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How webtoons became go-to source material for screen adaptations in Korea
웹툰, 어떻게 한국에서 즐겨 찾는 영화 각색 소재가 되었나?
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Posters for the original webtoon and Netflix series, 'All of Us Are Dead,' above, and promotional images for the original webtoon and Netflix series, 'Hellbound' / Courtesy of Naver Webtoon, Netflix웹툰 및 넷플릭스 시리즈 ‘지금 우리 학교는' 포스터(위)와 ‘지옥' 홍보 포스터(아래)
Posters for the original webtoon and Netflix series, "All of Us Are Dead," above, and promotional images for the original webtoon and Netflix series, "Hellbound" / Courtesy of Naver Webtoon, Netflix
웹툰 및 넷플릭스 시리즈 ‘지금 우리 학교는' 포스터(위)와 ‘지옥' 홍보 포스터(아래)

Webcomic sector rises as enormous storehouse of fresh stories for film, drama industry in OTT era
웹툰 업계, OTT 시대 영화 및 드라마 산업을 위한 참신한 이야기의 거대 저장소로 부상


By Park Han-sol

Global audiences who find themselves hooked on Korean series like "All of Us Are Dead," "Hellbound," "The Uncanny Counter" and "Business Proposal" may overlook the one thing these titles have in common ― their origins as webtoons.
‘지금 우리 학교는', ‘지옥', ‘경이로운 소문', ‘사내맞선'과 같은 한국 드라마 시리즈에 매료된 전세계의 관객들은 이 드라마들이 웹툰 원작으로 제작되었다는 한 가지 공통점을 간과할지도 모른다.


In fact, over the last decade, more than 100 webcomics have found varying degrees of success far beyond smartphone screens, being turned into dramas, movies and animations.
지난 10년 동안 100편 이상의 웹툰이 스마트폰 화면을 넘어 드라마, 영화, 애니메이션으로 제작되며 다양한 성공을 거두었다.


The sci-fi black comedy "Moon You" has even recently become the first-ever 4DX original film, a multisensory cinematic format that utilizes environmental effects like motion seats, water, wind and scents.
최근 공상 과학 블랙 코미디 ‘문유'는 움직이는 좌석, 물, 바람 및 향기와 같은 환경적 영향을 활용한 다감각 영화 형태인 4DX 오리지널 영화로 제작된 최초의 웹툰이 되었다.


The 50-minute film, scheduled to hit local theaters on Oct. 12, retains the visual format of the digital comic while using 4DX effects to portray scenes in zero-gravity and an asteroid collision to tell the story of the "last man alive" on the moon. It's presented as "an immersive attraction, a webtoon that you 'read' and experience with your body," according to CJ 4DPlex chief producer Yoon Hyun-jung, who is behind the production of "4DX Moon You."
10월 12일 국내 극장에서 개봉하기로 예정된 50분 분량의 이 영화는 웹툰의 시각적 형식을 유지하는 한편 달에 있는 "마지막 생존자"의 이야기를 전하기 위해 무중력 환경과 소행성 충돌 장면을 묘사한 4DX 효과를 사용한다. ‘4DX 문유'의 제작을 맡은 윤현정 CJ 4DPLEX 총괄 프로듀서는 이 영화를 "독자가 웹툰으로 ‘읽고' 또 몸으로 경험하게 하는 몰입적인 매력"이 있다고 소개했다.


"As a series director, I definitely feel that acquiring the rights to a good webtoon has become something like a war among drama and film producers nowadays. The rights to works that catch my eyes would already be sold or under negotiation, sometimes even the ones that have only 10 episodes out at that point," Kim Soo-jung, who made her directorial debut this year with Watcha original series "Semantic Error," noted at the recently wrapped-up Bucheon International Comics Festival.
올해 왓챠 오리지널 시리즈 ‘시맨틱 에러'로 데뷔한 김수정 감독은 최근 마무리된 부천국제만화축제에서 "드라마 감독으로서 좋은 웹툰에 대한 판권을 획득하는 것이 드라마와 영화 제작자들 사이에서는 전쟁 같은 일이 되었다는 점을 분명히 느낀다. 눈에 띄는 작품의 판권은 이미 팔렸거나 협상 중이고, 심지어는 협상 시점에 단 10편밖에 나오지 않은 작품들도 있었다"고 전했다.


