Soul-searching: A woman looking at an exhibition about South Korean and Belgium comic strip artists at the Korean Cultural Centre in Brussels. South Korean
BRUSSELS: Belgium has long been a leading exponent of the traditional printed comic book, but a recent exhibition of South Korean “webtoons” has caused soul-searching in the land of Tintin and The Smurfs.
The animated online comics, which are wildly popular in South Korea, have made some Belgian artists wonder whether they might be falling behind the times after a long period of global success.
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