SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean webtoon makers are being hit hard by illegal copies, suffering economic damages of over 200 billion won every month. The worrying figure comes from a report from Webtoon Guide citing one website known for sharing illegal copies of South Korean webtoon series, which was submitted to the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean fashion designers will showcase their latest designs at New York Fashion Week. Alongside Milan, London and Paris, New York is considered one of the four capitals of the fashion world. The city’s bi-annual Fashion Week, which opens on September 7, attracts the best and the brightest from all [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea opened a business support center for the nation’s cultural industry and content creators in Los Angeles on Thursday (local time). The state-run Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) said the new facility will help Korean artists and businesses venture into the U.S. market. The agency is affiliated with [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A booth representing South Korean video game companies this year at one of China’s biggest gaming expos was told to drop ‘Korea’ from its name to conceal the nationality of the participants amid endless political tension between the two countries, an official from the South Korean organizing body has [...]
TOKYO, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A business center that helps Korean content production companies advance in Japan opened in Tokyo Thursday. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency ran the center’s opening ceremony at the Korean Cultural Center inside the Korean Embassy in the city. The center is [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) - The K-pop event of South by Southwest (SXSW), the world’s largest music festival, drew hundreds of people, the South Korean content agency said Friday. More than 1,300 people gathered for K-pop’s Night Out, which featured seven South Korean artists including Mamamoo, Zion.T and Victim Mentality, on Thursday, according to the Korea Creative [...]
SEOUL, Dec.21 (Korea Bizwire) – CJ E&M announced that it has signed an agreement with Click Licensing Asia, the largest character licensing company in Southeast Asia, and the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) to export Korean animations to Southeast Asia. Based on the agreement, CJ E&M will provide 20 popular Korean animations through its ‘Tooniverse [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Research shows that Hallyu fans in 200 countries around the world showed interest in KCON America 2015, which is the biggest Korean wave convention in North America. The LA office of the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) investigated Twitter messages related to KCON 2015 with USC professor Kim Sun-ho, a big [...]
“If America had contents like ‘Batman’ and ‘Spiderman’, the next character and story can be in Korea. Korea has abundant content, such as movies, dramas and K-pop. I think that being truthful and unique are important virtues for a character.” “Now, there is a demand and thirst for characters and stories seen from an oriental [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Several Korean musicians will be introduced at three of the world’s most popular music festivals, said the Korea Creative Content Agency on April 23. On May 8, Verbal Jint, Dok2, The Quiett, Beenzino, Sultan of the Disco and Lunafly will appear at Canadian Music Week’s K-Pop showcase from 5 [...]