On Monday 9 March, international Korean news, culture and entertainment channel, Arirang TV, announced agreements with the UK’s leading pay TV satellite operator, BSkyB, and the UK’s leading free-to-air satellite operator, Freesat (a JV between BBC and ITV). It is the first time the channel will be available on local satellite platforms. Although it could […]
After the success of last year’s Daehan Drama Awards, we have been working actively towards a regular event at which fresh new Korean dramas would be screened and fans would get together. The initial aim of the London Korean Drama Club since its inception in April 2014 is about to become a reality, thanks to […]
SyQic, fast growing provider of live TV and on-demand video content across mobile and internet enabled consumer devices, announced, on February 3, strategic moves into the Korean TV drama on-demand landscape. Firstly, SyQic rebranded Malaysia’s leading K-drama VOD platform “Maaduu” – which it acquired in August 2014 – to “cool2vu”. The new name shall help […]
In the path of its mainstream cousins, Netflix, Amazon and Hulu – among others -, DramaFever launched its own production studio to create original webseries aimed at growing its subscription base, but also increasing the interactions among the online community, in particular through its YouTube channel. After launching its first webseries in mid-2013, the DramaFever […]
We were recently mentioned Judy Joo in relation to the opening of her own restaurant, Jinjuu, as well as our own MeetUp event. It turns out that the celebrity chef will also have her own TV show – Korean Food Made Simple – broadcast on UK television, more precisely Food Network UK. The show premieres today, […]
After adding new Korean dramas in October and providing Korean drama fans with an incredibly low yearly subscription fee of $11.88, DramaFever is adding exciting Korean dramas as well as Taiwanese dramas still airing. It confirms DramaFever’s strategic decision to add dramas from other Asian countries, and not any Asian country, but the country which was once the leading […]
If you attended our events last year, you will know that we had a delicious Korean barbecue dinner at Yijo near Finchley Road (the same event actually advertised in an article recently published on Korea.net). They also joined us for the Daehan Drama Awards and offered a free cooking class for the lucky first prize […]
A little later than expected, but as we say ‘better late than never’, the newest and most talked-about Korean restaurant of the past few months is to open in Soho on January 9, i.e. today! Jinjuu is the brainchild of Judy Joo, a Korean-American entrepreneur who traded a successful banking career for a place in […]
On Friday 2 January, EXO’s Se-hun, Su-ho, Xiu-min and Kai landed at London Heathrow Airport and made their way through a hysterical crowd of fans. But, despite being Kpop stars, the reason they came to London was not a concert, but a vacation reality TV show called ‘One Fine Day‘ for the MBC Music cable […]
Clara Lee, also known as just ‘Clara’, announced today that she will be going to the United States for an audition in February. She is following the path of other high-profile and rising Korean actors who have recently made the move and signed with agencies over there, Lee Byung-hun, Ha Ji-won and Claudia Kim. Despite […]