Tapas Media

Tapas Media is a next generation media company based in San Francisco and Seoul, Korea that specializes in bite-sized content through its online mobile platform. Backed by investors in Silicon Valley and Seoul, including Kakao, a leading mobile service company in Korea with over $7 billion market cap, Tapas Media specializes in building content publishing, distribution, and monetization platform for storytellers of all types, such as comic artists, illustrators, novelists, script writers, and more. Tapas’ first product, Tapastic.com, is the “Youtube of comics.” With over 9,000 comic creators and 200K individual comic strips, Tapastic is the leading online publishing platform and community for comics. Tapas Media’s new project, Tapas, will take Tapastic.com’s community to the next level by adding other types of content (starting with the new Novels section) and supporting new, freemium business model specifically designed for mobile users. Chang Kim is the CEO/founder of Tapas Media. Previously, he was a product manager at Google, running Blogger.com. Chang joined Google when the company he co-founded, TNC (a leading blogging software company in Korea), was acquired by Google. Previously, Chang was at Samsung mobile, in charge of Samsung’s mobile content strategy.