SKorea ‘webtoon’ craze making global waves

SEOUL: Seoul office worker Park Sun-Min constantly checks his smartphone -- trawling for updates on an insect apocalypse, ghost soldiers haunting the inter-Korean border, and a supermarket worker’s struggle to form a trade union.

Along with millions of other South Koreans, Park is, by his own admission, irrevocably hooked on the vast network of varied Internet-based comic strips -- or “webtoons” —available through his mobile.