On November 24th was born the London Hallyu Society (LHS), a non-profit organization aimed at federating Londoners interested in “Korean dramas, K-pop and all the modern Korean art and entertainment.” That day is also the birthday of London Korean Drama Club’s founder, an unbelievably timely and ironic coincidence! The LHS was founded by two bubbly […]
Keli Lee, EVP Talent and Casting at Disney ABC, is relocating to London to take up a newly created role as managing director of international content and talent. She will report to ABC Entertainment Group president Paul Lee (British), and work closely with Samie Falvey, VP comedy and international scripted development, and Patrick Moran, VP of ABC […]
In preparation of our 2nd Daehan Drama Awards ceremony, which we expect to take place in the end of January 2016, we have the immense pleasure and honour to announce that the British Korean Society has elected the event as one of their recipients for its 2016 grant programme. The BKS was founded in 1956 […]
Ahead of its launch in South Korea next year, Netflix announced an investment in Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s new monster feature film, Okja. Not only this is the first time the now world’s leading streaming platform invests in a Korean filmmaker, but the amount is well above Bong’s most recent blockbuster movie, Snowpiercer, with an […]
While Viki has certainly experimented simulcast of Korean dramas in North America, this might be one of the first times that it does so in Europe too. Indeed, Tcast, the company behind cable channels DRAMAcube and E has closed a deal that will allow the original romantic comedy series Riders: Catch Tomorrow to become available on the streaming service at the same time as the Korean […]
Earlier this month, fans may have noticed a picture of Super Junior’s Si-won posted on his Instagram, showing the star’s head bleeding. The short-lived upload will have left you wondering whether he had actually been hurt for real or if that was a spoiler for an upcoming episode of his latest Korean drama series, She Was Pretty, […]
Viki, the leading global VOD platform for foreign-language dramas, and in particular Korean dramas, has reached 1 billion words translated on its site. In celebration of this milestone, Viki has launched the #1BillionWords campaign to honor Viki’s incredible online community and thank its fans by giving away some big prizes including Macbook Airs and Roku […]
On October 6, the Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK) unveiled the full programme of its annual London Korean Film Festival, which is celebrating its 10th year anniversary (interestingly, as old as the Seoul Drama Awards!). The screenings will take place in ten venues across London, an impressive increase on last year, even more so as its usual location […]
Ex-Model, the French-Chinese comedy webseries which reached 80 million views on Youku in China, will make its TV premiere tonight (Monday October 5th) on French Pay TV channel GONG BASE at 20:55. GONG BASE is a channel of GONG Networks, a French Pay TV group which is especially known in France for airing Korean dramas, and launching a TV channel […]
After DramaFever’s dive into original series with Heirs and Tomorrow Cantabile, we were waiting for competitor Viki to make a move. And it did, as on September 16th it revealed “Dramaworld“, a 10-episode comedy-drama set in Los Angeles and Seoul, to be coproduced with Jetavana Entertainment (China), EnterMedia Contents (the company behind a few of the U.S. […]