Los Angeles - Citing rampant piracy Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) is withdrawing from the DVD market in South Korea, according to the Wall Street Journal. The company plans to shutter its DVD operations there, and instead assign licensing and distribution rights to a local company. Warner Bros. recently launched a video-on-demand service in the region that is seeking to stem piracy by offering films before their official DVD release dates.

New York - Lifetime Networks announced on Monday its acquisition of Roiworld.com, a Korean casual games and virtual dress-up site for teens.

Los Angeles - Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) Warner Bros. Digital Distribution unit plans to try to curb piracy of its films in South Korea by making them available on video-on-demand systems two weeks before they are released on DVD in the country, Variety reports. "According to the Korean Film Council, more than 47% of people surveyed said they had downloaded movies from the Internet at least once," Harrison Lee, managing director of Warner Home Video Korea, told Variety.

Mountain View, Calif. - Google (NASD: GOOG) has acquired Korea-based blogging software platform company TNC for an undisclosed sum.

El Segundo, Calif. - OGPlanet, a publisher of multiplayer online games, announced on Wednesday that it has received an undisclosed sum of new funding from DFJ Athena, which the company said will be used for continued growth.

Shanghai, China - Chinese online game operator The9 Limited announced on Monday that it will establish a joint venture with Korean game developer T3 Entertainment -- creators of the "Audition" massively multiplayer online game -- to further strengthen their partnerships in the areas of game development and publishing. Through the joint venture, The9 will be more proactively involved in the development of "Audition 2" and other titles, both for China and other international markets.

Redwood City, Calif. - Video game developer and publisher Electronic Arts (NASD: ERTS) announced on Thursday that it will acquire the assets of Hands-On Mobile Korea, the Korean mobile game development unit of the U.S.-based company.

Seoul, Korea - Korean electronics makers LG and Samsung announced on Wednesday that they have partnered to develop a new mobile TV delivery standard for the North American market, as the standards body for the region prepares to adopt a technology in early 2009.

*A clarification has been made to the original version of this story.

San Francisco - Outspark, a publisher of casual, multiplayer online games, announced on Tuesday that it has raised an undisclosed sum in its first round of financing, led by Altos Ventures and DCM.

Redwood City, Calif. - Video game developer and publisher Electronic Arts announced on Tuesday that it will invest $105 million for a 19% stake in Korean online game developer Neowiz.