**DISTRICT to start ‘digital media art’ business with EVR Studio**
Digital design company District Holdings (CEO Lee Seong-ho, hereinafter ‘district’) and digital content development company EVR Studio (CEO Kim Jae-hwan, Yoon Yong-gi, hereinafter ‘EVR’) work cooperation and joint project to expand the digital media art contents business It was announced that a business agreement had been signed for the implementation.
The signing ceremony, held at the EVR headquarters, was attended by key executives from both companies, including Lee Seong-ho, district CEO, Choi Eun-seok, vice president, Yoon Yong-gi, and Kim Jae-hwan, EVR CEO. Through this business agreement, the two companies will collaborate in various ways, starting with content development using digital media art.
District is a world-class immersive content production company. In 2020, â??WAVEâ??, a work that embodies lively waves on a large electronic display at COEX, and â??Whale #2â??, a work made of water made of water in Times Square, New York in 2021, won the iF Design Awards. It has been recognized worldwide for its public media art production capabilities by winning the Gold Award for two consecutive years.
In addition, ‘Arte Museum’, an immersive media art exhibition hall operating in Jeju, Yeosu, and Gangneung, has been a great commercial success, and from the second half of 2022, it is planning to aggressively expand its business to major cities around the world, including North America, Hong Kong, and China.
EVR is a digital content production company made up of visual effects experts from Hollywood and the best game developers in Korea. In 2021, we developed realistic media content for the movie ‘Parasite’, exhibited it at UNESCO in Paris, France, and presented a world-class hyper-realistic digital human ‘Sira’.
In addition, by utilizing EVR’s core technologies of digital human production technology and digital virtual space production technology, we are collaborating not only with our own projects, such as the development of interactive content based on the webtoon ‘Shaman’ IP (intellectual property), but also digital content development of domestic companies. We are starting our business in earnest
Lee Seong-ho, district CEO We expect that collaboration between the two companies pursuing digital content will create great synergy.â?
Jaehwan Kim, CEO of EVR, said, â??I am glad and happy to be able to collaborate with District, a global leading company in the field of immersive media art. We will create meaningful results for both companies by utilizing our digital human production technology and digital virtual space production technology.â?
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