Tag: naver

Analysing WEBTOON's switch from the Creator Rewards program to the Super Likes program, and what it means for creators

Korean tech giant Kakao has made more cutbacks to various parts of Tapas Entertainment in the US and Korea.

Plus a Flash event, Disney recycling and where are all the creators coming from?

Some convention news that has been brewing as the schedule continues to expand. • Ace Comic Con has announced a Midwest show, to be held at Chicago's Navy Pier on October 12-14th, the week after...

And another new business venture for SDCC Week: LINE Webtoon is a digital comics service, powered by NAVER, Korea's biggest search engine. They have a pretty huge library of Korean content, and have been in tyhe us for about a year—but now they are adding original English language materials, starting with a digital relaunch of CYBERFORCE by Marc Silvestri and Matt Hawkins, and a new comic written by YouTube fashion and beauty maven Michelle Phan. The Enchantress is a 26-chapter story "delving into a near-future world of oppression, where elemental magic and ancient alchemy in the hands of one hero may save humanity. " Random quotes from PR:

This infographic is also an ad for WEBTOONS, a portal short serialized digital comics that are native on mobile platforms. The site is run by NAVER, the Google of South Korea. Despite the proprietary nature there is still some interesting info on the graph including projected worldwide size of the digital comics market...no idea where that came from, but webtoons are an established entertainment format in South Korea, seemingly more than in the US.