【Youth Daily】 Kakao Page’s representative super IP, the webtoon’I Only Level Up’, will be provided for free up to 50 episodes for the Lunar New Year holidays. This promotion runs until the 14th.
Along with this, Kakao Page is opening a cash payment event inviting friends to’make your own hunter card’. It is an event where the user directly enters his or her name and creates a level-up hunter certificate by myself, and the more friends invited through the hunter mission like Sung Jin-woo, the main character of the work, the more they level up from E-class to S-class and receive a cash gift.
If you level up to S-class while performing the mission of inviting + reading to 30 friends, you can receive up to 9000 cash.
Level-up by myself is a single IP, boasting more than 560 million domestic views and 6 million cumulative viewers (web novel + webtoon combined). It is Kakao Page’s representative webtoon, which was ranked No. 1 in’Webtoon of the Year’ by 840,000 readers through the’Kakao Page 2020 Awards’ last year.
The work is enjoying global popularity in the global market, including Japan, North America, China, Vietnam, and Indonesia, beyond Korea, and is growing into a national K-webtoon.
It has won the ‘2019 Webtoon of the Year’ and the ‘2020 Piccoma Award’ at the Kakao Japan webtoon platform Piccoma for two consecutive years, and is being viewed by up to 1.5 million people a day.
In January 2021, about 180,000 people are participating in the petition to animate the webtoon on the US online petition site change.org. In Brazil and Germany, in the first week of the book’s release, it reached number one in Amazon’s comic book sales.
Park Jung-won, COO of Kakao Page’s platform division, said, “I’m alone in leveling up K-webtoons not only in Japan, North America, and China, but also in Japan, North America, and China. We hope that this new year’s holiday 50 episodes will be an opportunity to travel through the free event. We have prepared various events such as attendance check and invite friends so that you can see the work not only alone but also with friends, so we ask for your participation and interest.”
On the other hand, leveling up by myself is a story that begins when the game quest window appears in front of your eyes after the hunter Seong Jin-woo, who hunts monsters in the dungeon inside the gate, which is a connecting passage that connects reality and the other dimension, survives one day after surviving the pitfall of death.
The original web novel was serialized from 2016 to 2018, webtoon season 1 was serialized from 2018 to March 2020, and webtoon season 2 was serialized from August 2020.
【Youth Daily = Reporter Park Joon-young】