While Congress debates whether the U.S. automobile business is worth saving, the government of South Korea has apparently decided to support its video game industry with $200 million worth of aid.
Digital Chosunilbo reports the government backing will last until 2012:
Culture, Sports and Tourism Minster Yu In-chon [seen at left] in a meeting on Wednesday discussing mid- and long-term plans to develop the game industry said the emerging [game] industry had proved to be a future growth engine by accomplishing its billion-dollar export goal for the year 2010 two years early.
Yu promised to draw up 60 projects including a US$200 billion game fund and help the country become one of three countries with the world's largest game industry together with the U.S. and Japan.
Via: GameDaily
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Re: Korean Govt to Throw $200M at Game Biz... Aims For Global
Huxley looks like it might be cool. I'm still waiting for an MMO where skill matters.
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Re: Korean Govt to Throw $200M at Game Biz... Aims For Global
Oh great, just what the game market needed, MORE Korean copycat grindfest MMORPGs. Do they actually make any other sort of game in Korea?
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Re: Korean Govt to Throw $200M at Game Biz... Aims For Global
No, and the art they use in the ads always have some barely clothed hot looking girl to get you to try it out. Then you log in and see some crappy avatars with horrible animations using a wanna-be wow interface. I prefer they spend the whole 200M just making comics using the art from the ads as opposed to playing the actual game :P
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Re: Korean Govt to Throw $200M at Game Biz... Aims For Global
Good for him!
Re: Korean Govt to Throw $200M at Game Biz... Aims For Global
Korea, supporting their citizen's StarCraft addiction. Now that is a country I can stand behind, far far behind, but still behind.
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Re: Korean Govt to Throw $200M at Game Biz... Aims For Global
See? Why can't us silly Americans can see that it;s okay to help out our video game industry instead of just attacking the industry?
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Re: Korean Govt to Throw $200M at Game Biz... Aims For Global
Uh oh. Jack's in trouble. Korea is backing the video game industry.
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Re: Korean Govt to Throw $200M at Game Biz... Aims For Global
I'm not sure what the implication you're trying to make here is, but anyway, if it is the one I'm thinking, you're confusing the two Koreas. This article is talking about South Korea, not North Korea, which is probably the country you have in mind.
Re: Korean Govt to Throw $200M at Game Biz... Aims For Global
No, it still makes sense.
Remember, if Japan promotes to the United States pornographic violence and...er, pornography that "isn't even accepted within its own shores," what the hell will Korea do!?
Re: Korean Govt to Throw $200M at Game Biz... Aims For Global
Could you explain please? I'm not exactly clued-up on Japanese porn, apart from having seen every bit of Kaede Matsushima.
Re: Korean Govt to Throw $200M at Game Biz... Aims For Global
Play Starcraft....
Same as it ever was...
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