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South Korean Games for Change Festival

Posted by Mark Smith on 09-22-09

This week our own Suzanne Seggerman will be traveling to Gyeonggi Province in Korea to attend KSF 2009, the first annual Korean Serious Games Festival.  The event is being held amid high public interest and is expected to take the lead in the development and distribution of serious games in Korea and the region.  Some 50 serious game companies plan to participate in KSF 2009, where activities will include conferences discussing global trends in serious games, and competitions.

“This serious game festival has two purposes.  The first is the development of the game industry in our region and the second is the provision of learning through games.  We hope to cultivate our province as a mecca of serious games and support contents development that can be presented to the world,” says the governor of Gyeonggi Province, Kim Jung-ho.  Gyeonggi Province plans to stimulate export of its game industry, which accounts for 63% of its contents export, through the event.

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Jisoo
 Posted on September 27 2009 8:51 PM


I was there at the festival and very inspired by Suzanne & Susanna’s speeches. The educational project they did in Daegu was amazing. I hope it could be a part of an after school program in Korea. Animation programs in many schools are already popular so I think it has lots of potential. Thank you for the inspirational speeches!

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