Oxford Economics

Oxford Economics is one of the world's largest independent economic advisory firms, founded in Oxford in 1981 and now operating across more than 20 offices with hundreds of economists and analysts. The company sells forecasting, modelling, industry analysis, and policy research to governments, corporations, and institutions that need hard numbers behind strategic decisions. Its public-facing language is corporate, but its market role is straightforward: translate economics into influence.

That matters on HITKULTR because media stories increasingly need this kind of firm to turn cultural momentum into business proof. Oxford Economics produced the 2026 study commissioned by the Motion Picture Association that said South Korea's screen sector generated KRW 24.08 trillion in GDP and supported 291,100 jobs. Those figures helped push Korean film and TV policy into a broader industrial argument, linking local production, global platforms, and labor questions around reuse pay. In this context, Oxford Economics is not the star of the story. It is the numbers engine that gave the story institutional weight.