South Korean animation: is the underdog finally having its day?

long overshadowed by Japanese anime, animation industry Hermit agonizing national is no longer pulling his punches - as new film The King of Pigs graphically shows

is sad that the largest exhibition of Korean entertainment courtesy of Banksy came in 2010, when its opening titles of The Simpsons wept blood for the poor oppressed Asian artists who work in the maquiladoras attract the TV for cheap Fox Banksy operated in its usual sloganeeringly simplified moral universe - animation first for The Simpsons has been partially realized in the study of Seoul AKOM since 1989: just a workshop - but to highlight the fact that Korean entertainment is known for what he has done on behalf of others.

Overseas

stomping grounds, the giant laser eye uncle is Japanese (worth nearly a quarter dollars in worldwide sales in 2005), the Korean industry seems to have opted for second-class status: a key outsourcing destination for hard ground in the United States shows like Family Guy and Justice League Unlimited. (South Korea has even begun outsourcing outsourcing in North Korea -. Touch? something in an excellent graphic novel by Guy Delisle Pyongyang)

But there have been signs over the past two years, Korean animation could wake up from sleep. In 2011, Leafie a hen into the wild - on a chicken farm and escape adopts a duckling - has managed to do what seems normal in the rest of the world: the tap water in the home movie dollar inexhaustible, and process has become the biggest hits of Korean animation ever. The previous record holder was the first country in the animated feature, Hong Gil-dong, launched in 1967. Leafie also obtained slots release crucial foreign film in China, the first animated film Korean to play in the country. Meanwhile, also in 2011, Green Days: Dinosaur and I, a coming of age story of a girl athlete insecurity, has been attracting attention on the global festival circuit

You may notice a theme developing here: the bottom is obviously a cause dear to the Korean leader. But the inferiority complex is represented in striking shades in King of Pigs, published this week in the United Kingdom. A howl of a nihilist cartoon made by up-and-coming Yeon Sang-ho, who suffers shock secondary characters, piss-dousings, sexual abuse and generally irreversible demolition of his self-esteem, the Korean education system - supervised by ruthless headboy "dogs" of wealthy families at the expense of "pigs" - appears as a training run for the adult world and ruthless Darwinian impregnable. It is very powerful animation elementary - produced with a tiny budget $ 130,000 - tightening of emotions in facial expressions contorted indelible

Style

Gangnam Not exactly so, but the king of pigs - apparently inspired by the Japanese tsunami Himizu and drama Mystic River Clint Eastwood - has certainly dark this flaw occurs Korean Oldboy, its most famous story of high school trauma. This label certainly extreme Asian country has gained some street cred in the world noughties, but what is mysterious is why the animation industry, as one of the most promising exports of soft power it n has not received state aid jealous of his live-action film.

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