Webtoon: The Evolution of Korean Digital Comics
Start Date: March 10, 2016
End Date: May 31, 2016
Time: 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
Location: Charles B. Wang Center, 100 Nicolls Road Stony Brook, NY 11794
Description
March 10 – May 31, 2016
Free Admission
Charles B. Wang Center Jasmine, Zodiac, and Video Galleries
South Korea’s entertainment landscape is shaped by a force that’s not widely known in the West: The webtoon. The Webtoon is digital comics run the gamut from comedies to dramas, from thrillers to romances and elaborate fantasies. It can be enjoyed anywhere, anytime, online and on mobile devices. Their popularity has given rise to TV series, films, musical performances, and video games and souvenir businesses. The term webtoon was coined by Naver, one of the top search engines in South Korea, and it quickly became a term that applied to all web cartoons.
This exhibition was organized by the Korean Cultural Service in New York and supported by the Korean portal service, Naver, Rolling Stories and TappyToon.
This exhibition is a part of Tour 1 of the Art Crawl: A Guided Tour of Campus Galleries on Tuesday, March 22, 2016.
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LECTURE
Korea’s Digital Comics: The Evolution of Webtoons in a Global Context
Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 1:00 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Theatre
Free Admission!
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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