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According to the 2024 Comics and Webtoon Distribution Statistics Listing printed by the Korea Manhwa Contents Agency (KOMACON) on March 12, the entire quantity of webtoon titles registered final year turned into 18,792, marking a 6.7% decline from the old year’s 20,141.
By platform, Kakao Web page, a flagship platform of Kakao Entertainment, saw a 16.1% drop in distributed webtoon titles from 1,401 in 2023 to 1,176 in 2024. Kakao Webtoon skilled a honest steeper decline of 22%, from 486 to 379 titles.
In distinction, Naver Webtoon saw an increase in distributed works from 353 to 424, reflecting a 20.1% snarl. Naver Assortment additionally skilled an uptick, with titles increasing from 2,304 to 2,775, a 20.4% upward thrust.
The decline in recent webtoon releases turned into in particular principal. The total quantity of recent webtoon titles registered across all platforms fell from 17,245 in 2023 to 14,723 in 2024, a 14.6% decrease.
The knowledge is in response to an diagnosis of serialization information across 34 domestic webtoon platforms.
The webtoon market boomed during the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020 to 2023, nonetheless as exterior activities resumed with the finish of the pandemic, the industry has been in decline.
Adding to the downturn, mid-sized platform Manhwakyung, operated by Woowa Brothers, shut down final year, extra dampening industry sentiment.
The Korea Manhwa Contents Agency mentioned, “The webtoon industry as a entire has shriveled in 2024, and this downward pattern is anticipated to continue into the main half of of 2025.”
A ideal portion of registered webtoons final year — 57.7% — had been classified as “18+ content.”
Among platforms, Bomtoon had the ideal percentage of 18+ webtoons at 83.4%, adopted by Jjang Manhwa (82.0%), BookCube (71.9%), and Lezhin Comics (71.3%).
Among principal platforms, Naver Assortment had the ideal proportion of 18+ webtoons at forty eight.6%, while Kakao Web page recorded 17.0%. Kakao Webtoon and Naver Webtoon had comparatively lower percentages at 6.6% and 5.2%, respectively.
Source: YNA (Kyung-yoon Kim), KOMACON
