Cheonggang Cultural Industries College's Cartoon Content School and Wacom's Cintiq tablets are introduced.

Wacom Korea announced that it signed a mutual cooperation agreement for the development of talent in the cultural content industry at the Cheonggang Cultural Industry University (hereinafter referred to as Cheonggang University) Cheonggang Hall.

The signing ceremony was attended by Wacom Korea CEO Joohyung Kim, Cheonggang Cultural Industries University Vice President Youngcheol Park, and university officials, and through this mutual cooperation, both sides agreed to dedicate themselves to fostering talent needed for the cultural content industry.

Cheonggang University of Cultural Industries' Comic Content School, a leading educational environment for comic creation, has fully implemented Wacom Cintiq 22HD tablets in its practice rooms, creating an advanced webtoon creation environment. With the start of the 2018 school year, Cheonggang University of Cultural Industries has added a large number of Cintiq 22HD LCD tablets, establishing the largest Cintiq lab in the school's history. This allows all students at the Comic Content School to utilize Cintiqs for instruction and hands-on practice at any time.



The Wacom Cintiq 22HD is one of the most popular LCD tablets used in the field by cartoonists, webtoon artists, and animators. It is considered an ideal product for creating webtoon and comic content, as it includes key features such as a 21.5-inch full HD LCD (liquid crystal display) screen, an ergonomically rotatable stand, and 16 user-programmable express keys.

Park Young-cheol, Vice President of Cheonggang Cultural Industries College, said, “Cheonggang Cultural Industries College’s Cartoon Contents School is the largest single school (department) for webtoon and cartoon education in Korea, and both graduates and current students are demonstrating excellent capabilities.” He added, “This introduction of the Wacom tablet is an investment in establishing the best educational environment and system in Korea, and we will continue to be a leading university in the field of creative education.”

Wacom Korea CEO Kim Joo-hyung said, “The educational curriculum and infrastructure of universities that cultivate talent in creative content fields such as comics and webtoons are the most important sources of development in the relevant industries,” and added, “We plan to gradually expand support so that Wacom tablets can realize quality education in the creative fields.”