Both Cartoon Brew.com and my own sister have told me that there is a nice NYTimes article about Empress Chung, the Korean animated film that was produced in both the North and South.
“I picked ‘Empress Chung’ because it had the most drama,” Mr. Shin said, “and it is full of our Korean tradition.” He was able to finance the film himself, but to cut expenses he turned to animators in North Korea, where labor costs a small fraction of what it does in South Korea. He worked with about 500 animators (“100 in the South, and the rest in North Korea”) to create the 500,000 drawings required for “Empress Chung.”
Here is my post on it as well.
