Introduction of Webtoons

Introduction of She in the Class(수업시간 그녀)

수업시간 그녀 - She in the Class By Park Soobong

This webtoon is very interesting because it is related with campus life. 

One guy see the girl in the class and fall in love. He become a team member of team project in that class. And he make an effort to be friendly with her. 

I empathize with his situation and feeling because I'm a students also. I think, if you start to read this, you can fall into empathy. Small campus life and campus love is expressed well. 

Introduction of Webtoons

Introduction of Teacher Kwon of Children(아이들의 권 선생님)

아이들의 권선생님 - Teacher Kwon of Children By Howoo

It is not humorous or funny story. It is a story about one teacher and some young students at countryside. Teacher is Mr.Kwon who is retired gangster. He is very good-hearted and attentive. And children are very pure and innocent.

At first, small daily life is started, but more and more dramatic incident is occurred by other people such as gangsters, grandfather of one child.

If you read this, you can feel small emotional moving and impressive things. Anyone can read this unrelated by gender or age. 

I recommend this webtoon because it is really touching.

Introduction of webtoons

Introduction of Natural Born Idiots(선천적 얼간이들)

선천적 얼간이들 - Natural Born Idiots By Gasfard

It is my favorite webtoon after The Sound of Heart. A form and style is similar to The sound of Heart. However, it is new. This webtoon is based on real experience of writer. Of course there can be exaggeration and fictional things, but funny can cover that.

I also use funny scene of this for express my emotion.

It has another attraction from The Sound of Heart.

I always wait this webtoon for a week.

Introduction of webtoons

Introduction of The sound of Heart(마음의 소리)

마음의 소리- The Sound of Heart By Jo Seok

It is my favorite webtoon! I really like this. It is very humorous gag webtoon. I have learned humor through reading it. 
A family of Jo Seok(parents, older brother, and pets), his friends, and a family of his girl friend appear in this webtoon. 
This webtoon shows very various type of funny situation. It shows not only real life, but also made-up stories. 
It also have many funny scene, so I often use a scene of this webtoon for express my emotion at kakaotalk.

How about these? Isn't it funny? 
I can't explain about whole of fun. You'd better read this your self. I recommend it strongly. 

Introduction of Webtoons

Let's introduce webtoons related with company life.

쌉니다 천리마마트 - Cheolima Mart sale cheeply BY Kim Gyusam

It is very funny story about Jeong Bockdong and Moon Seokgoo. Jeong Bockdong is kicked from group company and get a appointment to Cheolima mart. Moon seokgoo is became a shopkeeper by three month after joining a company. they operate the mart through whimsical idea. and it occur some happening everyday. 
This webtoon will be remade by mobile game and sitcom soon. How is it great!

가우스 전자 - Gauss Electronic company By Gwack Baeksoo

You can guess how it is funny by knowing the Modifiers of this webtoon, 'Multinational  octopus company'.

It shows us various stories of daily-life in a company each time. 

You can read this in a short time and get a funny. 

나의 목소리를 들어라 - Listen My Voice By Lee HyunMin

Background is a 'Gust of Wind' project company that is appeared Naver Mobile App advertising.

It is the story about an interview and other sub-stories.

You can feel and express sympathy easily for this story.

Introduction of Webtoons

I want to introduce some webtoons that I like.

낢이 사는 이야기 – Story of Narm by Seo Narae

This is the artist that got me into reading webtoons. She is currently updating the above webtoon which is another online diary sort, but the one I started reading was about her trip to Nepal, where she backpacked alone. The webtoon was appropriately called "Where am I"and was a brilliant piece of illustrated travel writing. Her drawing style relies a lot on simple lines and soft colors, which I find very soothing on the eyes while looking at a computer screen.

As her friends and family are quite a funny bunch (I think it’s a common trait in webtoon artists to have an interesting entourage), her current toon is a good read as well. 

혈액형에 관한 고찰 – A Simple Thinking about Blood Type by Park Dongsun

Have you ever wondered why Koreans ask you about your blood type? It’s not because they want to know what to do in case you happen to be in an accident (although it really is vital information), but it’s because there is a underlying belief that blood types affect personalities and character in the way an astrological sign may.

