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WEBTOON
Naver Line Webtoon logo.png
Logo of the website
Type of site
 Webtoon platform
Available in Korean, Chinese, English, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Thai, German
OwnerWebtoon Entertainment Inc
Created byJunKoo Kim
URL comic.naver.com/index.nhn - Korean website
www.webtoons.com/en - English website
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Launched2004 (South Korea)
2014 English, Taiwanese, Thai
2015 Indonesian, Japanese (Xoy Ver.)
2019 Japanese (Line Manga Ver.), Spanish, French
2021 German
Current statusActive

Webtoon (stylized as WEBTOON) is a webtoon publishing portal launched by Naver Corporation in South Korea in 2004. The platform is called Naver Webtoon in Korean, LINE Manga in Japanese, both Dongman Manhua [1] and Webtoon in Chinese, and simply Webtoon in English, French, Indonesian, Spanish, Thai, and German.

Contents

The platform first launched in Korea as Naver Webtoon and then globally as LINE Webtoon in July 2014, as the Naver brand is not well known outside of Korea and some of its services are also not available outside of the country. The service gained a large amount of traction during the late 2000s and early 2010s. In 2016, Naver's webtoon service entered the Japanese market as XOY and the Chinese market as Dongman Manhua. [2] [3] On December 18, 2018, Naver closed down XOY in Japan and migrated all of its translated and original webtoons to LINE Manga, its manga service that offers licensed manga. [4] In 2019, LINE Webtoon was changed to WEBTOON in English and Spanish and French versions were launched. In 2020, WEBTOON transferred and serviced to Naver Webtoon Corp. In November 2020 WEBTOON established a new subsidiary called WEBTOON Studios [5] which is for licensing their English properties.

The platform partners with creators to publish original content under the WEBTOON ORIGINALS [6] banner and hosts a number of other series on its self-publishing site CANVAS. [7] LINE Webtoon comics can be discovered through the "daily system" function, along with being read and downloaded for free on computers and both iOS and Android devices. [8] [9]

History

LINE Webtoon was founded by JunKoo Kim in 2004, under the name "WEBTOON," after he watched the manhwa industry crash in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Kim, who grew up reading Japanese manga and Korean superhero comics, was looking for a way to get new comics created because he found that there were very few new comics coming out. Kim theorized that tall, scrollable comics would work well on the World Wide Web, as users were already used to scrolling through web pages. Because of this unusual layout, Kim initially had difficulty finding artists to create webtoons on his service, but he found that manhwa was willing to do something different because of the poor state of the local manhwa industry. [10] In May 2020, it was announced that WEBTOON was being transferred and serviced to Naver Webtoon Corp. [11]

Global launch

On July 2, 2014, the LINE Webtoon website and mobile app were launched worldwide, allowing international artists to upload their own works to the service. Hundreds of webtoons are available in the self-publishing section of Webtoon, known as CANVAS, where artists can be paid based on page views. [12] Naver Corporation selected 42 webtoons (including Noblesse , Tower of God , and The God of High School ) and one new webtoon by an American artist to be available on the service in English at launch. [13] [14] According to 148 Apps, the service offered "plenty of content" at launch, as seven to ten webtoons were updated each day and the webtoons spanned various genres. [15]

Partnerships

In April 2013, Naver Webtoon created a Profit Page Share program. This compensation program that allow artists to get a larger profit through advertisements or their own personal stores, but is shared between NHN Corp and the artists themselves. [8] [16]

In 2015, LINE Webtoon partnered with US comics veteran Stan Lee, Image Comics co-founder Marc Silvestri, and make-up artist Michelle Phan in order to promote their service. [17] [18] Silvestri brought his long-running comics series Cyberforce to the platform. [19] Various other established American comic book artists and cartoonists have also partnered with LINE Webtoon over time, including Dean Haspiel (New Brooklyn), [20] Katie Cook (Nothing Special), [21] Seth Kushner and Shamus Beyale (The Brooklynite), [22] and Tracy J. Butler ( Lackadaisy ). [23]

In September 2016, LINE Webtoon partnered with the Patreon crowdfunding service, incorporating a "Patreon button" in the "Discover" portion of the website. This function creates an easier channel for readers and artists to mutually communicate. [24] Naver invested US$3.6 million and $1,000 every following month for webtoon creators who reached a certain threshold of activity and popularity with a Patreon page. [23] [25] One month later, Naver signed with the Creative Artists Agency for film and television opportunities in the United States. [26]

