[TGS 2024] Yong Ho-seong, Senior Vice Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, “G-Star May Surpass Tokyo Game Show”

Senior Deputy Minister Yong Ho-seong: “G-Star needs to expand its audience through new areas and convergence.”

“I think this Tokyo Game Show is very meaningful because it allows small and medium-sized companies from Korea to enter the global game market. “If domestic game shows like G-Star present a new paradigm that goes beyond the existing games, I think they can surpass the Tokyo Game Show as well. “

Senior Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism (hereinafter referred to as the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) Yong Ho-seong announced today (27th) that ‘Tokyo will have Game Show 2024’ (hereinafter referred to as TGS 2024), there. the Korean pavilion run by the Korea Creative Content Group (hereafter known as Hankonjin), as well as Nexon’s ‘First Game Show’ We visited the booths of Korean companies such as ‘Berserker: Kazan (named after this as Kazan). )’.

Yong Ho-seong, Senior Vice Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, visited the Joint Convention Pavilion in Korea

First Vice Minister Yong, who first visited the ‘Korean Joint Pavilion’ run by Korea Conjin, looked at games from about 25 Korean companies exhibited at the site, and New Core Games won the ‘Indie Game of the Year’ at the ‘2023 Korea Game Awards’ I also visited the ‘Devil Within: Hat Gat’ booth.

Afterwards, Deputy Minister Yong visited the booth set up by Skonek Entertainment and the Game Talent Institute and promoted the six types of entries and the students participating in the last development he visited. ‘Kazan’ booth operated by Nexon.

Vice Minister Yong Ho-seong talks to Kang Shin-cheol, President of the Korea Game Association

Deputy Minister Yong, who personally previewed the game with Neople CEO Yoon Myeong-jin and Kazan’s top developers, praised the game’s graphics and quality, adding that K-webtoon and K-web novel IPs, which have recently registered billions of registrations. ideas, leading the way in the high-resolution game industry.

Deputy Prime Minister Yong Ho-seong performs in Kazan

Deputy Minister Yong, who visited the site of TGS 2024 today, said, “Traditional technologies such as console games are important, but the government’s policy direction is to prepare for the next step, such as devices that show a new paradigm, such as specialized computer tools such as Apple’s Vision Pro.

Game Donga Reporter Cho Young-jun june@gamedonga.co.kr