SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading media and entertainment company CJ ENM said Thursday it will set up a drama studio in Japan through a joint venture with its drama production company Studio Dragon and Line Digital Frontier, a Japanese unit of Naver Webtoon. The three parties will jointly invest 30 billion [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The webcomic arm of South Korea’s top portal operator, Naver Corp., said Wednesday it will expand cooperation with the agency of K-pop sensation BTS and other companies to create new original content. Webtoon Entertainment said it will create various locally made webcomics and other kinds of intellectual property (IP) [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver Corp., South Korea’s top internet portal operator, said Sunday that its webcomic business topped the sales charts and garnered the most number of users in the Southeast Asian market including Indonesia, Thailand, and Taiwan. Naver Webtoon, more commonly known as Line Webtoon in the United States, explained that [...]
SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver Webtoon Corp revealed Monday that it was making use of its “Toon Radar” program to crack down on illegal websites that copy and distribute webtoons. According to Webtoon, prosecutors indicted the owner of an illegal pirate website in March following an arrest earlier in the year. An investigation [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – On October 25, the respective heads of YLAB Comics, Naver Webtoons and Yong Film Inc held a press conference at the CGV multiplex located in the Cheongdam neighborhood of Seoul to formally announce the planned ‘Super String’ movie, South Korea’s answer to Hollywood’s Avengers film franchise. As its choice [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean webtoon makers are branching out into foreign markets, with the hopes of expanding their presence and paving the way for up-and-coming cartoonists. NHN Entertainment, which owns the global webtoon platform ‘Comico’, is at the forefront of the international movement, as the company is scheduled to hold a [...]
SEOUL, August 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Use of the intellectual property (IP) of webtoons (online comics) in the gaming industry is becoming increasingly popular. Because the main characters in webtoon series are already familiar to young gamers who often read comics, use of existing characters offers cost-saving benefits when it comes to marketing. Naver and Daum, the [...]
SEOUL, Dec.14 (Korea Bizwire) – With the new popularity of ‘snack culture’, a trend in which people enjoy light content in a short amount of time, the portal industry is taking measures to boost related services. From webtoons to sports and videos, various forms of content are growing through two large platforms, portal and mobile. [...]
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 [...]