is set in a fantasy world operating by the rules of role-playing games, where teams of human adventurers seek to challenge the Demon Tower, and whoever can ascend to the top floor and defeat and kill the Demon Queen Velverosa will gain fame and fortune and a rich reward from the kingdom, with near-unlimited retry opportunities thanks to resurrection magic.
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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.