Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Launches Content Industry Korean Commercial Attach? Council

"Foundation for Building International Content Industry Networks"
Discussion on Strengthening Welcon Measures at First Regular Meeting

On the 5th, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced the launch of the "Content Industry Commercial Attach? Council in Korea," involving twelve countries to strengthen global cooperation in the content industry. Based on the network established through last year's commercial attach? invitation meeting, the organization will operate on a quarterly basis.

Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Park Bo-gyun is announcing measures to revitalize domestic demand on the 29th at the Government Seoul Office in Jongno-gu, Seoul. Photo by Yoon Dong-joo doso7@

Park Bo-gyun, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, stated, "By regularly operating a consultative body with commercial attach?s responsible for trade affairs in each country, we will lay the foundation for building a content industry network and expanding business exchanges."

At the first regular meeting held at the Gwanghwamun branch of the Korea Creative Content Agency, sixteen commercial attach?s from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Norway, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, Japan, Thailand, and Australia attended, along with Kim Jae-hyun, Director of the Content Policy Bureau of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and Cho Hyun-rae, President of the Korea Creative Content Agency. They discussed concrete measures to expand exchange and cooperation in the content industry.

A Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism official explained, "We discussed ways for overseas content companies and stakeholders to make greater use of Wellcon, the domestic content export platform," adding, "We plan to enhance the online corporate exhibition hall and the permanent business matching function within Wellcon to encourage the entry of overseas content companies and continuous business matching."

The Ministry also shared information on K-content events and markets held overseas, such as the K-Content Expo. Furthermore, they reviewed the results of business events in the content sector hosted by embassies of each country and pledged to establish a mutual cooperation system. A ministry official noted, "The presentations included the U.S. 'Indie Music Webinar' and France's 'ICC Immersion,' where 125 business matchings were made in fields such as webtoons, music, and games."

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