kwebtoon1-8, Exercise 1: Kang Full's career

Model answer (any four dated steps):

- 1997: began as a cartoonist; early work had limited commercial success (one of two interested publishers went bankrupt during serialisation).
- 2002: launched his own website with a daily comic strip; by July 2002 it averaged 10,000 daily visitors; late 2002 signed with Daum and joined Daum Manhwa-sok-sesang.
- August 2003 to April 2004: Pure Love Comics on Daum, averaging 2 million daily page views, 60 million in total.
- November 2004: a 10 million yen (about 100 million won) deal with Japan's Futabasha, called a record for South Korean comic exports at the time.

Not overnight: the article shows about five years of limited success, a move to a personal website because traditional publishers showed little interest, and a breakthrough around 2003.

What it settles: the Kang Full credited in the Webtoon article (Soonjeong Manhwa on Media Daum, 2003) and the Kang Full credited with writing Moving are the same person (Kang Do-yeong); the Kang Full article calls Pure Love Comics, Daum 2003-2004, his breakthrough, but in the parts read does not mention a vertical-scroll innovation.

Sources: Wikipedia, Kang Full; Webtoon; Moving (South Korean TV series).