Kakao Entertainment will acquire two U.S.-based start-ups that run platforms for webtoons and web novels to expand in English-speaking markets.
 
The companies being bought are Tapas Media, a webtoon service based in San Francisco, and Radish Media, which runs a web novel service headquartered in New York. Both have larger user bases in the U.S. and provide platforms for amateur creators to profit from their work. 


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