SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean drama “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” has topped Netflix’s latest weekly viewership chart of non-English TV shows, the global video streaming service said Wednesday. The TV series, which has aired every Wednesday and Thursday on the cable channel ENA from June 29, marked 23.9 million hours of viewing [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix will release four new Korean original variety shows in the second half as part of its strategy to strengthen its unscripted content lineup and diversify its local portfolio, a company official said Tuesday. “Many people have asked me whether Netflix has original Korean variety shows,” Netflix’s content manager [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — GS Shop, a TV shopping division of GS Retail Co., said Wednesday it will introduce Netflix’s new South Korean series in a ‘home shopping’ show. The company will air a television show that introduces the Netflix Korean-language original series “Remarriage & Desires” on July 13. The show will mimic [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix’s new South Korean series “Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area” has debuted at No. 1 on the streamer’s latest weekly viewership chart of non-English TV shows. Released last Friday, the Korean remake of the smash-hit Spanish original series “Money Heist” marked 33.7 million hours of viewing for [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Global streaming giant Netflix has recently announced its plans to renew a slew of its hit Korean-language originals, like the smash-hit survival drama “Squid Game,” for more seasons in an apparent bid to gain fresh momentum as the pandemic winds down. Earlier this week, Netflix confirmed that “Squid Game” [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix’s hit Korean zombie thriller “All of Us Are Dead” will return for the second season, the streamer said Tuesday. Netflix said the new season will tell the follow-up story of a group of students who survived the zombie-hit high school. The main cast of the first season — [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Scanline VFX, a subsidiary of Netflix, will invest US$100 million in South Korea over the next six years to build special visual effects facilities in a move that will help turn the country into an Asian hub for high-tech content creation, Seoul’s industry ministry said Friday. Stephan Trojansky, the [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix’s new South Korean original “The Sound of Magic” has landed at No. 4 on a global popularity chart for TV series available on the streaming service. According to data released by streaming analytics company FlixPatrol on Sunday (U.S. time), the drama starring Ji Chang-wook placed fourth on its [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean romantic comedy “Business Proposal” retained the No. 1 position on Netflix’s latest weekly viewership chart of non-English TV shows for the third consecutive week, the global video streaming service said Wednesday. The TV series, which has aired every Monday and Tuesday on SBS from Feb. 28, marked [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean romantic comedy “Business Proposal” topped Netflix’s latest weekly viewership chart of non-English TV shows for the second consecutive week, the global video streaming service said Wednesday. The TV series, which has aired every Monday and Tuesday on SBS from Feb. 28, marked 30.9 million hours of viewing [...]