Webtoon Entertainment

WEBTOON Entertainment, Inc. engages in the provision of global storytelling platform. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California and currently employs 1,800 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2024-06-27. The company operates a global storytelling platform, where a community of creators and users discover, create, and share new content. The company has a user base in over 150 countries with over half of its monthly active users coming from outside its core markets of Korea, Japan and the United States and Canada. Content on its platform tells stories created by its creators through multiple immersive formats. On its platform, creators tell long-form stories through its serialized narratives in the form of short-form, bite-sized episodes. These stories are told primarily in two ways: Web-comics, and Web-novels, which are text-based stories. Its creator base ranges from the individual enthusiast with a love of storytelling to the professional author building a brand and an enterprise on its platform. The company provides creators with an opportunity to monetize their creativity through various means, including Paid Content, Advertising and IP Adaptations.