Let's learn comics from Lee Hyun-se..Lee Hyun-se cartoon creation camp amateur writer support
Mar 04, 2025
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The creative camp began in 2001 when Lee Doo-ho, a professor at Sejong University at the time, planned 'Hell Camp' where students can only concentrate on creating cartoons in an environment disconnected from the outside world. With the support of Naver Webtoon in 2014, the number of campers has expanded to universities nationwide and has become a leading webtoon creation mentoring program hosted by artist Lee Hyun-se.
Naver Webtoon has continued to sponsor its 9th creative camp this year. Naver Webtoon has continued to sponsor its 9th creative camp this year. Several webtoon artists participated in the creative camp, including Im Rina, a writer of 'Killer Badro' which is serviced by Naver Webtoon, Cho Hyun-ah, a writer of 'Letters of Yeon', and an abandoned writer of 'Fatal to those without real estate'.
In the creative camp, a total of 100 students who dream of becoming webtoon writers and Naver Webtoon Best Challenge writers will be selected, and Naver Webtoon will fully support the participation fee. Participants spend 10 nights and 11 days creating a piece of work. Korea's leading webtoon artists, including Korean cartoon master Lee Hyun-se and Lee Doo-ho, will participate as mentors to share know-how and experience in creating and serializing works and provide real-time mentoring.
Applications for participation will be accepted online by April 11, and details can be found on the Naver Webtoon website notice. The creative camp will be held from June 30 to July 10 at the KOBACO Training Center located in Yangpyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do.
During the creative camp, an exhibition will be held to showcase the works completed by the participants to officials in the webtoon and cartoon industry, and the works that received excellent reviews will be serialized as short stories by Naver Webtoon.
Lee Jung-geun, the head of Naver Webtoon's Korean webtoon department, said, `We are happy to help aspiring writers realize their dreams through sponsorship of creative camps,' and `We will provide various opportunities to support the discovery and growth of talented writers who will lead the future of Korean webtoons.'
Writer Lee Hyun-se said, `With Naver Webtoon, we will develop it into a representative creative camp in Korea that can be of practical help to amateur writers throughout the creative process.'
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
