Korean Color Webcomic About an Artist in Art School

Digital comics originating from Republic of korea

Webtoons (Korean: 웹툰 ) are a blazon of digital comic that originated in Republic of korea commonly meant to be read on computers and smartphones.

While webtoons were mostly unknown outside of Korea during their inception, there has been a surge in popularity internationally thanks in great role to the rise in popularity of manhwa and the fact that well-nigh manhwa are released as webtoons.^[1] In the land, as digital manhwa accept emerged every bit a popular medium, impress publication of manhwa has decreased.^{[ citation needed ]} The amount of material published in webtoon form has at present reached an equal amount as that published offline.^[ii]

Format [edit]

Webtoons usually characteristic a few of mutual traits: each episode is published on one long, vertical strip (making use of an space canvass rather than multiple pages so that it is easier to read on a smartphone or computer); some will feature music and animations that play during each affiliate; and unlike the majority of East Asian comics, they will most likely exist in color rather than black-and-white since they are published digitally on a website or app rather than physically in a magazine. In the example of South korea, in that location are as well different censorship laws for materials published online than in print which has led to more than manhwa that is erotic and sexually explicit being produced and published equally webtoons.^[iii]

Acquirement model [edit]

Like other online publications, at that place are a variety of payment models used for webtoons. Some offer a limited set of chapters for free and charge for the rest. Others allow but a certain number of chapters to be read per day without payment.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Creators of webtoons can earn money from ads displayed on their serial. Until 2019, amateur creators could earn coin from the credit that was given by their fans. The money that the pro and amateur creators receive depends on the folio view.^[iv]

Origins and history [edit]

While there had been spider web comics uploaded and hosted by private creators since the late 1990s, the advent of the webtoon model dates dorsum to 2000, when Lycos Korea, the Korean version of the American search engine Lycos, launched the Manwha Bang section in their portal site. Yahoo! Korea followed arrange with a similar service called Drawing Sesang two years later. Past the twelvemonth of 2002, based on the Cultural Industry Promoting Law, the predecessor of the Korea Creative Content Bureau was established and started to support the manwha and related industries as a whole.^[5]

The Korean web portal Daum created a webtoon service known equally Daum Webtoon in 2003 and was later on followed past Naver with the launch of Naver Webtoon in 2004.^[half-dozen] These services regularly release webtoons that are available for free. According to David Welsh of Bloomberg, comics business relationship for a quarter of all volume sales in South korea, while more than 3 million Korean users paid to access online manhwa and 10 million users read gratuitous webtoons.^[7]

As of July 2014^[update], Naver had published 520 webtoons while Daum had published 434. Since the early on 2010s, services such every bit TappyToon and Spottoon have begun to officially translate webtoons into English while some Korean publishers like Lezhin, Toomics, and TopToon have begun to cocky translate their works.^{[viii] [ix] [10]} Examples of popular webtoons that have been translated into English are Lookism, Untouchable, Yumi'south Cells, The Audio of Centre, Tales of the Unusual, The Gamer, The God of High School, Girls of the Wild'south, Noblesse, and Tower of God. In recent years, these webtoons have been gaining popularity in Western markets, rivalling Japanese manga.^[11]

In the past, it was divided into two ratings: All (webtoon suitable for all ages) and eighteen (No i under 18 is allowed to read this webtoon). From May 2019, the webtoon rating system was implemented. It is said that 10 platforms including Naver and Daum will participate. The ratings are expected to be △ All △ 12 years or older △ 15 years or older △ xix years one-time (18 years sometime) or older.^[12]

Generation Zero [edit]

Layout of an early on webtoon. Buttons allow turning the folio.

The earliest webtoons were scanned original comics uploaded onto the Cyberspace, ordinarily formatted on a one-page layout.^{[ citation needed ]}

Kickoff generation [edit]

With the development of technology, authors were able to employ flash blitheness effects.^{[ citation needed ]}

Second generation [edit]

An example of a 2nd generation webtoon.

Enhanced preloading enabled afterward authors to adopt a vertical layout with scrolling. In contrast to comics with a dumbo panel composition, scrolling brings new panels into view. This makes webtoons suitable for gradual and continuous representation, allowing webtoon reading to become more fluid.^[thirteen]

3rd generation [edit]

A scene from the webtoon Tower of God, a third-generation webtoon

An example of a mod Korean webtoon viewed through a webtoon viewing interface (Astonishing Rumor by Jang Yi in Daum Webtoon)

With the appearance of the smartphone and tablet, webtoons have also migrated to new platforms such every bit apps. There have as well been sounds introduced to imply further expressions and tones, as well every bit interactive motions to create excitement and bring attention to certain objects for the viewers.^[xiv]

