Etymology

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Today it means: An animated cartoon published on the World Wide Web. Full definition →

Korean 웹툰
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The story

  1. Korean · borrowed from웹툰
  2. English todaywebtoon

From Web + toon, dating from at least 2001 (see citations). For Korean comics, likely a re-borrowing of Korean 웹툰 (weptun), itself from the original sense.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.