Series Mania Hot Project: ‘Thirty-Nine’ From Korea’s JTBC

is a melodrama that lives in the black and whites of life, in the cut and dried institutions that would put a devoted family man, adopted and brought to the States as a small child, in danger of being deported from the only home he's ever known.Writer-director Justin Chon stars as Antonio LeBlanc, a Korean adoptee raised in the Louisiana bayou, laboring to make a better life for his pregnant wife, Kathy (Alicia Vikander), and stepdaughter, Jessie (Sydney Kowalske).

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefSouth Korea’s anti-trust regulator has fined Google KRW207 billion ($177 million) for blocking customization of its Android mobile phone operating system.The move is significant given the leading position of Korean firms Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics in the mobile handset, tablets and wearables markets.The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) said Tuesday that Google had abused and protected its market dominance by making device producers sign up for

TWICE member Chaeyoung has revealed that the girl group are currently working on brand-new music.In a recently released behind-the-scenes video for her photoshoot with OhBoy! magazine, the K-pop idol spoke about what she has been doing with her free time between releases from TWICE.“I’m relaxing and working,” Chaeyoung said, before explaining that she had been “recording and preparing the next album”.

Coldplay and BTS have announced plans to release new joint single ‘My Universe’.The collaboration, which is out on September 24, features on Coldplay’s forthcoming album ‘Music of The Spheres‘.It was written by both bands and is sung in both English and Korean. ‘My Universe’ is available to pre-order here.This is the second single to be lifted from ‘Music Of The Spheres’ following Coldplay’s comeback hit ‘Higher Power‘, earlier this year.

Coldplay and BTS have announced their new collaborative single My Universe.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Shang-Chi And The Legend of The Ten Rings” held on the top place at the South Korean box office for the second weekend. But it failed to sustain overall cinemagoing in what used to be, pre-COVID, the world’s fourth largest theatrical market.“Shang-Chi” earned $2.63 million in its second weekend for a market share of 50%.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefIQiyi International, the overseas arm of Chinese streaming service iQiyi, has set “Bad and Crazy” as its third Korean-language original series.The action-packed detective story is produced by Studio Dragon, one of Korea’s leading production houses, and part of the CJ ENM group.

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.

Panelists at the press conference for Ana Lily Amirpour’s Venice Film Festival competition title Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon today said they have experienced feeling like an outsider, a theme that runs through the story.

Project Magnum (working title) is a brand new third-person shooter coming from Korean publisher Nexon, with a mixture of sci-fi and fantasy.PlayStation shared the first official teaser of Project Magnum yesterday (September 2), which shows the game captured on PS5 featuring a mix of actual and in-game footage, although it is also listed for PS4.As a looter shooter, there are comparisons with Destiny.