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Nexon mobile Releasing Three Games Aiming at Summer

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006


Nexonmobile is to concurrently roll out three games in genre of casual game, sports game, and role playing game aiming to dominate the market in summer. The company targets diverse age groups with ‘Crazy Arcade B&B 2007′, ‘Crazy Baseball’ a mobile games based on the popular online game’Crazy Arcade’ and ‘Epic Chronicle II’ a large-scaled RPG game.

‘Crazy Arcade B&B 2007′, the leader of three games, is an action puzzle game based on the online game ‘Crazy Arcade B&B’ and, in which monsters, objects, item, and map themes with diverse characters not less than the online version appear. And it doubles excitement recreating ‘Bula’ an online version mission map as a quest for friends.

KARTRIDER into the Mobile Phone

‘Crazy Baseball’ a mobile baseball game is made to enjoy a game with a team that user forms with friendly characters like Baezzi, Marid, Digini. User can use items used in the online version of Crazy Arcade like Buster, Water-fly, and spaceship to a baseball game.

‘Epic Chronicle II’ representing a dramatic RPG game is said that the outstanding graphic and unique system of the game exceeded the limit of a mobile RPG.

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LG Mobile Targets New Generation

Friday, July 21st, 2006

LG Mobile has been relatively low in market share but recently due to their stylish and breakthrough design, ‘Chocolate Phone’, they have blockbuster in the making. LG Mobile finally hit the sweet spot in the faddish mobile phone market. The Chocolate garnered industry accolades such as the prestigious European 2006 Reddot Design and IF awards for its exellence in design and user-interface, and has been drawing a lot of orders from distributors. And the handset was ranked the best selling mobile phone by Carphone Warehouse, Europe’s biggest mobile phone retail chain.

LG Mobile is promoting its name recognition to a much higher standard via ‘2006 LG Action Sport’ tournament, combining handset and extreme sport. The largest world scale extreme sport tournament, ‘LG Action Sport Championship’ draws impressive attention and it cut the first tape in Netherlands. LG Mobile is in session of ‘2006 LG Action Sport European Tour’ hosting the tournamet for two days(July 14~15th) in Dance Valley, on the outskirt of Amsterdam, Netherlnands. Thus, to enhance brand image which implies challenge and youth.

The LG Action Sports World Tour was created to tie this global phenonmenon together into one global circuit that spreads the gospel of action sports. Designed to showcase these incredible sports to new audiences, to build heroes, and to help launch new careers for tomorrow’s brightest stars, the LG Action Sports World Tour is the only global multi-sport series bringing A-list talent to a cohesive set of contests on multiple continents.

All New Chocolate Phone-LG KV6000

In the event, LG Mobile is using SMS via handset and drawing substantial interests from European youngsters through carrying out preview exhibits of ‘Chocolate Phone’ which is one of the hottest model around the world from exclusively made for ‘Chocolate Phone’ handset booth.

LG Mobile expects the Chocolate’s popularity will help expand its reach in Europe for the new generation, where sales are less than half those in the U.S.A. This year LG Mobile seeks to sell 70 million handsets, with GSM phones making up more than half of the total. The company sold 55 million phones last year. It’s vital for LG Mobile to boost its European, espeically new generation, if it is to achieve its target of edging past either Samsung or Motorola to become the world’s No.3 by 2008 or 2009.

LG Action Sport - Amsterdam, Netherlands

The LG Action Sports program is typical of LG Mobile event: Work patiently and strategically and strive to be the mobile leader by putting out the best products with a long-term vision and focusing on new generation to be the next future consumer. You won’t want to miss even a second of these amazing events. Keep your eyes out for the 2006 LG Action Sports World Tour. It just might be coming to your town next!

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Korea’s e-sport has become an icon to success

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Lee Yoon-yeol who is attached to one of the professional Starcraft online game teams, PANTECH EX, a front man of the team comes into the spotlight by German financial paper, Handelsblatt. Only 21 years old, the progamer is making more money than the usual exucutives. Lee’s annual income is over $800,000 and the number of his fan club members are skyrocketing to 170,000 members. In Korea, it’s already an old fairy tale, that progamers are loved by people as to famous sports star or singers.

Through PANTECH-EX’s player, Lee Yoon-yeol, Handelsblatt has concentrated the spotlight on PANTECH’s interrelated distinctive marketing and Korea’s e-sport industry. Annually, PANTECH-EX is sponsored around $1,500,000 by wireless mobile handset manufacturer, PANTECH.

There are 3 professional channels, broadcasting only computer games and 11 other professional Starcraft online game teams mostly attached to large enterprises.

Korean government is encouraging domestic game developers to march with a game boom phenomenon.

This year, PANTECH’s interrelated enterprise has opened up a market in supplying 3G handsets to German mobile communication operator, E-plus. Armed with state of the art technology and design, mega-pixel camera phone has released in France, drawing steady interests from Europeans.

Shinhan 2006 Season 1 OSL (Ongamenet Star League) OPENING

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