Line Webtoon 10th Anniversary Event in Taiwan…Yeon-ae and Jeon Seon-wook Participate
Panel session and autograph session at San Diego Comic-Con featuring,
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, “According to Naver Webtoon, the local works discovered by Line Webtoon have also achieved success in the secondary creation business such as visualization and games. Original Taiwanese webtoons such as ‘Jian and Daran Chiu,’ ‘Black Box,’ ‘Better if We Had Never Met,’ and ‘Inlun’ have been confirmed for adaptation into visual works and are currently in production.”,
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, “The author of the original Taiwanese work ‘Better if We Had Never Met,’ which was the first Taiwanese work to sell TV series and movie rights at the same time, shared his experience of participating in various contests, saying, ‘Line Webtoon’s Canvas, contests, and webtoon artist development programs are providing many opportunities for aspiring creators in Taiwan.'”,
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, “In the United States, the English service ‘Webtoon’ will participate in the ‘San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC)’ held from the 25th to the 28th(local time) to commemorate the 10th anniversary of its global expansion, conducting panel sessions and autograph sessions with local webtoon artists.”,
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, “At SDCC, Diablo Cody, an Oscar-winning screenwriter and producer who worked on movies like ‘Juno’ and ‘Tully,’ will discuss the English webtoon adaptation project ‘Death of a Pop Star’ that she is involved in as a producer.”,
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, “Lee Shin-ok, Naver Webtoon’s North America service leader, will participate in a discussion on the history of webtoon fandom culture to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the English service with Uru-chan, the author of the English original webtoon ‘Unordinary.'”,
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, “Naver Webtoon stated that they are actively working on visualization projects through their own studio (Wattpad Webtoon Studio) in North America as well. The Wattpad novel ‘Boot Camp’ will be made into a movie and is scheduled to be released next month in the United States and Canada. ‘Lore Olympus’ and ‘Gremory Land’ are also in the process of being adapted into visual works.”,
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, “Naver Webtoon emphasized that they have been striving to establish an environment where global creators can create in a stable environment based on the creator revenue diversification model built in Korea in 2013. According to Webtoon Entertainment, the total creator payment from 2017 to 2023 is 2.8 billion dollars (approximately 3.88 trillion won), and the average annual income of the top 100 creators as of last year was 1 million dollars (approximately 13.9 million won).”,
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, “Moreover, they are increasing multi-way cross-border content (works discovered and produced in various regions) to enhance synergy between global services. According to Webtoon Entertainment, the number of multi-way cross-border content has increased by about 60% compared to 2021, and 47% of the webtoons officially serialized on platforms outside of Korea are Korean original content, with more than half being works born overseas.”,
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