Prior to 2014, most webtoons were only available in English through unofficial fan translations. In July 2014, Naver subsidiary Line began publication of translations of pop webtoons to English via the WEBTOON service.^{[xv] [xvi]}

Market [edit]

The market for webtoons and their derivatives is currently valued at around KR₩420 billion (US$368 million).^[17]

Although digital comics are increasingly popular, print publication remains the chief means of comic retail. Some publishers offering online content and impress content simultaneously.^[18]

Webtoons have been taken equally source cloth by a number of dissimilar mediums, including film and tv set; 1 of the earliest examples of this was 'Tazza, a 2006 picture show based on the comic past Huh Young-man. This work was serialized in the Sports Chosun and garnered over 100 million homepage views, after being adjusted into two films. (Tazza: The High Rollers, Tazza: The Hidden Card), and one tv series (Tazza (Television receiver series)). Some other of Huh'south works, Sikgaek (Le Thousand Chef), was published in the Dong-a Ilbo for five years and sold 540,000 copies in paperback version.

Naver'due south WEBTOON service, launched in 2014, is at present the biggest webtoon platform in Korea. According to Naver, it reaches over 6.2 1000000 daily users. The gratuitous WEBTOON translation service has allowed webtoons to form part of the global Korean Wave.^[nineteen]

They also collaborate with movies.^[20]

Outside of South korea [edit]

The webtoon format has likewise expanded to other countries with many different distributors offering original and translated webtoons for users to read as well as offer platforms for anyone to upload their own webtoons.

Mainland China and Taiwan [edit]

In mainland People's republic of china and Taiwan, webtoons along with web manhua have seen an increase in production and popularity since they are rarely published and just like in S Korea, have resulted in a resurgence and interest in the manhua manufacture as more content is consumed digitally. Nearly all of the large webtoon portals in China are offered by the big internet companies in the land while in Taiwan the bigger webtoon publishers exterior of the country like Comico, Toomics, and WEBTOON are more popular since their services are available there.^[21]

Nihon [edit]

Webtoons in Nippon were slow to take hold of on as well as in other countries mainly due to the traditional manga industry still being the main manner in which manga gets released and published. Fifty-fifty spider web manga, which have seen a contempo rise in popularity, are often in black-and-white instead of color, equally is mutual in their Korean and Chinese counterparts, despite being released digitally.^[22] Despite this, there have been some strides to penetrate the Japanese marketplace and slowly more than mangaka are trying out the webtoon format to release their titles.^[23] Lezhin, Comico, Naver, Line, and Kakao offer webtoon portals with translated works for Japanese readers. Comico, one of the biggest webtoon publishers in the world, was created by the Japanese subsidiary of NHN Entertainment, NHN Japan. To date, there are just 2 webtoon portals that offer original Japanese webtoons, Comico and Naver (under the proper name XOY 2017–2018 to 2019). All XOY webtoons have been integrated onto Line Manga a Japanese Manga service while XOY was upwards until its demise in January 2019.^[24] Kakao has also had success in the Japanese market place by offer both licensed manga and translated Korean webtoons with their service, Piccoma. This has been credited to the webtoon pay model that the service implements where some chapters are offered for free for a short catamenia of time.^[25] Kakao Japan has announced that information technology volition start offer original Japanese, Korean, and Chinese webtoons for Piccoma in the Summer of 2018.^[26] 2022 saw a great bargain of tracking for webtoon in Japan with investment from traditional Japanese manga publishers like Shueisha and Shogakukan.^{[27] [28]} CELSYS announced on that they will support webtoon in their CLIP STUDIO READER platform from Feb 2022.^[29]

Republic of india [edit]

In India, webtoons have grown into popularity.^[30] With the global launch of LINE Webtoon by NAVER Corporation in 2014, it became the beginning get to app that introduced webtoon culture in Bharat.^[31] Kross Komics launched the commencement dedicated Indian webtoon portal in 2022 targeting domestic audience offering 40 translated Southward Korean titles in English, Hindi and Telugu language. It is besides planning to introduce content from Chinese and Japanese market.^{[30] [32]} Upon its official mobile app release on seven December 2019, it was downloaded 200,000 times on Google Play.^[xxx] As of July 2021, it registered 1.i meg monthly agile uses and 3.5 million app downloads.^[33] Kross Komics was founded in May 2022 and is headquartered in Seoul with additional offices in Mumbai and Los Angeles. Information technology mainly targets the 15-24 age grouping of people specially females and supports Korean, Indian webtoon content creators.^{[34] [35]} Popularity of digital comics is at present encouraging Indian publishers such as Graphic India to launch their own service called Toonsutra in the market.^{[36] [37]} Kakao Entertainment acquired Kross Komics in 2020.^[38] In 2021, Kakao Entertainment is planning to enter Indian market with its ain webtoon platform.^[39]

