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The Secret Bedroom of the Abandoned Princess
The Extra's Academy Survival Guide
Serena
Return of the Legendary Spear Knight
I'm Not That Kind of Talent
The Max Level Hero Has Returned!
Chicken Nugget
Naver Webtoons
Tower of God
Kubera
Knight Run
Pink Lady
Welcome to the Convenience Store
Bongcheon-Dong Ghost
Transfer Student Storm Bringer
Daum Webtoons
Comico Webtoons
Moonlight Hair
Fluttering Feelings
Tribe-X
The Clock Workers
Gallery L
Confession
Flower Boys
Daum Webtoons
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Moss
Red Storm
He Is a High-School Girl
My Beautiful World
Legendary Fist
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==History== In the 1990's, during the boom of launching personal webpages, many Korean cartoonists started to show their work on their webpages instead of debuting it through magazines. And instead of sticking to the dramatic genre that serial magazines preferred, many of them displayed their individual tastes, stories, and ideas and were well-received. Called “essay-toons”, “sympathy toons”, or ''internet toons'', they escaped the pressure of having to fill up a page by uploading loosely-configured drawings with ample margins that simply required scrolling. ''Pape Popo Memories'' by Shim Seung-hyun, ''Snow Cat'' by Kwon Yoon-ju, and ''Marine Blues'' by Jeong Chul-yeon were some that became hits. Independent manhwa also paid attention to the online channel to secure the niche which the mainstream manhwa could not satisfy. The expense of production and marketing on the web didn’t cost as much as it did with magazines, and independent manhwa creators could also create new works based on their own ideas. The first Korean indie manhwa magazine and self-described ‘low budget independent manhwa magazine,” Flush, struggled to publish magazines, then moved to cyberspace in 1998. Other indie magazines like Akjin and Comix soon followed.
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