Games, the Contents and the Economy in Korea

泥中蟠龍 's Game 愛歌 [A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity]   It's hard to study all the time   It seems like a brand new year started just a few days ago, however, it's already April 2015 at this moment writing this column. One-third of the year has already passed. I have been in the video-game-involved field for 13 years since I first stepped into the gaming industry. I have spent one-third of my whole life working in the game business. Numerous video games have been released. Some of them gained huge mainstream success and others disappeared being shunned by consumers. Out of countless choices for recent online video games, Hearthstone, which is a digital collectible card game developed by Blizzard Entertainment, has left a deep impression on me. The game is a typical turn-based card game between two opponents. A player collects lots of cards, constructs the player's decks, and competes with the opponent. There are also an ...

泥中蟠龍 's Game 愛歌 [A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity]   A tax on a digital signal   Recently, aside from public interest, there was a cultural-content-related big issue in Korea's investment industry. Filmmaker R & K — a production company produced The Berlin File, a 2013 South Korean action thriller film — had to pay its tax on an external hard disk drive stored video clips which were filmed in overseas locations since it lost the case for withdrawal of tax enforcement by the Seoul Administration Court.   Here are some of the details of step-by-step processes.   1. The filmmaker R & K declared an empty hard disk drive as a piece of filming equipment at the customhouse ahead of its departure. 2. R & K took a film with local production in Germany and its neighbors. 3. R & K paid the local film studio and the interested party about 2.2 billion won. 4. R & K brought back the portable...

泥中蟠龍 's Game 愛歌 [A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity]   Nokia, Samsung Electronics, and KakaoTalk   The biggest news in the mobile market recently, as I think, is that Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge eventually came out. I had an opportunity to see the new cell phone in person thanks to a friend of mine working for Samsung Electronics. Remarkably curved surface and multiple functions using the new shape notably made the phone look cool as to be called the new generation of Galaxy design. I was highly satisfied with the style that there is a significant difference before and after Edge. Comparing to the disappointing design and sales performance of Galaxy 5, we can see huge differences in particular. Of course, I don't writing this column to show off that I checked it out ahead of time. Probably users can buy Edge in the market when the column would be released. The reason I mentioned the new phone is to talk about Nokia. Less than 10 ye...