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Studio Realive, a subsidiary of SM Entertainment, has appointed Chief Creative Officer Kim Jong-min as its new CEO.
Kim previously co-founded GiiOii Studio and has worked as an XR curator for the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival. He has also served as an adjunct professor at the Korea National University of Arts and as a full-time professor at the Korea Creative Content Agency’s New Content Academy. He joined Studio Realive as CCO in 2024 and has built expertise in planning, curating and producing content based on creative technology.
During his tenure as CCO, Kim established collaboration frameworks with Meta, Google DeepMind and Moment Factory. He led immersive spaces and content projects, focusing on internalizing technology and strengthening platform competitiveness. The company said he has been recognized for balancing artistic quality with business viability, drawing on on-the-ground experience as both a producer and curator.
Studio Realive said it plans to accelerate efforts to expand innovative media projects into a sustainable business ecosystem under Kim’s leadership.
Studio Realive is an “entertech” company that combines K-pop with artificial intelligence and extended reality technologies to design next-generation entertainment experiences. It aims to build an ecosystem in which fans participate as co-creators through a content universe based on SM’s intellectual property and story worlds, and to present a new entertainment paradigm built around new experiences and narratives.
Kim previously co-founded GiiOii Studio and has worked as an XR curator for the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival. He has also served as an adjunct professor at the Korea National University of Arts and as a full-time professor at the Korea Creative Content Agency’s New Content Academy. He joined Studio Realive as CCO in 2024 and has built expertise in planning, curating and producing content based on creative technology.
During his tenure as CCO, Kim established collaboration frameworks with Meta, Google DeepMind and Moment Factory. He led immersive spaces and content projects, focusing on internalizing technology and strengthening platform competitiveness. The company said he has been recognized for balancing artistic quality with business viability, drawing on on-the-ground experience as both a producer and curator.
Studio Realive said it plans to accelerate efforts to expand innovative media projects into a sustainable business ecosystem under Kim’s leadership.
Studio Realive is an “entertech” company that combines K-pop with artificial intelligence and extended reality technologies to design next-generation entertainment experiences. It aims to build an ecosystem in which fans participate as co-creators through a content universe based on SM’s intellectual property and story worlds, and to present a new entertainment paradigm built around new experiences and narratives.
* This article has been translated by AI.
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