Overview[]
Best Challenge (Hangul: 베스트 도전; RR: Beseuteu Dojeon), sometimes abbreviated 베도 (Be-Do), is the second of three categories of webtoons on Naver Webtoon/Naver Manhwa (Hangul: 네이버 웹툰). See the Naver article on this wiki for more information about Naver Webtoon.
Scene from the webtoon (Episode 35) compared to the Best Challenge version
Kubera was published under Best Challenge before being promoted to an official Webtoon, which was first published on February 7, 2010. The author, Currygom, often makes references to the Best Challenge version in her Season 1 blog posts, usually noting the differences between that and the newer version.
Best Challenge blog posts[]
Currygom made seven blog posts on the subject of the Best Challenge version. The translations are shown in reverse order.
1: The Kubera webtoon is now well past the Best Challenge story.[]
| Blog link | Date: 2011.11.05 19:54 | Category: Best Challenge |
This was posted on Nov. 5, 2011, after the release of Ep.85.[1]
The webtoon caught up with the Best Challenge version as of Ep.42 (the end of the chapter The Past I Yearn For).[2] The two versions can be compared in the following chart:
| Best Challenge (Jul. '08 to Nov. '09) | Webtoon (Feb. '10 to -) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Girl with a God's Name | 3 eps. | The Girl with a God's Name | 5 eps. |
| Doomed City (a lot happens by the end???) |
9 eps. | The Queen and the Bum | 6 eps. |
| The Sorrow of Loss | 9 eps. | ||
| AAA Magician | 1 ep. | AAA Magician | 6 eps. |
| The Golden Knight | 7 eps. | The Golden Knight | 9 eps. |
| Gods, Magic, and Magicians | 5 eps. | The Past I Yearn For (reduced from the B.C. version) |
7 eps. |
| The Gate | 6 eps. | ||
| The Best Challenge version ended here. As a bi-weekly series, this version had half as many releases in the same amount of time. (???) |
Half (半) | 8 eps. | |
| The Wavering King | 7 eps. | ||
| Rival | 6 eps. | ||
| The Night it Rained Fire | 20 eps. | ||
2: A comic about how Currygom's life was and how she became an author.[]
| Blog link | Date: 2010.05.12 14:00 | Category: Best Challenge |
3: A comic about Currygom's Korean holiday survival.[]
| Blog link | Date: 2010.05.12 14:00 | Category: Best Challenge |
4: Best Challenge version deleted.[]
| Blog link | Date: 2010.05.01 15:13 | Category: Best Challenge |
Currygom originally left Kubera in Best Challenge despite the fact she erased all the chapters, in order to keep the comments she had received. But on March 2010, she completely removed Kubera from Best Challenge.
Apparently, some immature fans of Kubera had given other Best Challenge comics very low ratings in order to keep Kubera as the #1 comic in Best Challenge despite the fact that all the chapters had been erased.
Angered by this, Currygom completely deleted Kubera from Best Challenge and apologized to the other comics' authors and fans.
5: Currygom disputes the argument that the Best Challenge version had better art.[]
| Blog link | Date: 2010.04.08 16:00 | Category: Best Challenge |
6: Why Currygom put the chapters from Best Challenge[]
| Blog link | Date: 2010.03.18 15:07 | Category: Best Challenge |
In order to stop confusion and stop spoilers.
7: Webtoon announcement.[]
| Blog link | Date: 2009.11.28 22:23 | Category: Best Challenge |
This was Currygom's announcement that Kubera had been picked up as an official Webtoon by Naver.