Webtoon Buys $100 Million Share in Game Studio to Expand Reach
THE SO WHAT
Webtoon spending ~$100M for a majority stake in a Korean game studio is another step toward IP flywheels—web comics feeding anime feeding games and back again. If you own narrative IP, the bar is rising: cross-media execution is becoming table stakes, not a side deal.
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