Celsys sponsored the 2025 Gyeonggi International Webtoon Fair from September 18 to 21, a specialized exhibition held in at KINTEX in Goyang, Korea, to promote webtoon creation, with the aim of raising brand awareness and attracting new users for illustration, manga, webtoon and animation app Clip Studio Paint.
Marking its seventh anniversary this year, the Gyeonggi International Webtoon Fair is hosted by Gyeonggi-do Province and organized by the Gyeonggi Content Agency and KINTEX. This year, the event included B2B business consultations and a B2C exhibition. More than 156 domestic webtoon companies and buyers from Korea and the rest of the world attended the event, along with 132 webtoon studios and platforms, IP content creation companies, webtoon tech companies, educational institutions, universities, and amateur authors. The event was a great success, attracting over 35,000 visitors.
Gyeonggi International Webtoon Fair
https://www.webtoonfair.com/main.do
The global webtoon market
The webtoon market is expected to continue growing significantly worldwide, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30.4%, forecast to reach US$31.21 billion by 2029. (*1)
As home to the birthplace of webtoons, the Korean government and the Korea Creative Content Agency are providing generous support to encourage the further overseas development of webtoons. (*2) Clip Studio Paint is widely used as an industry-standard tool in professional webtoon studios and vocational schools in Korea. Celsys has formed a technical alliance with leading digital comics platform WEBTOON Entertainment since 2021 to energize the market and bring about improvements to the creation, translation, and distribution of content.
Initiatives with Webtoon Entertainment
https://www.celsys.com/en/clipsolution/webtoonentertainment/
*1 Source: Global Information, “Webtoons Global Market Report 2025”
https://www.gii.co.jp/report/tbrc1707205-webtoons-global-market-report.html
*2 Source: JETRO, “Webtoon Overseas Expansion Strategies of Korea's Two Internet Giants: Naver and Kakao” (Japanese)
https://www.jetro.go.jp/biz/areareports/2024/69e2ec93708a5184.html
2025 Gyeonggi International Webtoon Fair Sponsorship
As an event sponsor, Celsys gifted Clip Studio Paint licenses as prizes for activities held at the event. In addition to making the product more widely known to younger participants, Celsys was able to make contacts with companies in the webtoon industry, reaching both B2B and B2C markets.
Global event sponsorships and collaborations
Celsys sponsors pop culture events around the world to strengthen contact with creators. Through promotional events aligned with the needs of each event and local culture, we aim to increase awareness of Clip Studio Paint among creators around the world who are interested in Japanese manga and animation.
Celsys will continue to strengthen global activities worldwide by sponsoring events held across the globe.
More overseas events & sponsorships
https://www.celsys.com/en/clipsolution/casestudies/#category33
About Clip Studio Paint
Clip Studio Paint is a creative app first launched in 2012 to provide the ideal tools for creating illustrations, comics, and animation. Celsys' strength lies in graphics technology, conducting research and development for in-house technology for more than 30 years. Clip Studio Paint is used by more than 55 million creators* around the world, with more than 80% of those residing outside Japan. Currently available in 11 languages, the app supports creators of all kinds worldwide, from beginners to professional comic artists and animators.
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* Includes free trial users and downloads of the iPad, iPhone, Galaxy, Android, and Chromebook versions.
About CELSYS, Inc.
Celsys provides tools such as Clip Studio Paint to support creators in the creator economy that is expanding through the creation and use of digital content. We are also providing new service platforms that act as a new avenue for creators' activities. We look toward a more vibrant world where everyone's passions are connected, by offering total support to creators around the world through each part of their “creator journey".
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