Contents First, Inc. is a Seoul-based digital storytelling company founded in January 2013 to bring Korean webtoon, webnovel, entertainment and game IP to global readers. It operates Tappytoon, a premier digital-first webtoon and webnovel platform launched in August 2016 that serves more than 8 million readers across 241 countries in English, French and German, with over 450 million chapter views to date. Contents First produces and licenses original IP through in-house Tappytoon Studio and its affiliate production studios Maru Comics, C&C Revolution, and Studio Alive (a joint venture with Redice Studio). The corporate site publishes a company narrative and a media room; no developer portal, public API, or machine-readable contract (OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, MCP) is advertised. Media contact meetus@contentsfirst.com, business contact corp@contentsfirst.com.
Contents First is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Data, Integration, Platform, and Webtoon.
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aid: contentsfirst
name: Contents First
description: Contents First, Inc. is a Seoul-based digital storytelling company founded in January 2013 to bring Korean webtoon,
webnovel, entertainment and game IP to global readers. It operates Tappytoon, a premier digital-first webtoon and webnovel
platform launched in August 2016 that serves more than 8 million readers across 241 countries in English, French and German,
with over 450 million chapter views to date. Contents First produces and licenses original IP through in-house Tappytoon
Studio and its affiliate production studios Maru Comics, C&C Revolution, and Studio Alive (a joint venture with Redice Studio).
The corporate site publishes a company narrative and a media room; no developer portal, public API, or machine-readable
contract (OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, MCP) is advertised. Media contact meetus@contentsfirst.com, business contact corp@contentsfirst.com.
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
probe_state: none
source:
- security
generated: '2026-11-06'
method: derived
image: https://www.contentsfirst.com/images/hero.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/contentsfirst/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-04 (identity module re-run; corrected name, description, tags, image, pointers and
x-coverage)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-10'
modified: '2026-11-04'
tags:
- Company
- Data
- Integration
- Platform
- Webtoon
- Webnovel
- Entertainment
- Media
- Content
- South Korea
tags_raw:
- Company
- Data
- API
- Integration
- Platform
- Webtoon
- Webnovel
- Entertainment
- Media
- Content
- Korea
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
url: https://www.contentsfirst.com
- type: Newsroom
url: https://www.contentsfirst.com/media/
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/tappytoon
- type: Hosts
url: hosts/contentsfirst-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
url: vendors/contentsfirst-vendors.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/contentsfirst-domain-security.yml
apis: []
x-coverage:
state: none
reason: no-developer-program
detail: Contents First is the corporate site for a Seoul webtoon/webnovel holding company (parent of consumer platform Tappytoon);
it publishes no API, no developer portal, and no docs host, and the standard contract paths on www.contentsfirst.com (/openapi.json,
/swagger.json, /asyncapi.yaml, /graphql, /mcp) all return 404 while api.contentsfirst.com and developers.contentsfirst.com
do not resolve in DNS.
evidence:
- url: https://www.contentsfirst.com/openapi.json
status: 404
- url: https://www.contentsfirst.com/swagger.json
status: 404
- url: https://www.contentsfirst.com/asyncapi.yaml
status: 404
- url: https://www.contentsfirst.com/graphql
status: 404
- url: https://www.contentsfirst.com/mcp
status: 404
checked: '2026-11-04'
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-11-04'
status: nochange
artifacts_added: 0
pass: modular-v1
engine: identity=anthropic,contract=anthropic,surfaces=anthropic,docs=anthropic,regulatory=anthropic
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