20th anniversary of SAMG Animation, ‘Making a New Leap Forward’

SAMG Animation Co., Ltd (CEO – Suhoon Kim)., which produced famous global animated shows like ‘Mini Force’, ‘Miraculous’, ‘CATCH! TEENIEPING’, recently marked the 20th anniversary.

SAMG was found in 2000, when Korean CGI market is just dawning, aiming its business in gloabl territories. In its early age, SAMG was already recognized by many foreign partners with its advanced CGI production skills and signed the first Korea-France cooproduction deal in 2006. The show is called ‘Odd Family’, which draw attention from many potential overseas partners, and continue its growing with multiple original brand animation, and co-productions, until it co-produced well known TV series ‘Miraculous’ with ZAG, Method, Toei, etc. SAMG is now one of the top notch high quality animation production force in the world, and being recognized as it showed a good business model in the industry in terms of developing and executing the global animation projects.

Turning its 10th anniversay, SAMG started creating its original intellectual properties (IP) vigorously and gave birth to many renowned brands like ‘Vroomiz’, ‘Mini Force’, ‘Watch Car’, ‘Monkart’, ‘CATCH! TEENIEPING’ and more.

SAMG also taking the lead in New Media industry, starting with 1.18 million subscrbers in 2018, SAMG now has over 18 million subscribers and gathering 1 million new subscribers every month. Mini Force ranked No. 2~3 among all animation on Chinese video platforms like Youku, Tencetn, Iqiyi, and its combined new media views reach over 26 billion views. This is 3 times more than earth population and there are fast growing K-animation fandomships around the world. This is why SAMG is in the spotlight for the leader of next K wave of animation, after glorious legend of K-pop and K-webtoon wave. SAMG is now evolving again into the new type of ‘contents commerce’ group which targets global kids fandom with its exciting high-quality contents and various interesting e-commerce. Wtih existing business of SAMG’s toy, education, cosmetics, health and living products, SAMG’s new products line-up will be introduced to the global market from the second half of the year 2020.

SAMG also reveals its plan to get a good recognition of the corpoorate value as a global contents and commerce goupe, preparing its IPO in 2021 and listed on Korean stock market (KOSDAQ) in 2022.