digital fiction

“Baby Raises a Villain,” a romance-fantasy webtoon adapted from a web novel that accumulated a reported 260 million cumulative views, has become one of Kakao Page’s steadier performers, illustrating the …

Korea’s government is funding translation support for roughly 40 domestic web novel publishers and platforms in 2026, offering up to 15 million won in reimbursed costs per company, an initiative …

Naver’s web novel platform Series has pulled ahead of longtime rival Kakao Page in Korea’s domestic web fiction market, according to 2026 usage data, as Kakao Page’s monthly active user …

“The Remarried Empress,” one of the most widely read Korean web novels of the past decade, is finally arriving on screen. Disney+ has confirmed the fantasy romance as an exclusive …

Korea’s webtoon industry, built on a foundation of web novels adapted into serialized visual form, has officially crossed into the 2 trillion won revenue tier, but the growth curve that …

Few Korean web novels have made the leap to global mega-franchise quite like “Solo Leveling,” and its anime adaptation just proved the story still has momentum. D&C Media announced that …

Korea’s web novel industry is getting a financial boost aimed squarely at export. The Korea Publication Culture Industry Promotion Agency, known as KPIPA, opened its 2026 web novel translation subsidy …

On May 29, the YouTube channel “전과자” — known for bringing K-pop idols like EXO’s Kai and Chanyeol onto college campuses for content — deleted a video and issued a …

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 …

Suji Kim made history in 2024 when “Under the Oak Tree” hit #7 on the New York Times Best Seller list for Hardcover Fiction — the first web novel originally …