kwebtoon1-1, Exercise 2: Who was first?

Model answer (any three):

- Uninhabited Island by Han Hee-jak, 1996: named South Korea's first webtoon (the earliest web comic).
- Lycos Korea's comic section, 2000: where the "webtoon model" is dated to (the portal model); the word "webtoon" was also coined in 2000.
- Kang Full's Soonjeong Manhwa on Media Daum, 2003: credited with revolutionising the vertical-scroll format and long-form episodes.
- Naver Webtoon, 2004: the platform that later went global; official English translations began in July 2014.

The inconsistency: the Webtoon (platform) article says the platform was launched in 2004 by Naver and, elsewhere, that Webtoon Entertainment was founded in 2005 by Junkoo Kim. It may be the service and the company, but the article does not say so.

Sources: Wikipedia, Webtoon; Webtoon (platform); Manhwa.