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Kakao to invest into an online novel app Radish for $440 million

bySidra Butt
May 11, 2021
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On Tuesday, it was said that the Online fiction app Radish is being bought for $440 million by South Korean internet conglomerate Kakao, making a multi-millionaire of its 30-year-old founder only five years after he set it up.

The pay-to-read platform presents serialised storytelling in bite-sized instalments optimised for smartphones, with readers paying around 20 to 30 US cents to access the next episode immediately, or wait for an hour to read it for free.

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Likened to a Netflix for novels, Radish recruited in-house soap-opera scriptwriters including several Emmy Award winners to “present the newest and brightest in entertaining, diverse serial fiction to readers”, the company says.

There are currently more than 50 such original series, and the category accounted for more than 90 percent of the company´s revenue of $20 million last year, it said.

It also acts as a platform for independent writers, and says on its website that some make nearly $40,000 every three months.

Founder and CEO Lee Seung-yoon set up the company after graduating from Oxford in 2016 and attracted funding from investors including SoftBank Group´s venture arm and Lowercase Capital.

The unit buying his firm, Kakao Entertainment, already produces original content of its own from web novels to TV series, movies and music, he said, adding the acquisition would realise his vision “on a much larger scale and in a fascinating way”.

Some South Korean internet firms have struggled to expand their operations overseas and Radish said in a press release the deal would expand Kakao´s “reach in North America and other English-speaking territories”.

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