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Naver enlists Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley for US IPO of webtoon unit
Feb 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Piccoma sees record transaction value in Japan on K-webtoons
Piccoma, a Japanese digital comics app, enjoyed its largest-ever transaction value last year in the home of manga, thanks to the growing popularity o...
Jan 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Naver Webtoon to enhance global biz with new exec for US IPO
Naver Webtoon Ltd., the world’s top digital comics provider, aims to ramp up its global business with the appointment of a new executive ahead ...
Dec 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Korean digital comics boost Naver Webtoon’s biz in Japan
Naver Webtoon Ltd., the world’s top digital comics provider, enjoyed robust business in Japan with a record gross merchandise value (GMV) this ...
Dec 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
S.Korean webcomics inspire foreign screen adaptations
South Korea’s digital comics are reaching beyond borders with a boom of their adaptations into foreign movies and TV series thanks to global ov...
Nov 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Naver Webtoon seizes 150 illegal overseas sites
South Korea’s Naver Webtoon announced on Thursday it shut down 150 illegal overseas sites, which unauthorizedly posted more than 80 webtoons in...
Nov 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Kakao Piccoma tops in Japanese app market sales in H1 2023
Kakao Piccoma, a Japanese subsidiary of Kakao Japan Corp. and the global leading webtoon platform achieved the top position in the first half of 2023...
Jul 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Naver Webtoon starts fortunetelling, personality test services
South Korea's Naver Webtoon has launched a service combining its content with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a US test of personality type, ...
Jul 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Naver Webtoon promotes K-ramen in Bangkok via pop-up store
South Korea's Naver Webtoon, along with major domestic players in the food industry, on Tuesday said it joined in Bangkok, Thailand, Boggle Boggle K-...
Jul 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
S.Korea's Naver Webtoon to expand IP-based operations
South Korea's Naver Webtoon is selling its online intellectual property (IP)-based webtoon products on the offline market to expand its webtoon IP op...
Jun 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Big Tech, Japanese comics publishers target webtoon business
Big Tech have started webtoon services while major Japanese comic book publishers are gearing up for the business, threatening South Korea’s on...
Jun 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Naver Webtoon's Toon Filter creates 20 mn AI-converted images
South Korea’s Naver Webtoon Corp. on Monday said over 20 million converted images were created in a week after the May 12 pilot launch of its T...
May 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Naver Webtoon targets entertainment business in Japan
Naver Webtoon Ltd., the world’s top digital comics provider, is targeting the entertainment sector in Japan as it aims to expand its intellectu...
May 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Piracy of S.Korean webtoon surges amid content boom
The South Korean industry of webtoons, or digital comics, has seen its original content illegally posted on foreign websites over the past few years....
Mar 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Webtoon company YLAB files preliminary listing review for Kosdaq
YLAB, a South Korean content company specializing in the production, distribution, and translation of webtoons, is moving to go public this year.Acco...
Jan 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Naver, Kakao to hold off M&As to pursue profits
Naver Corp. and Kakao Corp., South Korea’s two leading online platforms, will put on hold acquisition-oriented growth strategies and instead pu...
Jan 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Dating My Best Friend’s Sister becomes webtoon in Korea
Dating My Best Friend’s Sister, a famous romance fiction by USA Today Bestselling author Violet Paige serialized on Radish, the web novel platf...
Dec 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Naver Webtoon, digital comics case for global MBA study
Naver Webtoon Ltd., the world’s top digital comics provider, is set to be a textbook case study for global students as a prominent business sch...
Dec 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Naver Webtoon to pursue profits with Yonder app launch in US
South Korea’s Naver Webtoon Corp. has been successful in the domestic market with its loyal subscribers willing to pay to read a diverse librar...
Oct 31, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Naver Webtoon to pursue profitability with more paying subscribers
South Korea’s Naver Webtoon Corp. is seeking to increase the number of its paying subscribers as the company is shifting its business paradigm ...
Aug 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Korea’s adult audio platform eyes Japan for global biz
South Korea’s adult audio content platform for women raised money to make inroads into Japan as a start of its global business.Sensual Moment C...
Jun 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Korea's small webtoon platforms eye global adult markets
South Korea’s smaller webtoon platforms are targeting the world’s digital adult comics market, in which industry leaders Naver Corp. and ...
Jun 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Kakao to merge US webtoon, web novel platforms
South Korea’s Kakao Entertainment Co. is set to merge Tapas Media Inc. and Radish Fiction Inc., its webtoon and mobile novel platforms in North...
May 19, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Naver Webtoon to form JV with Japan’s TBS for original IP
Naver Webtoon Corp., the digital comics and novel platform of South Korea’s online portal giant Naver Corp., has agreed to set up a joint ventu...
May 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Naver Webtoon’s global users quadruple in 5 years on localization
Naver Webtoon Corp., the digital comics and novel platform of South Korea’s online portal giant Naver Corp., saw users nearly quadrupling in fi...
May 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Kakao to launch webtoon platform in Indonesia for SE Asia
Kakao Entertainment Co. will launch a webtoon platform in Indonesia, the most populous country in Southeast Asia, to expand the business in the regio...
Apr 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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South Korean comics platforms dominate global top 10
Six manhwa platforms operated by South Korea’s tech juggernauts rank among the top 10 paid digital comics platforms worldwide. Manhwa is the ge...
Apr 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Naver Webtoon to release three DC comics series from May
Naver Webtoon Ltd., the digital comics platform of South Korea’s online portal giant Naver Corp., is slated to intensify its partnership with D...
Apr 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Korea’s top adult webtoon platform targets global market
Topco, South Korea’s top adult webtoon platform operator, is targeting the global digital comic market with the goal to expand its business int...
Apr 04, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Naver vs Kakao: Webtoon rivalry extends to superheroes
The fierce competition over webtoons between Naver Corp. and Kakao Corp. enters another round as the two South Korean platform giants join forces wit...
Jul 06, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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