50 Fun Facts About Webtoons

In a Netflix comedy based on Park Ji-dok's webtoon, a woman enters a strange machine and becomes which food?

A chicken nugget is what Choi Min-ah becomes after mistaking the machine for a fatigue-recovery booth, leaving her father to chase a way to change her back.

Rachel Smythe's hit romance webtoon Lore Olympus retells the Greek myth of which divine couple?

Hades and Persephone are recast in a modern setting by Smythe, who first posted the comic on her own Tumblr in 2017 before it ran to 280 episodes.

In True Beauty, bullied teen Lim Ju-kyung remakes her life by mastering which skill from online videos?

Makeup wins Ju-kyung sudden fame, and the Korean title of Yaongyi's comic translates literally as The Advent of a Goddess.

Which webtoon by S.I.U. follows Twenty-Fifth Bam as he chases after his only friend, Rachel?

Tower of God has been serialized since 2010, and its anime adaptation arrived in 2020 with a second season following four years later.

Which Alice Oseman webcomic about schoolboys Nick and Charlie began on Tumblr and Tapas before Netflix adapted it?

Heartstopper started online in 2016, and a Kickstarter campaign paid for its first print edition two years later. Nick and Charlie had first appeared in Oseman's earlier book Solitaire.

Kingdom, Netflix's first original Korean drama, began as a webtoon that set which monsters loose in old Joseon?

Zombies overrun a fictional Joseon in 1601 while a crown prince investigates, a story writer Kim Eun-hee had first told as a webtoon made with Yang Kyung-il.

Which Korean internet company, best known for its search portal, launched the Webtoon platform in 2004?

Naver found that digital comics were the key to winning traffic for its portal, so it gave them premium space on the front page and took the service global ten years later.

Which K-pop group inspired the heroes of 7Fates: Chakho, first of three Hybe webtoons launched in January 2022?

BTS fronted 7Fates: Chakho, which arrived a day before Dark Moon: The Blood Altar and two days before The Star Seekers, built around two younger groups on the same label.

In the webtoon-based Netflix drama Love Alarm, what tells people that someone nearby has feelings for them?

A mobile app drives the plot of Chon Kye-young's webtoon, and its adaptation was the first Korean drama series that Netflix confirmed it would pick up.

In Solo Leveling, what grade of hunter is Sung Jin-woo before a mysterious System picks him as its only player?

E-rank marks Jin-woo as notoriously weak, but the System hands him something no other hunter has: the ability to keep growing stronger after awakening.

Webtoon episodes drop separate pages for which layout, designed to suit the way people read on a smartphone?

One long vertical strip lets the scroll itself set the pace, so artists can stretch the gaps between panels for cinematic fades and slow reveals.

In which webtoon by Taejun Pak does a bullied student wake up able to switch between two very different bodies?

Lookism gives its hero a tall, handsome second body that sleeps whenever the original is awake, so he sees first-hand how differently the world treats each one.

Which superhero webtoon by uru-chan follows John, a seemingly powerless student at Wellston Private High School?

UnOrdinary pairs John with Seraphina, the school's time-bending top student, and their friendship cuts across a hierarchy built on superhuman abilities.

The first DC Comics series made for Webtoon, launched in September 2021, centres on the family of which superhero?

Batman: Wayne Family Adventures opened the partnership, and further series starring Vixen, Red Hood and Zatanna were announced the following April.

Joo Dong-geun's school-horror webtoon of 2009 to 2011 became a Netflix hit under which English title?

All of Us Are Dead ran for 130 chapters, and an early English translation of the comic carried the blunter name School Attack.

In the horror webtoon Sweet Home, later a Netflix series, what do the monsters that people turn into reflect?

Their own desires, the innermost and most desperate ones, shape each monster in the story Kim Carnby wrote and Hwang Young-chan drew about a besieged apartment block.

Which term is the general Korean word for comics, the print tradition that webtoons grew out of?

