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Press Release

December 21, 2006
HI CORPORATION

LG Telecom Distributes "FortuneGolf3D",
the First 3D Mobile Game
Running on MascotCapsule®

HI CORPORATION (Headquarters: Meguro-ku, Tokyo; president and CEO: Kazuo Kawabata; hereinafter "HI") announced today that the 3D golf game "FortuneGolf3D" developed using the MascotCapsule® real-time 3D rendering engine by Com2uS Corporation (Headquarters: Seoul; CEO: PARK, Ji Young; hereinafter "Com2uS") has been released by LG Telecom (Headquarters: Seoul; CEO: Jung, Il Jae; hereinafter "LGT") on Novermber 30th.

The ported version of "FortuneGolf3D" has been successfully distributed in Japan as "Seishun! Golf-jiichan" (*). Together with the unique and unconventional concept that the player is getting younger by playing golf, the game uses variety of camera angles, rich 3D field, and outstanding scene effects to generate a realistic play environment.
This highly praised game, which had won the grand prize from Ministry of Information and Communication in "The 4th Most Innovative Mobile Content" and the grand prize from Ministry of Culture and Tourism of "Best game of the month" in Korea, represents the first 3D mobile game adopted by LGT.



HI expects that this distribution will contribute to increasing the mobile 3D content market share in Korea and to growing the awareness of HI and MascotCapsule®.
(*)...Currently being distributed by FromSoftware,Inc for Ezweb, i-mode, Yahoo! Keitai.
* MascotCapule® is a registered trademark of HI Corporation.
* Other company names and product names in the release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

〔About MascotCapsule®〕
MascotCapsule® is an embedded software 3D rendering engine that enables real-time 3D graphics for applications to run on various devices such as mobile phones. MascotCapsule® enables the display of 3D graphics, of which the expression is far more versatile than 2D, to run effortlessly in hardware resource-constrained environments. MascotCapsule® is available in versions 1 through 4 which support various platforms and hardware configurations.
In Korea, MascotCapsule® has been adopted by three carriers, SK Telecom, KT Freetel, and LG Telecom, and over 40 content titles using MascotCapsule® have been distributed in the market.

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