Etymology
The word ''aeni'' comes from the English word "animation" as written in Hangeul, 애니메이션 (aenimeisyeon), similar to Japanese アニメーション (animēshon). Just like ''anime'', ''aenimeisyeon'' was shortened to ''aeni''. However, ''aeni'' usually refers to Japanese animation in colloquial usage, although it can refer to Korean animation or animation in general. To distinguish it from its Japanese counterpart, Korean animation is often called ''hanguk aeni'' (; lit. Korean animation) or ''guksan aeni'' (; lit. domestic animation). A Sino-Korean term ''manhwa yeonghwa'' (;History
The South Korean animation industry was in a period of crisis throughout the 2000s. Depression at the reality of being an industry that the West merely gave factory-type drawings to began to sink in. This followed the 1990s, a period of explosive growth for the industry when Korean studios made most of their profits from OEM, mostly from the United States, or Japan. In many ways, 2011 was a bright transitional year for Korean animation, with home-produced animated feature films finally finding box office success in South Korea, instead of facing the usual financial failure. As far as overseas export market is concerned, the likes of Rough Draft Korea (RDK) kept on landing new contracts, which have seen Rough Draft perform the manual work on over 45 popular Western cartoon titles over 16 years. South Korean animation has boomed in popularity in Eastern Asia with the success of the series '' Pororo the Little Penguin'' and '' Origami Warriors'' in 2011. Then at the end of 2015 began to spread to Southeast Asia with the peculiarity of Hello Jadoo Season 3, continued at the beginning of 2022 with the internationally booming of movie Hello Jadoo: ''The Secret of Jeju Island'' with a strong local Korean cultural content, leaving fans wanting to discover more Korean animations. This success is due in part to perfecting the Korean animation technique, and financial returns being reinvested into new animated products. Some Korean animators still blame the booming Korean game industry for draining the animation industry's talent pool, but the box office success of the Korean animated film '' Leafie'' in 2011 in South Korea is inspiring a new generation.Animation industry
Animation contracts for Korean animation studios range from collaboration/minor contribution contracts, to most of the work. The South Korean animation industry can be considered dynamic as there are more than a hundred animation studios. While it is mostly firms in South Korea that contract with Western studios, some of the work is reported to be subcontracted toKorean animation characters in public spaces
*Larva subway was a subway based on and featured aWebtoonimation
Webtoonimation (웹투니메이션) is a combination of webtoon and animation, and refers to animation produced based on webtoon. Until the mid-2010s, animation based on webtoons was not properly produced. However, in 2020, changes in the Korean animation market are beginning to occur, and animation production based on webtoons is starting. There is a possibility that the problem of absence of animation for teenagers/adults, which was a disappointing point of Korean animation, will be solved through webtoon IP. In the 2020s, most of the younger generations affected by popular culture that is open to the animation market are now adults and enter society with sufficient economic power to consume, so it is evaluated that there is a foothold. In other words, as the generation that actively consumes cartoons and webtoons in a somewhat established national economy has become adults, the animation industry, which has been marginalized, has drawn attention again. In December 2022, an animated series of popular webtoon Lookism was released onMarket
In 2010, according to the Korea Creative Content Agency, the Korean market share of domestic characters was about 28% and the remaining 72% was for foreign characters, such as those from Japan and U.S. In 2012, experts predicted that the total market size would grow to in the near future. In 2014, the domestic character market share soared to 40% and its value in 2013 had reached .Korean characters as international business
Before the emergence of Korean domestic characters like Choi Ja-doo in 2017 General Election, characters that enjoyed popularity were mostly from the United States and Japan.See also
* List of Korean animated films * List of Korean animated series * North Korean animation *References
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