Description
The webtoon "Shark" is a story about high school student Cha Woo-sol, who was a victim of school violence. He is overcoming trauma and realizing his dream of becoming a UFC champion. It is one of the most popular webtoon series on the platform, recording high sales in "Kakao Page" which is one of the biggest webtoon platform in South Korea. Despite being "Kakao Page," which has a relatively low proportion of male and boy favorites compared to "Naver Webtoon," it maintains a big male fandom. The unique story and action caught the eyes of global readers, setting a record of topping the Japanese webtoon platform "Picoma" and breaking the cumulative sales of 1.6 billion won. It is one of the representative webtoon IP of Toyou Dream. It is still popular in Thailand's Wichomix and France's Delitun.
Company Information
Toyou Dream Inc. was established in 2009 as a Webtoon production and has produced 300 titles for 10 years. Currently, we are one of the Best Webtoon productions in Korea, which has about 60 works on 20 platforms now. Since 2015, we have been making video contents based on the original Webtoon, so we can say that Toyou is a comprehensive contents company based on Webtoon. Our main contents are 'Tong' 'Dokgo' 'Blood Rain' series, which is growing and developing with a unified world view, we are not only try to do global distribution, but also to do collaboration and export our original Wetoon and videos with Japan/China partnership. Mobile movie [Tong Memories](on Netflix) in 2016 and [Dokgo Rewind](EXO Sehun) in 2018 were so successful in Korea OTT market, also these were exported to global market too. [Item](Joo Ji-hun), the MBC drama, was launched Feb 2019, received great acclaim as mystery thriller genre, and one another Webtoon [Cintamani] will be launched as a TV drama soon.
Category & Business Type
TV Show
Category : Copyright-holding Distributor, Producer, Sales Agent, Licensing Agent, TV Broadcaster, Post-Production, Production/Content Creation, Media Agency/Brand
Business Type : Program Copyright Deals, Co-Production/Collaboration, Investment Attraction
Cartoon
Category : Cartoon Publisher, General Publisher (Comics Division), Internet/Mobile Cartoon Content Production & Provision (CP), Other
Business Type : Business of Original Work (Secondary Content), Overseas Distribution (Online), Overseas Distribution (Offline/Publication), Co-Production/Collaboration, Investment Attraction
Animation
Category : Copyright-holding Distributor, Producer, Sales Agent, Licensing Agent, TV Broadcaster, Post-Production
Business Type : Program Copyright Deals, Co-Production/Collaboration, Investment Attraction, Other, Licensing
Main Business
1. Produce and disturibute Webtoon
2. Film, soap opera, drama, mobile video contents production based on the original webtooon
3. Animation for 15 age over production based on the original webtoon
4. Webtoon character merchandising business
5. Branded webtoon production