South Korea's culture ministry will invest 9.2 billion won (8.2 million US dollars) in a project to support companies including startups in developing next-generation game contents.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism launched a public contest Tuesday to select 30 companies which can design and develop game contents based on online, mobile and console platforms. Since it was launched in 2009, the annual project has helped companies create hundreds of superb game contents like "Blade", a popular mobile game.
South Korea is the powerhouse of game contents creators. Netmarble, an online and mobile game publisher, stood third in the world's mobile game publisher ranking for February.
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