• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.51
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• pp.255-291
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• 2018

The domestic cartoon industry has went through rapid reformation since 2010 incurred by the emergence of webtoon. Most of the students in cartoon schools long to become webtoonists rather than published cartoonists. Cartoon education in middle and high schools rather focuses on webtoons. The growth of webtoons in private education, excluding college entrance examination, is even more promising. In the same train of thought, the number of webtoon private education institution has surged exponentially. Despite provincial colleges experiencing difficulty due to the lack of the student population, the competition for cartoon admission is intensifying. However, college education often maintains curriculums that do not relate to the on-site demands. Cartoon education in the past was mostly carried out through apprenticeship programs. However such programs began to disappear as college education became more common and as people embraced the emergence of webtoons. Instead collective education and author debut programs replaced the old system. Individualization of education is exacerbating as digital writing tools allow individual webtoonists to publish their works on a weekly basis. The background of the growth of webtoon education can obviously be explained by the growth of the market but there are aspects that can't be explained in such a simple manner. This study examines the current webtoon education status and discusses possible methodological and formation development measures for the future. The introduction examines the change in education and market. The main subject examines the current secondary schools and universities cartoon education and conducts a comprehensive study on the various education related changes. This study proposes future directions for universities by looking at the webtoon era and education changes in the conclusion. It also researched how the units of college cartoon education will fuse and deduct practical results via government policies.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.65-75
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• 2022

This study analysed about to feasiblity of metaverse what it can be grantify the need of the current generation even though webtoon have limited environment and fixed story and if it possible, whether to some extent it possible. This study have direction it was set the needs of users centrically and was purposed to found a model for invigoration of webtoon market in metaverse to come. For this study, direction of development of metaverse, precedent study about metaverse and than analyzed it about based on grafted cases of metaverse and webtoon.

• Korean Journal of Communication Studies
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.89-121
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• 2014

In order to suggest a strategy for continuous growth of webtoon, this article examined webtoon usage motivation and tried to make a prediction about culture content products and services connected with webtoon, including intention for viewing movies, based on webtoon; intention for switching to paid webtoon content, and intention for buying webtoon character products. From the point of view of Uses and Gratification Theory intentions for using webtoon and human sociocultural behavior intention are already predicted but with the usefulness of Theory of Planned Behavior Integrated Model this study extended the explanation power of prediction about webtoon related behavioral intention. Results found 5 motivational factors for webtoon usage i.e. 'seeking information', 'entertainment and access availability', 'webtoon genre characteristics', 'influence from a friend or acquaintance', and 'escapism and tension release'. Among them the ones that influenced the intention for viewing movies, based on webtoon, were found to be 'webtoon genre characteristics', 'escapism and tension release' and the 3 variables from Theory of Planned Behavior. 'Seeking information', 'entertainment and access availability', 'webtoon genre characteristics', and all the 3 variables from Theory of Planned Behavior were found to influence the intention for switching to paid webtoon content. The intention for buying webtoon based character products was affected by the motivational factors 'seeking information', 'escapism and tension release' and the behavior and subjective norms variables from Theory of Planned Behavior. Based on the uncommon results from the research several suggestions were made for the continuous growth of webtoon.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.38
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• pp.259-286
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• 2015

This study investigates the effect of the motivation to use webtoon and the convenience of use(the character of the webtoon service) on the interactivity, and then examines how the interactivity affect the webtoon user's satisfaction and willingness to pay. Using factor analysis, this study found two motivations to use webtoon including 'information acquisition', 'entertainment and easiness of access'. These motivations have an influence on the interaction of the content and Webtoon's user and of Webtoon's users. The motivation of the entertainment and easiness of access is more influential to user's interactivity. The convenience of use is divided two types that are the convenience of the searching information and service. The convenience of webtoon service has positive influence of two types of interaction. The last results find that webtoon user's satisfaction is influenced by gender, the convenience of the searching information and using service. The satisfaction of the female user is higher than man. The more convenience of use is, the more satisfaction of users will be. Willingness to pay is influenced by age, the convenience of webtoon service, and the user's interactivity. The older users are, the more convenience of webtoon service is, and the more the user's interactivity, the higher willing to pay will get. The implications of the findings are discussed in terms of the way to change the profit structure of webtoon service and suggest to increase the interactivity in webtoon service.

