December 4th, 2008

South Korean Games Mania

In most parts of the world, the gaming industry seems to have problems. It's not about losing focus and not being able to deliver games with a story to match the graphics, and it's not about the economic problems, either. I think there's a lot of trouble with governments trying to label games as evil, take various games out of the market, and so on, but - guess what? South Korea will become a new heaven for the gaming industry!

Just think about this, and we have a story already - according to Kotaku, "The South Korean government says they will invest 350 billion won in the computer game industry by 2012."

The reason for such a juicy money input? Just because things are working properly, that's why!

Same source says that the South Korean Culture, Sports and Tourism Minister Yu In-chon talked on Wednesday about plans to take the gaming industry to a whole new level, since it already hit a billion-dollar export goal this year! Now, that's what we can call "serious gaming," don't you agree?

Call it a crisis or not, but it seems that, with proper management, the world won't go down. We're only going through major changes, and best thing to do is try to understand what's happening around us because, in a way or another, the gaming industry will pull it off, it only remains to be seen where will go all the money generated by it...