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AX 2025: Ink Pop reveals three more titles to 14 WEBTOON series partnership and two other manhwa licenses

Hilary Leung -
Three series under the WEBTOON partnership will be released via Ink Pop and two separate series.

SEVENTEEN announces Sanrio collaboration through Don Quijote

Hayame Kawachi -
SEVENTEEN teams up with Sanrio and Don Quijote in a new collab. See which characters your fave members were paired with—full list inside!

Boys Love for Life: 5 stories set in university

Merve Giray -
Boys Love, or BL for short is a genre that depicts romantic and/or sexual relationships between men. It’s a rich genre with stunning variety...

THE HUSKY AND HIS WHITE CAT SHIZUN is devastation, pain, and heartbreak in Volume 10

Hilary Leung -
The second-to-last volume of "The Husky and His White Cat Shizun" will make fans cry.

WIND BREAKER manhwa suddenly canceled due to tracing controversy

Hilary Leung -
Naver WEBTOON has decided to discontinue "Wind Breaker" due to the artist tracing artwork from other creators.

WHEN THE THIRD WHEEL STRIKES BACK gets axed at Season 2

Hilary Leung -
The manhwa "When the Third Wheel Strikes Back" will not continue after 96 chapters.

Comics

Boys Love for Life: 5 stories set in university

Merve Giray -
Boys Love, or BL for short is a genre that depicts romantic and/or sexual relationships between men. It’s a rich genre with stunning variety...

Boys Love for Life: 5 stories set in high school

Merve Giray -
Boys Love, or BL for short is a genre that depicts romantic and/or sexual relationships between men. It’s a rich genre with stunning variety...

Magic From The Margins: KAIJU’s NOVAE is a Gorgeous Historical Romance as Intricate as the Stars

Tonya Pennington -
In Magic From The Margins, Latonya “Penn” Pennington explores sci-fi fantasy webtoons and Tapas comics by marginalized creators. For the fourteenth entry, they’re checking out Novae. Novae Creator:...

Boys Love for Life: 5 stories with Doctors

Merve Giray -
Boys Love, or BL for short is a genre that depicts romantic and/or sexual relationships between men. It’s a rich genre with stunning variety...

Boys Love for Life: 5 all-time favorite series

Merve Giray -
I'm hijacking my own column (again) to make it all about me this time! It was my birthday a couple of days ago, so...

K-Comics Beat’s Monthly Manhwa Recs #6

K-Comics Beat -
Welcome to the sixth edition of K-Comic Beat’s Monthly Manhwa Recs! Our team has come together to provide you with a variety of recommendations...
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Anime, Film, & TV

Anime Review: TO BE HERO X’s Loli Arc is lesser fare

Hayame Kawachi -
This time on "To Be Hero X," Adam and Hilary discuss the highs and lows of the Loli arc. Does this pink hero have a trick up her sleeve?

AX 2025: Webtoons and the art of battle

Alan Kawachi -
At Anime Expo, WEBTOON’s top creators explored how fights in East Asian media blend emotion, philosophy, and pacing to create impactful storytelling.

KPOP DEMON HUNTERS: Saja Boys and Huntrix will be your idols and are going up, up, up on the US Spotify charts, beating BTS...

Hilary Leung -
Saja Boys become the first K-Pop male group to reach No. 1 on the US Spotify charts while Huntrix lands at No. 2

“Your Idol” KPOP DEMON HUNTERS is “GOLDEN” on Billboard Hot 100

Hilary Leung -
Real life clashes with the fictional world as the Huntrix and Saja Boys get their first Billboard Hot 100 entries.

AX 2025: HEAVEN OFFICIAL’S BLESSING releases new trailer for Lantern Festival short film

Hilary Leung -
Xie Lian will attempt to solve riddles in this "Heaven Official's Blessing" short film.

