Junhao 4th day in Korea!!

We today had to visit 3 places that are well known in media and animation related in Korea.
They are the SEOUL ANIMATION CENTRE, SANGAM DIGITAL MEDIA CITY and HONGIK UNIVERSITY.

Firstly, we visited the SEOUL ANIMATION CENTREM, it started in 1999, it support domestic manga and animation in Korea. They also provide education programmes for children and teenagers. The other purpose is that they motivate creation work in industry for workers and writers.
The contribution that they had is that they provided education programmes for the children and teenagers, they are allowed to visit and experience the centre to gain more knowledge about animation as they will teach them. Their class will be around 2-3 hours per day and continue on for a few days. There are also animation, producing and 3D programmes for them. Also for the professionals, they also have educational programmes, however, theirs are in a much more higher level and it is usually 1-6 months. They also had conference with some of the well known professionals such as the professionals that are in charge of iron man 2 and avatar.
Animation industry at first started business in simple way marketing and also producing. They started gaming industry and at 2008. they support character in animation. They also create figurines for japan and also america.
After that we went to the cartoon museum, it was incredible. They had this library which had 40,000++ books regarding illustration, character and animation.. They also had films, dramas, comics, anime and also nice rest place for people to enjoy in. They even had alot of facilities such as the children playground, poster, figurines, photo gallery, character design room and more other rooms to aid them along.

Next, we went to Hongki. We were being brought to only 3 rooms to visit. They are being taught in lecture halls, they also believe that in flash, seeing is believing. They also had computer rooms for classes. They also took up various research areas such as design, media related and 3D.

Lastly, we went to SANGAM DIGITAL MEDIA CITY. They really impressed me. As they tried to bring a dumping area and trying to push it to be a high technology area. They aimed to be the world class digital media custer. Seperating facilities into core recommended and general. Core functions are core target industries such as broadcast, game, film, music and etc.. Recommended for media and entertainment such as industries, software, information technology and more.. General at least such as commercial sites for non-target industries such as office functions and retail.
Their project will be done by 2015, they are trying to developed a high technology place and also government will earn alot from such development.
They also had other developments such as the Digital Pavillion, IP-Intelligent and Info-Booth.
They will also be building the 2nd highest building in the world, which I will definitely be looking forward to.
I like the SANGAM DIGITAL MEDIA CITY as they really bring digital media to a higher level and benefit mankind too.