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Re:The $40M bet that made South Korea a food and cultural power by ipsum2 on Monday May 22, 2023 @03:58AM (#36028596)
Webtoons (a Korean company) is probably more popular than manga now for this reason.
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Re:The $40M bet that made South Korea a food and cultural power by justinclift on Monday May 22, 2023 @07:52AM (#36030181)
Is this the place you're meaning?

https://www.webtoons.com/en/

If that's the one, it looks like an online manga reading website. There are many of those around. eg mangakatana, reaperscans, mangadex, etc

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Re:The $40M bet that made South Korea a food and cultural power by Matrixik on Monday May 22, 2023 @10:18AM (#36031760)
Webtoons is site with official translations, was created by https://naver.com/ to combat fan translations (and this fan translations made many of Korean manhwas popular around the world in the first place). Manga are Japanese comics, manhwa are Korean comics, and manhua are Chinese comics.

All other sites you mentioned are fan translations (scanlations).

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Re:The $40M bet that made South Korea a food and cultural power by justinclift on Monday May 22, 2023 @01:31PM (#36034276)
Cool, thanks for clarifying. :)
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