Naver Webtoon Corporation

Autres nomsNaver Webtoon Corporation

Pays d'origineCorée du Sud

Activités

VOD (Video On Demand)

Secteurs

Audiovisuel

Présentation de la société

Webtoon (stylised as WEBTOON) is a webtoon publishing portal launched by Naver Corporation in South Korea in 2004. The platform is called Naver Webtoon in Korea, LINE Manga in Japanese, both Dongman Manhua and Webtoon in Chinese, and simply Webtoon in English, French, Indonesian, Spanish, and Thai.

The platform first launched in Korea as Naver Webtoon and then globally as LINE Webtoon in July 2014, as the Naver brand is not well known outside of Korea and some of its services are also not available outside of the country. The service gained a large amount of traction during the late 2000s and early 2010s. In 2016, Naver's webtoon service entered the Japanese market as XOY and the Chinese market as Dongman Manhua. On December 18, 2018, Naver closed down XOY in Japan and migrated all of its translated and original webtoons to LINE Manga, its manga service that offers licensed manga. In 2019, LINE Webtoon was changed to WEBTOON in English and Spanish and French versions were launched. In 2020, WEBTOON transferred and serviced to Naver Webtoon Corp. In November 2020 WEBTOON announced that they had established a new subsidiary called WEBTOON Studios which is for licensing their English IPs.

LINE Webtoon comics can be discovered through the "daily system" function, along with being read and downloaded for free on computers and both iOS and Android devices

Naver Webtoon Limited started as in-house company of Naver - which is the largest search engine in Korea. Series On is Naver Webtoon's online VOD platform which holds the largest portion in TVOD business in Korea. Series On is also expecting to launch the SVOD service within this year.