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Kakao Entertainment to Close Tapas Entertainment’s Korean Branch Next Month

SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Entertainment Corp. plans to close the Korean unit of Tapas Entertainment, a North American webtoon and webnovel platform, next month, industry sources said Tuesday. The entertainment arm under tech giant Kakao has recently notified Tapas Entertainment’s employees of its plan to liquidate the Korean unit and offered consolation [...]

Kakao Acquires 2 U.S. Webtoon Apps to Target Global Market

SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Entertainment, an entertainment arm of Kakao Corp., said Tuesday it has acquired U.S.-based online comic app Tapas and fiction app Radish for US$510 million and $440 million, respectively. The subsidiary of Kakao Corp, the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, said the latest deals could help [...]