SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid the monthslong battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of Korean TV series are lined up to catch the eye of viewers across the world with big-name stars and writers for the new year. Cable channel tvN, run by the entertainment giant CJ ENM, is ready with the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s TV series production houses have turned their eyes to hit Western shows as part of efforts to meet diversified demand of viewers across the world. Chorokbaem Media, a local production company behind big-name TV series like “The Penthouse: War in Life” (2020) and “Memories of the Alhambra” [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s movie theaters have been opening their doors to television series as part of efforts to survive the protracted novel coronavirus pandemic. CGV, a multiplex chain run by entertainment giant CJ Group, will start screening the fantasy romance “Breakup Suspension” on Wednesday before the series hits the small [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — In recent years, youth dramas or youth romance series have not been the pick of many South Korean TV viewers, who think such series are boring and prefer R-rated melodramas or romantic thrillers, like “The World of the Married” (2020). Now, however, the latest youth shows “Record of Youth” [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Television series based on webtoons are all the rage these days as TV networks battle to attract young viewers. KBS 2TV’s “Feel Good to Die”, tvN’s “Tale of Gyeryong Fairy”, JTBC’s “Clean with Passion for Now”, and Olive’s “Eun Joo’s Room” are all based on webtoons. JTBC’s “My ID [...]
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 [...]
TAEBAEK, South Korea, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The church of Skopiotissa, which appeared as the main background for the 2016 South Korean TV series “Descendants of the Sun,” has been restored at the original filming location in Taebaek, Gangwon Province. The replica used in the making of the series was torn down along with [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Exports of South Korean TV programs and other broadcast content at international media trade fairs amounted to $51 million, the latest government data shows. According to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the Korea Creative Content Agency, local content providers inked export contracts worth $37.7 million during [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) – “Saimdang, Memoir of Colors,” an anticipated high-budget TV series that has yielded weaker-than-expected results, has managed to earn a net profit thanks to strong performance overseas, according to the its production company Thursday. According to production agency GROUP 8, the SBS TV drama earned 17 billion won (US$15 million) [...]
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 [...]