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WOWPOINT is the Seoul production company co-founded by Yeon Sang-ho and executive producer Yoomin Hailey Yang in 2021. It matters because it gives Yeon a production base that can move beyond one-off directing credits and build projects for wider regional and global circulation.

The company sits inside a useful middle ground. It is younger than legacy studios, but it has already attached itself to packages with real scale, including Netflix's Human Vapor, which pairs a classic Toho property with a cross-border creative team and public-facing VFX support from Shirogumi.

Recent Korean press around Gunchae also keeps WOWPOINT visible as a production banner rather than a passive rights holder. That mix of streamer work, genre development, and aggressive packaging is why the company matters on HITKULTR: it reflects how newer Korean producers are trying to scale authored genre IP without waiting to become legacy institutions first.

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Netflix Human Vapor announcement image, 2024

Gunchae launch still via Showbox press coverage, 2026

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Yeon Sang-ho
Yeon Sang-hoArtist
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Human VaporK-Drama
DirectorShinzo KatayamaArtist
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Writer, Executive ProducerYeon Sang-hoArtist

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What is WOWPOINT?
WOWPOINT is a Seoul production company co-founded in 2021 by filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho and executive producer Yoomin Hailey Yang. The company is geared toward genre and streaming projects that can travel across markets instead of staying confined to one domestic Korean lane.
How is WOWPOINT connected to Human Vapor?
Netflix identified WOWPOINT as the company associated with Human Vapor when it announced the series and later previewed the July 2026 launch. That places WOWPOINT inside a high-visibility Korea-Japan package built on a Toho property and fronted by Yeon Sang-ho's writing.
What else has WOWPOINT been producing recently?
Korean press coverage around the 2026 feature Gunchae also credits WOWPOINT as a producer alongside Smilegate. That matters because it shows the company operating across streamer series and theatrical genre work rather than sitting on a single Yeon Sang-ho title.

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