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KakaoPage
KakaoPage () is a monetized content platform optimized for mobile devices, launched by Kakao Corp. in 2013 and currently owned by its subsidiary Kakao Entertainment. The service launched on April 9, 2013, as a digital content marketplace, allowing brands and individuals to create and distribute visual, audio, and written content such as webtoons, manhwa, and genre fiction. It entered the Indonesian market in 2018 and Taiwan in 2020. KakaoPage is famous in South Korea for its "free if you wait" system that allows readers to view one episode of a webtoon or web novel for free if they wait for a certain amount of time after reading. History The service's then-operator, Podotree Co., Ltd. (which changed its name to KakaoPage Corp. in 2018), was founded on July 20, 2010, as a subsidiary of Kakao. KakaoPage was deemed a failure by mid-2013, but after adding '' Legendary Moonlight Sculptor'' and several other popular works, the service bounced back. By April 21, 2014, they had started ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kakao Entertainment
Kakao Entertainment Corp. () is a South Korean entertainment, mass media, and publishing company founded in 2021. A subsidiary of the Internet company Kakao, it was established subsequent to the merger of the latter's two subsidiaries KakaoPage and Kakao M. History KakaoPage Corp. Podotree Co, Ltd. was founded on July 20, 2010, as a subsidiary of Kakao, and launched KakaoPage three years later. On August 1, 2018, the company changed its corporate name to KakaoPage Corp. Kakao M Seoul Records, Inc. was established in October 1978 by , the founder of South Korea's leading educational company (formerly Sisa English). In 2005, the company was acquired by SK Telecom and relaunched as LOEN Entertainment, Inc. three years later, before being sold to Star Invest Holdings (a subsidiary of Affinity Equity Partners). In January 2016, it was taken over by Kakao and renamed again as Kakao M Corp. in December 2017. In October 2020, the company expanded in Asia by launching a Thai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mega Monster
Mega Monster () is a South Korean TV series production company and a subsidiary of Kakao Entertainment. The company was founded in 2014 as Story Plant by Kim Yang and , and was a subsidiary of CJ E&M (known now as CJ ENM). In 2017, it was fully acquired by Kakao Entertainment's predecessor Kakao M. Since then, a portion of the stake has been acquired by KakaoPage Corp. (another predecessor of Kakao Entertainment) and Studio Dragon, a subsidiary of CJ Group. History * : Story Plant was founded in Goyang City by former SBS and MBC producers Kim Yang and Koo Bon-geun (who was the company's first CEO). CJ E&M acquired it later on. * : '' Heart to Heart'', a 16-episode TV series, premiered on tvN. It was the company's first production, in cooperation with Chorokbaem Media. * : ''A Bird That Doesn't Sing'', a 100-episode TV series, was aired on tvN. * : ''We Broke Up'', a 10-episode web series based on the same-titled Naver WEBTOON, was distributed by Naver TV, and later aired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legendary Moonlight Sculptor
''Legendary Moonlight Sculptor'' () is a South Korean web novel by Heesung Nam. The series was published from January 2007 to July 2019, with 1450 chapters on KakaoPage. Its chapters have been collected into 57 volumes as of April 2020. Plot ''Legendary Moonlight Sculptor'' follows the adventures of a young man named Lee Hyun, who is an impoverished student living in a near-future Korea where virtual reality massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) have become the most popular form of entertainment and commerce. Lee Hyun, also known by his in-game name "Weed", was formerly known as the legendary God of War of the highly popular MMORPG, Continent of Magic. In an attempt to help his debt-ridden family, he auctions his character to find it sells at ₩3.1 billion. Later, an unfortunate run-in with loan sharks causes Lee Hyun to lose almost all of his money. This causes him to step into the new era of gaming led by the first-ever Virtual reality MMORPG, Royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kakao M
Kakao M Corp. (; formerly Seoul Records, YBM Seoul Records and LOEN Entertainment) was a South Korean entertainment company established by Min Yeong-bin in 1978. It was one of the largest co-publisher companies in South Korea. The company operated as a record label, talent agency, music production company, event management, concert production company, and music publishing house. , the company was the leading record company in South Korea by net revenue according to the statistics compiled by the Korea Music Content Industry Association (KMCIA) through the Gaon Music Chart (30.4%); it was also the second leading company in terms of album sales (25.4%). LOEN Entertainment became a subsidiary of Kakao in January 2016 and was subsequently renamed two years later. Online music sales accounted for most of the company's profit, with 93.9% of revenue coming from online music sales. The label also distributed CDs of some other entertainment agencies in South Korea through its branch #Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kakao Webtoon
Kakao Webtoon () is a webtoon platform operated by Kakao. History The service originally launched in 2003 by Daum, a popular web portal in Korea, as Daum Webtoon making it the first official webtoon platform in the world. It would operate under Daum up until the company merged with Kakao in 2014. The service operated as Daum Webtoon alongside Kakao's other service, KakaoPage, attracting many readers to its platform. It wasn't until August 1, 2021, when the service was relaunched as Kakao Webtoon in order to expand globally and management changed to the platform now being operated by Kakao Entertainment, a subsidiary of Kakao. The service also expanded to Thailand and Taiwan that same year. In April 2022, an Indonesian language service was launched to replace the Indonesian KakaoPage service. Adaptations Adaptations of Daum/Kakao webtoons See also * KakaoPage * Piccoma * Tapas Tapas () are appetisers or snacks in Spanish cuisine. They can be combined to make a full ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kakao
