‘Sinkhole’ Gives Korea Box Office its Second Highest Weekend of the Year

BTS‘ In The Soop reality show is set to premiere this October.Following the success of the show’s first season last year, the K-pop powerhouses have announced that a second season of the group’s version of ‘In The Soop’ is set to premiere in October this year.While a definitive release date and other details have yet to be unveiled, they are expected in the coming weeks leading up to the season premiere.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefTwo films each from India, Iran and South Korea feature in the eleven-title New Currents competition that is at the heart of the Busan International Film Festival.The festival this year will be operated as an in-person event Oct 6-15, 2021.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Hostage: Missing Celebrity” held on to top spot at the South Korean box office as new release “Guimoon: The Lightless Door” gave local films the top four chart places over the weekend.

Minecraft being given an R-rating due to its online multiplayer capability.

Rebecca Souw Producer and broadcaster JTBC has such a strong track record of making attractive and successful Korean TV drama series from tales of everyday lives that almost everything it does is likely to attract attention.

Rebecca Souw Global streaming giant Netflix has teamed with South Korea’s largest cinema chain CJ CGV to give theatrical releases to seven Netflix Original movies. The Korean-language titles will be given a limited 13-day run (Sept.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThree local movies took the top positions at the South Korean box office over the weekend for the first time this year. The chart was headed by “Hostage Missing Celebrity,” which earned close to $4 million.Produced by Filmmaker R&K and distributed by Next Entertainment World, “Hostage” is a comedy-action movie starring the enduringly-popular, rubber-faced Hwang Jung-min.

Korean Soul belted out their own version of the Aerosmith classic “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” during Tuesday’s “America’s Got Talent” quarterfinals.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefAmerican cartoon giant DC Comics and South Korean talent agency HYBE have agreed to work with online animation firm Webtoon on content creation.Korea-based Webtoon is part of Asian internet giant Naver, best known for its Naver search engine functions and for the Line messaging app.

With the release of her forthcoming debut album Before I Die just a few weeks away, South Korean artist and producer Park Hye Jin has shared her latest single "I Need You." Serving as the official follow-up to "Whatchu Doin Later" and "Let’s Sing Let’s Dance," Park's latest finds her singing in both Korean and English over light, airy, piano-lead production.

Marta Balaga Danish filmmaker Mads Brügger, who won a Sundance best director award for “Cold Case Hammarskjöld,” expected a bigger fallout following the release of his latest film, “The Mole: Undercover in North Korea,” he admitted during his CineLink Talk at Sarajevo Film Festival.His documentary, focusing on two men embarking on a mission to expose the secrets of the Korean Friendship Association (KFA) and its Spanish president, is shown at the festival in the Dealing with the Past section,

The Walt Disney Company announced today at the company’s Q3 earnings call that Disney+, its streaming service, will launch in South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan in November 2021.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefStreaming platform Disney Plus will be expanded to begin operations in South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan in November this year.The announcement was made on the sidelines of Thursday’s Walt Disney Co. third quarter earnings filings.The current Disney Plus service in Japan will be expanded to feature additional general entertainment content in October 2021.