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Three Korean webtoons with adaptations across television, animation, film and games are at the center of a new physical exhibition in Los Angeles.
The Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles is presenting 2026 K-Comics Origin Los Angeles: Korean Webtoon Experience Exhibition from September 11 through October 17, 2026. Admission is free, and visitors do not need to make a reservation.
Three webtoon properties anchor the Los Angeles exhibition
The exhibition focuses on All of Us Are Dead, Solo Leveling and Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint. Rather than treating the three titles only as digital comics, the program examines how stories and characters originating in webtoons can move into other entertainment formats.
According to the organizers, the exhibition traces the evolution of Korean comics through the emergence of webtoons in the digital and mobile era. Characters and scenes from the featured works are presented through interactive kiosks, moving material normally encountered on a phone or computer into the Korean Cultural Center’s second-floor gallery.
The selection also gives the exhibition three different examples of adaptation. All of Us Are Dead moved from webtoon to television, while Solo Leveling expanded into animation and games. Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint provides another case of a Korean digital-comics property crossing into screen entertainment.
The result is an exhibition structured around the path between an original work and its later versions, rather than a general survey of unrelated characters. Visitors can examine the webtoon as the starting point for a wider body of entertainment.
Background: K-Comics Origin has already traveled beyond Korea
The Los Angeles program follows earlier 2026 editions of K-Comics Origin in other international markets. A Vietnam exhibition opened in Hanoi on June 30 and was scheduled to continue through August 28. Vietnamese reporting identified Hanoi as the first destination in the program’s global rollout.
A separate Hong Kong edition ran from July 11 through August 14 at the Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong. That exhibition featured properties including Solo Leveling and The Uncanny Counter, along with interactive elements tied to their fictional settings and characters.
Those earlier stops show that the Los Angeles event is part of a broader effort to introduce webtoons through in-person cultural programming. Although each edition has its own featured lineup, the shared format combines information about Korean comics history with experiences built around recognizable intellectual properties.
The Los Angeles edition is organized by the Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles in partnership with the Korea Creative Content Agency. Its focus on three internationally adapted titles aligns the local exhibition with the program’s wider emphasis on how Korean comics circulate outside their original digital platforms.
Why it matters for international webtoon audiences
For visitors in the United States, the exhibition offers a direct way to connect adaptations with the Korean works that came first. Someone who encountered All of Us Are Dead as a series or Solo Leveling as an anime can see those productions as parts of a longer publishing and adaptation process.
That distinction matters because the exhibition is not simply promoting three completed franchises. It identifies the webtoon itself as a source format capable of supplying characters, narratives and visual concepts to television, film, animation, games and merchandise.
The physical presentation also changes how audiences can approach material created for vertical, screen-based reading. Interactive displays place the art and fictional worlds in a shared public space, allowing visitors to explore them without first subscribing to a platform or committing to a full series.
For the organizers, placing that experience in Los Angeles brings the webtoon-to-adaptation model before an audience already served by several parts of the global entertainment industry. The practical consequence is that the original Korean comic is presented alongside—not hidden behind—the screen versions through which many international fans first discover these stories.
Dates, admission and opening hours
2026 K-Comics Origin Los Angeles: Korean Webtoon Experience Exhibition is located on the second floor of the Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles. Admission is free and no reservation is required.
The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday. It is closed on Sundays, holidays and designated center closure dates. The exhibition’s final scheduled day is October 17, 2026.
Sources: Anime News Network; Korea.net; Korean Cultural Centers — Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
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