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How Do Webtoon Authors and Artists Make Money?

 Webtoons were born in the early 2000s in the form of amateur cartoons and comics published on internet portals in Korea. But now there are thousands of webtoons translated by fans into many languages, including Turkish. Popular webtoons are read by millions every week, and the reputation of webtoons has begun to surpass Korea. Amateur comics have been replaced by more professional and Quality Comics. And webtoons have become a very fast-growing industry in Korea. In this article, I will explain the relationship between money and webtoons. For some people, talking about money is a taboo. But you also appreciate that money is the key that opens the door to better quality products and services.

"So do these artists make money? If they're winning, How are they winning? What should a webtoon writer or Illustrator do to make more money?"I will try to give as many answers as I can. Four of webtoon writers and illustrators ' sources of income:

1. Money From Webtoon Publishing Portals

A webtoonist in development, if he publishes a weekly series, earns 100 thousand won each week (209 TL at the rate of this day). When he proved himself and gained a large readership, he was likely to earn more than 1 million won per month (2091 Turkish Liras at the rate of this day).

3 portals (Naver, Daum, Nate), which publish the most webtoons, are not small and ordinary companies. And the number of visitors to the webtoon sections is expressed in millions every day. In this case, if they put even the slightest advertising, they make a large amount of money. Webtoon ports also give some of this money to writers and illustrators who have worked for webtoons. Also, some parts of some webtoons are paid.

Webtoonists (or webtoon writers and illustrators) at first stand only (or always) with the payments of these portals. So, " what do these portals pay writers and illustrators based on?"if you say, there are a wide range of rumors about this :D we do not have clear information. But I consider it appropriate to write two or three methods, both because they are common to most rumors and because they make sense. Of course, this will change from the published portal to the portal.

1-I don't know if you noticed, but webtoons are listed according to the days they appeared on the portals where they were published and sorted by the number of reads. For example, a webtoon comes out on Monday, for a week after it comes out (i.e. until a new episode comes out), they note the ranking at the end of each day and reveal a mevla according to its ranking.

2-according to the number of readings and score until the new section appears, a mevla appears. But there are many who say they never care about the score. (I said a lot 2.3 people already on English sites, even if there are very few people curious about this kind of issue, even this figure becomes a lot :D)

2.Money From The Publisher If Webtoon Is Printed

3.Money received in exchange for adaptation to a Film or series

When webtoon is adapted into a series and film, the writer and Illustrator are paid, as well as usually the writer is involved in the production of the film (especially if the writer and Illustrator are separate people, he can even direct). So they have another extra gain.

4.Money From The Sale Of Licensed Products

In addition, webtoon writers and illustrators also advertise products with advertising content (for example: noblesse writers and illustrators promote a newly released Samsung phone. I don't think they'll introduce it for free, at least they gave me a phone gift: D)

Some of the published sources are: The Argus: Golden Age of Webtoons, How Are website Cartoonists?

SIU

 "The writer is a genius. The writer is a genius. THE WRITER IS A GENIUS."

From these sentences he wrote, You can see what a crazy writer SIU is.

Siu, Slave. Earth. It is an acronym for Utero and is a pen name used by the author (&illustrator). Her gender is male. He is the author and illustrator of Tower of God.

On his blog, he constantly writes biogrophies of characters in Tower of God or information about Towet of God. Although there are other webtoons that he has written and drawn, as can be seen from his blog, he has lost himself to Tower of God.

He likes to troll his readers by giving them unusual information about characters whose gender is unclear :D (there were examples after that but I'm not translating them so you don't eat spoilers).

As those who read Tower of God can understand, the author loves photobombing and gives some of the characters the names of football players. He also makes jokes about football sometimes.

Also, the fact that Ja Wangnan's name is "I am the prince" when read backwards indicates that SIU uses other interesting methods than photball names when naming characters.

He explained that he also liked video games.

References:

SIU's blog

SIU's webtoons

SIU's me2day

SIU's Twitter

Ha Il Kwon

Date Of Birth: January 10, 1982

Site: http://blog.naver.com/hailkwon

Korean name: 일권

Korean surname: 하

WORKS:

The webtoon:

3 Level Combination

Afterschool War Activities

Annarasumanara

God of Bath

My Heart Beating

Sambong Barber Shop

Normal Manhwa:

Hero Co., Co.

Carnivorous Princess Yegrinna

Manga:

Water Cube

Although Ha Il Kwon, the author of Water Cube, is a Japanese illustrator, it is also referred to as a manga since it was published in Japan.

Career:

Ha Il Kwon not only worked on comics in the webtoon genre, but also on manhwa and manga. Ha Il Kwon graduated from Sejong University with a degree in cartoon animation. His most notable works are God of Bath, Duty after school and Annarasumanara. God of Bath from the webtoons has been adapted into a film. The film God of Bath is scheduled for release in December 2019.

Bibliography (Works):

Year          English title                                                     Hangul

2006        Sambong Barber Shop                                 삼봉이발소

2007        Boss's pure love                                           보스의 순정

2008        3-Part Transformation, Kim Chang-Nam     3단합체 김창남

2009        My Heart is Beating                                     두근두근두근거려

2010        Annarasumanara                                           안나라수마나라

2011        God of Bath                                                 목욕의 신

2012        Duty after School                                         방과후 전쟁활동

2013        Move! Here Warrior                                     출동! 히어로 전사

2015        GoGoGo                                                       고고고

2016        Sperman                                                       스퍼맨

2017-2018  Came across                                              마주쳤다

My Own Thoughts:

Although this guy's webtoona work makes a lot of Big Short series, it's very popular. I also watched a video of them being interviewed on the streets of Korea and the questions were "Do you read Webtoon? Are you reading from a phone or computer? What are your favorite webtoons? it was in shape. Whoever they handed out the micraphone, they counted at least one series of this guy among their favorite.

Pictures:

Note: "Unfortunately, I couldn't find many sources about Ha Il Kwon, and I had to write a few thoughts about it. Forgive me if I didn't introduce you."I wrote this many years ago, but when I updated this article in 2019, I saw that now there is much more information about webtoons. Look, the content that I prepared in 2013 has increased 4 times.

References:

My Anime List

Wikipedia

Information that remains in my mind from various content that I read, see, watch, listen to about my own experiences and webtoons.