NEW YORK, Jun. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – KCON, a global K-pop festival that brings music stars to overseas fans, took place over the weekend in Newark, New Jersey. The two-day event at the Prudential Center, attended by some 53,000 fans, was divided into two parts — K-pop concerts and outdoor convention programs. The event brought [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Star producer Na Young-seok’s reality program “Youn’s Kitchen 2″ ranked No. 1 on the weekly TV ratings chart, data showed Tuesday. The reality show of four Korean actors running a Korean restaurant in Spain garnered a score of 237 on the Content Power Index (CPI) for Jan. 8-14. Premiered [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan has been designated the first country to host South Korea’s largest convention of Korean pop music and culture for this year, organizers said Monday. First launched in Irvine, California, in 2012, KCON is hosted by CJ E&M and held in multiple countries throughout the world. Attending the event [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean TV networks showcased their programs during this year’s NATPE Miami trade fair, the government agency that organized the event said Thursday. Considered one of the three largest broadcasting content trade fairs along with France’s MIPTV and MIPCOM, NAPTE Miami is the largest fair of its kind in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — NBC’s hit reality TV show “Better Late Than Never,” the U.S. adaptation of South Korean program “Grandpas Over Flowers,” is set to return with season 2 in January, CJ E&M said Thursday. The popular series will be aired at 9 p.m. every Monday starting Jan. 1, the company said, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – A portmanteau of “chat” and “robot”, chatbots are computer programs designed to simulate human conversation in both spoken speech and text format. With the seemingly inevitable advent of artificial intelligence approaching nearer by the day, South Korean airlines, entertainment and banking industry players are taking measures to get ahead [...]
SYDNEY, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean pop culture festival KCON was held at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, Australia over the weekend, attracting over 20,000 Oceanian fans. The event, which has been organized by South Korean entertainment company CJ E&M since 2012, marked its sixth anniversary this year, showcasing the latest K-pop, drama series [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean content provider CJ E&M has announced plans to release more than a dozen local movies in the international market every year by 2020, a bold move to focus on emerging markets with the South Korean movie industry reaching its saturation point. Jung Tae-seong, the head of movie division [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ E&M said Wednesday it will build a complex in Goyang, just northwest of Seoul, by the end of 2020 to promote South Korea’s cultural content, better known as hallyu. South Korea’s leading entertainment content and media company said it will invest 1.4 trillion won (US$1.2 billion) in the [...]
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — KCON, a global Korean pop music and culture convention, wrapped up its Los Angeles event Sunday, bringing together tens of thousands of fans of cutting-edge South Korean musicians, fashion and other Korean-related cultural content. A crowd of 80,000 gathered at the three-day KCON LA 2017 held from Friday [...]