LINE Webtoon also partnered with DeviantArt in the second half of 2016, in the form of the "Artist Alley Tour". The companies were active at four Comic Cons: Boston Comic Con, Baltimore Comic Con, Rose City Comic Con, and New York Comic Con. Here, LINE Webtoon and DeviantArt held discussion panels, "Artist Alley Sponsorships", live draw events, influencer and creator demonstration areas, and on-site contests. [27] [28]

In 2017 LINE Webtoon and Legendary Comics expanded their partnership with the addition of John Barrowman's Acursian and season 2 of Firebrand. [29] [30]

In 2018 included partnering with Noble Transmission and Common for the new Caster series. [31]

In 2019 WEBTOON's digital content subsidiary LICO collaboratively produced with Big Hit Entertainment to release Save Me as part of the former's BTS Universe (BU) which revolves around the output of South Korean boy band BTS. [32]

On October 15, 2019, Crunchyroll and LINE Webtoon announced a partnership to produce animated works of LINE Webtoon's catalog. The two will team up to tackle the distribution, licensing, and retail of the series produced from the partnership. [33]

On January 19, 2021, WEBTOON's parent company NAVER acquired the popular user-written story site Wattpad. Wattpad will be partnering with WEBTOON—which it had already done in its 2020 Watty Awards Contest—to provide more opportunities for creators. [34]

Userbase

The userbase of WEBTOON grew rapidly after the service was released globally, with 10 million people reading on the platform daily and 35 million people monthly. [35] In Asia, several webtoons receive 5 million views per week. [35] In 2016, 42% of the webtoon creators on LINE Webtoon were female, as were 50% of its 6 million active daily readers. [36] [37] 75% of the users in North America are 24 or younger and 64% are female. [38] [39]

As of July 1, 2019, WEBTOON has grown to more than 100 billion views annually. [40]

Contests

Naver Corporation has held various comics competitions through its WEBTOON service. In 2015, LINE launched the "Challenge League", a recurring competition where amateur artists have the chance to become an "official LINE webtoon artist", as well as win tens of thousands of US Dollars. Over 19,000 people joined the first English-language Challenge League in February 2015, which was won by Stephen McCranie's Space Boy. [41] Local Challenge Weeks were also held; the first Thai Challenge League was held in April 2015 and had a grand prize of 1 million baht. [42]

In June 2015, Naver Corporation hosted the Science Fiction Comics Contest, a global competition with a grand prize of US$30,000. JunKoo Kim called science fiction, the theme of the competition, "both the broadest and fastest-growing area in comics and entertainment, [and thus] a natural fit as the genre for our second comics contest." This contest had over 800 entrants and was won by Srinitybeast's Overdrive. [43] [44]

In September 2016, WEBTOON partnered up with Stan Lee's POW! Entertainment to launch the Superhero Comics Contest, which offered a grand prize of US$30,000 to the first place winner, as well as a featured offer and advice from Stan Lee and POW! Entertainment. Featured offers were also given out to second, third, and fourth place winners. [45] The Badguys by Luke Lancaster and Orlando Caicedo was selected as the grand winner, and the contest noticeably gave rise to uru-chan's popular series UnOrdinary, which received fourth. [46]

In November 2018, WEBTOON hosted their Discover Creator Contest. The winner, Kris Nguyen's Cape of Spirits, received a grand total of US$80,000 and an exclusive contract for the series. [47]

Between April 2020 and July 2020, WEBTOON ran an interactive contest series titled WEBTOON GREENLiGHT wherein nine titles were selected and pitched to readers. The readers then voted (by liking the series' episodes) on which series would be "greenlit" as new Original series. Within one week, each series had to reach a record threshold of 60,000 likes on its third episode in order to be "greenlit" for publication. [48] All nine series succeeded and are set to be released in 2021. [49]

