Daejeon Information & Culture Industry Promotion Agency Selected for 'Regional-Based Webtoon Artist Training Project'

Promotion of Talent Development for Aspiring Writers' Training, Mentoring, and Platform Serialization Contract Signing

Daejeon Information & Culture Industry Promotion Agency has been selected for the '2024 Regional-Based Webtoon Artist Training Project' public contest. / Daejeon Munjinwon

Daejeon City and the Daejeon Information & Culture Industry Promotion Agency announced that they have been selected for the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Korea Creative Content Agency)'s '2024 Regional-Based Webtoon Artist Training Project' public contest.

The Webtoon IP Advanced Cluster Development Project is a project to build comprehensive support facilities for webtoon companies by creating spaces for webtoon company offices, education and meeting rooms, exhibition and promotional areas, supporting webtoon IP production, one-source multi-use (OSMU) commercialization, education and training linked with local universities, and workforce development for company practitioners.

The Daejeon Information & Culture Industry Promotion Agency plans to support amateur artists' market entry by discovering 10 prospective artists and providing mentoring through one-on-one matching with webtoon company PDs and professional webtoon artists, competency enhancement education, production cost support, and networking opportunities.

The mentors and instructors include a total of 21 participants, such as professional webtoon artists from the Daejeon Webtoon Campus currently serializing works on platforms like Naver and Kakao, and webtoon CP companies (agency firms) in the Seoul metropolitan area to support serialization contract signing.

The selected prospective artists will participate in the 'Daejeon International Webtoon Job Fair' scheduled for November this year, showcasing and presenting their works based on manuscripts created with support for new webtoon IP production costs. They will have one-on-one consultation opportunities aimed at signing serialization contracts or securing employment with webtoon platforms, agencies, and studio companies.

Lee Eun-hak, Director of the Promotion Agency, stated, “Along with the establishment of the Webtoon IP Advanced Cluster, a pledge of Daejeon City's 8th elected administration, we will do our best to discover and nurture outstanding creative talents aspiring to become webtoon artists in the Daejeon region, achieving results such as signing serialization contracts with major platforms like Naver Webtoon and Kakao Page, and linking to corporate employment.”

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