Ahn Hyoseop is set “FREE” in cover for KPOP DEMON HUNTERS

Hilary Leung -
Jinu's English voice actor Ahn Hyoseop sings a beautiful cover of "Free" from "KPop Demon Hunters."
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Reviews

Anime Review: TO BE HERO X’s Loli Arc is lesser fare

Hayame Kawachi -
This time on "To Be Hero X," Adam and Hilary discuss the highs and lows of the Loli arc. Does this pink hero have a trick up her sleeve?

10 webtoons about K-Pop idols

Alexa Lopez -
Discover the best K-Pop webtoons and immerse yourself in captivating tales of idols, magic, comebacks, and romance!

5 funny webtoons that will make you LOL

Alan Kawachi -
Whether you’re craving thoughtful reflections or random insanity, these five funny webtoons are guaranteed to make you chuckle.

Anime Review: TO BE HERO X’s Lucky Cyan rocks out

K-Comics Beat -
Adam and Hilary return for the Lucky Cyan arc of To Be Hero X. This time: pop music, magical guitar bows and zombies.

Review: DEAR HONGRANG tells a heartbreaking tragedy

Hilary Leung -
"Dear Hongrang" follows the tragic tale of three people: a sister, a "placeholder" brother, and a fake brother.

REVIEW: New soccer BL manhwa MEET ME HALFWAY is off to a fun start

Masha Zhdanova -
Meet Me Halfway Written and illustrated by Heemaeng, adapting a novel by Mangogom Manta Manta’s marketing team was kind enough to share with me a sneak preview...
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Korean Pop Culture

Boys Love for Life: 5 stories set in university

Merve Giray -
Boys Love, or BL for short is a genre that depicts romantic and/or sexual relationships between men. It’s a rich genre with stunning variety...

Boys Love for Life: 5 stories set in high school

Merve Giray -
Boys Love, or BL for short is a genre that depicts romantic and/or sexual relationships between men. It’s a rich genre with stunning variety...

Magic From The Margins: KAIJU’s NOVAE is a Gorgeous Historical Romance as Intricate as the Stars

Tonya Pennington -
In Magic From The Margins, Latonya “Penn” Pennington explores sci-fi fantasy webtoons and Tapas comics by marginalized creators. For the fourteenth entry, they’re checking out Novae. Novae Creator:...

Boys Love for Life: 5 stories with Doctors

Merve Giray -
Boys Love, or BL for short is a genre that depicts romantic and/or sexual relationships between men. It’s a rich genre with stunning variety...

Boys Love for Life: 5 all-time favorite series

Merve Giray -
I'm hijacking my own column (again) to make it all about me this time! It was my birthday a couple of days ago, so...

K-Comics Beat’s Monthly Manhwa Recs #6

K-Comics Beat -
Welcome to the sixth edition of K-Comic Beat’s Monthly Manhwa Recs! Our team has come together to provide you with a variety of recommendations...
More Korean Pop Culture

Business News

WEBTOON rebrands and reorganizes as WEBTOON Productions

Heidi MacDonald -
Wattpad WEBTOON Studios is rebranding as WEBTOON Productions under Entertainment Chief Strategy Officer Yongsoo Kim.

Chowking joins the KPOP DEMON HUNTERS craze with fun siomai and buchi ad

Hayame Kawachi -
Chowking's latest ad turns siomai and buchi into K-Pop lightsticks, celebrating the global success of "KPop Demon Hunters" on Netflix.

Radish Fiction to shut down by end of 2025

Hayame Kawachi -
Radish Fiction will shut down on December 31, 2025. Users are urged to use coins and access stories before the app becomes inaccessible.

STRAY KIDS’ Felix becomes global ambassador for Gong Cha

Hayame Kawachi -
STRAY KIDS’ Felix has been announced as the new global ambassador for Gong Cha. The worldwide bubble tea campaign kicks off in Korea.

Another platform bites the dust: POCKET COMICS to shut down in October

Hilary Leung -
The webtoon industry struggles as another platform terminates its services.

Tapas launches comic contest in partnership with Kickstarter

Hayame Kawachi -
Tapas launches a comic contest in partnership with Kickstarter, offering creators cash prizes and a chance to be published in a print anthology.
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