INCHEON, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – After it has been named World Book Capital 2015 by an international committee of experts representing the book industry and UNESCO, the Incheon Metropolitan City is dreaming of a world-class book city as it seeks to broaden its international cultural exchange activities to that end. On October 8 (local time), Juergen [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 21 (Korea Bizwire) – “Webtoons,” animated comic strips distributed through the web, have been getting increasing attention by Korea’s content makers as a promising future source of income. Some of the webtoon contents were already exported to overseas publishers. The Korea Contents Agency, in partnership with Internet portal company Naver, set up [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 08 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver, a Korean search portal with more than a 70-percent market share, said on October 7 that it would set up a “webtoon” (web cartoon) booth in the Frankfurt Book Fair to be held between the 9th and 13th, in partnership with the Korea Contents Agency. This [...]