Korea’s Digital Comics: The Evolution of Webtoons in a Global Context
Start Date: April 14, 2016
End Date: April 14, 2016
Time: 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Location: Charles B. Wang Center, 100 Nicolls Road Stony Brook, NY 11794
Description
Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 1 PM -2:30 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Theatre
Free Admission!
From TV dramas to K-pop, recent years have seen Korea’s cultural industry has gain a global audience. Much of the fodder for that content has come from Korean webtoons: digitally based comics.
With an impressive range of stories (from the fantastical to the literary) in a variety of artistic styles, Korean webtoon creators and artists are the new tastemakers and pop culture heroes, and their fan base now spanning readers and consumers of all ages from around the world.
How did this come to be? The lecture will introduce webtoons, their growth and how they formed over the last decade from the interaction of Korea’s comic book market, the global publishing industry and neighboring Asian influences. The lecture will also consider network effects in what is considered by many measures the most wired country in the world—as well as the challenges webtoons face in reaching across borders, to a potential audience of billions.
Organizers
Organized by : Charles B. Wang Center Organizer's Address : 100 Nicolls Road Stony Brook, NY 11794-4040 Email : [email protected] Website :
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Event categories: Workshops/Classes.Event tags: College/University, Ethnic, Free, Interactive, Lecture, Story Telling/Reading, and Suffolk.