Manhwa reads horizontally from left to right, the same direction as English books, because that is how Korean is normally written.

In the webtoon Eleceed, Jiwoo Seo rescues the injured Awakener Kayden Break, who looks like which animal?

A cat that can talk is how Jiwoo first meets Kayden, and the title blends electricity with speed, the two powers Jiwoo ends up combining under his tutor.

Which name does Webtoon give its self-publishing section, where creators are paid by page views?

Canvas sits beside Webtoon Originals, the banner for series the platform commissions from creators it partners with.

Which webtoon by Gwang Jin, about an ex-convict who opens a bar to take on a food conglomerate, became a 2020 drama?

Itaewon Class cast Park Seo-joon as bar owner Park Sae-ro-yi, and Japanese television remade it two years later as Roppongi Class.

In the webtoon My ID is Gangnam Beauty, what does bullied Kang Mi-rae undergo before starting university?

Cosmetic surgery is what the title points to: gangnammiin is a Korean put-down for people who are attractive but look as if they have had a lot of work done.

Which member of the boy band Astro played the male lead in two webtoon dramas, Gangnam Beauty and True Beauty?

Cha Eun-woo broke through with Gangnam Beauty in 2018, and True Beauty two years later carried his name well beyond Korea.

In Navillera, a webtoon turned tvN drama, what does 70-year-old retired mailman Shim Deok-chul start learning?

Ballet has been Deok-chul's lifelong dream, though his family is unimpressed, and at the academy he trains beside a dancer nearly fifty years younger.

Which Toronto-based story-sharing platform did Webtoon's parent company buy in 2021 in a $600 million deal?

Wattpad brought its own screen studio into the group, and in 2025 that studio was renamed Webtoon Productions after its sister platform.

Which webtoon stars Rai, who wakes after 820 years asleep and enters high school helped by his servant Frankenstein?

Noblesse ran from 2007 to 2019 and was among the first webtoons given an official English translation when the platform went global.

In The God of High School, hero Jin Mori fights with his own fictional version of which Korean martial art?

Taekwondo, in a made-up form the comic calls Renewal Taekwondo, is what the carefree 17-year-old from Seoul takes into the tournament that gives the series its name.

Which webtoon by Yeon Sang-ho and artist Choi Gyu-seok became a Netflix series that Yeon directed himself?

Hellbound shows supernatural beings appearing out of nowhere to condemn people to Hell, and Yeon and Choi wrote the screen version themselves.

In Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, Kim Dokja is the sole reader of what, whose events begin unfolding in real life?

A web novel called Three Ways to Survive in a Ruined World has been Dokja's habit for 13 years, so he alone knows what is coming next.

Which streaming service made the 2020 anime of The God of High School one of its branded Originals?

Crunchyroll joined the production committee and simulcast the Japanese-language version as the 13 episodes aired from July to September 2020.

Which webtoon by Lee Dong-gun became a 2021 drama that mixed live actors with 3D-animated characters?

Yumi's Cells tells an ordinary office worker's story through the brain cells that steer her thoughts and feelings, and the comic ran from 2015 to 2020.

Which actor, nicknamed the Son of Netflix, starred in the webtoon adaptations Sweet Home and Love Alarm?

Song Kang landed Love Alarm, his first major role, through auditions that drew 900 hopefuls, and he went on to a third webtoon drama, Navillera.

Which romantic comedy by Mongie, about Sam Young and her new neighbour Marshall Law, ran on Webtoon from 2016 to 2022?

Let's Play drew more than 7.5 million subscribers, and a 12-episode anime adaptation aired in Japan in late 2025.

In The Uncanny Counter, based on the webtoon Amazing Rumor, the Counters use what kind of business as a hideout?

A noodle restaurant called Eonni's Noodles gives three of the Counters their cover jobs, and schoolboy So Mun is recruited after the fourth member is killed.

