DC Comics and HYBE Pact With Korea’s Webtoon for Content Creation

BEIJING -- Chinese social media platform Weibo banned a fan club of popular South Korean K-pop band BTS from posting for 60 days, saying it had raised funds illegally, days after photographs of a customized airplane funded by the fan club were posted online.The fan club account, which had over 1.1 million followers on Weibo, was centered around BTS member Jimin.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” Marvel’s first movie with an Asian superhero, topped the South Korean box office over its first weekend. But it failed to lift Korean cinema-going to new heights.The film grossed $4.75 million over the opening weekend, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service provided by the Korean Film Council.

Girls Planet 999 is one of the hottest shows in South Korea – and all over the world – at the moment!

Using his time to make a difference! Gus Kenworthy has been known as both an athlete and an activist ever since the world first met him.

LOONA have dropped a music video for their brand-new single ‘Not Friends’.‘Not Friends’ is in collaboration with South Korean producer Ryan Jhun, who has spent the past 10 years penning hits for K-pop groups such as TWICE, SHINee and Red Velvet. The song features four members from LOONA, namely: Heejin, Kim Lip, JinSoul and Yves.In the action-packed music video, the K-pop idols go up against each other in a fight to the end.

TVXQ member Yunho has been fined for a previous violation of COVID-19 restrictions in the South Korean city of Seoul.Back in February, the K-pop idol had allegedly violated COVID-19 restrictions, which at the time prohibited customers from staying in restaurants past 10pm.

BTS‘ In The Soop reality show is set to premiere this October.Following the success of the show’s first season last year, the K-pop powerhouses have announced that a second season of the group’s version of ‘In The Soop’ is set to premiere in October this year.While a definitive release date and other details have yet to be unveiled, they are expected in the coming weeks leading up to the season premiere.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Heaven: To The Land Of Happiness,” directed by leading South Korean filmmaker Im Sang-soo, has been set at the opening night title of next month’s Busan International Film Festival (Oct. 6-15, 2021.)The film was previously selected by the Cannes festival for the 2020 edition that was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefTwo films each from India, Iran and South Korea feature in the eleven-title New Currents competition that is at the heart of the Busan International Film Festival.The festival this year will be operated as an in-person event Oct 6-15, 2021.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Hostage: Missing Celebrity” held on to top spot at the South Korean box office as new release “Guimoon: The Lightless Door” gave local films the top four chart places over the weekend.

Minecraft being given an R-rating due to its online multiplayer capability.

Rebecca Souw Global streaming giant Netflix has teamed with South Korea’s largest cinema chain CJ CGV to give theatrical releases to seven Netflix Original movies. The Korean-language titles will be given a limited 13-day run (Sept.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThree local movies took the top positions at the South Korean box office over the weekend for the first time this year. The chart was headed by “Hostage Missing Celebrity,” which earned close to $4 million.Produced by Filmmaker R&K and distributed by Next Entertainment World, “Hostage” is a comedy-action movie starring the enduringly-popular, rubber-faced Hwang Jung-min.

Korean Soul belted out their own version of the Aerosmith classic “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” during Tuesday’s “America’s Got Talent” quarterfinals.

With the release of her forthcoming debut album Before I Die just a few weeks away, South Korean artist and producer Park Hye Jin has shared her latest single "I Need You." Serving as the official follow-up to "Whatchu Doin Later" and "Let’s Sing Let’s Dance," Park's latest finds her singing in both Korean and English over light, airy, piano-lead production.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorDC Universe superheroes will be featured in several upcoming webcomics series, through a new deal between WarnerMedia’s DC Entertainment and Webtoon.Under the agreement, DC and Webtoon, owned by South Korean internet company Naver, will collaborate on standalone webcomics that “will appeal to all fans, without the need to know or read any previous stories,” according to the companies.For now, however, DC and Webtoon aren’t divulging any details about the projects

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefComedy -action movie “Sinkhole” lifted the South Korea box office over the weekend with a $5.58 million start in theaters.The debut was the highest weekend score this year by a local Korean movie and trailed only “Black Widow” and “F9.” It was achieved from a launch on 1,604 screens according to data from the Korean Film Council’s Kobis tracking service.The disaster film was the second directed by Kim Ji-hoon, who previously made another in a similar vein “The