It seems like all our efforts towards promoting cultural diversity on British TV screens have not been vain, as Channel 4 unveiled today a brand-new TV service dedicated to showcasing foreign-language drama series from around the world. 4World Drama will indeed be exclusively available in the U.K. through C4’s new digital hub, All 4 (replacing 4oD), thanks to a […]
On June 4, the Korea Tourism Organization announced the first details on the upcoming “London Korean Festival – Imagine your Korea”, which we could also call “Korea Day”. Indeed, as most Sundays dedicated to a specific country, the London Korean Festival will take over Trafalgar Square on August 9th from 12pm to 8.30pm. The event is backed […]
cool2vu, the Korean drama and entertainment free VOD service from UK-based SyQic, has been implementing several updates to its offering. First and most obvious of all is the new layout: – shifting from a light blue to pink; – a web banner with its tagline: “Your home for Korean entertainment, everyday!” – a simplified and […]
The panel talk we were planning for our 4th London Korean Drama Screening will now take place at our 5th screening on July 2nd. However, you are still welcome to attend, and of course watch the pilot episodes of Mama (MBC) and Big Man (KBS). We will be there too and happy to meet you […]
It seems FestivalAsia was just the beginning of a month full of great events. Indeed, this coming weekend will take place the May edition of the UK’s largest popular culture exhibition: MCM London Comic Con! We were lucky enough, last year, to be able to interview rising actress Arden Cho (Teen Wolf) at the November […]
As the media environment shifts from television to the internet, web series are emerging as a new growing cultural content. Web tunes, web novels, and more recently web dramas, which can all be viewed online, are growing in popularity. Web series, produced in a variety of ways and categorized in different genres, are called web […]
PLEASE NOTE WE SCREEN ONLY THE FIRST EPISODE (PILOT) OF EACH DRAMA SERIES. Starting from 19:00, Korean TV drama fans are invited to join the fourth event of the yearly London Korean Drama Screenings on Thursday 4 June, from 7:00pm. The pilot épisodes to be screened will be from: Mama (마마 – 세상 무서울 게 없는) First Broadcast: […]
Registrations for the Seoul Drama Awards 2015 just came to an end on April 30 23:59. While Korean TV dramas traditionally constitute the centre piece of the country’s most prestigious TV event, foreign TV fiction is taking a larger space across the TV series, miniseries and TV movie categories. Three Korean dramas will be competing […]
We are only two weeks away from the first edition of FestivalAsia. To help you navigate the event, and if you are especially interested in discovering different aspects of Korean culture, here is what you will be able to see: FOOD COURT Korrito: Launched by sister and brother Joo and Sukho Lee in June 2013, […]
Based on the votes of thousands of websurfers, the French-Chinese coproduction Ex-Model – we previously mentioned – was awarded the best webseries award at this year’s Séries Mania TV festival in Paris. The closing ceremony took place on April 25, after a full week of screenings which saw more than 22,000 guests visited the Forum des […]