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For k-pop, Japan has notoriously been very tight with licensing restrictions on music. That allowed Korea to leap ahead.

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Not just music, Japan have been extremely tight with at least anime and visual novels as well.

For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36016653

Webtoons (a Korean company) is probably more popular than manga now for this reason.

Is this the place you're meaning?

https://www.webtoons.com/en/

If that's the one, it looks like an online manga reading website. There are many of those around. eg mangakatana, reaperscans, mangadex, etc

Webtoons is site with official translations, was created by https://naver.com/ to combat fan translations (and this fan translations made many of Korean manhwas popular around the world in the first place). Manga are Japanese comics, manhwa are Korean comics, and manhua are Chinese comics.

All other sites you mentioned are fan translations (scanlations).

Not sure if this is country-specific or label-specific, but a lot of Baby Metal reaction videos seem to get flagged, which is kind of silly given that these of things help spread awareness of the group / band.

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