Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. The team she’s assigned to has one important mission: to ...

[THE INVESTOR] A young college student stranded in a rocky mountain on the outskirts of Seoul grabs a rope to go down a rugged cliff. His friend tries to stop him as the rope is not long enough, but ...

AI avatars arrive: WEBTOON and Genies will launch interactive avatars from hit series, offering immersive chats, lore reveals, and future cosmetic upgrades. Global CANVAS launch: A unified platform ...

Webtoon, the popular mobile online comics platform owned by Korean tech giant Naver, just announced its payments to English-language comics creators and the results are eye-opening in an industry not ...

Seoul office worker Park Sun-Min constantly checks his smartphone -- trawling for updates on an insect apocalypse, ghost soldiers haunting the inter-Korean border, and a supermarket worker's struggle ...

SEOUL, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A webtoon production company ‘Contents Lab. Blue’ (CEO Youngto Go) has founded a Thailand local branch and has begun its expansion into the global webtoon market.

Dramas based on webtoons and web novels saw the most successful year yet, a sign for web content platforms to roll out plans for more of the same for the coming year. Naver Webtoon announced Dec. 28 ...