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Samseog Ko: “Korea and China Must Become ‘Coevolution Partners,’ Not Just Buyer and Seller”
Samseog Ko urged Korea and China to become "coevolution partners" — jointly developing AI and content and expanding abroad together — at the 7th Qingdao Multinationals Summit, drawing agreement from Chinese officials and executives.
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[Data]Korea entertech companies map
K팝, K콘텐츠, K드라마 AI에서부터 메타버스, 스트리밍까지 엔터테인먼트와 테크와의 만남을 통해 수익을 올리고 새로운 비즈니스 모델을 만드는 한국 기업들 지도
Disney and Fox Race to Automate Advertising With AI — From Creative Generation to Agentic Trading
Disney is automating how ads are made; Fox is automating how ads are sold — and the entire ad value chain is quietly collapsing inside the media owner's walled garden
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[Samseog Ko's insight]Beyond Competition, Toward Co-evolution: A New Future Korea and Japan Build Together
Professor Samseog Ko argues that in the AI era, Korea and Japan should move beyond industrial rivalry and pursue “co-evolution” by combining their complementary strengths in content, IP, platforms, and AI to build a shared EnterTech ecosystem.
Streaming 3.0: The Screen Becomes a Lever — and JTBC Is Korea’s Warning Shot
The streaming 3.0 era has arrived — streaming is no longer the destination but a lever to grow the core business, and unless Korea restructures to keep downstream rights (IP, merchandise, live, advertising) onshore where its fandom is created, the value will keep leaking to global platforms
From Airwaves to Floor Space — Japan's IP-into-space shift and Korea's task
As Japan's terrestrial broadcasters pivot from shrinking ad revenue to "IP-into-space" monetization — exemplified by TV Asahi's nine-story Tokyo Dream Park anchoring Doraemon and immersive Lumières art —Korea's media industry faces
As AI Floods Content, the Differentiator Is People: Meta Sets Its ‘Creators + AI’ Formula at Cannes Lions
At Cannes Lions 2026 (June 22–26), Meta uses Meta Beach and its Creator Sandbox to advance a single formula for advertising — creators drive the performance, and AI scales their authenticity.
From Competition to Co-evolution: Korea and Japan Sketch a Shared Path in EnterTech at ASTEEDA in Nozawa Onsen
At ASTEEDA Executive Salon 2026 in Nozawa Onsen, Lotte Holdings, Prof. Samseog Ko, and ESTsoft mapped a Korea–Japan 'co-evolution' blueprint — turning the asymmetry of chips/foundation models (Korea) and applications (Japan) into a plus-sum partnership
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[Dispatch] In an Onsen Village Gymnasium, a Table Tennis Club Stages Three Days of Korea–Japan Trust
Listed Japanese table tennis club Ryukyu Asteeda hosted its first ASTEEDA Executive Salon Global Track in Nozawa Onsen , where Lotte Holdings CEO Genichi Tamatsuka, Professor Samseog Ko, and ESTsoft CEO Jung Sang-won headlined Session 2 to turn Korea–Japan "co-evolution" into concrete EnterTech PoCs
An Octagon on the South Lawn for Trump's 80th Birthday — and UFC, Not the White House, Hands Out the Press Passes
The UFC Freedom 250 event shows how sportainment logic—where exclusive broadcast rights and event control move together—can now override traditional White House press access, sidelining political media in favor of entertainment outlets.
Former DOJ Antitrust Prosecutors Condemn Live Nation-Ticketmaster Settlement
Former DOJ prosecutors criticized the government’s sudden settlement with Live Nation–Ticketmaster as politically influenced and unjustified, especially after a 27-state jury still found the company to hold an illegal monopoly in U.S. ticketing.
Hasbro Launches AI Character Studio ‘Sixth Wall’ — Licensing ‘Authorized Originals’ Instead of Chasing Knockoffs
Hasbro has launched “Sixth Wall,” an AI studio introducing “Behavioral Licensing” that lets partners deploy officially authorized, voice-actor-backed interactive characters governed by strict personality and dialogue rules, aiming to replace unauthorized AI imitations