Another hugely successful webtoon, it has packed all the existing stereotypes of each blood type and more into a hilarious series. Strangely enough, there are many which are so darn true it’s kind of uncanny. Much funnier when you know your own blood type.

Introduction of some Webtoobs

I'd like to introduce some webtoons that I like.

와라 편의점 – Wara! Store by Ji Gangmin

Probably one of the most successful webtoons in Korea, Wara! Store portrays the happenings that occur in a regular convenience store. The interaction between the young part-time employees, the customers, the manager and even the products, this webtoon manages to capture a slice of life that is prevalent in any city around the world but with a very Korean touch. The webtoon has been a major success with many licensed products, short animations and such.

생활의 참견 – Interfering with Everyday Life by Kim Yangsoo

The title of this webtoon is a play on the familiar phrase “생활의 발견” which means “discovery of (everyday) life” or loosely translated, “importance of living”. The artist simply changed one syllable to create the word “참견” which means interfere, meddle – so the title is basically trying to say “sticking your nose in other peoples’ everyday life”, which happens quite a lot here in Korea because the line between public and personal life is rather blurry.

As expected, the webtoon deals with everyday life anecdotes, from the funny to the heartwarming. The artist is a husband and dad so the webtoon also provides good insight to the everyday life of a “regular” middle class Korean family. The artist recently released a new book specifically about his daughter and her antics.

Today lots of people surf the internet to enjoy their free time. I recommend the NAVER Webtoon site, an online cartoon site.

First, NAVER is a famous search engine in Korea and they provide lots of service to you. Especially webtoon is the popular for people who want to read funny stories among the other services. Naver allows you to download webtoon app if you have no time to use your computer.

The pictures and stories on Webtoon are censored by editors and comics experts, so you don’t have to worry about violent or sexual stories. 

You can enjoy Webtoon cartoons which were created by famous cartoonists for free. Although this service is free, the quality of the pictures and stories are at a high level, and they regularly update their cartoons once or twice a week. Webtoon contains lots of cartoons and they also provide amateurs' work. You can use all contents just for free.

This is commercial advertisement expressed by webtoon.
The name of webtoon is '놓지마 정신줄', 'Hold your mental line' in English.
The advertisement is saying about KIA.
It' shows us commercial feature of webtoons.


(http://youtu.be/-vo5Mmyva78)

Webtoon Marketing

-Webtoon take advantage of the companies advertising / public relations, promotions, products or any of the acts.

-Nowadays webtoon market is developing. Popularity of webtoon artists who take advantage of the marketing techniques is rising and webtoon is receiving attention.

-Webtoon advertisement can be utilized anywhere. The company's blog or website, Events page, Facebook, banners, pop-ups, etc.

- Especially in the case of advertising Naver App, as a means to "Fun with Webtoon in the ad," Naver introduced of the strategy of webtoon marketing.

*Utilization of webtoon as a marketing

Reference : http://orangest.co.kr/webtoon-2/

Features of Webtoon

-Interactivity
Because Breaking the mold of traditional Paper Cartoon "WEB" Based on the new channel, readers and writers immediate feedback on the content of the communication and sharing, including sharing can cause actively.
Even the interactivity can affect already planned story.

*Comment system of webtoon.

-Abundant power of expression
"WEB", because of the specificity that, despite the limits of cartoon, voice dubbing and other creative flash techniques and technologies can deliver a more convincing and interesting messages.

*Webtoon added flash 'The ghost of Oksoo station

http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=5&weekday=tue

-A variety of utilization
The delivery of simple fun, creation interesting factors, advertising and promote the utilization, webtoon can be used for the purpose limitless.

*Advertisement webtoon 

http://campaign.naver.com/naverappisode

Webtoon sites

Search engine commonly offer webtoon service. These are search engines I like to use.

This is Naver webtoon site. I usually using this service. I think, naver webtoon has a number of webtoon and more funny webtoon than other webtoon sites.

This is Duam webtoon site. It has less number of webtoon than Naver webtoon.

This is Nate webtoon site. I think, it has lower quality webtoon than other site.


Most of Webtoon sites divide webtoon by weekday. Monday to Sunday.
I prefer Naver webtoon site.