SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — NCSOFT Corp., a leading South Korean game developer, said Friday it has signed a content distribution collaboration deal with local animation streaming platform Laftel. Under the agreement, Laftel will distribute 3,800 titles of animation content to NCSOFT’s NC Family Zone (NCFZ) PC cafes, starting Sept. 18. NCSOFT plans to [...]
SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) – In a rare fusion of K-pop glamor and supernatural adventure, K-Pop Demon Hunters, a new Netflix animated film, has taken the world by storm—climbing to the top of global streaming charts just days after its release. The film follows Huntress, a K-pop girl group who moonlight as demon slayers [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — “The King of Kings,” a South Korean animation about the life of Jesus, has become the most popular ever South Korean film in the United States in terms of revenue, data showed Monday. The animation film has posted a combined US$54.51 million in ticket sales at the U.S. box [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The renowned Hong Kong noir film, ‘A Better Tomorrow 2,’ starring Zhang Guorong and Chow Yun Fat, is set to be remade as an animated movie in South Korea. According to industry reports on Tuesday, the animation studio Meditation with a Pencil has inked a contract with Hong Kong’s Fortune [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The theatrical version of “Slam Dunk,” a popular comic in the 1990s, is catching the hearts of Koreans in their 30s and 40s. Japanese basketball animation film “The First Slam Dunk” recorded a cumulative audience of 501,864 as of Wednesday, ranking second at the box office, according to the [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to invest 50 billion won (US$44 million) in a fund specializing in animation investment as part of efforts to boost the industry, the culture ministry said Thursday. The investment is part of a five-year plan aimed at increasing the local animation industry’s revenue to 1 trillion [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The sensational Walt Disney animation “Frozen 2″ has topped the milestone of 4 million ticket sales less than four days after its release in South Korea, data showed Sunday. “Frozen 2″ sold 1,661,967 tickets on Saturday alone after it was released in South Korea last Thursday to top the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Charcters from South Korean animation series “Robocar Poli” will be designated as honorary firefighters. The National Fire Agency designated the Robocars Roy, Amber, Helly, and Poli as honorary firefighters on Wednesday. It is the first time that animation characters have been designated as firefighters. “We have decided to designate [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — An international cartoon and animation festival will open in Seoul next month, showcasing the changing environment and paradigms of the industry, the event’s organizer said Monday. The 23rd Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival (SICAF) will start July 17 for a five-day run at the Convention and Exhibition Center [...]
JEUNGPYEONG, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — On April 2, Kang Yeon-hui, a 51-year-old female paramedic from the Iksan Fire Station, was hit in the head by a drunken man in his 40s. Four days later, Kang was hospitalized after suffering from vomiting and dizziness before undergoing surgery for cerebral hemorrhage and pulmonary angioneurotic edema. She [...]