The Global Game Hub Center, constructed by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to assume a dominant position in the next-generation games market, opened in Bundang, Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province on June 9.
The ministry began the game hub center project after signing a memorandum of understanding with Microsoft Korea in May of last year. It has set goals to carry out 50 tasks for next-generation games, support 300 small and medium-sized game incubation firms, train some 2,000 game technicians, and achieve exports of next-generation game programs of US$250 million by 2012.
More specifically, the ministry will incubate game program firms, develop next-generation game content and solutions, lay the groundwork for global services, train next-generation game technicians, support firms in improving the quality of products, and help them set up test bases through the center.
