A short report on the ‘East Asian popular culture currents and counter-currents’ symposium, at Birkbeck College, March 2006…

“[In the] Korean animation industry … animators work in sweatshop conditions, paid by the page (rather than the hour) regardless of the complexity of the artwork, to do the most boring “in-between” frames … The industry is primarily an outsourcing service, doing the dirty work for the US and Japanese animation industry … there was no suggestion that Korea had a creative force to rival Miyazaki”

[tags]creative industries[/tags]