Kakao Entertainment and Disney Korea Form Strategic Partnership to Expand K-Pop IP Universe

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Kakao Entertainment (Co-CEOs Ko Geok-hee and Jang Yoon-jung, hereinafter Kakao Entertainment) announced on the 16th that it will jointly promote the global expansion and crossover of K-pop IPs through a strategic partnership with Walt Disney Company Korea (hereinafter Disney Korea). The plan aims to elevate the paradigm of the K-IP ecosystem by combining Kakao Entertainment's IP business leadership, which covers the entire K-culture industry, with Disney's storytelling assets as a leading global entertainment company.

The two companies plan to pursue collaborations where K-pop IPs and Disney's stories and characters meet in new ways through this partnership, with the goal of advancing approximately 10 projects over the medium to long term. To this end, they intend to discuss and implement various cooperation measures, including the establishment of a K-culture fund (tentative name).

This partnership is significant as Kakao Entertainment, representing K-culture including K-pop, and Disney Korea, which holds beloved stories and characters worldwide, combine their core competencies to evolve K-pop IPs to a new dimension.

Kakao Entertainment has built three-dimensional fan experiences by expanding IPs in various ways through the production and distribution of diverse K-culture IPs such as music, dramas, and webtoons, as well as through live entertainment, commerce, and global fan platform operations. Based on this IP business competitiveness and leadership, Kakao Entertainment plans to join hands with Disney to design a new universe where K-pop IPs and Disney's storytelling are organically connected, expanding comprehensively across music, content, commerce, and performances. Through this, the company aims to provide fans worldwide with three-dimensional and diverse fan experiences that transcend time and space.

Kakao Entertainment stated, "K-pop has established itself as a massive cultural phenomenon that leads global trends beyond content, including fashion and beauty," and added, "Through this partnership, we expect to offer fans worldwide special joy and emotion they have never experienced before by having K-pop artists and music meet Disney's stories, which have been loved around the world for a long time, and expand into new universes."

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