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| The cover of Park Tae-jun's webtoon "Lookism" is seen in this photo provided by Naver Webtoon. Newsis |
Netflix will premier its first original animation series based on the popular Korean webtoon "Lookism" on Thursday, Naver Webtoon said.
Netflix has made several dramas based on Korean webtoons, but it is the first time for the global streaming service to create an animation series using the intellectual property of a webtoon, a type of digital comics hugely popular in Korea.
"Lookism" by Park Tae-jun tells a story of the ugliest student in a school who somehow obtains a second body that is a perfect male specimen. He can switch between these two bodies by going to sleep, but his secret has a cost.
First published on the webtoon page of Korea's leading portal Naver in 2014, "Lookism" has been translated into nine languages and accumulated over 9.1 billion views globally. (Yonhap)
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