At the mention of South Korea, most people must instantly think of Korean teleplay and Korean stars. They are collectively known as K-Pop (short for Korea-Pop) and enjoy a high reputation worldwide.
But according to reliable data, the output value of the K-Game (Korean game) industry is 14 times as much as that of K-Pop industry. K-Game has become the new pillar industry of South Korea and opened up overseas markets at an annual 50% growth rate of export volume.
K-Game is currently the most potential and fastest growing industry in South Korea. As disclosed by Korea Culture & Contents Agency, until March, the volume of cultural exports reached 3.3977 trillion won (approx. US$ 2.96 billion) and the game exports accounted for 53.3%, nearly 1.8121 trillion won (approx. US$ 1.56). However, the representatives of K-Pop, including Girls' Generation (pictured), Kara and Dong Bang Shin Ki only achieved 134.7 billion won overseas sales, which only accounts for 7% of the game export volume
James Bell says: "The mobile RPG GrandChase has released the newest SR 5 star Hero, the Secret Service Agent Mayden, along with various events."
"NCSOFT are today very happy and excited to announce that they have just released the ”Symphony of Destruction” update for their sexy MMORPG “Blade & Soul”." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
"NCSOFT are today very happy and excited to announce that they have just released the"Dawn of Darkness" update for their sexy MMORPG “Blade & Soul”." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
must be some terrible games.
Damn, UK needs to get behind our game devs instead of just hindering progress -_- there's a ton £££ that we're missing out on here.
Korea made a lot of MMOs for the PC, some of them are quite popular.
At the mention of South Korea I instantly think of lazy K.A.T.U.S.A's!