December 4, 2008 11:33 PM PST
Korea to invest $200 million in game industry
The South Korean government announced that it will invest 350 billion won ($236 million) in the computer game industry through 2012.
Culture, Sports and Tourism Minster Yu In-chon said the emerging game industry had proved to be a future growth engine by accomplishing its initial billion-dollar export goal for the year 2010 two years early.
Sixty projects are slated to help grow the industry, including a $200 million game fund with an end goal of becoming one of the top three countries in gaming, along with the United States and Japan.
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