Acro Trading, selected for the 2020 Startup
Ontact Overseas Expansion Project, introduced children's health education
animation Animal School HamaHama.
Acro Trading is a company specializing in
character licensing. Based on discovering characters and production, it aims to
foster global cultural contents as an agent specialized in content distribution
and marketing such as licensing & merchandising collaboration. Also, its
major business area is the global advancement of competent content (character,
animation).
Also, it provides a futuristic platform
such as manufacturing and distribution, magazine, and online, app & web for
progressive experimentation by creative artists and kidult contents in Korea
and market distribution. Besides Europe and the Americas, by using business
cases in China, we are offering various business models such as distributing
Korean content overseas, brand collaboration, and licensing.
Animal School HamaHama is an animation that
incorporates comical slapsticks and other entertainment aspects with unique
characters like the fat rabbit Rod, the timid hedgehog Hoody, the tactless blue
crab Runner, and the passionate athletic teacher cow Whoopie. The company staff
said, "We are producing it so that children can develop an active attitude
in their own health by organizing the educational topics exercise and health so
that children can have fun with it."
On the reason for participating in the 2020 Startup Ontact Overseas Expansion Project, he said, "I want to proceed with the untact business in full force by discovering overseas buyers and understanding the local situation in the Southeast Asian market in China."
2020 Startup Ontact Overseas Expansion
Project is a program designed to enable startups in the province that have
become stagnant due to COVID-19 to pioneer overseas markets by ontact, Active
support is being made through business cooperation between the Gyeonggi
Contents Agency Pangyo G-HUB specializing in supporting content startups and
KOTRA with its connection to overseas buyers, investors, and infrastructure.