10 Works Including "The Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint" and "Return of the Blossoming Blade" Win Main Awards at World Webtoon Awards
Grand Prize and Jury Award winners to be announced at Dec. 3 ceremony
World Webtoon Festival to run Dec. 2-6 at COEX
Ten works, including "The Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint," "Return of the Blossoming Blade" and "The S-Classes That I Raised," have been selected as winners of the main awards at the 2026 World Webtoon Awards.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency announced the 10 main award winners of the 2026 World Webtoon Awards on November 3. Launched in 2024 to boost the pride of people working in the webtoon industry worldwide and strengthen Korea's standing as the birthplace of webtoons in the global market, the World Webtoon Awards is being held for the third time this year.
The other seven main award winners are "Debut or Die," "A Man's Man," "The Way to Meet Mom," "The Greatest Estate Developer," "Cry, or Better Yet, Beg," "Jakdu" and "Killer Pedro." Each main award winner will receive a trophy and KRW 10 million in prize money.
The winners were selected from 20 works that passed the preliminary review, with expert evaluations and online reader votes each accounting for 50% of the results. For the expert review, 11 specialists from the creative, industrial and academic fields, chaired by artist Lee Hyun-se, comprehensively evaluated each work's quality, achievements and potential for expansion. Online reader voting was held from September 17 to October 19 through the official World Webtoon Awards website.
The 2026 World Webtoon Awards ceremony will be held at Starfield Library in Starfield COEX Mall at 4 p.m. on December 3. The Grand Prize and Jury Award winners will be announced at the ceremony. They will be selected from among the 10 main award-winning works. The Grand Prize winner will receive a certificate and an additional KRW 5 million, while the Jury Award winner will receive a certificate and an additional KRW 3 million.
The ceremony will also present the Popularity Award to the work that receives the most online reader votes among works not selected for the main awards, and the International Work Award to the international work with the highest score from the expert review. Special awards will also recognize works and industry professionals who have contributed to raising the profile of webtoons.
The World Webtoon Festival will also take place from December 2 to 6 at COEX Hall B and around Starfield COEX Mall in Samseong-dong, Seoul. It will offer a variety of hands-on activities, including special exhibitions featuring Korean and international webtoons and intellectual property (IP)-based content, webtoon pop-up stores, and programs bringing creators and fans together. More details are available on the official website.
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Choi Seong-hee, director general for content industry policy at the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said, "I hope the World Webtoon Awards and World Webtoon Festival will celebrate the achievements of creators and industry professionals and become a festive gathering where webtoon creators and readers from around the world come together. I hope many people will enjoy the diverse appeal of webtoons and share in the joy and emotion our webtoons bring."
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