

I notice there's some really good manwha out there on par with manga's: _Ares_
, _Witch Hunter_ , etc. (I realize the books I've stated maybe opinion based
but in general there has to be a few out there that deserve animation).

Furthermore, South Korea is where the American companies normally go for their
animations, e.g. _Last Airbender_ , _Korra_ , _Transformers_ , so I know they
have skills and the people to do it.


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Why are manhwa not animated more often?


There seem to be a couple of related issues when it comes to this.

While there are a large number of Korean animation studios
([~120](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_animation#Animation_industry)), a
lot of those studios do largely work contracted from Western companies.

Animated Korean characters have also been becoming [more
popular](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_animation#Market) in recent
years (particularly since about 2010, when the market share was about 28%). By
2014, the market share of domestic characters was 40%, which shows a massive
increase. However, that still shows less than a 50% market share of domestic
characters, indicating that within the country domestic animation is not as
popular as Japanese and Western animation. A few Korean animated shows [did
become popular](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_animation#History) in
East Asia in 2011 when the animation technique was improved, meaning that if
that trend continues we may start seeing more animated adaptions of manhwa
when demand increases for it.

Another thing to consider is that manhwa are still being adapted, just not
generally into anime/anime-like shows. Instead, K-dramas and movies have been
made from manhwa, and their success likely encourages Korean companies to
continue making live-action adaptations rather than attempting the riskier
shift of switching to animated adaptations. Should there be some major
successful animated adaptations, that may change.


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