Deepening Conditions of Precarity in the Korean Game Industry and Collaborative Strategies to Overcome Constraints

• Main Author: Lee, Sangkyu
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: digital creative work; game developer; Korean game industry; networked creative collaboration; precarity
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss32/12; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1782/viewcontent/KK_2032_2C_202019_2012_20Special_20Forum_20Kritika_20__20Lee.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This paper examines how Korean game developers have been experiencing deepening conditions of precarity and makes a few suggestions regarding how they could overcome their structural limitations. Despite the remarkable growth in the Korean game industry, many underlying problems overshadow its succe...