• Journal of Popular Narrative
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.303-345
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• 2019

This article analyzes the multi-layered communication in the Webtoon Princess Pari, released on the Daum portal site, created (written and illustrated) by Kim Naim, through analyzing the narrative structure and comments with the qualitative / quantitative methodology. The webtoon Princess Pari is structured in an omnibus style in which unit narratives are intermittently articulated, multi-lined, and interconnected. As integrated narratives which link with unitary narratives, Pari's growth story as a shaman and a romance narrative are structured. The classical original story of the shaman was used as a prehistory corresponding to the prequel of the webtoon through a preview, and the writer restructured the narrative to overcome the contradictions of the gender asymmetry and the patriarchal ideology of the original text. The viewer then creates a conversational space by giving critical and reflective comments. According to a statistical analysis conducted through sampling, the types of comments can be classified as follows: Appreciation and criticism of the contents ≫ Emotional response ≫ Intuitive overall review ≫ Knowledge and reflection ≫ Comments on comments. In the process of creation and acceptance of the Webtoon, a multi-layered dialogue between classical and modern, content and audience, acceptance and creation has been at play. In the creation dimension, the writer used a device to fill the gap of mythical symbols of the contents. At the level of the audience, they formed a culture of sharing information, knowledge, and reflection about tradition/folk/culture through comments. This corresponds to classical and modern dialogue through the webtoon. The viewers form a sympathetic bond, attempt hermeneutical coordination, supplement the information, and search for a balanced angle through controversial conversation. In addition, by commenting on attitudes, views, and perspective, the commentators showed a behavioral pattern corresponding to meta-criticism in literature. The viewers' comments acted as feedback on the creation of the webtoons, so that the creation and acceptance itself influenced the production of the content of the webtoon. The webtoon Princess Pari, which was based on Korean classical narrative, has been reorganized onto 'moving and dynamic' content, which leads to sense, thinking, criticism and reflection through the formation of various dialogues.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.96-108
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• 2015

The market of webtoon is expanding and the main users' acceptance environment of webtoon is changing from web to mobile. Among this phenomena, platform companies combined various digital technologies and a new user interface to the webtoon. The major directions of change in webtoon are applying multimedia effects and actualize the optimized form for the mobile environment represented by a smartphone. This study defined these types of webtoon as 'Webtoon 2.0' and built a separate concept from 'Webtoon 1.0' which means the early form of webtoon. Through this, we propose a new standard in classifying various types of cartoons that are sporadically serviced to users. Also, through experiments with users, we checked the current status of webtoon 2.0 and webtoon 1.0 by quantitatively measuring and analyzing the degree of user satisfaction with the current webtoon. Through this, this study suggest technical and aesthetic development application of Korean webtoon which is available to platform operators, writers and users.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.87-99
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• 2024

This study aims to identify the competencies required for webtoon artists to survive in the future era of AI commercialization. It explores the current and future use of AI in webtoons, and predicts the role of artists in the future webtoon industry. The study finds that AI will replace human workers in some areas, but human empathy-related fields can be sustained. Artist roles like story projectors, Visual directors, and AI editors were identified as potential models for the changing role of artists. To address terminology ambiguity, a three-step AI categorization mechanical type AI, humanoid type AI, and transcendent type AI was proposed for a more realistic separation of AI capabilities. The researcher suggested these findings as guidelines for developing skills in emerging artists or re-skilling existing ones, emphasizing collaboration with AI for mutual growth rather than a negative acceptance of new technology.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2019.07a
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• pp.41-44
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• 2019

4차 산업혁명 시대에 떠오르는 기술인 블록체인과 블록체인의 단점을 보완할 수 있는 분산된 파일 시스템 IPFS을 활용하여 새로운 형태의 웹툰 플랫폼 서비스 BlockToon을 개발하였다. 본 논문에서 개발한 BlockToon은 중앙 서버가 웹툰 정보와 파일을 관리하는 것이 아닌 작가가 파일에 대한 정보를 블록체인과 IPFS에 자유롭게 등록, 관리한다. 블록체인 특성상 수정 및 삭제가 불가능하기 때문에 블록체인에 등록된 웹툰의 정보는 저작권 증명이 가능하다. 또한 주요 데이터를 중앙 서버에서 관리하지 않으므로 중앙 서버 유지 비용이 절감된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.10a
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• pp.770-773
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 매년 성장하는 웹툰 시장 속에서 신인 작가들이 성공할 수 있는 성공 요인을 밝히고자 하였다. 국내 1위 웹툰 플랫폼인 네이버 웹툰 중 데뷔작을 기준으로 완결 웹툰 212개, 연재 중인 웹툰 112개, 총 324개의 웹툰을 수집하여 연구를 진행하였다. 기존 선행연구와의 차별화를 두기 위해 독자의 직접적인 반응 중 하나인 댓글을 성공 요인에 포함하였다. 댓글에 담긴 긍정, 부정을 나타내는 주관을 탐지하기 위해 딥러닝을 이용하여 감성 분석을 실시하였다. 각 웹툰에 대한 댓글 반응을 포함하여 평균, '좋아요' 수, 장르 그리고 첫 화 댓글 수와 5화까지 평균 댓글 수를 흥행에 영향을 미치는 독립변수로 사용했다. 댓글 반응이 중요 요인인지를 확인하기 위해 각 모델 생성 시 댓글 반응을 포함한 모델과 포함하지 않은 모델을 생성하여 성능 평가를 실시하였다. 로지스틱 회귀분석, 아다 부스트, 그리고 서포트 벡터 머신 모델을 정확도와 ROC 그래프를 이용해 효율성을 비교하고, 이를 통해 댓글 반응을 활용한 로지스틱 회귀 모델이 가장 적합하다고 판단하였다. 모델 생성 결과 '좋아요' 수, 1화 댓글 수, 댓글 반응 순으로 성공 요인에 많은 영향을 미치는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• The Journal of Bigdata
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.21-32
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• 2018

