Can anyone sent an email to Naver?
#1
Posted 05 June 2014 - 01:03 PM
#2
Posted 11 June 2014 - 01:11 PM
First off, Naver doesn't really care for non-Koreans since their main market (and thus, where the majority of their income comes from) is S. Korea. Thus they will always put their main market first. If ever they have the intention to expand into English media, it will be their choice. Not ours (although we can gently nudge them into doing so).
Second, the official English website of Naver, along with the translated chapters, were just a teaser shown months before. That's why it's incomplete and in such a poor state. There's no official word on whether or not they will continue the project or not. We'll just have to wait and see.
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#3
Posted 13 June 2014 - 03:48 AM
Darn. The English Naver site was pretty interesting, though I suppose it'd put a bunch of scanlation groups out of business if they were ever up to date. I found Gepetto off of the English comics, and I thought it was quite good.
#4
Posted 14 June 2014 - 02:40 AM
Bottom line: If you want them to care, you need to give them money. If they're not making money off of English translations, why should they bother?
#5
Posted 15 June 2014 - 10:53 PM
First off, Naver doesn't really care for non-Koreans since their main market (and thus, where the majority of their income comes from) is S. Korea. Thus they will always put their main market first. If ever they have the intention to expand into English media, it will be their choice. Not ours (although we can gently nudge them into doing so).
Second, the official English website of Naver, along with the translated chapters, were just a teaser shown months before. That's why it's incomplete and in such a poor state. There's no official word on whether or not they will continue the project or not. We'll just have to wait and see.
Actually, Naver exports to JP also
regarding English, it was more or less made for people who is Korean, studying English. It's made to be minimal, and most likely will never get fully patched, functionality and webcomics included
-Source: Korean user.
Edited by Cake-kun, 15 June 2014 - 10:54 PM.
#6
Posted 16 June 2014 - 08:46 PM
The funny thing is I saw several printed webcomics a while ago.
If I remember correctly there was Noblesse, Tower of God, even Annarasumanara.
They were even translated into english.
It was in Germany at the "Frankfurter Buchmesse", a big book convention.
So naver seems to be toying with the idea of expanding to other languages.
edit: Found a picture
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6X8osaglwh8/UmK9TwoiY1I/AAAAAAAAEOY/82FUDwWLIGc/s1600/IMG_0419.jpg
Does anybody know if and where they I can get them? Missed my chance at the convention
Edited by JeD, 16 June 2014 - 08:48 PM.
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#7
Posted 16 June 2014 - 09:18 PM
Spoiler
I think that was the event seyrine was referring to in post #2. That English section on Naver was created as a promotional tool back when that event was held to support Naver's participation at the event as I remember.
I'd guess what you've got a picture of there was further, one-time type promotional material from then.
#8
Posted 16 June 2014 - 11:54 PM
The funny thing is I saw several printed webcomics a while ago.
If I remember correctly there was Noblesse, Tower of God, even Annarasumanara.
They were even translated into english.
It was in Germany at the "Frankfurter Buchmesse", a big book convention.
So naver seems to be toying with the idea of expanding to other languages.
edit: Found a picture
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6X8osaglwh8/UmK9TwoiY1I/AAAAAAAAEOY/82FUDwWLIGc/s1600/IMG_0419.jpg
Does anybody know if and where they I can get them? Missed my chance at the convention
You'll just have to search around for book conventions. There will be a convention in Korea soon and I'm missing out, sad
good luck, by the way. Far as I can remember, big companies in Korea don't post their presence until they're there for events like convention, it's piss annoying
#9
Posted 17 June 2014 - 05:08 AM
I was just looking through Daum, and I found this
http://webtoon.daum.net/event/view/4876
It says they're going to join up with http://tapastic.com/ and start translating Korean webtoons
Cool