Korea's Kakao Entertainment shuts down Reaper Scans

Korea's Kakao Entertainment shuts down Reaper Scans

Kakao Entertainment has shut down Reaper Scans, one of the biggest English-language webtoon and web novel piracy sites, the company said Wednesday. The company’s P.CoK, a team dedicated to countering piracy, has successfully led the site to halt operation last Friday, using its special technology to identify the proprietary operator. Reaper Scans is one of the biggest sites that illegally distributed Korean webtoons and web novels for six years,…

15 Korean Webtoons Everyone Should Read

South Korean Webtoons, online Korean comics released on a regular schedule much like tv programs or dramas, started in South Korea in the early 2000s. Since then, they’ve garnered tons of popularity not only in South Korea but abroad as well, sparking the trend of translated Korean webtoons in languages such as English, Mandarin, and Indonesian. They’re released on a regular schedule online (usually once or twice a week) and are published in lon…

Reaper Scans: Why It Rose Quickly and Then Closed

Korean manhwa’s traditional and worldwide markets have received a good response since they were published and have proven themselves. This demand led to a specific ecosystem in which scanlation groups could provide translations for non-Japanese fans who did not have access to those official resources. Reaper Scans grew to be one of these scanlation sites, and was known […] The post Reaper Scans: Why It Rose Quickly and Then Closed appeared first…