Her eight-part queer romance show was adapted from a web novel and a webtoon of the same title.
그녀의 8부작 퀴어 로맨스 드라마는 같은 제목의 웹소설과 웹툰에서 각색되었다.


The term "webtoon" originated in Korea in the early 2000s, when the country's two major internet portals, Daum and Naver, launched new platforms dedicated to early forms of free, web-only comics to generate traffic.
‘웹툰'이라는 용어는 2000년대 초 국내 주요 인터넷 포털 다음과 네이버가 방문자 수를 늘리기 위해 초기 형태의 무료 웹 전용 만화 플랫폼을 출시한 것에서 비롯되었다.


Later, with the advent of smartphones that made vertically scrolling digital cartoons accessible anywhere, it has evolved into one of the dominant types of entertainment. According to the Korea Creative Content Agency's report, the webtoon industry market generated over 1.05 trillion won ($744 million) in revenue in 2020, a 64.6 percent increase from a year before.
이후 세로로 화면을 내리며 읽는 디지털 만화를 어디서나 접할 수 있게 만든 스마트폰이 등장하면서 웹툰은 매우 지배적인 오락 콘텐츠로 진화했다. 한국콘텐츠진흥원에 따르면 2020년 웹툰 산업의 매출 규모는 전년도에 비해 64.6%가량 증가한 1조 5000억 원 이상을 기록했다.


The country saw two of the first screen adaptations of popular webcomics as early as 2006: bizarre rom-com "Dasepo Naughty Girls" and horror flick "Apt." Both were, however, box-office flops that each drew less than 650,000 viewers to the theater, marking a grim start to the webtoon sector's inroads into becoming a more established entertainment industry.
한국에는 2006년 초에 최초로 엽기 로맨틱 코미디 영화 ‘다세포 소녀'와 공포영화 ‘아파트'가 개봉하며 인기 웹툰이 영화로 각색되었다. 그러나 두 영화 모두 65만 명 이하의 관객을 동원해 흥행에 실패했으며 웹툰 분야가 더 인정받는 엔터테인먼트 산업으로 진출하는데 암울한 시작을 알렸다.


But just years later, a flurry of webtoon-based films and dramas rose to be game changers in the scene ― "Secretly Greatly," "Misaeng: Incomplete Life," "Inside Men" and "Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds" ― as they shattered box office records and reached notable viewership ratings in cable channels.
그러나 불과 몇 년 후 ‘은밀하게 위대하게', ‘미생: 불완전한 삶', ‘내부자들', ‘신과 함께-죄와 벌'과 같이 웹툰을 기반으로 한 영화와 드라마들이 박스오피스 기록을 깨뜨리고 케이블 채널에서 눈에 띄는 시청률을 달성하며 영화와 드라마 분야의 판도를 뒤집었다.


KEY WORDS
■ overlook 못 보고 넘어가다, 간과하다
■ multisensory 여러 감각이 관여하는
■ cinematic 영화(제작)의
■ utilize 활용하다
■ retain 유지[보유]하다
■ portray 그리다[묘사하다]
■ asteroid 소행성
■ immersive 몰입형의
■ negotiation 협상, 교섭, 절충, 협의
■ directorial 감독의
■ launch 시작[개시/착수]하다
■ dedicate 바치다, 전념[헌신]하다
■ advent 도래, 출현
■ vertical 수직의, 세로의
■ accessible 접근[입장/이용] 가능한
■ evolve 발달[진전]하다
■ grim 암울한
■ notable 주목할 만한

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