---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001997859-25-000083"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WBTN"
cik: "0001997859"
company_name: "WEBTOON Entertainment Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T03:38:12.322913+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# WEBTOON appoints Noom co-founder Saeju Jeong to board of directors

## Summary
- Saeju Jeong appointed to WEBTOON board effective June 16, 2025, as Class III director with term expiring at 2027 annual meeting.
- Board expanded from 7 to 8 members; Jeong will serve on Audit Committee.
- Jeong is co-founder and Executive Chairman of Noom, a digital health company; brings nearly two decades of consumer tech leadership.
- Jeong qualifies as independent director and audit committee financial expert per Nasdaq and SEC rules.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001997859-25-000083
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WBTN
- cik: 0001997859
- company_name: WEBTOON Entertainment Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1997859/000199785925000083/0001997859-25-000083-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1997859/000199785925000083/wbtn-20250616.htm

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- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001997859-25-000083.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001997859-25-000083.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Saeju Jeong was appointed as Director at WEBTOON Entertainment Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: unanimously appointed Saeju Jeong to fill the newly created vacancy on the Board, effective June 16, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1997859/000199785925000083/0001997859-25-000083-index.htm

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