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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.

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.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Godzilla vs. Kong” jumped straight to the top of the South Korean box office in its opening weekend.

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

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefKorean American drama film “Minari” can’t stop winning awards. Similarly, it continues to reign on top of the Korean box office.The Lee Isaac Chung-directed film earned $1.09 million between Friday and Monday to top the box office in South Korea, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC).The figure is little changed from the previous weekend.

Los Angeles-based Library Pictures International has inked a deal to co-finance a slate of Korean-language films with South Korean studio Next Entertainment World, also known as NEW. Financial terms weren't disclosed.

Korean media group Next Entertainment World has partnered with L.A.’s Library Pictures International, signing a three-year co-financing slate for the production of Korean-language films.

On Feb. 22, Korean cafe Spoon by H on Beverly Boulevard announced via Instagram that it would close the next weekend.

Gallery: The career of Betty White in pictures (Espresso)Youn shared the historic first with "Minari" co-star Steven Yeun, the first Asian-American to be nominated for a best actor Oscar. Born in Seoul, Yuen and his family moved to Canada and then the United States when he was a child.

Rebecca Davis editorZhang Yimou has been hard at work alongside his daughter Zhang Mo shooting his upcoming blockbuster “Sniper,” which is now set for an October release, its production firm said.The project was explicitly conceived as a nationalistic commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Korean War, known in China as the “War to Resist U.S.

Refresh for updates: Kim’s Convenience has closed up shop. On Monday producers of the Canadian sitcom announced that the Korean family comedy will end with its upcoming fifth season.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefA notable launch for “Minari” lifted the South Korea box office to its second highest weekend of 2021. The Korean-language American-made drama performed 80% higher than the weekend’s other significant new release Disney’s “Raya and the Last Dragon.”Opening in first place, “Minari” clocked up $1.68 million over the weekend, according to data from the Korean Film Council’s KOBIS box office tracking service.

Saban Films has picked up the horror-thriller Hide and Seek forNorth America, the U.K. and Ireland.

Apple TV+ is moving into Korean-language originals with a series based on a popular webtoon Dr. Brain that will star Parasite’s Lee Sun-Kyun.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterApple has ordered a live-action series adaptation of the Korean webtoon “Dr. Brain.” The series will be the first completely Korean-language project at the streamer.Kim Jee-Woon will write and direct, with “Parasite” star Lee Sun-Kyun set to star.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefTriumph and pain were bedfellows last year for the Korean film industry. But Berlin’s European Film Market and the imminent Hong Kong FilMart see Korean companies putting on a brave face.Korean cinemas were in defensive mode early on in the coronavirus pandemic, as a population familiar with epidemics chose to stay away from crowded places.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe end came quietly with the humdrum announcement of a deal between two state-owned TV groups, China Central Television (CCTV) and South Korean public broadcaster KBS.