SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Min-ho, a young Korean actor famous overseas as well as at home, is rising high in Asia even before the release of the first film in which he plays a leading role. The upcoming movie “Gangnam 1970″ has already been sold in Asia’s major markets such as Japan, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Web drama “Love Cell” is attracting the public’s interest. As more and more people watch TV on their mobile devices while on the go, dramas shown exclusively on the Internet are getting more popular. Since the first episode of Love Cell was aired on November 2, it has logged [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of the People’s Republic of China will soon announce a new regulation on foreign drama contents available on the Internet. Once the rule is in place, it would put a damper on the popularity of Korean dramas in China. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Minah, a member of K-pop girl group Girl’s Day, became a new employee of Samsung Electronics in a web-based drama “The Best Future.” In the web drama sponsored and produced by the Korean electronics giant, Minah acting as Mi-rae (meaning “future” in Korean) who was recently hired by Samsung [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean Actress Ko A-sung, a heroine of Bong Joon-ho’s dystopian sci-fi film “Snowpiercer,” signed an agency contract with a Hollywood talent agency Untitled Entertainment, said her management company 4Doors Entertainment on October 27. Ko’s signing with the Hollywood agency came after The New York Post spotlighted her on the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Nongshim’s Shin-Ramyun and the mega-hit drama “My Love from the Star” were among the masterpieces of Korea selected by the Chinese. The Korea Marketing Association (KMA) announced on October 23 that the list of 42 Korean masterpiece products “mostly loved by the Chinese.” KMA conducted an online survey with 10,768 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – YG Entertainment, one of Korea’s top three talent agencies, is expanding its business portfolio into cosmetics just after a month of its launch of a fashion brand. On October 22, YG Entertainment opened its flagship store of cosmetics brand “Moonshot” in Samcheong-dong in northern Seoul, which is famous for numerous [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – “SMTown Live World Tour IV,” an ongoing 2014 worldwide concert tour by SM Town, ended successfully in Shanghai following Seoul and Tokyo. Over 30,000 fans flocked to Shanghai Indoor Stadium to watch “SMTown Live World Tour in Shanghai” at 5 p.m. on October 18, SM Entertainment reported. At the [...]
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SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean television dramas have widely been beloved across Asian countries from China to Japan to the Philippines to Indonesia for the past few years with a series from “Autumn in My Heart” in 2000 to the most recent “My Love from the Star.” Now dramas from South Korea dubbed [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul Lantern Festival that has drawn a record number of visitors — about 2.5 million spectators every year since the year 2009, has established itself as one of Seoul’s major festivities. The Seoul Metropolitan Government intends to promote the lantern festival as a special culture and tour occasion in November [...]