Vietnam should eye establishment of webtoon industry: film director

Charlie Nguyen (C), a Vietnamese-American film director, and his associates co-organize the COMINK Comic Contest to seek Vietnamese comics of high quality. Photo: COMINK Organizer“It's time for young Vietnamese comic enthusiasts to make efforts to thrive as story talents, instead of comic consumers or outsourced comic artists for foreign employers," the film director said. A number of Vietnam comic artists who made their name in the industry and won international awards are also working as outsourced employees for South Korean webtoon businesses. “I have researched the comic market in Vietnam for many years. In Vietnam, its webtoon market is dominated by foreign content, Brenner continued.