The webtoon adaptation of “Got Dropped Into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work” launched on KakaoPage on June 5, 2026, and immediately set the platform’s highest-ever hourly and daily transaction revenue for a newly released title, according to a Kakao Entertainment press release reported by Anime News Network (Wonhee Cho, June 18, 2026). The numbers aren’t close: 1 million views inside two hours, 6.5 million by the end of day one, and as of the report, around 11 million total views with more than 32,000 comments.
To put that in perspective: it beat the previous KakaoPage first-day record, held by “Solo Leveling: Ragnarok,” which logged 2 million views on its August 2024 launch day, per the same report. This new title pulled in nearly 7 million in the same window — more than three times that.
But the webtoon is the second act here. The real story is the source material: the original web novel, written by Deok-soo Baek, topped genre rankings shortly after its release, crossed 100 million cumulative views within three months, and has since built up to roughly 370 million total views and over 600,000 comments, according to Anime News Network’s reporting on Kakao Entertainment’s figures. That’s a novel that became one of Kakao Page’s flagship properties on text alone, before a single panel of art existed.
The premise is the kind of high-concept hook that explains the obsession: office worker Kim Sol-eum gets dropped into urban legends and ghost stories, and instead of running, she shows up for the night shift anyway, reverse-engineering the supernatural rules well enough to survive them — work culture comedy wearing a horror coat. The webtoon’s art comes from Ssyungnyung, who previously illustrated the adaptation of “I Failed to Oust the Villain.”
Here’s the catch if you don’t read Korean: per Anime News Network, the original novel has no official English release. The webtoon, though, is available in English on Tapas — so the version breaking platform records right now is actually readable if you don’t speak the language the record-breaking text version was written in.
Sources: Wonhee Cho, “‘Got Dropped Into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work’ Webtoon Breaks Record on KakaoPage Launch,” Anime News Network, June 18, 2026 (citing Kakao Entertainment press release).
