Webtoon version of 'Extraordinary Attorney Woo' to be released tonight on Naver Webtoon

Webtoon series for the hit drama series “Extraordinary Attorney Woo″ will be released weekly via Naver Webtoon from July 27. [NAVER WEBTOON]

The ongoing ENA hit series “Extraordinary Attorney Woo,” which is also available on Netflix, will be turned into a web comic series, Naver Webtoon announced Wednesday.

The first episode will be released Wednesday at 10 p.m. on the Naver Webtoon platform, and will be updated every Thursday.

The webtoon will have a total of 60 episodes and will include “stories that were not in the drama series,” Naver Webtoon said. The webtoon will initially only be available in Korean but will soon be translated into different languages including English, Japanese and Chinese to be made available on Naver Webtoon’s global platform as well.

The series has remained on the top spot on Netflix’s 10 most-watched non-English series for multiple weeks since it began airing on June 29.

The story centers around the titular lawyer Woo Young-woo, played by actor Park Eun-bin, who is a lovable genius with autism spectrum disorder. Each episode of the series revolves around a different case and the people Woo encounters through her job at a major law firm. She proceeds to resolve each case using her unique thought process and crushes the prejudice of people who look down on her for her autism.

Naver Webtoon has been creating webtoon series based off of hit television series and releasing them almost concurrently with the series since last year. It published JTBC’s “She Would Never Know” as a webtoon series last year, followed by SBS’s “Lovers of the Red Sky” and KBS’s “Good Doctor.”

BY YIM SEUNG-HYE [yim.seunghye@joongang.co.kr]