Company
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artforyou
Startup
- Art for you is South Korea's leading art content platform with 1.3 million subscribers and 140 million cumulative views. By addressing information asymmetry in the art market, we have achieved consistent annual revenue growth of 56% and are preparing to become Asia's No. 1 art content group.
Currently, we are conducting a Series A round of funding totaling 16 billion won to expand into major Asian markets such as Hong Kong and Singapore. With a clear growth strategy and exceptional team capabilities, we plan to pursue meaningful M&A opportunities and global platform expansion within the next five years.
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storyvillain.inc
Character Cartoon Story Other
- StoryVillain Co., Ltd. is a creator-centered platform for people who love stories.
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ariseglobal corp
Music
- Arise Global is positioning itself at the heart of the global K-content industry by focusing on Korean cultural content IP, built around two powerful pillars: music IP and Hallyu star IP.
By securing 100% ownership of BGM and song music IP, we are expanding a healthy and sustainable music ecosystem. Furthermore, we are creating a differentiated K-culture business model by linking drama and film IP with Hallyu star IP across merchandise, experiential spaces, and brand ventures.
Arise Global is pioneering a new path in the Hallyu wave—one that connects culture, technology, and emotion.
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SIWOO COMPANY
Broadcasting
- Siwoo Company is a production company behind global OTT content, co-producing <Sweet Home> Season 2 & 3 for Netflix.
In 2024, the company was selected for the OTT Drama Production Support Program by the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) and is currently producing <Dear X>, slated for release on TVING
Siwoo is actively developing and seeking investment for upcoming OTT dramas including <K-Town Girls> and <Miss Song’s Diary> in partnership with Almost Always.
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SPONOVATION Co., LTD.
Startup
- Sponovation Inc. is a total sports innovation company transforming the sports industry. Our flagship platform, myPB, serves as a record-driven super app offering end-to-end services including event registration, real-time tracking, performance analytics, and digital certificates—empowering both organizers and participants with a data-centric experience. From producing custom merchandise for Team Korea at Paris 2024 to collaborating with sports federations, we build a sustainable and dynamic sports ecosystem across digital and offline domains.
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CNAI
Character Startup Immersive Content
- CNAI is a leading generative AI company that revolutionizes communication and digital content culture for enterprises, individuals, and public institutions, focusing on AI Human creation and large language model (LLM)-based interaction technologies.
We fully understand and respect the cultural values of creators (illustrators) and the character ecosystem, and we operate our business with a sense of responsibility to ensure that AI has a positive impact on both society and creator environments.
Core Services
- AI Human creation
- LLM-based conversational and interaction solutions
- Image/video synthesis solutions
- Comprehensive AI consulting
- (Coming soon) LLM services tailored to the ACG (Animation, Comics, Games) market (e.g., conversational character AI)
Harmony of AI and Culture
- We respect the creator-driven culture of the character industry and do not use automated illustration generation technologies.
- Our focus is on leveraging advanced language AI, such as LLMs, to realize character dialogue, identity, and world-building.
- We aim to grow alongside the character ecosystem and foster a healthy environment for creators.
Vision and Values
- Trust, Innovation, Accessibility, Cultural Respect
- We aspire to be at the heart of positive change, not only in industries and society, but also within the creative ecosystem.
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EunHaeng NaMu Publishing Co., Ltd.
Story Other
- EunHaeng NaMu Publishing aims to satisfy the expectations of both the public and the critics. Our goal is to become a sensible publisher that precisely reads the various wants of our readers, a passionate publisher that leads the changes of our time, and a reliable publisher that delivers high quality contents and knowledge to the world.
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Dal Daejanggan
Startup Immersive Content
- Combining Korean heritage and folktales with 3D graphics, sensors, Al, scanning, and motion capture, Dal Daejanggan reimagines tradition through immersive content. Our interactive environments invite active engagement, offering a unique and sensorial digital media experience.
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KOREANFRIENDS.INC
Fashion
- About KoreanFriends Co., Ltd.
KoreanFriends Co., Ltd. is a leading fashion tech company driving innovation in the global market, rooted in Hallyu (Korean Wave) culture. We reinterpret Korea's unique sensibility and creativity in various fields like K-fashion, content, and K-POP, presenting them to the world in a modern way.
Our company's growth journey has been a continuous series of challenges and transformations. Starting as a wholesale and retail business, we expanded into an export company, then a manufacturing and export company. Since 2023, we've evolved into a technology-driven enterprise, focusing our capabilities on R&D. This wasn't just about growth in size, but a strategic choice to build a new business model that merges Hallyu culture with cutting-edge technology.
Our Signature Brand: '+82GALLERY'
'+82GALLERY' is our signature brand, embodying KoreanFriends' aesthetics and technological prowess. Born from state-of-the-art smart factories and innovative production processes, '+82GALLERY' products are gaining attention as future-oriented apparel that blurs the lines between ICT and fashion. Through this, we are proposing a new paradigm: the 'knowledge-based ICT apparel ecosystem'.
Our Vision for the Future
What KoreanFriends pursues isn't just about products; it's about transforming lifestyles. Our fashion tech products, created through the fusion of our technology, sensibility, and cultural identity, will permeate daily life, making people's lives smarter and richer. To achieve this, we aim not only for short-term technological commercialization but also to establish ourselves as a market-leading brand in the mid to long term through global market expansion and continuous R&D investment.
KoreanFriends' journey is an ongoing challenge towards innovation. We will set new standards for the global fashion industry through the creative convergence of Hallyu culture and technology, delivering differentiated value to consumers worldwide. This is the future of fashion tech that KoreanFriends will create, and the tomorrow we envision.
