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[Argent Witch]

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The question is always money -- return on investment. ^^

As it stands, the Korean entertainment industry isn't very willing to spend a lot of money in animated comics. Almost all of the Korean label animations have been a poor performer. The first good performer to appear is Pororo, but that's targeted at children and actually, initially a joint project with North Korea (quite amazing how they manage to land that back then. Though, relationships are very sour right now). It makes quite a bit of money and even has international exports. For Korea to compete with Japanese produced anime, they'd have to throw in a similar amount of budget, a risk they're likely not going to take.

There's actually no shortage of skill in Korea. Lot of animations all over the world actually hire Korean artists to draw them, including titles like Simpsons and even some japanese animes (korean are more affordable than japanese in general). But, like I said, no one is going to invest at this time for a korean animation. To make a korean comic into a blockbuster animation, they'll likely have to seek japanese companies for them. But titles like ToG is already locked with Naver, though where they'll take the title to is unknown.

The budget difference is also largely fault of the host country's culture. Lots of korean watch tv shows (k-drama), kind rating which american tv shows can only dream about. But not a lot of koreans watch animations, and are often restricted to younger audiences. In Japan, lot of people watch anime, even more aged population.

Demographics -> calculate potential earnings -> adjust budget based on that -> realize korean animation isn't going to happen.

The mirror image of animation industry of Japan vs Korea is actually the drama. K-drama are so much higher budget, gets somewhat easy international sales due to already spread popularity. J-drama are lower budget and usually unable to turn a good profit margin like the Korean counter part.

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[svines85]

yup.........Noblesse is Korean, there'll be no Japanese anime of it short of the rights being bought..........which seems pretty unlikely. And Korea just doesn't have the market for that kind of product like Japan and the countries that also follow the mostly Japanese anime series and movies.

[svines85]

Well, it's not like it's totally impossible..........look at Im Dal-Young and Freezing. A Korean manhwa that's author left Korea for Japan and took his work with him. Now it's published in Japan as a manga, and, not long after the move.........Freezing got an anime. So it could happen for other manhwa and webtoons too......just not as likely though.