Kakao Entertainment Shuts Down Another Web Novel Piracy Site — Light Novel Pub/Light Novel World
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On June 5, 2025, Kakao Entertainment’s anti-piracy unit P.CoK successfully shut down two major light-novel piracy sites—Light Novel Pub (LNP) and Light Novel World (LNW). These platforms ranked in the global top 3, with up to 68 million visits per month according to P.CoK, though independent data estimates around 7 million earlier in the year .
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Enforcement Timeline:
The effort spanned nearly four months. P.CoK tracked down the operators (even locating personal addresses) and pressured them to shut down via legal threats .
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Operator Apology:
The site operators issued an apology and agreement to cease operations, pledging to remove all Korean content. They noted plans to pivot to a “community platform” that retains comments and reviews—but won’t host novel text .
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Context of Broader Campaign:
This takedown follows earlier actions by Kakao targeting other piracy platforms—such as Reaper Scans in May and Tachiyomi previously—and coincides with criminal sentences in S. Korea: an Ajitun operator received 2 years in prison, and an OKToon operator got 3 years
