Promising Korea IPs Brought to Annecy Market by GICON

As part of MIFA’s new Korea Business Showcase, Gwangju’s Information and Content Agency (GICON) made its first steps at the ...
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7 South Korean Anime That Can Be Called Masterpieces, Ranked

For decades, anime has been ruled by Japanese standards for storytelling and art. While everyone's eyes were on Japan, South Korea quietly built its own animated legacy in the shadows. Merging manhwa ...
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‘Lost in Starlight' Director Han Ji-won on Blending Romance and Sci-Fi for Netflix's Breakthrough Korean Animated Feature

Lost in Starlight will probably come to be seen as a major breakthrough for both the career of 36-year-old filmmaker Han Ji-won and for the Korean animation industry at large. A vividly realized ...
The Film Stage

Bong Joon-ho to Direct Korean Animation Set in the Deep Sea

Following his landmark drama Parasite, all eyes are turned to what Bong Joon-ho will be directing next. While he’s previously said he’s working on both a Korean-language project with elements of ...
Yahoo

Invincible North Korea: Did Animation Get Outsourced to NK?

Invincible animation being outsourced to North Korea might seem like a dumb rumor, but that’s not the case. North Korean watchdog 38 North released a report showing that an animation studio based in ...
Yahoo

Netflix’s Tokyo Showcase Spotlights Korean Animation Push and Genre Diversification

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Netflix’s ambitious strategy for Korean content took center stage at the streamer’s ongoing APAC showcase in Tokyo, where ...
CNN

South Korea has animated American cartoons for decades. Now, it wants the world to see its own

For the past 40 years, South Korean animators have been the invisible workforce behind many of North America’s most beloved cartoons. These artists, often called “in-betweeners,” are responsible for ...

K-animation marks strong presence at world's largest animation market with 129.2 billion won in consultations

Korean animation demonstrated strong global demand at the world's largest animation market, recording around 129.2 billion ...
Game Rant

Korea Announces $100 Million Plan To Compete With Japan's Anime Industry

Kanishma Ray is a writer at GameRant, who's known to play a mean violin (decently, that is). She's a Computer Science student by day and a wordsmith by night, with a knack for crafting engaging and ...
Variety

Korean Animation Is Ready For a Leap to the Global Stage

South Korean animation, or “K-animation,” has been positioned to be the next chapter of “K-wave” following the global success of Korean film, K-pop and K-dramas, says one of the agencies that pledge ...
Wired

North Koreans Secretly Animated Amazon and Max Shows, Researchers Say

For almost a decade, Nick Roy has been scanning North Korea’s tiny internet presence, spotting new websites coming online and providing a glimpse of the Hermit Kingdoms’ digital life. However, at the ...