Shin Neung-kyun (born 1939), also known as Nelson Shin, is an animation director who is the founder and president of Akom Production Co., Ltd., in

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. He founded Akom in 1985.

Career

In the 1970s, Shin worked as an animator at the

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and

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, where he worked on the ''

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''. While at DFE, he also contributed to the animation of the

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blades in the original ''

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''. Much of the

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Shin's studio has produced has been for American

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. Some of Akom's credits are: ''

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'', '' Batman: The Animated Series'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. Shin's most well-known accomplishment is his direction of the television series '' The Transformers'' and '' The Transformers: The Movie''. Shin also directed the first season of the Canadian animated TV series, ''

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''. Beginning in 1999, Shin worked on the animated feature film ''

Empress Chung ''Empress Chung'' () is a 2005 lost animated feature film, produced in North and South Korea and directed by Nelson Shin. Synopsis In this adventure, based on a famous Korean folk tale, a daughter sacrifices herself to restore her blind father's ...

''. The film was largely animated in

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, and in August 2005 became the first movie ever to open simultaneously in North and South Korea. In 2009, he was elected president of the

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, a post he held through 2012.Board Elects New Officials
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References

External links

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