Korean Social (Game) Networks

Without doubt online social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter are becoming increasingly popular. The technical nature of these websites allows games developers to create casual and light games such as Pet Society and Farmville to be played online directly on those networks. Such social networks are not new to South Korea. In fact [...]

Korea Games Wire – website online

Howdy! Our more frequent updates are now available on a dedicated website www.koreagameswire.com We hope you enjoy the new site and send us some feedback here. Today’s updates were submitted by Nexon Europe about Maple Story, Gamevil and their new Baseball Superstars 2010 for iPhone, and a new member Min Communications with a unique game [...]

Tetris returns with Korean advert in 3D

Many of you know the giant Korean company NHN. For example they run Korea’s biggest search engine called naver.com and many related online game services and platforms. Animated by Korean studio WooDUS, this Tetris advert from NHN’s Naver puts the game in a fresh spotlight. However I it very much reminds me of a similar [...]

Public Service Announcement

The sentence “this is a public service announcement” (PSA) established after the birth of public radio and the first commercial broadcasts around 1920. The sentence was intended to raise the public’s awareness, educate them and create interest about specific issues. So what does this have to do with my blog and Korean games? I enjoyed [...]

Games with Korean Scenario

Following the previous post with the title “Six Games Featuring Korea” here are two more promintent games set in Korea. The famous “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon 2″ and “Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction”. In Ghost Recon 2 the single-player campaign players experience the near-future North Korea, where a rogue military leader is trigger happy about a [...]

Six Games Featuring Korea

I recall that in the movie “James Bond – Die Another Day” 007 is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul who is funding the development of an international space weapon. Therefore I was wondering which videogames have featured Korea and, after some research, I put together the below [...]

Korean “Wonder Girls” play and sing to PlayStation3

The leading Korean pop group Wonder Girls perform in their latest video “Now”. Considering this is a short music video the opening scene has a product placement of PlayStation3 for the duration of about one minute. In one of my recent posts you have seen ”Girls Generation“, another Korean girl group, promoting the game Dungeon & Fighter. As [...]

The New Game Park “Wiz”

After introducing the Game Park Wiz in previous posts, here is the latest video after this week’s product launch. In Korea people call the device “MyungTendo” referring to Korea’s president Lee Myung-bak who publicly stated why Korea cannot have such great products like Nintendo Navid Firouz

Aion: The Tower of Eternity

In the past few days a four part feature series introduced the Korean MMORPG Aion to you. To learn more about the opposing factions in Aion and their conflict check out today’s final feature 4/4 on IGN. For your convenience I have listed all links below: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4  [...]

Korean “PC Bang” Rescued the Economy

In memory of the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997 my second post is relevant to today’s global economic situation. About 12 years ago the economic crisis left its marks on the Korean gaming culture – in form of PC gaming rooms natively called “PC Bang”. It appears that the popularity of Bangs grew among newly [...]