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Published in both print and WEBTOON in addition to various social media platforms, an animated movie has been released based on the series in 2017. an animated series called Si Juki Anak Kosan has been released on Indonesian Disney+ Hotstar on 29 January 2021 and it became the first Indonesian animated series featured on Disney+ Hotstar. [1]
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.
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 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.
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.
Studio N is a subsidiary of Webtoon Entertainment Inc. launched in August 2018 that produces drama films and television series based on stories from their Korean library of webtoons and web novels.