D.P., a Netflix series based on Kim Bo-tong's webtoon, follows Korean military police who hunt whom?

Army deserters are the quarry, and D.P. stands for Deserter Pursuit. Kim Bo-tong co-wrote the screenplay from his own comic, D.P Dog's Day.

Lore Olympus won Best Webcomic in 2022 and 2023 at which comics awards, held each year at San Diego Comic-Con?

The Eisners are often described as the comics industry's answer to the Oscars, and the series had first been nominated for one in 2019.

Webtoon went global in 2014 under the brand of which messaging service, as its Korean parent was little known abroad?

Line lent its name to the service until 2019, when the English edition dropped the prefix and became simply Webtoon.

On Webtoon, readers spend Coins on which feature to read episodes of a series ahead of the free schedule?

Fast Pass lets readers jump ahead, and the number of Coins needed to unlock an episode varies from one series to the next.

Which webtoon by Míriam Bonastre Tur follows twin witches Dani and Dorian after they miss the bus to magic school?

Hooky ran from 2015 to 2020 and drew its truant twins into a prophesied war, before the Spanish author's series reached print the following year.

Which Japanese animation studio produced the 2024 anime adaptation of the Korean webtoon Solo Leveling?

A-1 Pictures aired the first season from January to March 2024, and a second, subtitled Arise from the Shadow, followed exactly a year later.

Yoon Tae-ho's office webtoon Misaeng compares working life to which strategy board game, called baduk in Korea?

Go frames the whole story of office life, which ran online from 2012 to 2013 and reached television as a drama of the same name the following year.

Which campus webtoon by Soonkki pairs student Hong Seol with Yoo Jung, a senior known as Mr. Perfect?

Cheese in the Trap began in 2010 and was adapted twice, first as a television series in 2016 and then as a film two years later.

Which Joo Ho-min webtoon became the Korean films The Two Worlds (2017) and The Last 49 Days (2018)?

Along with the Gods was inspired by Joseon-era Buddhist paintings of the Ten Kings of Hell, and the first film became one of the highest-grossing in Korean cinema history.

Which TurtleMe fantasy series follows King Grey once he is reborn as Arthur Leywin in a magical world?

The Beginning After the End is an American series that started as prose on Tapas in 2017, and its scrolling comic version followed on the same site the next year.

Which entertainment giant took a 2% stake in Webtoon Entertainment in September 2025 to adapt its own characters?

Disney, formally The Walt Disney Company, bought in as part of an expanded collaboration to adapt the stories it owns for the platform.

Which first-generation webtoon artist, creator of 26 Years, wrote the 2023 drama Moving from his own comic?

Kang Full, the pen name of Kang Do-yeong, broke from the essay-style comics of 2003 with a long romance serial that averaged two million page views a day.

Which Korean internet portal opened a webtoon service in 2003, a year before Webtoon's own parent did?

Daum got there first, and by July 2014 it had published 434 webtoons against its larger rival's 520.

Dr. Brain, adapted from a webtoon by Hongjacga, was the first Korean-language show made for which streaming service?

Apple TV+ timed the thriller to its own launch in South Korea in November 2021, with Lee Sun-kyun as a scientist who hacks into the brains of the deceased.

Webtoon Entertainment, the Korean-controlled company behind the comics platform, is based in which American city?

Los Angeles is home to the holding company, which is incorporated in Delaware and went public on the stock market in June 2024.

In the webtoon Wind Breaker, Jay and the Hummingbird Crew enter the League of Streets to compete in which sport?

Cycling grips Jay because he looks up to his uncle, a professional rider who gave him a bike, and the League of Streets turns it into a team contest.

In Taxi Driver, adapted from the webtoon The Deluxe Taxi, what does Rainbow Taxi Company secretly offer crime victims?

Revenge for hire is the firm's real trade, carried out by a former special forces soldier, and the plots draw on actual crimes committed in Korea.