사용자:Hyejin Yun/연습장

History

The term 'Web novel' was used in Korea after Naver, a portal site, launched 'Naver Web novel' in 2013. Before that, it was called various words such as Internet novels and online novels. Currently, the term 'web novel' is used in both industrial and academic fields.

Korean web novels began to spread in late 1990 with PC communication literature such as Chollian and Hitel(The current service has been terminated). Since 2000, unstable social conditions such as the IMF economic crisis and the end of the century syndrome have caused people to fall into virtual reality. As a result, amateur writers appeared in large numbers, and genre literature, not pure literature, became popular based on the Internet. Web novels were popular in other countries around the same time, with a slight difference in terms. Web novels are called Web fiction in the United States and Internet literature(网络文学) in China.

Platform of Web novel