• The Journal of Bigdata
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.173-185
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• 2022

Nowadays, Korean webtoons are leading the global digital comic market. Webtoons are being serviced in various languages around the world, and dramas or movies produced with Webtoons' IP (Intellectual Property Rights) have become a big hit, and more and more webtoons are being visualized. However, with the success of these webtoons, the working environment of webtoon creators is emerging as an important issue. According to the 2021 Cartoon User Survey, webtoon creators spend 10.5 hours a day on creative activities on average. Creators have to draw large amount of pictures every week, and competition among webtoons is getting fiercer, and the amount of paintings that creators have to draw per episode is increasing. Therefore, this study proposes to generate webtoon background images using deep learning algorithms and use them for webtoon production. The main character in webtoon is an area that needs much of the originality of the creator, but the background picture is relatively repetitive and does not require originality, so it can be useful for webtoon production if it can create a background picture similar to the creator's drawing style. Background generation uses CycleGAN, which shows good performance in image-to-image translation, and CartoonGAN, which is specialized in the Cartoon style image generation. This deep learning-based image generation is expected to shorten the working hours of creators in an excessive work environment and contribute to the convergence of webtoons and technologies.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.76-83
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• 2023

This study proposes a method to assist webtoon artists in the process of webtoon creation by utilizing a pretrained Text-to-Image model to generate webtoon images from text. The proposed approach involves fine-tuning a pretrained Stable Diffusion model using a webtoon dataset transformed into the desired webtoon style. The fine-tuning process, using LoRA technique, completes in a quick training time of approximately 4.5 hours with 30,000 steps. The generated images exhibit the representation of shapes and backgrounds based on the input text, resulting in the creation of webtoon-like images. Furthermore, the quantitative evaluation using the Inception score shows that the proposed method outperforms DCGAN-based Text-to-Image models. If webtoon artists adopt the proposed Text-to-Image model for webtoon creation, it is expected to significantly reduce the time required for the creative process.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2016.07a
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• pp.323-326
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• 2016

본 연구에서는 웹툰의 인지도가 그 웹툰을 기반으로 개발된 게임의 인지도와의 관계를 규명하고자 하였다. 웹툰과 게임 두 콘텐츠들 간의 각각의 순위에 관해 조사한 데이터들을 비교분석, 도출한 결과를 통해 알아본 결과 웹툰의 인지도가 게임의 인지도에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 인지도가 높은 웹툰을 원작으로 개발한 게임이 다운로드 수, 공식 카페 회원 수, 게임 리뷰 수에서는 훨씬 긍정적인 영향을 보였지만, 반면에 재미요소와 관련이 있는 게임의 별점 데이터에서는 인지도의 높고 낮음과는 관계가 없는 것으로 나타났다. 결론적으로 웹툰의 인지도는 게임의 인지도에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으나, 게임의 별점과 순위 항목에 있어서는 유의적인 영향을 보이지 않고 있음을 알 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.434-437
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• 2017

웹툰은 플랫폼 별 웹툰 데이터가 매우 다양하기 때문에, 데이터 수집이 용이하여 추천 시스템에 적합하다. 반대로 사용자들은 너무 많은 웹툰이 있어 자신에게 맞고 즐길 수 있는 웹툰을 일일이 찾아보기에는 어려움이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 사용자들의 불편함을 해소하고자 웹툰 데이터를 기반으로 Node.js Async 모듈을 사용하여 비동기적 웹툰 추천 시스템을 개발하고자 한다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2019.10a
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• pp.503-505
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 기존 웹툰 장르 검색 시스템의 단점을 보완하기 위해 키워드 기반 유사 장르 검색 시스템을 제안한다. 기존 웹툰의 장르와 키워드를 분석하여 44개의 장르를 설정하고 해당 장르에 적합한 웹툰을 수집한다. 나무위키와 위키피디아 문서로 학습된 Word2Vec모델에 기반하여 계산한 사용자 입력 키워드와 44개의 장르간 유사도로 사용자 입력에 가장 유사한 장르를 찾는다. 유사 장르에 포함되는 웹툰을 결과로 출력하여 사용자가 선호하는 장르의 웹툰을 제시한다. 실험 결과에서는 나무위키에서 '장르'로 검색하여 얻는 작은 크기의 문서 집합에서 Word2Vec을 학습한 모델에서 가장 높은 검색 성능을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2021.11a
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• pp.341-343
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• 2021

현재 웹툰 시장이 크게 성장하고 있는 가운데, 과도한 매출 수수료 및 불공정 계약 등 부조리한 수익분배 문제가 불거지고 있다. 본 논문은 웹툰 플랫폼의 수익모델을 보완하는 NFT 기반 웹툰거래 및 수익분배 시스템을 소개하고자 한다. NFT 는 고유한 값을 가진 토큰으로, 디지털 자산에 대한 소유권 인증에 용이하며 블록체인 네트워크 상에서 구매 이력 등의 데이터 위변조가 어렵다는 특징이 있다. 또한 암호화폐처럼 손쉽게 거래할 수 있고 재판매가 가능하다는 장점 때문에 예술 분야에서 각광받고 있다. 이에 웹툰에 NFT 를 발행하여 웹툰을 소장 및 거래하고, NFT 소장 비율에 따라 해당 웹툰의 열람 수익을 나눠 가질 수 있는 시스템을 개발하여 제안한다.