'Webtoons' craze makes global waves

Seoul office worker Park Sun-min constantly checks his smartphone 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 cellphone.

"I read four to five a day and more than 30 a week. ... I sometimes see them at work and keep reading them on holiday - even overseas," the 30-year-old said.