‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Provides Lift to Korean Box Office

In Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari, actress Yuh-Jung Youn plays the grandmother who swoops in from South Korea to the small Arkansas town where her Korean-American family have made their home, delightfully disrupting their lives. With her abundant charm and unfiltered ways, she makes a significant impact in this heartwarming story of the American dream.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefMulti-territory Asian streaming platform Viu is to launch four new anime titles and six Korean dramas as part of its second quarter slate update.

South Korean format producers taking part in this week's digital MIPTV will be Zooming into the international television trade show from a position of uncommon strength. Just as BTS and Bong Joon-ho have elevated K-pop and Korean cinema to the pinnacle of global pop culture in recent years, Korean format producers have been consistently punching above their weight in the international TV space.

Streaming platform Content Wavve has established itself as the leading local player in South Korea through a smart strategy of commissioning buzzy originals, programming a varied spread of content, including hit Korean web dramas and comedies as well as non-scripted shows and linear channels, and offering attractive, discounted subscription packages.

BTS fans will not stand for anti-Asian sentiment.

The market for dramas, non-fiction and comedy shows produced outside the U.S.— growing steadily for years — has gotten a super-charged kick thanks to U.S.-based streamers, which have pumped cash into new originals from Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

Daniel Dae Kim has been serious about representation from the beginning.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefHollywood monster movie “Godzilla vs. Kong’ and Korean historical drama “Book of Fish” each made a claim to be the top film at the Korean box office.

Korea JoongAng Daily. A number of other well-known agencies who are part of the association are also involved in the complaint.The amendment, which passed last year, allows pop musicians who have received cultural merits from the Ministry Of Culture, Sports and Tourism to defer their enlistment until the age of 30.

SEOUL, South Korea -- A South Korean exhibition company is trying to persuade an acclaimed American graffiti artist not to restore a $440,000 painting after it was accidentally vandalized by a couple who mistook it for participatory art.The artist, John Andrew Perello, also known as JonOne, has expressed a desire for his painting to be restored in a way that won't financially burden the couple, who don't face criminal charges, Jiyoon Son, a manager from Seoul-based Content Creators of Culture,

Another award show has come to an end! As the race for the Oscars later this month gets closer, The Screen Actors Guild Awards which are a precursor were held today. The SAG Awards which honours best onscreen performances, in TV and film, saw a great mix of diversity and representation this year.

Jamie Chung stuns in a red dress for the 2021 Screen Actors Guild Awards, which aired on Sunday night (April 4) with a pre-taped and virtual show.

After Scooter Braun’s recording agency signed a deal with South Korean popstars BTS, the former talent manager and his company’s roster of artists are reportedly benefiting from it! For the unversed, Scooter‘s Ithaca Holdings company just merged with BTS‘ management HYBE and his client list will become shareholders in the company.

merger between BTS’ label HYBE and Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings, Braun’s SB Projects roster of clients — among them Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, J Balvin and Demi Lovato — are set to become significant shareholders in a capital increase meant to fortify the bond between both companies, according to a Korean regulatory filing.A total of 863,209 new shares were issued, at $186 a share — a commitment of $50 million from the purchase price of which Braun divvied up slices to the acts and

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicHYBE, the company known as Big Hit Entertainment which is home to BTS, the South Korean pop group, has merged with Ithaca Holdings, the company led by SB Projects founder Scooter Braun.

EXCLUSIVE: Craig Plestis knows a thing or two about Korean formats after finding success with The Masked Singer and I Can See Your Voice.

Parasite took the top prize at Cannes film festival and later swept the Oscars, the director's speech at the Golden Globes telling viewers: "Once you overcome the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films. "Whether or not Lee Isaac Chung's Minari achieves the same feat at the Oscars next month, Korean cinema is finally getting its due, and there's never been a better time than now to get to know the best of the genre.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefA second season of bilingual series “Dramaworld” takes to the airwaves across Asia from this week. The show is a fantasy about an American K-drama fan-girl who is supernaturally transported into the Korean drama scene and there must save her favorite leading man.In Korea itself “Dramaworld” will play from Friday on A+E Networks’ Lifetime Korea channel and on the CJ ENM-backed streamer TVing.

Warner Bros./Legendary’s “Godzilla vs. Kong” is providing some reasons for hope in Hollywood, as the film opened in 38 countries this weekend ahead of its U.S.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefLeading South Korean TV production studio Monster Union has commissioned a local adaptation of British comedy series “Uncle.” The Korean series will be the first localization of the scripted format, which is represented by BBC Studios.The darkly comic series follows the misadventures of a dissolute, out-of-work musician who forges an unlikely alliance with his 12-year-old nephew after being morally blackmailed into looking after him by his chaotic sister, on the