Collaborating with Sony Pictures’ ‘Kids Station’, SAMG premieres ‘Catch! Teenieping’ in Japan in December

• – Premieres on Japan’s top-tier kids TV channel ‘Kids Station’ from December 3^rd, and will be released on more than 16 channels sequentially in Japan.

• – ‘Master License Agreement’ has made with ‘Kids Station’, a subsidiary company of ‘Sony Pictures’. Intellectual Properties business will be developed in Japan.

• – The first case of a Korean animation & toy brand entering into Japanese market “at the same time”.

• – “Catch! Teenieping is proving its competitiveness in many countries. It will also bring about good result in Japan, a powerhouse in the animation-toy industry.”

The CGI animated TV series “Catch! Teenieping”, which is gaining popularity overseas beyond Korea, will air in Japan on the ‘Kids Station’ channel under the global media group Sony Pictures Entertainment (hereinafter referred to as ‘Sony Pictures’).

SAMG Entertainment (CEO Suhoon Kim, hereinafter SAMG) announced on the 8th that it will air its popular animation “Catch! Teenieping” for the first time on “Kids Station,” a Japanese kids and animation channel under Sony Pictures.

Kids Station is a Japanese top tier children’s animation channel watched by 7.27 million households in Japan as of September this year, and is broadcasting global popular kids contents such as “Pokémon” and “Anpanman.” Starting with Kids Station, SAMG will sequentially release Catch! Teenieping on more than 16 channels, including terrestrial broadcasters in Japan.

Furthermore, SAMG signed a master license contract for Catch! Teenieping brand with Kids Station and will launch an animation and develop strategic businesses in the Japanese kids brand and content market. Kids Station will be entrusted with all intellectual property (IP) rights of Catch! Teeneiping in Japan, including distribution of contents related to Catch! Teenieping and sales & distribution of Catch! Teenieping toys. This is the first case of a popular Korean kids brand enters the Japanese market with TV series and toys at the same time.

SAMG plans to make the best use of the content competitiveness of Catch! Teenieping, which features various and new characters every season, in order to secure a fandom across Japan and carry out the fandom-based business models in phases.

Akira Sasaki, CEO of Kids Station, said, “We have been providing kids-family contents that both children and families can enjoy together through the Kids Station channel. Through this partnership with SAMG, I am very happy to introduce Catch! Teenieping animation, which is very popular in Korea, for the first time in Japan. KidsStation is ready to actively carry out licensing businesses using Catch! Teenieping IP, starting with Catch! Teenieping animation broadcasting.” And he added “Please look forward to the success story that Catch! Teenieping will create in the Japanese content market in near future.”

SAMG’s CEO Suhoon Kim said, “It is monumental that a Korean animation IP enters to Japan, the home of great animations loved by so many people around the world, such as ‘Pokémon’, ‘Movies from Ghibli Studio’, and ‘Demon Slayer (Kimetsu no Yaiba)’. SAMG’s flagship IP ‘Catch! Teenieping’ has begun another challenge to leap higher on the new stage,” he said. “Catch! Teenieping has already proven its potential in the global OTT market especially in China, North America, and Australia, with its character power along with exciting stories that children around the world can relate to. Also Catch! Teenieping features a variety of adorable characters every season, along with the “collecting” element, that will serve as a great competitive edge in the Japanese animation-toys market” he said, expressing his ambition to enter the Japanese market. SAMG plans to release Catch! Teenieping Japanese teasers sequentially on its YouTube channel from a month before the first airing in Japan.