Webtoons & Story Content

Meeting Cárcel Off-Screen Visitors stepping into this pop-up space in Hongdae, Seoul, can actually chat with Cárcel, the male lead of the webtoon. It goes beyond just picking out character …

International Collaboration Leads to Arrests On August 13, 2026, Naver Webtoon announced the shutdown of three global, English-language illegal webtoon and comic distribution sites, along with the arrest of their …

3.58 Million Copies Sold Across 40 Languages According to statistics released by the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea) on July 28, 2026, Korean literary works sold a cumulative …

Works That Had to Wait Their Turn to Be Translated For Korean webtoons to reach readers abroad, a title had to go through selection, translation, lettering, and local review, in …

A Revenue Decline and a Major Investment, Announced Together WEBTOON Entertainment announced a decline in second-quarter 2026 revenue and an operating loss of 23.4 billion won at the same time …

260,000 Korean Textbooks for Overseas Schools South Korea’s Ministry of Education will distribute roughly 260,000 Korean-language textbooks to regular elementary and secondary schools overseas in 2026, alongside nine newly developed …

A 4.2% Debut for a ‘Successful Fan’ What if you took a job just to see your favorite idol — and ended up clashing constantly with the CEO instead? That’s …

The Same Price Printed on Every Copy The number printed on the back cover of a book is a plain sale price, but it’s also a kind of promise binding …

Reading Without Opening a Book The word “reading” once meant, quite literally, running one’s eyes over printed characters. But for a commuter with earbuds in, listening to a novel on …

A Classroom Carrying Sejong’s Name Is Spreading Across the World In 2026, five hundred and eighty years after King Sejong promulgated Hangeul, his name has outgrown its place in a …