Kakao Corporation () is a South Korean internet conglomerate headquartered in Jeju City. It was formed through the merger of Daum Communications and the original Kakao Inc. in 2010. The company was renamed Daum Kakao in 2014. In 2015, it was rebranded once more, reverting simply to Kakao. The KakaoTalk messaging app dominates in South Korea, and after launching in March 2010, the service gained around 90% of domestic market share in 2015. In January 2016, Kakao acquired a 76.4% stake in LOEN Entertainment, a large South Korean entertainment company, for $1.5 billion; it was later rebranded to Kakao M. The company has gained further prominence through KakaoTalk, a free mobile instant messaging application for smartphones, with text and call features. History 2006–2014: Founding of Kakao Corp. Kakao Corp is the company behind KakaoTalk, which serves as its main platform and flagship application. It was founded in 2006 by Kim Bum-soo, the former CEO of NHN Corporation (th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kross Pictures
Kross Pictures, Inc. is a South Korean multinational film and television production company with offices in Seoul, Los Angeles, and Mumbai. The company was co-founded and is currently run by Hyunwoo Thomas Kim. Key business areas of Kross Pictures are film production and distribution, web-novel and webtoon production, book publishing, and webtoon platform service. History Founded in 2003 in Los Angeles, Kross Pictures is a cross-border film and television production company. The company is involved mainly in the identification and acquisition of proven intellectual property to create localized films and TV series for their respective markets. Its first Chinese production, '' The Devotion of Suspect X'', topped the Chinese box office at opening, with a total box office collection of CNY 410,000,000. ''Oh! Baby'', its second Indian feature film production, was released on July 5, 2019, and became No.1 in the box office in the Telugu-speaking region. On December 7, 2019, Kro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piccoma
is a Japanese digital comic app that is available on smartphones, tablets, and personal computers. It was developed and released by Kakao Piccoma Corp., the Japanese subsidiary of Kakao. Service When the service was first launched, it offered a regular model of buying each individual manga and volume similar to other online shops but it has since moved to adopt the webtoon Webtoons () are a type of episodic digital comics that originated in South Korea usually meant to be read on smartphones A smartphone is a mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities. It typically has a touchscreen interface, allo ... model where a user can purchase individual chapters and wait 24 hours to read some for free. Korean webtoons that are offered on Kakao's services ( Daum Webtoon and KakaoPage) are offered through Piccoma in Japanese. Kakao Japan announced that it would start offering original Japanese, Korean, and Chinese webtoons for Piccoma in Q3 2018. Kakao Japan changed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haksan Publishing
Haksan Publishing Co., Ltd. () is a South Korean publisher known for its large selections of domestic and imported comics (manga/manhwa) and light novels. It was established in Seoul in 1995 and is a subsidiary of Daewon Media. In 2018, Haksan Publishing, along with and Daewon C.I., made up 49 percent of the print comic book market in South Korea. In 2018, KakaoPage acquired 19.8 percent of the company. Publishing Magazines * ' () – Monthly comics magazine for boys. * Booking (manhwa), ''Booking'' – Bi-weekly comics magazine for boys. * ' () – Monthly comics magazine for girls. Collected volumes imprints * Chance Comics () Light novels * () – Translated version of Kadokawa Beans Bunko and Cobalt (magazine), Cobalt Bunko. * () – Translated version of Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko, Dengeki Bunko, Fujimi Mystery Bunko, Famitsu Bunko, and EX Novels. * Carnival Novel () – Original South Korean light novels. Manhwa * ''Rure'', a manhwa by Da-Mi Seomoon serialized in ''Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communication Software
Communication software is used to provide remote access to systems and exchange files and messages in text, audio and/or video formats between different computers or User (computing), users. This includes terminal emulators, file transfer programs, chat and instant messaging programs, as well as similar functionality integrated within Multi-user dungeon, MUDs. The term is also applied to software operating a bulletin board system, but seldom to that operating a computer network or Stored Program Control exchange. History E-mail was introduced in the early 1960's as a way for multiple users of a time-sharing mainframe computer to communicate. Basic text chat functionality has existed on multi-user computer systems and bulletin board systems since the early 1970s. In the 1980s, a terminal emulator was a piece of software necessary to log into Mainframe computer, mainframes and thus access e-mail. Prior to the rise of the Internet, computer files were exchanged over dialup lines, req ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross-platform Software
Within computing, cross-platform software (also called multi-platform software, platform-agnostic software, or platform-independent software) is computer software that is designed to work in several computing platforms. Some cross-platform software requires a separate build for each platform, but some can be directly run on any platform without special preparation, being written in an interpreted language or compiled to portable bytecode for which the interpreters or run-time packages are common or standard components of all supported platforms. For example, a cross-platform application may run on Linux, macOS and Microsoft Windows. Cross-platform software may run on many platforms, or as few as two. Some frameworks for cross-platform development are Codename One, ArkUI-X, Kivy, Qt, GTK, Flutter, NativeScript, Xamarin, Apache Cordova, Ionic, and React Native. Platforms ''Platform'' can refer to the type of processor (CPU) or other hardware on which an operating syste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IOS Software
Ios, Io or Nio (, ; ; locally Nios, Νιός) is a Greek island in the Cyclades group in the Aegean Sea. Ios is a hilly island with cliffs down to the sea on most sides. It is situated halfway between Naxos Island, Naxos and Santorini. It is about long and wide, with an area of . Population was 2,299 in 2021 (down from 3,500 in the 20th century). Ios is part of the Thira (regional unit), Thira regional unit. Chora The Port of Ios is at the head of the Ormos harbour in the northwest. There is a path up the nearby hill to Chora, named after the Greek word for the main village on an island. Chora is a white and cycladic village, full of stairs and narrow paths that make it inaccessible for cars. Today, the main path through this village is completely taken over by tourism with restaurants, boutiques, bars and discothèques catering to visitors. Apart from the port and the village of Chora, Ios has a few small settlements that consist of groups of spread out houses in the ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
