SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The blockbuster fantasy series “Arthdal Chronicles” has been struggling not only with its lower-than-expected viewership ratings but with a ballooning controversy over its apparent resemblance to famous TV dramas and movies. First aired on June 1 by cable channel tvN, the weekend drama is about a story when politics [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Having underperformed given its star-studded cast and huge budget, the blockbuster fantasy series “Arthdal Chronicles” is the subject of mixed views on whether it can rebound in the second week of its run. The new weekend drama aired by cable channel tvN is about people living in the ancient [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Japan continue to engage in a relay of drama remakes as Japan’s Fuji TV plans to release a remake of a South Korean drama, “Two Weeks” (2013). In Japan, various remakes of South Korean dramas are soon to hit three broadcasting stations next month. Haruma Miura, [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — With changing trends, the South Korean public no longer has to be feel objection to ballet as a luxurious Western art. Recently, ballet has been reborn into colorful variation within the mass media and the public no longer feels a psychological distance to the art of ballet. There are [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean-Indian collaboration film and drama based on Gaya’s first queen, Heo Hwang-ok, has gotten the green light. South Korean drama production company Say On Media announced on Thursday that it has agreed to make a collaboration film and drama with India’s Eros International Group and B&C Group. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — According to a recent online survey of 843 Chinese living in Qingdao, 59.9 percent of the respondents had either seen the drama “SKY Castle” or planned to see it in the future. The results were published in a local newspaper. While the JTBC drama, which is based on college [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s most-viewed cable TV series “Guardian: The Lonely and Great God” has won five awards from an annual drama awards hosted by an American online Asian drama-streaming site. The drama’s star Gong Yoo received best actor of 2016 in the fifth DramaFever Awards announced on its website on [...]
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, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – U.S. video service provider Netflix Inc. said Thursday that it will include more locally produced content as part of its efforts to tap deeper into the South Korean market. Five months after its global rollout in 130 countries, including South Korea, the video streaming provider with more than 81 [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean TV series “Signal” has done just as well in China as it did on its home turf, South Korea’s content agency said Friday. The time-travel crime series was viewed more than 100 million times cumulatively on the Chinese video website Tencent since April 18, when it was [...]