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North Korea emerges as animation producer
2010/11/01, Source,
Cartoon series 'Pororo the Little Penguin'
By Kim Se-jeong
North Korea's information technology (IT) industry, especially in the field of computer-based animation production, is well on its way to achieve success, according to a Dutch outsourcing specialist currently conducting IT business with North Korean companies.
Speaking to an audience in Seoul for the launch of a book, "Europe-North Korea, Between Humanitarianism and Business", Paul Tjia said France and Italy are two big users of North Korean animators.
He said that his Dutch clients also outsource animation to North Korea. European cartoon versions of classic literature such as "Arabian Nights" and "Les Miserables", which aired on European television, were animated partly in North Korea,...More
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DC hosts Korean film fest
2008/05/30, Source,
The Korean Film Festival DC 2008 opened already in early April, and is still running until June 12. The festival is organised by the Smithsonian Institute with the assistance of several Korean organisations, including the Korean Film Council (KOFIC).
Tom Vick, programmer, thinks it's "only a slig,...More
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Korean Film Festival 2008 at the Smithsonian
2008/05/28, Source,
The Smithsonian Institution's Korean Film Festival DC 2008, organized through the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries and made possible by the Korea Foundation, the Korean Film Council, and the US-Korea Business Council, continues into June. The remaining film showings fall into two categories,...More
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2nd London Korean Film Festival Starts
2007/11/01, Source,
15 Korean films are being showcased this November at the 2nd annual London Korean Film Festival, screening at the Barbican in London's financial district. Opening the weeklong festival, which runs the 2nd to the 8th, is Kim Ki-duk's 2007 Canne,...More
