North Korean Cartoon Industry?
by James Na ~ March 20th, 2006. Filed under: Economics, Korean Culture, North Korea. I was reading about Angry Chinese Blogger’s entry about Chinese cartoon industry, when the following caught my eye:
Even North Korea has advanced beyond China in terms animation, having both a strong domestic market and an established Animation ‘finishing’ industry that uses modern techniques and equipment rarely found in China.Though not widely advertised, North Korea’s SEK Studio produced many of the ‘in between’ cells for Disney’s “The Lion King” and “Pocahontas”. Both of which are believed to have been managed by outsourced companies in Europe/Asia, due to America’s trade sanctions against the communist state,
“Our company, staffed with highly skilled creators and equipped with high performance computers, is capable of responding to any orders”Kim Thae Hong, Chief, Studio No. 3, SEK Studio, North Korea
This I did not know! Does anyone have more information?
March 20th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
Yeah, Actually a guy wrote a graphic novel about it. Pyongyang: a Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle. It’s pretty good, if you are into graphic novels…
March 20th, 2006 at 8:36 pm
I bought that as well; it’s written by a bloke called Guy Desisle (french canadian). Very humourous and insightful; I think he was working on behalf of a french animation firm.