Life Summary
Jung Wook is the founder and Chairman & CEO of Daewon Media.

Together with his son, Jung Dong-hoon, who is the President & CEO of Daewon Media, they jointly hold the representative positions at Daewon Media. He also holds representative director positions at Daewon CI and Daewon Broadcasting, which are affiliates of Daewon Media.

By expanding Daewon Media’s business scope from comics to broadcasting and publishing, he has grown Daewon Media into a mid-sized company with sales of KRW 300 billion (approximately US$ 216.4 million). He is currently focusing on content expansion based on the One Source Multi Use (OSMU) strategy.

He was born on March 17, 1946, in Gangneung, Gangwon Province.

After graduating from Gangneung High School in Gangwon Province, he moved to Seoul and became an apprentice to artist Shin Dong-heon.

Artist Shin Dong-heon was the creator of "Hong Gil-dong," Korea’s first theatrical animation. At the age of 21, Jung Wook participated as an animator in the production of "Hong Gil-dong."

Jung Wook made his debut as a comic artist in 1969 with the children's comic "Choripdongja," and four years later, in 1973, he started his entrepreneurial journey by founding One Production.

In 1989, he achieved a box office success with "Young-gu and Ddaengchiri," and in the same year, he completed a graduate course at Dongguk University’s Graduate School of Business Administration.

He has served as a private member of the Video Industry Development Private Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy (now the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy), the first president of the Korea Animation Producers Association, and the vice chairman of the Seoul International Cartoon Festival Promotion Committee.

After putting Daewon Media’s comics and film business on track, he established affiliates such as Daewon Publishing (now Daewon CI) and Daewon Broadcasting, expanding the business into publishing, broadcasting, and gaming.

He is known for his strong spirit of challenge.

He is regarded as a key figure who led the Korean comics industry.

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