On February 28, 2020 "The Short Story Contest" was announced. It ran from April 30 until June 30, 2020 and was split into two categories: "Brain" and "Heart." The grand prize winners each category would get US$15,000, an animated short, and a featured contract. This was also the first contest where only short stories were allowed. The requirements were 3 to 5 chapters and 30+ panels per episode. [50] The grand prize, silver, and bronze contest winners were published in two anthologies: The HEART Anthology, which began releases in September 2020, [51] and the BRAIN Anthology, which began releases in October 2020. [52] The grand prize winners were Kotopopi's The Ladder for "Heart," and Marvin W.'s The Monster Under My Bed for "Brain." [53]

WEBTOON has offered many promotional reading contests where users can win free coins. Depending on the event, coins are offered either by reading episodes from specific series or by logging in every day. These events include the Read Something Every Day Challenge, Climb the Tower Challenge, CANVAS Reading Challenge, Summer Reading Event!, Survival Mode, Royal Romance, WEBTOON Obsessed, 5 Day Survival, Trick or Treat!, The 5 Day Hunt, and No Sleep November.

Other media

Various movies, Korean dramas, animated series, and video games have been produced based on webtoons released on Naver Corporation's service. According to JunKoo Kim in 2014, "a total of 189 books, videos and games based on Naver webtoons have either been produced or are in the process of being made." [14] However, LINE Webtoon's first entry of video content in the United States came in 2016, in the form of an animated film based on Noblesse . [54]

On November 7, 2016, Air Seoul announced that it had collaborated with LINE Webtoon to produce pre-flight safety demonstration videos. Some of the works featured in these include Denma , The Sound of Heart , and Noblesse . [55]

In July 2019, WEBTOON produced their first promotional animated short series from one of their exclusive originals, My Giant Nerd Boyfriend. [56] A second set of promotions, from the work Let's Play, was released in September, 2019. [57]

In October 2019, Crunchyroll revealed on Instagram that it would be collaborating with WEBTOON to release animated series based on selected webtoons as a part of its "Crunchyroll Originals" project. In February 2020, Crunchyroll announced that Noblesse, Tower of God , and The God of High School were chosen for later release. [58]

Language history

Adaptations

There are numerous Webtoons based on YA novels, including Renée Ahdieh's The Wrath and the Dawn, Rebecca Schaeffer's Not Even Bones, Hanna Alkaf's The Weight of the Sky, Victoria Lee's The Fever King, Nicki Pau Preto's Crown of Feathers and more.

Webtoons have been made into TV shows and movies.

