The 10 Most Viewed K-Pop Music Videos of 2023 So Far, Ranked

EXCLUSIVE: Canadian prodcos Pillango Productions and Aircraft Pictures have just wrapped Gangnam Project, a new tween dramedy series set in the world of K-pop, with co-commissioning broadcasters CBC Kids and CBBC. 

Nakwon: Last Paradise, an apocalypse stealth survival game from the developer of Dave The Diver, will pit the player against invincible zombies that have overrun Seoul.Nakwon is the name of the last city that humans have been able to use as a sanctuary from the infection, explained studio Mintrocket in a post to Steam.As South Korea has a highly stringent set of regulations regarding gun ownership, things like revolvers and shotguns are rare and bullets are more expensive that the guns themselves in the game. Moreover, Seoul’s dense structure makes it advantageous for humans, allowing them to hide and find new locations for looting.Interestingly, Nakwon: Last Paradise‘s zombies are unkillable and all players can do to put some distance between themselves and certain death is “disable them just for a brief moment”.Mintrocket said that Nakwon: Last Paradise is split into two experiences, scouting and simulation.

The Masked Singer is back for season 10!

The Masked Singer is back for season 10!

The Masked Singer is back for season 10!

The Masked Singer is back for season 10!

The Masked Singer is back for season 10!

The Glory star Song Hye-kyo has revealed that starring the the popular K-drama series has helped bring back her “joy for acting”.Song Hye-kyo recently spoke to South Korea news outlet Sports Chosun, per SBS Star, about her Grand Prize win at the second annual Blue Dragon Series Awards in July this year and her thoughts on her The Glory tole.The actress opened up about how The Glory was a genre she has “never tired before”, but that the role eventually “brought back my joy for acting”. She added: “I’ve become more interested in working on projects that are different from what I usually do”.Song Hye-kyo also spoke about how she believes her role as Moon Dong-eun in The Glory has helped “changed the minds of those who were previously unwilling to accept me in unconventional genres”, noting how she has been “offered a wider variety of projects” after the K-drama’s success.Elsewhere in the interview, the actress was also asked what she thinks the future for her The Glory character would look like after achieving revenge.

K-pop group NewJeans will be releasing a song for this year’s League Of Legends World Championship.The single, titled ‘Gods’, will be released on October 4 at 6AM BST / 2PM KST. It will also launch with an animated music video from Riot Games, and NewJeans have described the song as “a new experience for all of us”.“It was fun to try a new genre and sound,” shared the group.

Showtime has set a November premiere date for comedy The Curse, starring Emma Stone, Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie. The 10-episode series will launch Friday, November 10 on streaming and on demand for Showtime and Paramount+ subscribers before making is linear debut on Showtime on Sunday, November 12 at 1 pm ET/PT. Showtime also has unveiled an expanded look at images from the series, which will have its world premiere at the 2023 New York Film Festival on Thursday, October 12, screening the first three episodes. You can see the images above and below.

Naman Ramachandran Billie Piper, “The Great British Bake Off” and “Derry Girl” have landed nominations at the 2023 International Emmy Awards. The nominations, which were unveiled on Tuesday by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, are across 14 categories and span 20 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Qatar, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the U.K.

The Masked Singer has seemingly been rumbled by one investigative fan. Originating in South Korea eight years ago, the internationally-sold format features a line-up of celebrities from across TV, film, sport and music under wacky costumes, singing infront of judges – and a studio audience – who must guess their identities.

Anna Marie de la Fuente “Monster,” Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan Described by Variety critic Peter Debruge as a “convoluted portrait of a pre-teen in turmoil,” Kore-eda ‘s Palme d’Or best script and Queer Palm winner stars Sakura Andō as a mother who confronts a teacher after noticing odd changes in her son’s demeanor. Written by Yuji Sakamoto, it’s scored by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto. “Peafowl,” Byun Sungbin, South Korea Myung, a transgender, is estranged from her family because of who she is.

Netflix has teased a trailer for a Squid Game spin-off that sees real life contestants take on the gruelling challenges from the hit TV series - without the fatal consequences. But fans have made a demand as the launch of the new reality show draws nearer.

Big Hit Music trainees have opened up about the members of BTS and whether the septet have changed since their debut.In a new interview with Korea Now, the English-language YouTube channel of South Korean news outlet Yonhap News Agency, former Big Hit Music trainees Kim Ji-hoon and Hwang Ji-hwan opened up about their experiences at the K-pop agency and training alongside the now-BTS members.Kim spoke about how he sometimes watches clips of BTS on YouTube, nothing that the septet are “the same as they used to be” when they were all trainees together. He added that, even then, he thought BTS leader RM “had leadership qualities”.

Paramount+ announced on Tuesday that its new Louis Tomlinson doc All of Those Voices will premiere exclusively on the service in the U.S. and Canada on October 4th, coming to the UK, Australia, Latin America, Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and South Korea on October 5th.

SF9, has opened up about the departure of member Rowoon.Yesterday (September 18), FNC Entertainment announced that SF9’s Rowoon would be stepping back from the boyband. In its statement, the K-pop agency said the singer would “remain as the ninth member of SF9”, although South Korean news outlets such as The Korea Herald and Korea JoongAng Daily reported that Rowoon had left the group.SF9’s leader Youngbin has since addressed the news, in a letter posted on the boyband’s official fancafe website, as seen by The Qoo.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Four years ago, before COVID turned everything upside-down, a new Asian masterpiece world premiered virtually unnoticed at the Toronto Film Festival. I’m referring to “A Sun,” a multi-faceted Taiwanese family saga from director Chung Mong-Hong that seemed to shift and evolve as it unfolded, challenging what audiences though they knew about the characters.

iKON‘s Bobby has opened up about former groupmate B.I and his feeling about the latter’s departure from the K-pop boyband in June 2019.Bobby spoke about B.I’s departure from the group in the comment section of a recent Instagram post on September 11, seemingly in response to discissions between fans about whether the group should reunite.In comments seen and archived by SBS Star and Koreaboo, the South Korean rapper said that he understands where fans are coming from, calling B.I his “brother”.“He did show some bad influence [on] our next gen[eration], but [I] can’t stop my love for him though,” Bobby added, while saying that B.I. “kno[w]s what he did was wrong and everything”.“I love him as much as you do.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor Nah Yung Suk, one of South Korea’s most successful TV producers, says the content marketplace in his home country has been divided into two distinct eras: “Before Netflix” and “After Netflix.” On the latest episode of Variety podcast “Strictly Business,” Nah Yung Suk offers his observations on the rise of Korean popular culture throughout the world. The producer’s latest series reflects the incredible global growth of content imports and exports: “Jinny’s Kitchen,” an unscripted series for Amazon Prime Video, revolves around the opening of Korean street food restaurant in a small town in southeastern Mexico.