Naver Webtoon's Character Chat service allows users to chat with characters from the platform's popular webtoon series. In this picture is Dohwa from ″Operation: True Love″ answering in English.

Naver Webtoon, Korea's largest webtoon platform, is facing backlash after controversial works featuring misogynistic and discriminatory content were approved during its screening process ...

Naver Webtoon CEO Kim Jun-koo speaks at a press event held in Naver's headquarters in Pangyo, Gyeonggi, on April 25, 2023. [NAVER WEBTOON] The impending debut of Naver Webtoon on the U.S. stock ...

LOS ANGELES, March 26, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the world’s leading anti-piracy coalition, today welcomed NAVER WEBTOON as its newest member.

The company was founded in 2005 by Junkoo Kim, a former search engineer at Naver, and has since grown into a popular platform for web-based comics. Market Overview: Webtoon shares jump by 14.3% in ...

The company, backed by South Korea-based Naver Corp., sold 15 million shares for $21 each on Wednesday. Webtoon shares closed at $23 apiece on Thursday in New York.

“Bringing Naver Webtoon into ACE’s ranks builds upon our expansion in the Asia Pacific, our growth worldwide, and our mission to protect intellectual property in every form,” added Charles ...

The company was founded nearly two decades ago as a side project of CEO Junkoo Kim, then a search engineer at Naver. Webtoon, which primarily caters to Gen Z and millennial users, operates a ...

Naver Webtoon announced on the 23rd that it is holding an event called 'Complete Free' (fully free completed webtoons), providing all episodes of 9 legendary completed webtoons for free until the ...

Naver WEBTOON reported on April 15 that according to its internal analysis, the service's AI chatbot, 'Character Chat,' which allows users to interact with WEBTOON characters, is contributing to ...

Online comics company Webtoon Entertainment Inc. is seeking to raise as much as $315 million in a US initial public offering after backer Naver Corp. this year accelerated plans for its market debut.

According to Naver Webtoon, some overseas users are already using the feature to converse in their own languages. The service is free, but there’s a daily limit on messages. Additional messages can be ...