Currently, Webtoon Industry is promising as high potential market from it's high growth trend. The best advantage webtoon propose is that webtoon can provide appropriate service to customers with various needs. For this feature, webtoon industry is expanding throughout the world. This situation may give a great chance for authors and webtoon service corporation to export webtoon contents. Also, this situation could be an opportunity for webtoon to become a new "Korean Wave" contents. For successful advance to market, a close analysis for customers of exporting countries. In this research, we collected the data from Naver Webtoon and analyzed the features of webtoons and webtoon subscribers according to countries. With this research, it would be possible to find out specific methods and variables which affect the preference of webtoon subscribers.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.51
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• pp.225-254
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• 2018

For the domestic web-toon industry, a new industrial environment has been created by the growth various domestic and international factors, such as technology development, the increase of platforms, charged web-toon, and globalization. Although the role of the agency has not been emphasized at the formation and introduction time of the web-toon, the role growth of the agency has been regularized with the expanding of the web-toon industry. The expending web-toon industry is due to the introduction of smart-phone, by which people can consume the web-toon without any limit of time and place, so the web-toon industry has been growing rapidly. Thereafter the production of the second contents using the web-toon IP has been actively carried out and the activity area of the web-toon artist has been diversified, so the necessity of the specialized web-toon agency has begun to be brought in earnest. In this study, the web-toon industry has been, firstly, classified as transition period of cartoon industry, foothold formation period of web-toon, introduction period of web-toon industry, expansion period, and maturity period according to the industrial life cycle theory. As a result, the web-toon agency has been emerged from the expansion period of web-toon industry, and the role of agency, to prevent web-toon industry entering into declining period from its maturity period, has been researched in this study.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.51
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• pp.203-223
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• 2018

Through importance and achievement analysis of participating students in Youth employment academy, 'webtoon specialist education course', the purpose of this study is to derive implications for invigorating webtoon specialist education course. The result of importance and achievement analysis is as follows. First, participating students consider that education course is important for them, express high satisfaction. Second, participating students consider that education infrastructure is important, so need to upgrade. Third, Communication is not important factor, participating students are satisfied with communication. Fourth, employment rate is not important factor, participating students are lowly satisfied with employment rate. Because major participating students are sophomore & junior in university and will choose their own business instead of getting the job, they express low satisfaction of importance and achievement. Through this study, I would like to suggest implications and advanced strategies for invigorating webtoon specialist education course for creating youth jobs.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.43
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• pp.211-230
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• 2016

First this research starts with agreement that comics is 'the sequential art'. It means that over two sequential panels makes how to recognize the story and this research owes to the connection of forward panel and backward panel. Webtoon, internet comics is also consisted to sequential panels. But only it is different with the publish comics by direction, shape, length and so on. So this research tries to make point of the connection between first panel and second panel. Especially it researches what types of connections between the last panel of first episode and the first panel of second one beyond the connections of panels at only episode. This research treats the types of gutter, 'connection' means to continue the same scenes or 'separation' does to devide the story and shows the new scenes. Weekly webtoon must have a kind of break time. The first panel of next episode should remind of the former story, it means easy technique. Otherwise some first panel don't show the same scenes or story so this study researches 130 artworks from the portal sites; Naver, Daum, mobile comics platform; Lezhin Comics and Toptoon, Corea.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.101-109
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• 2017

This study was undertaken to understand how reference groups, convenience and pursuit of information affect subscription-based Webtoon service usage through reliability and curiosity, through which this study provides some suggestions for developing Webtoons and increasing profitability of service providers. Therefore, the reliability and feasibility analysis were conducted for 449 readers who used the paid webtoon more than once. In addition, the causality test was conducted to verify the research model. As a result of the research, this study shows the following implications: First, it is recommended that webtoon service providers produce webtoons with the webtoonists who have more expertise developing new webtoons. Second, webtoon service providers should focus on advertising during the episodes that are currently being subscribed to, or in the next episodes in order to stimulate the usage needs of readers rather than focusing on advertising the products related to the characters and their development and sales. Third, webtoon service providers are supposed to develop webtoons by using materials that can appear in everyday life. Fourth, webtoon service providers should continue their research in order to develop high quality products and express the unique characteristics of their advertisements by increasing investment in the development of products and advertising.