While Japan has enthralled millions of readers with its mangas, South Korea is expanding its cultural influence with webtoons. The Graphic India group has announced the launch of Toonsutra, a webtoon comics platform for mobile devices, coming in April. Last year, the publisher Dupuis launched Webtoon Factory, the first European platform working to create original webtoons. Faced with the scale of the phenomenon, entertainment sector giants like Netflix are starting to work on adapting webtoons into animated series and movies. “Regardless of some concerns – such as commodification of webtoons and webtoonists, losing webtoons’ originality during the modification process, and market dominance by a few portal giants – webtoons’ dream of big-screen culture will continue to grow,” he wrote in a study on the subject.

Source: The Star March 24, 2021 00:00 UTC