Today’s Webtoon is a South Korean business-comedy drama series starring Kim Se-Jeong, Choi Daniel, and Nam Yoon-Su as the main leads. It is based on the Japanese manga series Jhan Shuttai! by Naoko Matsuda and the Japanese drama Sleeper Hit.
Today’s webtoon revolves around On Ma-eum, a former judo athlete, who struggles to fit in her new profession as a webcomic editor after retiring from judo because of an injury.
Today’s Webtoon Korean Drama Profile
- Drama Name: Today’s Webtoon
- Director: Jo Soo-Won, Kim Young-Hwan
- Writer: Naoko Matsuda (manga), Jo Ye-Rang, Lee Jae-Eun
- Genres: Business, Comedy, Life, Drama
- Original Network: SBS
- Episodes: 12
- Release Date: July 29, 2022 – Sep 3, 2022
- Airing Days: Friday, Saturday
- Time slot: 22:00-23:10 pm KST
- Duration: 60 min.
- Language: Korean
- Country: South Korea
Today’s Webtoon Kdrama Release Date
It will air every Friday and Saturday at 22:00 pm (KST) on SBS (South Korean Television Channel) beginning on July 29, 2022.
Today’s Webtoon Kdrama Plot Synopsis
On Ma-Eum, a novice webtoon editor and former judo athlete goes through a level-up growth period while working in the webtoon industry to post “Today’s Webtoon” every day. Onmaeum is a driven young woman who joins the editing staff of the neon webtoon in order to pursue a different dream after giving up her goal of making the national Olympic team owing to an injury.
Today’s Webtoon Kdrama Cast
Kim Se-Jeong as On Ma-eum
Kim Se-Jeong plays On Ma-eum, a newbie contract worker for the editorial division of webtoon. As a former standing member of the national judo team, she has a big appetite, a keen sense of smell, and the cauliflower ears of a fighter. After an unfortunate incident during a match tore her ankle ligament, On Ma-eum was forced to give up her athletic career. Now, she is reinventing herself as a webtoon editor.
Choi Daniel as Seok Ji-hyung
Choi Daniel plays Seok Ji-Hyung, an unpredictable deputy editor with a difficult-to-read poker face who becomes On Ma-eum’s dependable mentor. In spite of his tendency to be brutally honest, he is a caring editor who looks out for his coworkers. However, he exhibits a more awkward side when he’s not working with his many charms and absurd jokes.
Nam Yoon-su as Goo Jun-yeong
Nam Yoon-Su plays Goo Jun-Yeong, On Ma-Eum’s coworker who joined the workplace concurrently as an editor. He claims to have a 150 IQ.
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