LOS ANGELES, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – “The Battleship Island,” a Korean film about the dark history of Japan’s Hashima Island off the coast of Nagasaki during World War II, has been showing promising box office results in the U.S., its distributor said Tuesday. According to the distributor CJ E&M, the film by director Ryoo Seung-wan [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Jisan Valley Rock Music & Arts Festival, one of South Korea’s biggest summer outdoor music festivals, saw its audience size decrease by more than 30 percent from a year ago, according to organizers Monday. The audience number at the three-day festival held at Jisan Forest Resort in Icheon, just [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) – CJ E&M, South Korea’s leading entertainment and media content company, said Monday it will open new channels exclusively for airing “hallyu” content in Malaysia, Vietnam and Hong Kong. The company said it will launch a Korean movie channel “tvN Movies” in Malaysia and “TV Blue,” a channel for providing [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Over 30 South Korean TV networks and production companies will attend this year’s MIPTV, the world’s largest TV and online content trade show, next month in France, a state-run content agency said Thursday. A total of 19 networks and production firms — including KBS, MBC, SBS and CJ E&M [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The Park Geun-hye administration’s rule, which collapsed with its leader’s impeachment, was not the best of times for CJ, a major food and media conglomerate in South Korea. A year and half after President Park took office in 2013, CJ Vice Chairwoman Lee Mi-kyung (who was the de facto [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Shares of entertainment and media content company CJ E&M have been flying high, about the only gainer in the industry hit by China’s move to restrict imports of South Korea’s cultural material, market data showed Friday. The company’s stock, listed in the secondary market KOSDAQ, closed at 87,200 won [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s biggest production house CJ E&M said Monday it has started a new project to discover and foster drama and film writers. In what it dubbed “O’PEN,” which means offering open opportunities for anyone who wants to become a pen, the company plans to invest around 13 billion [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Imagine watching all of your favorite YouTube shows on TV. South Korea’s leading content and media company CJ E&M plans to make that a reality by creating a cable channel dedicated to such shows and the creators who produce them. It will be called DIA TV, an acronym for [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Film Council (KFC) said Tuesday that it will hold a “K-Cinema Global Networking” event in Ho Chi Minh City this month to expand cooperation and exchanges in cinema between South Korea and Vietnam. To be jointly held by the KFC and Vietnam’s culture ministry from June 22 to [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ E&M, South Korea’s leading entertainment and media company, said Sunday it will start a joint venture with a Thai cable channel operator to further capitalize on the global popularity of Korean pop culture, known here as “hallyu.” The entertainment arm of the South Korean conglomerate CJ Group said [...]