Daewon C.I. or Daewon Culture Industry is a South Korean publisher known for releasing domestic and imported comics, children's books, and light novels. It was founded in 1991 and is a subsidiary of Daewon Media. In 2018, Daewon C.I., along with Seoul Media Comics and Haksan Publishing, made up 49 percent of the print comic book market in South Korea.[1]
History
Daewon C.I. was founded in 1991 as the publishing arm of Daewon Media. Its initial publication was the Comic Champ magazine in December of that year. In 1994, they launched Young Champ, and followed with two additional monthly magazines in 1995, which are no longer in print. Issue was also introduced that year as a biweekly magazine. The first Newtype Korea was published in 1999, and in 2002, Mag X was launched in Thailand. Its newest magazine, Super Champ debuted in 2006.[2] In 2008, they had a magazine circulation of over 2,000,000 per year and published 11,000,000 collected volumes of comics.[3]