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More stuff courtesy of "Derboo." It looks like outsourcing to South Korea was more prevalent than I might have previously thought.
*The Game Boy version of Capcom's ''The Little Mermaid'' was programmed by Sunmok Jang. He apparently did this for a company called Great. Jang (and Sanghun Lee <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Blog:Seoul Train|see earlier post]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>) came to Japan to work. Programming took three months from June 1992. Jang previously worked on [http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/korea/part1/company-clover.htm Clover]'s MSX conversion of ''Altered Beast''. ([http://www.derboo.de/files/littlemermaid.jpg Interview with Jang mentioning ''The Little Mermaid''])
*When Taito needed to convert its Master System version of ''Bubble Bobble'' to the Game Gear, it turned to [[Open]]. Among the Game Gear staff were the Jong brothers, Chanyong and Chanil, of Namu, a company that merged with Open in 1993. Namu started out as a team called MbitM, which was responsible for two ''Bubble Bobble'' knockoffs published by [http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/korea/part1/company-zemina.htm Zemina].
*''Return of Jelda'' for the MSX2, part of Carry Lab's ''Jelda'' series of 3D shooters, was done by [http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/korea/part1/company-softmen.htm Softmen].
*The initial staff of Softmax was part of a team called KBM from 1990 to 1993. This team did "8-bit game software" outsourced from Japanese companies. The article "Derboo" got this information from mentions "Game Gear software" but no specific titles.

Not Korea-related, but I'll just throw it in here:
*Some of ''The Adventures of Gilligan's Island'' for the NES, primarily developed by [[Human]], appears to have been outsourced to another part of Asia. The "sub programmers" are "Sun Shu Fai" and "Koo Wai San."

For more Korean gaming history, check out [http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/korea/korea.htm "Derboo"'s feature on Hardcore Gaming 101].

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