{"id":130628,"date":"2025-01-30T09:15:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T14:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/01\/30\/south-koreas-webtoon-comics-have-readers-hooked\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T09:15:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T14:15:27","slug":"south-koreas-webtoon-comics-have-readers-hooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/01\/30\/south-koreas-webtoon-comics-have-readers-hooked\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea&rsquo;s webtoon comics have readers hooked"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South Korea is seeing a boom in webtoons\u00a0\u2013 short episodic comics that are designed to be read on smartphones.\u00a0They are hugely popular in the country, where some 35 million people read at least one episode of a webtoon every week. Amid this success at home, webtoon creators are now turning their attention to international markets, including English-speaking countries and France. FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Chlo\u00e9 Borgnon and Justin McCurry report.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea is seeing a boom in webtoons\u00a0\u2013 short episodic comics that are designed to be read on smartphones.\u00a0They are hugely popular in the country, where some 35 million people read at least one episode of a webtoon every week. Amid this success at home, webtoon creators are now turning their attention to international markets, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-130628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}