International Insider: South Korean Takeover; Netflix UK Studio Grab; Bullying And Harassment Spotlighted; Federation’s American Dream

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Aloners,” a critically-acclaimed debut feature about loneliness, is set to receive a theatrical release in North America in early 2022.

Travel restrictions have been tightened as more cases of the Omicron variant have been reported across the world.

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MONSTA X has opened up about how its like to record music in English.In a recent interview with Forbes, the singer discussed the process of recording a full-length album completely in English, in light of their upcoming sophomore English album ‘The Dreaming’, which arrives on December 10.“It was very easy,” he said, when asked about the difficulty of performing in a third language, compared to Korean and Japanese.

SEOUL, South Korea -- Despite being one of the most well-known faces in Asia, acting never gets easier for South Korean superstar Gianna Jun.“I feel like I climbed the mountain 1,000 times,” she said about filming her latest series, “Jirisan.”Jun plays Seo Yi-Gang, a mountain ranger at Jirisan, a mountain located about four hours south of central Seoul.

(G)I-DLE member Soyeon has gone viral for comments she made on the first episode of the new Korean talent reality series My Teenage Girl.Over the weekend, South Korean television network MBC aired the first episode of its new TV talent competition My Teenage Girl.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent“Stalk,” Simon Bouisson’s timely French show tackling cyber spying and bullying, has lured a flurry of top TV channels across the world. Produced by Priscilla Bertin and Judith Nora at Silex Films, the half-hour psychological thriller series was a big hit on France Televisions’s platform Slash and later aired on the broadcaster’s linear channel France 2 in the slot following “Call My Agent!” South Korea’s Navel picked up season one.

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Joanne Shenandoah, the celebrated Native American singer-songwriter who performed before world leaders and on high-profile stages, has died.

Netflix original Hellbound shot up to top 10 after its release on 19 November.

South Korean superstars BTS were crowned artist of the year at the American Music Awards on Sunday, brushing aside challenges from Taylor Swift, Drake and The Weeknd as they took home a total of three awards and teamed up with Coldplay for a raucous "My Universe" and closed the show with "Butter." "Seven boys from Korea, united by love for music, met the love and support from all the armies all over the world," said BTS' RM after the group won their artist of the year for the first time.

Red carpet date night! Ahead of the 2021 American Music Awards on Sunday, November 21, celebrity couples stepped out in style on the red carpet.

Escape From Mogadishu, Korea’s submission to this year’s International Feature Oscar race, tells the harrowing true story of North and South Koreans caught in the middle of a brutal civil war in Somalia in 1991, and how the divided nation worked together to survive the crisis in a foreign land.

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar nominee Bruce Dern (Nebraska), Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club) and Caspar Van Dien (Starship Troopers) have joined Tom Berenger (Platoon) and Chris “CT” Tamburello (MTV’s The Challenge) in thriller The Most Dangerous Game, a remake of the 1930s classic.

Global Networks Swoop For Fremantle South Africa Drama ‘Reyka’

the show ‘Squid Game’ and film ‘Parasite,’ this really sparked the curiosity and the global audience for Korean culture,” Sun-kyun, 46, told The Post through a translator. “There are many platforms that provide easy access to Korean content, so I think it seems fresh and new to people who haven’t been acquainted with the culture — and we have common grounds despite the differences.

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Tuareg rock sensation Mdou Moctar announced his 2022 international tour dates today and shared a video of a live performance with his band on the banks of the Niger River. The tour will begin on February 27 at The Orange Peel in Asheville, North Carolina and end May 1 at De Post in Oostende, Belgium, with 42 more stops along the way.

Handwritten activity logs from the Houston Fire Department offer a chilling look at how things unfolded both before and after the deadly crowd surge at Travis Scott's chaotic Astroworld Festival last week.  When Scott took the stage at his third ever Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas, last Friday, a crowd surged forward, resulting in people getting crushed by one another.

Prince Harry joked about "living the American dream" while attending the Intrepid Valor Awards to honour veterans in New York ahead of Remembrance Day.The 37 year old, who recently slammed "rabid" and "damaging" media in a bitter speech, discussed his time on hotdog-shaped car "Oscar Mayer Wienermobile" while addressing the audience at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.