Mainly because of the user interface and most popular webtoon artists publish their work on Naver. There are other webtoon providers (Korean), such as Daum Webtoon, KToon, and many others but I personally prefer Naver Webtoon over the rest.
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You just have to download it either on the Apple App Store, Google Play Store or read it on the site version (automatically switches to the mobile site if you’re viewing from mobile). In this case, Naver Webtoons are free to read. Whenever I recommend anything on Let’s Study Korean 한국어 공부하자, I follow a strict rule – it must either be affordable (for students and learners with low to no income) or free. This is especially so if you’re following a recently uploaded episode or series. You will realise that various popular and trending slangs would appear in the webtoons as well. Getting exposed to daily conversations and how the webtoon characters express their feelings in a natural manner is an important key to improving. This alone for me is a very compelling reason to read webtoon series.
95% of the text in webtoons are dialogues between characters so you won’t be overwhelmed by walls of text like in news articles or blog posts. As I’ve mentioned, I learned a good amount of vocabulary and expressions from webtoons. Understanding simple conversations is important if you want to improve your Korean proficiency, especially the conversational aspects.
The pictures just make the webtoons even more interesting and funny at times too. There are literally “subtitles” or rather, a transcript of the conversations above their heads. Simple conversations (and slangs)Īs you would have expected, the first and probably most important reason is… simple conversations between many webtoon characters! You can look at webtoons as giving you the opportunity to be among a group of native Korean speakers without the stress of understanding what they’re saying. In this blog post, I’ll list down some of my thoughts on why I think Korean learners should definitely read Naver Webtoons, regardless whether you like comics and cartoons.
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I’ve also mentioned in a previous article that I’m personally reading the 언터처블 series right now and some of the Vocabulary posted are learned from reading Naver Webtoons! While I’m not a huge fan of Anime and Manga, reading Naver Webtoon series is indeed quite an interesting way to immerse ourselves in the Korean language.