‘AGF 2022’, Korea’s largest animation X game festival, will be held on December 3rd and 4th at KINTEX (Hall 7/8, Exhibition Center 2) in Ilsan.
AGF boasts the largest scale in Korea with animation and game content and has been held since 2018 as a festival where you can meet all kinds of the cultural content of various genres. This AGF2022 is hosted by Aniplus, Daewon Media, Sony Music Entertainment Japan, and DNC Media and sponsored by Goyang Convention Bureau.
This year’s event boasts the largest scale ever. Kakao Games’ ‘Uma Musume Pretty Derby’, ‘Ever Soul’, Nexon’s ‘Blue Archive,’ Bandai Namco Korea’s ‘Mobile Suit Gundam Mercury Witch’, Happy Elements’ ‘Ensemble Stars!!’ A total of 60 companies are participating.
Organizers will also operate a number of booths related to popular content. Daewon Media runs content related to ‘Animate,’ ‘Banpresto,’ and ‘Takaratomy,’ while Aniplus operates booths related to popular IPs such as ‘Holo Live,’ ‘Bang Dream,’ and ‘Love Live.’
In addition, DNC Media is expanding its super IPs such as webtoons, games, animations, etc. [Special exhibition hall for leveling up alone], [Netmarble game demonstration corner for leveling up alone], [This life will be the housekeeper & the villain’s ending is only death AGF Limited edition sales], and [Young Ae’s Room], where you can experience the young lady directly.
Lastly, Sony Music Entertainment Japan plans to hold an ANIPLEX+ figure exhibition and a special exhibition of virtual K-POP artist 「APOKI」of Korean VV Entertainment, which is in charge of an agent at Sony Music Solutions.
On the guest stage on the day of the event, ▲ AGF Ambassador RAON (official theme song YOU&I) ▲ Natsuki Hanae, the voice actor who plays the role of Tanjiro Kamado, the Blade of Demons ▲ Anisong DJ DJ Kaz ▲ You can meet and participate in attractive guests including voice actors of Love Live Various on-site events of the company will also be held together.
RAON, who was selected as the official ambassador for AGF 2022, said, “I am very happy to be selected as an ambassador for this big event called AGF, which will be held in 3 years! Due to Corona, I had few opportunities to meet fans offline, but I am so excited to be able to meet and interact with fans directly at AGF. Please look forward to AGF 2022, which will be colorful and rich with great artists’ stages and various events!”
In particular, fans’ reaction to AGF 2022, which will be held in December this year, is hot as it has not been held for the past two years due to social distancing.
An official from the AGF2022 Organizing Committee said, “This AGF2022 is the largest participating company in history, and the current reservation rate has also reached a new high.” We will provide something to see,” he said. In addition, he said, “This year, we will introduce the QR admission system and do our best to operate the admission smoothly.”
