SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — On the South Korean entertainment scene, webtoons, or web-based comics, have carved out a unique role as a source of fresh ideas for producers and screenwriters. TV series like “Itaewon Class” (2020) and “Mystic Pop-up Bar” (2020), dramatized adaptations of popular web cartoon series with the same titles, are [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Schools will implement a plan that allocates a space for students to create and display their YouTube content or webtoons. The Ministry of Education on Sunday announced a plan to internalize school media education and strengthen related education support for aspiring content creators such as YouTubers and Webtoon writers. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Bloomberg News reported on September 4 that Kakao Japan and Nomura Holdings are engaged in discussions for a possible IPO at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2020, bringing to light the Korean social media giant’s strategies to attract Japanese users. Though it enjoys wild success at home (43 million [...]
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 [...]