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 [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean mega-hit TV drama “Pretty Woman” will get a Chinese version, its producer said Tuesday. Bon Factory said the Chinese remake of the popular MBC TV romantic drama, which gained great popularity last year, will be co-produced with China’s J-Walk Studio, the entertainment agency for Chinese top star [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean cable drama “Cheese in the Trap” has topped a Chinese chart, the show’s PR agency said Thursday. Ytree Company said the tvN drama reached No. 1 on the Weibo Drama Popularity Chart on Monday, when its fifth episode aired. The show also reached No. 3 on [...]
SEOUL, Dec.15 (Korea Bizwire) – Actor Ahn Jae-wook will be returning to the screen after a four-year absence. He will be starring in the new KBS 2TV weekend drama ‘Five Children’. ‘Five Children’, which will air in February 2016, is a comical family drama, illustrating the happenings that occur when a single dad and single [...]