Southeast Asia [edit]

Indonesia and Thailand have become big markets for the webtoon industry with both Naver (under WEBTOON) and Comico offering both original webtoons and fully translated titles in the ii countries. Some webtoons made in Indonesia and Thailand have fifty-fifty been translated and published outside of the countries similar Teen Mom and Eggnoid. Vietnam launched its starting time webtoon portal, Vinatoon, offer translated titles from Daum Webtoon and Mr. Blue with the intention of opening upward another market place.^[xl]

Western countries [edit]

Many of the webtoon publishers have had success in penetrating markets exterior of Asia with the biggest success beingness the The states and other English speaking countries.^[41] Lezhin, Toomics, and Naver are the only large publishers who translate their ain titles rather than licensing them out and Naver (under the Line brand) even offers the ability for fan translations to be offered in different languages. TopToon'south TopToonPlus service, launched in July 2021, was another global launch by a Korean webtoon company for their global fans. In its offset month of service, it gained over 200,000 subscribers.^[x] Spottoon, TappyToon, and Manta Comics offering translated licensed works from various publishers including KToon, Bomtoon, Foxtoon, and many more. Too merely the consumption of translated works, at that place has likewise been a ascent in the creation of original non-Asian webtoons thanks in part to sites like Tapas and WEBTOON offering the ability for anyone to submit their own work.^[42] In the beginning, many of the webtoons created outside of Asia tended to merely be webcomics released in the webtoon format just over time, more artists have released more than titles that are total-fledged comics rather than reformatted webcomics.

Delitoon is some other platform just for French and people based in French republic, providing translated licensed works mainly from Korean content providers.

Adaptations of webtoons [edit]

