Wacom Digital Solutions (CEO, Noboru Fujisaki, www.wacomdigital.co.kr), the Korean subsidiary of leading tablet maker, Wacom announced on XX that they are holding a free giveaway event, “WA~ Wacom Blast Festival” from February 24 to March 31, to welcome the new semester offering Laptop PC, digital cameras, MP3 players and etc.

This event aims at customers, who buy Wacom Graphire3 or Intuos3 during the event period, and Wacom tablet users. The products are available for trial in the tablet experience space in DigitalPlaza.

Customers who buy the products during the event period can participate in “Lucky Chance 1” event as sending the enveloped postcard attached the product label and registering the serial number to the Wacom website(www.wacomdigital.co.kr/registration.html). Registering the serial number, other Wacom tablet users can also take part in “Lucky Chance 2” event.

Total 463 participants will be offered a gift through a drawing; Samsung laptop PC(1), digital camera(4), MP3 player(8), Wacom Pen Partner(150), and gift vouchers(300).

In addition, Wacom announced that they have renewed the website to get more familiar with tablet users. Newly established “Learning tablet methods” in Wacom website is provided in the website to show how to change and edit digital photos creatively with a tablet. It is expected to help users wanting to make funny photos to post blogs.

Noboru Fujisaki, the CEO of Wacom Digital Solutions says “Wacom is concentrating on tablet popularization in 2005, and in order to achieve the goal, we are progressing website renewal, free giveaway event and so on” and “we are willing to get closer to customers with many diverse ways.”

Winners in “WA~ Wacom Blast Festival” will be posted on April 25, in Wacom website. Further inquiries to Kyung-hee Choi (02-598-9847, rgst@neodigm.com).

Media Contacts :

Wacom Digital Solutions (02-557-9737)

Kyung-mi Kwak, Manager / Kyung-sun Lee, Senior Manager

(017-201-1769) / (011-780-2208)

Wacom Digital Solutions PR Agency (Access Communications, 02-517-9447)

Eun-jin Choi (016-367-7417) / Jaelim Lee (016-701-4190)

● Event particulars

WA~ Wacom Blast Festival

Period: February 24 – March 30, 2005

Giveaway Prize

“Lucky Chance 1”

• Samsung Laptop PC 1 unit
• Samsung Digital Camera 3 units
• Samsung Yep MP3 Player 5 units
• Wacom Pen Partner 100 units
• Gift voucher 200 pieces

“Lucky Chance 2”

• Samsung Digital Camera 1 units
• Samsung Yep MP3 Player 3 units
• Wacom Pen Partner 50 units
• Gift voucher 100 pieces
  
  

● Graphire3

Wacom’s Graphire3 is a pen tablet product for frequent users of digital camera and enables functions such editing digital photography as well as sending e-mails written directly by hand. By controlling the electronic pen on the keyboard it functions like a mouse and simultaneously enables the input of pictures, shapes and text like pen on paper. Refined finishing touches not possible with a mouse are enabled and in programs like Photoshop or Painter the pen holding pressure determines the thickness of the input material thus making it possible to work on a realistic frame.

● Intuos3

	Wacom’s Intuos3 is a graphic tablet for professional use implemented express keys and touch strip to use without need of keyboard. It has been designed for professional digital photographers, graphic designers, animation artists, illustrators, and image editing creators to maximize work efficiency as minimizing unnecessary movement of a user. Also, it has been improved in resolution, reaction speed and etc. and made to individualize the tablet formation through tablet driver setting.
Three sizes of the product are sold in Korea; 4x5 inches, 6x8 inches and 9x12 inches. The prices are \229,000, \309,000, and \399,000 respectively.

● About Wacom

Wacom is a specialized tablet manufacturer with leading technology in pen tablets and LCD pen tablets. Wacom’s tablet products are applied in diverse industries including medicine, education, industrial and engineering design.

Wacom Ltd was established in July 1983, incorporated in Japan where the headquarters is located. Currently the company has affiliates in North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania. In April, 2004, the Korean affiliate, Wacom Digital Solutions, was established, to gain footholds into the Korean market.

Wacom supplied over 60,000 tablets to the Korean market, thus expanding the market rapidly for tablets, and the products are currently being used by clients at the LG Electronics design center, GM Daewoo, Sookmyung Women’s University classrooms, and the Korea Meteorological Administration.

Wacom Digital Solutions has plans to partner with software solution providers, digital camera makers, suppliers of printers and projectors and other hardware and SI vendors to meet demands from the market. The company also plans to segment the customer market to identify new markets and channels to better reach these customers.