Korea's biggest piracy operator is finally home — and behind bars

For years, readers who didn't want to pay for their webcomics and manga knew exactly where to go.

Until it shut down in April, Newtoki and its sister websites offered pirated copies of Korea's most popular webtoons, along with Japanese manga and web novels.

The man said to be running them stayed shrouded in mystery for years, thought to have fled to Japan and taken citizenship there to put himself out of reach.

That run is finally over.

The alleged operator is now in Korea, where he has been han ...