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Webtoons
Naver Webtoon's Stagtown to be cinematized by Hollywood
South Korea's Naver Webtoon said on Thursday its horror series Stagtown, popular in the US, will be made into a movie by Hollywood.Stagtown was disc...
Jan 23, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Piccoma tops consumer spending ranking in Japan
Kakao Piccoma, a Japanese digital comics app subsidiary of South Korean mobile giant Kakao Corp., topped the consumer spending ranking in the Japanes...
Jan 17, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Naver Webtoon invests in Japan's Number Nine
South Korea's Naver Webtoon said on Thursday that its Japanese service operator Line Digital Frontier invested in Number Nine, a webtoon studio in Ja...
Jan 16, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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S.Korea's webtoon industry sales surpasses $1.36 bn
South Korea's webtoon market size surpassed 2 trillion won ($1.36 billion) for the first time. The South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Touri...
Jan 03, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Instagram poised to crack Korean webcomics market
Big tech has begun its encroachment on the South Korean webcomics market, largely dominated by local players over the past two decades, fanning fears...
Oct 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Google to target global webtoon sector with Korean creators
BENGALURU – Google is teaming up with South Korean creators to target the global webtoon industry, spurring expectations that global Big Tech c...
Aug 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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South Korean webtoon makers in quandary after pandemic
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic a few years back, social distancing was the rule of life. People stayed at home, with many of them killing tim...
Jun 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Naver enlists Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley for US IPO of webtoon unit
South Korea’s leading online platform operator Naver Corp. plans to list shares of Los Angeles-based affiliate Webtoon Entertainment Inc. on th...
Feb 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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