Medium	Titles
Film	APT (아파트) (2006) Dasepo Naughty Girls (다세포 소녀) (2006) Tazza: The High Rollers (타짜) (2006) Le Grand Chef (식객) (2007) Hullo, Schoolgirl (순정만화) (2008) BA:BO (바보) (2008) Le Yard Chef 2: Kimchi Boxing (식객 2: 김치 전쟁) (2010) Moss (이끼) (2010) Pained (통증) (2011) Late Blossom (그대를 사랑합니다) (2011) The Neighbor (이웃사람) (2012) 26 Years (26년) (2012) The Five (더 파이브) (2013) Fists of Legend (전설의 주먹) (2013) Secretly, Profoundly (은밀하게 위대하게) (2013) Fashion Male monarch (패션왕) (2014) Tazza: The Hidden Card (타짜: 신의 손) (2014) Inside Men (내부자들) (2015) Timing (타이밍) (2015) ReLIFE (リライフ) (2017) The Hunt (반드시 잡는다) (2017) Along with the Gods: The Ii Worlds (신과 함께-죄와 벌) (2017) Steel Rain (강철비) (2017) Real (리얼) (2017) Cheese in the Trap (치즈인더트랩) (2018) Along with the Gods: The Concluding 49 Days (신과 함께-인과 연) (2018) Killed My Wife (아내를 죽였다) (2019) Eggnoid (2019)[43] [44] [45] Beauty Water (기기괴괴: 성형수) (2020) Love and Leashes (모럴센스) (2022)
Boob tube	The Great Catsby (위대한 개츠비) (2007) Gourmet (식객) (2008) Mary Stayed Out All Night (매리는 외박중) (2010) Aridong's Last Cowboy (아리동 라스트 카우보이) (2010) Always Low Prices Cheollima Mart (쌉니다 천리마 마트) (2010) Bridal Mask (각시탈) (2012) Dr. Frost (닥터 프로스트) (2014) Misaeng (미생) (2014) Hogu'south Dear (호구의 사랑) (2015) Super Daddy Yeol (슈퍼대디 열) (2015) A Girl Who Sees Smells (냄새를 보는 소녀) (2015) Orange Marmalade (오렌지 마말레이드) (2015) Songgot: The Piercer (송곳) (2015) Hyde Jekyll, Me (하이드 지킬, 나) (2015) Imaginary Cat (상상고양이) (2015) Hope: Kitai Zero no Shinnyu Shain (HOPE〜期待ゼロの新入社員〜) (2016) Cheese in the Trap (치즈인더트랩) (2016) Lucky Romance (운빨로맨스) (2016) Hey Ghost, Permit's Fight (싸우자 귀신아) (2016) The Man Living in Our House (우리집에 사는 남자) (2016) The Sound of Your Heart (마음의 소리) (2017) Salve Me (구해줘) (2017) Confession Couple (고백부부) (2017) Avengers Social Social club (부암동 복수자들) (2017) Feel Good to Die (죽어도 좋아) (2018) What's Wrong with Secretarial assistant Kim (김비서가 왜 그럴까) (2018) Gangnam Beauty (내 아이디는 강남미인) (2018) Your Firm Helper (당신의 하우스헬퍼) (2018) Clean with Passion for Now (일단 뜨겁게 청소하라!!) (2018) The Sound of Your Heart - Reboot (마음의 소리: Reboot) (2018) Tale of Fairy (계룡선녀전) (2018) Item (아이템) (2019) Her Individual Life (누나팬닷컴) (2019) A Fake Thing (偽装不倫) (2019)[46] Beloved Alarm (좋아하면 울리는) (2019) Hell Is Other People (타인은 지옥이다) (2019) Pegasus Market (쌉니다 천리마마트) (2019) Extraordinary Y'all (어쩌다 발견한 하루) (2019) The Tale of Nokdu (조선로코 녹두전) (2019) Itaewon Grade (이태원 클라쓰) (2020) Memorist (메모리스트) (2020) Welcome (어서와) (2020) Rugal (루갈) (2020) How to Buy a Friend (계약우정) (2020) Mystic Pop-upwardly Bar (쌍갑포차) (2020) Dinner Mate (저녁 같이 드실래요?) (2020) Backstreet Rookie (편의점샛별이) (2020) Marry Me! (マリーミー!) (2020) Amanza (아만자) (2020) No, Cheers (며느라기) (2020) Truthful Beauty (여신강림) (2020) The Uncanny Counter (경이로운 소문) (2020) Sugariness Home (스위트홈) (2020) How to Exist Thirty (아직 낫서른) (2021) Taxi Driver (모범택시) (2021) Imitation (이미테이션) (2021) Hellbound (지옥) (2021) D.P. (D.P.) (2021) Navillera (나빌레라) (2021) My Roommate Is a Gumiho (간 떨어지는 동거) (2021)[47] However (알고있지만,) (2021)[48] Yumi'southward Cells (유미의 세포들) (2021)[47] Work Later, Drink Now (술꾼도시처녀들) (2021) Dr. Brain (Medico브레인) (2021) All of Us Are Dead (지금 우리 학교는) (2022) Moving (무빙) (2022)[49] Dead Man's Letter of the alphabet (망자의 서)[50] [51] I don't want to do anything (아무것도 하고 싶지 않아)[52] Dolled Up (대새녀의 메이크업 이야기)[53]
Game	Berkanix (베르카닉스) (2009) Tower of God (신의 탑) (2013) The God of High Schoolhouse (갓 오브 하이스쿨) (2015) The Sound of Center (마음의소리) (2016) Denma with NAVER WEBTOON (덴마) (2016) Noblesse with NAVER WEBTOON (노블레스) (2017) Densinma with NAVER WEBTOON (덴마+신도림+마왕이 되는 중2야) (2019) Gaus Electronics with NAVER WEBTOON (가우스전자) (2019)
Blithe serial	Welcome to Convenience Store (와라! 편의점) (2012) Story of Miho (미호이야기) A Elementary Thinking Nearly Claret Type (혈액형에 관한 간단한 고찰) (2013) Notjima Jeongshinjul (놓지마 정신줄) (2014) Noblesse (노블레스: 파멸의 시작) (2015) ReLIFE (リライフ) (2016) Nanbaka (ナンバカ) (2016) Recovery of an MMO Junkie (ネト充のススメ) (2017) How to Keep a Mummy (ミイラの飼い方) (2018) The God of High School (2020) Tower of God (2020) Noblesse (2020)
Theatre	The Great Catsby (위대한 개츠비) (2007) BA:BO (바보) Hello, Schoolgirl (순정만화)
Brand/ Merchandise	Marine Blues (마린블루스) Welcome to Convenience Store (와라! 편의점) The Sock Monster (양말 도깨비) Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (어제, 오늘 그리고 내일)
ONA	Momokuri (ももくり) (2015) Noblesse: Awakening (노블레스: Awakening) (2016) The Sound of Eye (마음의 소리) (2018) Tales of the Unusual (기기괴괴) (2019) My Giant Nerd Boyfriend (2019)[54] Let'due south Play (2019)[55]

See also [edit]

• Manhwa
• Webcomic
• Digital comic
• Korean animation
• Korean drama
• Due south Korean animation
• Cinema of South Korea
• Korean Wave

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External links [edit]

• WEBTOON mobile website
• Webtoon Translate desktop website

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webtoon

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