Globalization and Upgrading Cultural Production: The Animation Industry in South Korea and India.

This paper explores how countries are linked to and move up the global animation value chain, one of the fast growing cultural industries, by comparing South Korea and India against the backdrop of its evolving geographical and technological landscapes. First, the recent changes in the global animation production have increased domestic original production in Korea and strengthened the global connection of India's animation industry. Second, the state had shaped the industry through censoring animation in Korea and supporting its public use in India, until recently presenting itself as an industry supporter in both countries. The industry has been socially reconstructed since the mid-1990s as a cultural industry by the Korean state and as new outsourcing opportunities for the Indian IT sector. This paper calls for attention to the roles of the social embeddedness of cultural production and the ideational dimension of industrial policy in promoting cultural industries. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]