Line Webtoon

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The Webtoon Path (styled as LINE WEBTOON ) is the webtoon portal launched by Naver Corporation in Korea in 2005. The service promotes unlimited different canvas layouts for webtoons and gained huge amounts of appeal during the late 2000s and early 2010s. The service was first launched in Korea as Naver Webtoon and then globally as Line Webtoon in July 2014 because the Naver brand is not well known abroad and some of its services are not available outside Korea. In 2016, Naver webtoon service entered the Japanese market as XOY and the Chinese market as Dongman Manhua .

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History

Line Webtoon was founded by JunKoo Kim in 2005, under the name "Webtoon", after he witnessed the manhwa industrial accident in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Kim, who grew up reading Japanese manga comics and Korean superhero comics, is looking for ways to get new comics created because he finds that there are very few new comics coming out. Kim theorizes that high-scaled comics will work well on the World Wide Web, as users are used to scrolling web pages. Due to this unusual layout, Kim initially had difficulty finding an artist to make webcomics in his service, but he found that cartoonists were willing to do something different because of poor local manhwa industry conditions.

Although content on the Webtoon Line is entirely proprietary, search engine/web portal, Naver Corporation benefits from websites through various revenue models, from online advertising to selling intellectual property rights and displaying its characters in other media.

Global launch

On July 2nd, 2014, Line Webtoon mobile websites and apps are launched worldwide; Soon, international artists became able to upload their own work to the service. Naver Corporation chose 42 webtoons (including Noblesse , Tower of God , and High School God ) and a new webcomic by an American artist to be available at service in English at launch. According to 148 Applications , this service offers "a lot of content" at launch, as seven to ten webtoons are updated every day and webtoons span multiple genres.

Partnership

In 2015, Naver partnered with US comic veteran Stan Lee, co-founder of Image Comics Marc Silvestri, and makeup artist Michelle Phan to promote their services. Silvestri brings his long-running comics series Cyber ​​Force to the platform. Various other American cartoonists have also partnered with Naver from time to time, including Dean Haspiel ( New Brooklyn ), Katie Cook (No Special), Seth Kushner and Shamus Beyale ( The Brooklynite ), and Tracy J. Butler ( Lackadaisy ).

In September 2016, Line Webtoon partnered with the Patreon crowdfunding service, combining the "Patreon button" in the "Discover" section of the website. This function creates an easier channel for readers to support the webcomics they like. Naver invests US $ 3.6 million and $ 1,000 each month in the future for web creators who reach certain thresholds of activity and popularity with the Patreon page. One month later, Naver signed with the Creative Artists Agency for film and television opportunities in the United States.

Line Webtoon also partnered with DeviantArt in the second half of 2016, in the form of "Artist Alley Tour". The companies are active in four Comic Cons: Boston Comic Con, Comic Con Baltimore, Rose City Comic Con, and New York Comic Con. Here, Line Webtoon and DeviantArt host a panel of discussions, "Artist Alley Sponsorships", direct lottery events, influencers and content makers' demonstration areas, and on-site contests.

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Userbase

The user base of the Webtoon Line grew rapidly after the service was released globally, with 10 million people using websites or apps every day. In Asia, some webcomics receive 5 million views per week. By 2016, 42% of webcams' webcom creators are women, like 50% of the 6 million active daily readers.

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Contest

Naver Corporation has hosted various comic competitions through its Webtoon service. In 2015, Line launched the "Challenge League", a recurring competition in which amateur cartoonists have the chance to become "official LINE webtoon artists", and win tens of thousands of US Dollars. More than 19,000 people joined the first English-language Challenge League in February 2015, won by Stephen McCranie Space Space . Local Challenge Week also held; The first Thai Challenge League was held in April 2015 and has a grand prize of 1 million baht.

In June 2015, Naver Corporation hosted the Comic Science Fiction Contest, a global competition with a grand prize of $ 30,000 USD. JunKoo Kim calls science fiction, the theme of the competition, "the widest and fastest growing area in comics and entertainment, [and thus] fits naturally as a genre for our second comic contest." The contest has more than 800 entrants and was won by Srinitybeast's Overdrive .

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Other media

Various films, Korean dramas, animated series, and video games have been produced based on webtoons released on Naver Corporation's services. According to JunKoo Kim in 2014, "a total of 189 books, videos, and games based on Naver's webtoon have been produced or are in the process of making." However, Line Webtoon's first video content entry in the United States came in 2016, in the form of an animated film based on Noblesse .

On November 7, 2016, Air Seoul announced that it has collaborated with Naver Webtoon to produce safety videos. Some of the works featured here include Denma, The Sound of Heart, and Noblesse.

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References

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External links

• Official website
• Naver Webtoon
• XOY
• Dongman Manhua

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