SEOUL — For years, the standard line on South Korea’s animation sector has been that it is long on technical skills but short on creativity. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the country was a prime ...

In Thailand, half of the cartoons read by comic lovers are Korean contents. Not only in Thailand, the Korean cartoons are massively popular in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Indonesia, and Vietnam ...

In compliance with Korean broadcast regulations, JAI’s JoongAng Broadcasting Corporation (JBC) will own the majority stake in the 24-hour kids’ network, with TBS holding a 49-percent stake. “To ...

I had to get out.” In South Korea, Choi was hesitant to pursue the work of an animator because he felt his knowledge of his new home was still limited. “When I first saw South Korean cartoons, I just ...

Pororo and Baby Shark might be the most successful cartoon characters ever created in South Korea in terms of their popularity and generated profits. But that might not be the case for long — newcomer ...

Do you know who taught the Korean language to f(x)’s Victoria and Amber? The broadcast of MBC Music’s “Amazing f(x)” that aired on June 25 revealed that the famous cartoon character Pororo taught ...

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