SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The award-winning original musical “Maybe Happy Ending” began as a deeply personal story about loss and love, according to its writer Hue Park. At a press conference in Seoul on Tuesday, Park shared he was navigating a difficult period of profound personal loss just before he began writing. “Just [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean digital comics, known as webtoons, are breaking new ground across international borders and media formats, with recent adaptations announced for both Hollywood and Japanese stage productions. Webtoon Entertainment, the parent company of Naver Webtoon, announced on January 22 that its horror series “Stagtown” is being developed into a feature film [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – With movie theaters in South Korea looking to diversify their content offerings, live recordings of musicals are emerging as an unexpected box office draw, potentially marking a new chapter for the industry. Leveraging their large screens as a key advantage, theaters are expanding beyond traditional films to showcase a variety [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The biopic “Park Chung-hee: The Man Who Dreamed of an Economic Powerhouse” is a live capture release of a theater musical about the former South Korean president credited with rebuilding the country after the devastation of the 1950-53 Korean War but decried as a dictator. The movie opens with [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The original cast of the long-running Broadway musical “Chicago” has returned to South Korea for the first time in six years. The musical team’s press call performance took place at Blue Square Shinhan Card Hall in central Seoul on Wednesday. Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2021, “Chicago” had experienced [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The musical theater industry has called for eased social distancing rules at performance venues, citing the difficulty in continuing shows under the government’s current coronavirus restrictions. A group of workers in the industry on Tuesday pleaded with the government to mitigate the virus restrictions that require all members of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s market for the performing arts grew 1.2 percent last year from a year earlier, registering the second annual growth in a row, data showed Monday. Total sales of the performing arts came to 823.2 billion won (US$710 million) in 2018, up 1.2 percent from 2017, according to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The aggregated revenue from South Korean performing arts soared in 2019 from a year earlier on rising demand for big-budget musicals, data showed Friday. The South Korean performance market posted a total of 226.9 billion (US$195.3 million) in sales from January to December, according to the data from the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — At the height of his K-pop career this week, Hwang Min-hyun, a member of five-piece boy band NU’EST, launched a new show business career which his fans scarcely expected. The 24-year-old Hwang appeared to his fans in his first acting role in the famous musical, “Marie Antoinette,” as the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — In South Korea, the popularity of high-profile musicals is so great that serious fans face a fierce online ticket battle to clinch a front-row seat in a big theater. As it requires perfect timing and skill, buying a ticket for a blockbuster musical, even disregarding the high price, is [...]