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50 free Webtoons trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Webtoons started as a Korean experiment in putting comics on the web and turned into one of the most widely read forms of storytelling anywhere. Built for scrolling on a phone and released an episode at a time, they have launched fantasy epics, school dramas, office comedies and horror stories that reach readers around the world, and they now feed a steady stream of television dramas, films and anime. This quiz covers the medium from both sides of the screen. There are questions on the best-known series and the characters who lead them, on the writers and artists who made them, and on the live-action and animated adaptations that carried those stories to viewers who have never opened a comics reader. Others look at how the format works, where it came from, and the companies and features that readers use every week. It is written for regular readers who want to test what they remember, for K-drama and anime fans curious about where their favourite shows began, and for anyone putting together a quiz night with a pop-culture round. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still teaches you something.
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Q 01In a Netflix comedy based on Park Ji-dok's webtoon, a woman enters a strange machine and becomes which food?
A chicken nugget
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.
Q 02Rachel Smythe's hit romance webtoon Lore Olympus retells the Greek myth of which divine couple?
Hades and Persephone
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.
Q 03In True Beauty, bullied teen Lim Ju-kyung remakes her life by mastering which skill from online videos?
Makeup
Makeup wins Ju-kyung sudden fame, and the Korean title of Yaongyi's comic translates literally as The Advent of a Goddess.
Q 04Which webtoon by S.I.U. follows Twenty-Fifth Bam as he chases after his only friend, Rachel?
Tower of God
Tower of God has been serialized since 2010, and its anime adaptation arrived in 2020 with a second season following four years later.
Q 05Which Alice Oseman webcomic about schoolboys Nick and Charlie began on Tumblr and Tapas before Netflix adapted it?
Heartstopper
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.
Q 06Kingdom, Netflix's first original Korean drama, began as a webtoon that set which monsters loose in old Joseon?
Zombies
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.
Q 07Which Korean internet company, best known for its search portal, launched the Webtoon platform in 2004?
Naver
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.
Q 08Which K-pop group inspired the heroes of 7Fates: Chakho, first of three Hybe webtoons launched in January 2022?
BTS
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.
Q 09In the webtoon-based Netflix drama Love Alarm, what tells people that someone nearby has feelings for them?
A mobile app
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.
Q 10In Solo Leveling, what grade of hunter is Sung Jin-woo before a mysterious System picks him as its only player?
E-rank
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.
Q 11Webtoon episodes drop separate pages for which layout, designed to suit the way people read on a smartphone?
One long vertical strip
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.
Q 12In which webtoon by Taejun Pak does a bullied student wake up able to switch between two very different bodies?
Lookism
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.
Q 13Which superhero webtoon by uru-chan follows John, a seemingly powerless student at Wellston Private High School?
UnOrdinary
Q 21In the webtoon My ID is Gangnam Beauty, what does bullied Kang Mi-rae undergo before starting university?
Cosmetic surgery
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.
Q 22Which member of the boy band Astro played the male lead in two webtoon dramas, Gangnam Beauty and True Beauty?
Cha Eun-woo
Cha Eun-woo broke through with Gangnam Beauty in 2018, and True Beauty two years later carried his name well beyond Korea.
Q 23In Navillera, a webtoon turned tvN drama, what does 70-year-old retired mailman Shim Deok-chul start learning?
Ballet
UnOrdinary pairs John with Seraphina, the school's time-bending top student, and their friendship cuts across a hierarchy built on superhuman abilities.
Q 14The first DC Comics series made for Webtoon, launched in September 2021, centres on the family of which superhero?
Batman
Batman: Wayne Family Adventures opened the partnership, and further series starring Vixen, Red Hood and Zatanna were announced the following April.
Q 15Joo Dong-geun's school-horror webtoon of 2009 to 2011 became a Netflix hit under which English title?
All of Us Are Dead
All of Us Are Dead ran for 130 chapters, and an early English translation of the comic carried the blunter name School Attack.
Q 16In the horror webtoon Sweet Home, later a Netflix series, what do the monsters that people turn into reflect?
Their own desires
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.
Q 17Which term is the general Korean word for comics, the print tradition that webtoons grew out of?
Manhwa
Manhwa reads horizontally from left to right, the same direction as English books, because that is how Korean is normally written.
Q 18In the webtoon Eleceed, Jiwoo Seo rescues the injured Awakener Kayden Break, who looks like which animal?
A cat
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.
Q 19Which name does Webtoon give its self-publishing section, where creators are paid by page views?
Canvas
Canvas sits beside Webtoon Originals, the banner for series the platform commissions from creators it partners with.
Q 20Which webtoon by Gwang Jin, about an ex-convict who opens a bar to take on a food conglomerate, became a 2020 drama?
Itaewon Class
Itaewon Class cast Park Seo-joon as bar owner Park Sae-ro-yi, and Japanese television remade it two years later as Roppongi Class.
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.
Q 24Which Toronto-based story-sharing platform did Webtoon's parent company buy in 2021 in a $600 million deal?
Wattpad
Wattpad brought its own screen studio into the group, and in 2025 that studio was renamed Webtoon Productions after its sister platform.
Q 25Which webtoon stars Rai, who wakes after 820 years asleep and enters high school helped by his servant Frankenstein?
Noblesse
Noblesse ran from 2007 to 2019 and was among the first webtoons given an official English translation when the platform went global.
Q 26In The God of High School, hero Jin Mori fights with his own fictional version of which Korean martial art?
Taekwondo
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.
Q 27Which webtoon by Yeon Sang-ho and artist Choi Gyu-seok became a Netflix series that Yeon directed himself?
Hellbound
Hellbound shows supernatural beings appearing out of nowhere to condemn people to Hell, and Yeon and Choi wrote the screen version themselves.
Q 28In Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, Kim Dokja is the sole reader of what, whose events begin unfolding in real life?
A web novel
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.
Q 29Which streaming service made the 2020 anime of The God of High School one of its branded Originals?
Crunchyroll
Crunchyroll joined the production committee and simulcast the Japanese-language version as the 13 episodes aired from July to September 2020.
Q 30Which webtoon by Lee Dong-gun became a 2021 drama that mixed live actors with 3D-animated characters?
Yumi's Cells
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.