Korean Graphic Novel ‘Moms’ Set To Be Adapted As TV Series By Playground Entertainment

Elle Korea, the star of the ongoing K-drama series Chimera spoke about her surprise over the sudden and recent popularity of Korean content, saying that she didn’t expect it to happen in “such a short time”.Kim noted that when she had been filming the 2014 Netflix series Marco Polo, her fellow co-stars were “very interested in Korean content”, although she didn’t specify which actors she was speaking about.

EXCLUSIVE: Kellie Madison (Never Back Down: Revolt) has signed on to direct a supernatural action thriller, centered on a geothermic explosion inside the ruins of Pompeii, for Pressman Film.

Korean actors Park Shin-hye and Choi Tae-joon have announced that they are getting married and that they’re also expecting a baby!

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.

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.

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Cynthia Littleton Business EditorSouth Korean entertainment conglomerate CJ ENM is making a nearly $1 billion bet to grow into a bigger player in the global content business by buying an an 80% stake in Endeavor Content, the production entity that Endeavor was forced to divest after losing a showdown with the Writers Guild of America.CJ ENM described the deal as the biggest M&A transaction in its 26-year history.

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.

EXCLUSIVE: Move over Squid Games, it’s Time To Hunt. In an interesting development, we can reveal that Netflix is remaking its Korean-language movie Time To Hunt, marking the first time the streamer has adapted one of its local-language movies into English. The studio has come full circle, you might say.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe decision to make a second season of Netflix global hit “Squid Game” is a sound one, according to analysis firm Media Partners Asia which finds that Korean and Thai content have the strongest cross-border travel potential within the Asia-Pacific region.The company’s “Netflix in the Asia Pacific: The Scalability of Local Content” report is based on passive measurement of 30,000 streaming consumers in Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines,

who recently exited his first-look deal at Universal Television’s unscripted studio, added: “Korea had long been an unnoticed market, but over the last few years formats such as ‘The King of Masked Singer’ have been sold all over the world.  Many K-pop singers are massively popular around the world, and Korean production companies clearly have the ability to produce high-efficiency programming.  I expect this collaboration with Fo to create more hits; and our team here at dI turn is ready.”Park,

The Masked Singer creator Wonwoo Park has signed a first-look development deal with Fox Alternative Entertainment and has set his sights on his first project.

Doctor Foster, Luther and The Office are to be adapted locally in Scandinavia after BBC Studios Nordics struck a partnership with Finland’s recently launched Take Two Studios and Denmark’s STV Production to co-produce the shows.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefDon Lee, who stars as an Asian superhero in Marvel’s “Eternals,” will next be seen at the head of Korean franchise movie “The Roundup.”The film is a sequel to “The Outlaws,” a 2017 crime actioner that took $51 million at the Korean box office.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe fact-based story about former U.S.