SEOUL, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) –The trend of reinterpreting classic hits has taken the music scene by storm, with over three-quarters of users on Melon, South Korea’s leading music streaming service, having listened to a so-called ‘remake’ track released this year. Data Lab, Melon’s analytics arm, reported that remake tracks released this year amassed a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Recent Korean TV series adapted from American and European originals have made their presence felt on the local entertainment scene, which is expanding its horizons to the global market. Starring big-name stars Kim Soo-hyun and Cha Seung-won, “One Ordinary Day,” an original by local stream service Coupang Play, is [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A slew of South Korean hit TV series, like the romantic comedy “Crash Landing On You,” will be remade in the United States amid the expanding worldwide reception for Korean-made content led by the sensation “Squid Game.” The 2019 smash hit rom-com, starring Hyun Bin and Son Ye-jin, will [...]
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, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The American version of MBC TV’s singing competition show “King of Mask Singer” has received a promising response from U.S. viewers, the Korean network said Monday. The trailer of the remake has garnered nearly 500,000 views since it was unveiled Thursday on YouTube. The remake, “The Masked Singer,” is [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho’s English-debut film “Snowpiercer” will be remade into a TV series in the United States, according to foreign news reports on Thursday. Oscar winning actress Jennifer Connelly has signed on for a role in a one-hour pilot for the U.S. television network TNT’s “Snowpiercer,” Variety [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The popular Korean action film “Train to Busan” will be remade in English, its distributor said Thursday. NEW said the film’s remake right was sold to France’s Gaumont Film Company, a major global film studio behind such hit films as “Leon,” “The Fifth Element” and “Point Blank.” “We are [...]
SEOUL, Oct 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Will You Be There? (Seras-tu là?), a novel by French writer Guillaume Musso, is coming to theaters, and it’s going to be a Korean film. The book was first released in 2006, and is among Musso’s more successful works. It has since been published in 22 countries. Musso is a [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – “My Love from the Star” will be remade by ABC. For its remake, Sony Pictures TV is set to remake “My Love from the Star,” and it was reported that Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain, who wrote “The Vampire Diaries,” is currently co-writing a pilot script. “Not long ago, [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – ‘Good Doctor,’ the KBS 2 TV human medical drama starred by Joo Won, Moon Chae-won, and Ju Sang-uk, is going to be remade by CBS, one of the US leading broadcasting companies. This is a milestone that any Korean broadcasting company has never reached. KBS confirmed on Aug, 29 [...]