south korea where those webtoons come from is not that extreme to limit people's access to sites or fan works. North korea is, and I doubt you're gonna see anything from there any time soon. The question that I also ask myself is about china, china is arresting fanfiction authors but they published just this winter an animation that origins from a full n BL novel. Which is also being published still. Doesn't really make sense to me
Well... maybe of copyrights?
When you say FanFiction, they just made a version of their own from an already published work. So yeah, sometimes these fanfictions can be sued if the original will do so.
Example: 50 shades of gray; it was a fanfiction from twilight saga and before they can publish, they have to change every character's name. I hope it make sense. XDD
I'm a bit confused. There seems to be alot of BL Webtoons from Korea but the country is super conservative and has alot of censorship and everything...how are the authors managing that? I mean it's rather extreme there...So maybe there are some koreans here or some that know more :)