From 'Marvel Comics' to 'Pinkfong'... '2022 Seoul Popcon Summit' Held on the 25th

[Asia Economy Reporter Seomideum] The '2022 Seoul POPCON Summit' (PCCN Summit 2022) will be held on the 25th at COEX in Samseong-dong, Seoul, the Seoul POPCON Organizing Committee announced on the 22nd.

The 'Seoul POPCON Summit' is a conference program of Seoul POPCON where leaders from various fields such as comics/webtoons, animation/characters, and metaverse/virtual content gather to explore trends and development directions of the global cultural content industry and present new paradigms.

This year, under the theme 'Expansion of the IP: The Future of the IP Business Market,' it will review the past and present of global cultural content intellectual property (IP) and propose potential possibilities and values in the future market.

The opening speaker will be C.B Cebulski, Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics. Editor C.B Cebulski will present on the position of printed comics and the future of comics in the era of globalization, digitalization, and vertical scrolling. Following him, Lee Sang-min, Director of Business Strategy at Onmind, a leading domestic virtual human production company, will discuss the revolution in IP business brought by the birth of virtual humans and present a blueprint for cultural content.

Other speakers include Lee Seung-gyu, Vice President of The Pinkfong Company, whose 'Pinkfong Baby Shark Dance' was the first video in the world to surpass 10 billion cumulative views on YouTube; Lee Seung-hee, CEO of The Sandbox Korea, a blockchain-based metaverse gaming platform; Choi Jae-won, Vice President of SAMG Entertainment, who planned 3D animations such as 'Mini Force' and 'Catch! Teenieping'; and Lee Hye-rim, CEO of Frontrow, who planned and produced 'KAACHI,' the first K-pop girl group in Europe, based in the UK.

Pre-registration is available until the 23rd. Detailed information can be found on the official Seoul POPCON website.

Meanwhile, 'Seoul POPCON' is an abbreviation of 'Seoul Pop Culture Convention,' a new pop culture exhibition in South Korea. To establish itself as a global pop culture content hub in the post-COVID-19 era, it was renamed from 'Seoul Comic Con' last November. The '2022 Seoul POPCON' will be held from the 25th to the 28th at COEX in Samseong-dong, Seoul.

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