First K-webtoon exhibition opens at VCCA
PSNews - Webtoons are a type of digital comic that originated in South Korea. Through this medium, creators and users can discover, create and share stories.
Presented by the Hanoi-based Korean Cultural Centre in cooperation with the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA), the K-Comics World Tour in Hanoi welcomes visitors from September 7 to 22 at the Vincom Center for Contemporary Art in Hanoi.
Webtoons are a type of digital comic that originated in South Korea. Through this medium, creators and users can discover, create and share stories.
This exhibition features popular webtoons "Itaewon Class" by author KwangJin and "Sweet Home" by authors Kim Carnby and Hwang Youngchan, which were once adapted into a TV series and reached the Top 1 of the most popular films on Netflix in Vietnam in 2020.
The organisers will set up a model of a pub and Itaewon alley which feature in the webtoon work "Itaewon Class" , as well as an abandoned apartment building with monsters inside in the work "Sweet Home".
The exhibition also includes a range of diverse experience spaces, such as painting webtoons, stamping webtoon postcards, making dishes in Korean pubs, trying on costumes, and taking photos. In addition, the organisers will hold a trade connection programme for businesses operating in the webtoon comic industry.
The exhibition is from K-Comics World Tour, which has been held by the South Korean government throughout Asia and Europe, including in the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, Belgium and Italy.
The show was launched in June in the Philippines and in Hanoi and will also begin in Indonesia and Brussels this month. The K-comics World Tour will take place in Rome in October and in Singapore in November.
