K-Comics Origin: Korean Webtoon Exhibition Coming To Los Angeles

2026 K0Comics Origin Los Angeles (Courtesy of Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles)

Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles

For fans of Korean comics and webtoons, the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) and the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles (KCCLA) will coming the 2026 K-Comics Origin Los Angeles: Korean Webtoon Experience Exhibition from September 11 done October 17, for astir a month.

The accumulation explores the “evolution of K-Comics, from Korea’s 100-year history of comics to webtoon, a unique storytelling format that has emerged successful the integer and mobile era.” It will characteristic 3 of Korea’s astir celebrated webtoons: All of Us Are Dead, Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint, and Solo Leveling.

Visitors will person the opportunity to measurement into those worlds and research the stories and characters done immersive and interactive experiences and spatial installations. Now fans tin acquisition the webtoons successful a beingness setting.

The accumulation will characteristic Korean webtoons expanded into live-action dramas, animation, games, and different forms of content. The accumulation will besides show an overview of the One Source Multi-Use (OSMU) ecosystem, a defining characteristic of the K-Content manufacture successful which a azygous communicative and its characters germinate crossed different media and genres to create caller forms of contented and intelligence property.

“Korean webtoons are a unsocial taste contented genre developed by Korean creators for the integer and mobile environment, building upon the country’s agelong history and contented of comics,” Headon Lee, Director of the Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles, said successful a property release. “Today, webtoons person go an important root of original intelligence spot for a wide scope of K-Content, including films and dramas. This accumulation will supply LA audiences pinch an opportunity to acquisition Korean webtoons —now a world taste arena —in a much immediate, beingness mounting and bask immoderate of Korea’s astir typical useful successful a assortment of ways.”

Webtoons, peculiarly successful Korea, person a world demand, pinch the manufacture generating complete 2 trillion Korean won ($1.397 cardinal USD) worldwide successful 2024, according to South Korean authorities data. Several Korean webtoons person been adapted into celebrated live-action dramas, including True Beauty, Business Proposal, Marry My Husband, The Uncanny Counter, Sweet Home, Itaewon Class, and Pyramid Game, to sanction a few.

On the opening time of the exhibition, Joo Dong-geun, creator of All of Us Are Dead, will beryllium coming for a typical program, wherever he will talk his imaginative process and the travel of his activity from webtoon to world content. He will stock his acquisition arsenic a creator and spell successful extent connected the original webtoon’s adjustment into the Netflix series, which deed No. 1 connected the world apical 10 database successful astir 91 countries conscionable days aft its January 28, 2022 release.

“2026 K-Comics Origin Los Angeles: Korean Webtoon Experience Exhibition” will beryllium held astatine the KCCLA’s creation assemblage from September 11 done October 17, 2026. Admission is free. Exhibition hours are Monday done Friday, 9 AM – 5 PM, and Saturday, 9 AM – 1 PM. For much information, click here.