TitleAuthorFormatPremiereNotesReference
Welcome to Convenience Store
(와라! 편의점)		Ji Kang-minAnimated seriesJanuary 17, 2012Broadcast on Tooniverse [60]
The Cliff
(절벽귀)		 Oh Seong-dae Omnibus film June 5, 2013Adapted in the first episode [61]
Fashion King
(패션왕)		 Kim Hee-min Film November 6, 2014YLAB, Nomad Films [62]
Dr. Frost
(닥터 프로스트)		 Lee Jong-beom TV series November 23, 2014Broadcast on OCN [63] [64]
Orange Marmalade
(오렌지 마말레이드)		Seok-woo TV series May 15, 2015Broadcast on KBS2 [65] [66]
We Broke Up
(우리 헤어졌어요)		Ryu Chae-rin Web series June 29, 2015Broadcast on Naver TV and YouTube [67] [68]
Noblesse
(노블레스)		Son Jeho and Lee KwangsuAnimationDecember 4, 2015DVD release by Woongjin Thinkbig Funnism [69]
ONAFebruary 4, 2016 Crunchyroll release [70]
AnimeOctober 7, 2020 [71] [72]
Cheese in the Trap
(치즈인더트랩)		Soonkki TV series January 4, 2016Broadcast on tvN [73] [74] [75]
Film March 14, 2018Exclusive premiere in CGV theaters [76]
Lucky Romance
(운빨로맨스)		Kim Dal-nim TV series May 25, 2016Broadcast on MBC [77]
Let's Fight, Ghost
(싸우자귀신아)		Im Man-sup TV series July 11, 2016Broadcast on tvN [78] [79] [80]
The Sound of Your Heart
(마음의 소리)		Jo Seok Web series November 7, 2016Broadcast on Naver TV and KBS2 [81]
ONASeptember 20, 2018 Naver WEBTOON YouTube Channel release
Web SeriesOctober 29, 2018Netflix release [82]
Tales of the Unusual
(기기괴괴)		 Oh Seong-dae TV SpecialApril 29, 2017Adapts the short story My Wife's Memories in an episode [83]
ONAFebruary 21, 2019 Naver WEBTOON YouTube Channel release
Animated FilmSeptember 9, 2020Adapts the short story Beauty Water [84] [85]
Do It One More Time
(한번 더 해요)		Hong Seung-pyo and Kim Hye-yeon TV series October 13, 2017Broadcast on KBS2 [86] [87] [88]
unTOUCHable
(언터처블)		 massstar Web seriesNovember 20, 2017Broadcast on Sohu TV [89]
Along with the Gods
(신과함께)		Joo Ho-min Film December 20, 2017Realies Pictures, Dexter Studios [90]
Film August 1, 2018 [91]
Student A
(여중생 A)		Heo 5 Pa 6FilmJune 20, 2018 Lotte Entertainment [92]
Girls of the Wild's
(소녀더와일즈)		Hun and Zhena TV series July 23, 2018Broadcast on Hunan TV [93]
My ID is Gangnam Beauty
(내 ID는 강남미인!)		Gi Meng-gi TV series July 27, 2018Broadcast on JTBC [94] [95] [96] [97] [98]
Before We Knew It
(文学処女)		Nakano MayakaTV seriesSeptember 9, 2018Broadcast on MBS and TBS [99] [100]
Tale of Fairy
(계룡선녀전)		Dol Bae TV series November 5, 2018Broadcast on tvN [101]
Hell Is Other People
(타인은 지옥이다)		Kim Yong-ki TV series August 31, 2019Broadcast on OCN [102] [103] [104]
Pegasus Market
(쌉니다 천리마마트)		Kim Gyu-sam TV series September 20, 2019Broadcast on tvN [105] [106] [107]
Lookism
(외모지상주의)		Park Tae-joonWeb seriesSeptember 26, 2019Broadcast on Tencent Video [108]
The Tale of Nokdu
(녹두전)		Hye Jin-yang TV series September 30, 2019Broadcast on KBS2 [109]
EggnoidArchie the RedCatFilmDecember 5, 2019No US release yet [110] [111] [112]
Welcome
(어서와)		Go A-ra TV series March 25, 2020Broadcast on KBS2 [113] [114]
Tower of God
(신의 탑)		Lee Jong-huiAnimeApril 1, 2020 Crunchyroll release [115] [116]
Odd Girl Out
(소녀의 세계)		MoranggWeb seriesApril 22, 2020Broadcast on Naver TV, V LIVE, and YouTube [117]
Boy and Girl Straight Out of Cartoon
(만찢남녀)		NimniWeb seriesJune 25, 2020Broadcast on YouTube and MBC [118] [119]
The God of High School
(갓 오브 하이스쿨)		Park Yong-jeAnimeJuly 6, 2020 Crunchyroll release [120] [121] [116] [122]
Love Revolution
(연애혁명)		232 Web series September 1, 2020Broadcast on KakaoTV and Naver SERIES [123] [124]
Marry Me!
(マリーミー!)		Miku YukiTV seriesOctober 3, 2020Broadcast on TV Asahi and ABC TV [125] [126]
True Beauty
(여신강림)		Yaongyi TV series December 9, 2020Broadcast on tvN [127] [128] [129]
Sweet Home
(스위트홈)		Kim Carn-by and Hwang Young-chan Web series December 18, 2020 Netflix release [130] [131] [132] [133]
She Would Never Know
(선배, 그 립스틱 바르지 마요)		Elize TV series January 18, 2021Adaptation of a Web Novel [134]
My Roommate Is a Gumiho
(간 떨어지는 동거)		Na TV series May 26, 2021Broadcast on tvN [135]
Nevertheless
(알고있지만)		Jung Seo TV series June 19, 2021 Netflix release [136]
Now at Our School
(지금 우리 학교는)		Joo Dong-geun TV series 2021 Netflix release [137] [138]
Rest in Peace
(고인의 명복)		Jo Joo-heeTBATBA [139]
Vigilante
(비질란테)		CRG, Kim Gyu-samFilmTBATBA [107] [105]
The Romantic, Fake Marriage
(완벽한 쇼윈도)		TBATBATBAAdaptation of the Web Novel by Rose Bean. [140] [141]
A Good Day to be a Dog
(오늘도 사랑스럽개)		Lee HeyTBATBA [142]

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