Viki’s first original series DRAMAWORLD is set to become exclusively available on the global site powered by fans on Sunday 17 April, worldwide excluding China and South Korea. The 10-episode web comedy-drama is set in Los Angeles and South Korea, written in both English and Korean, and aimed at the fast-growing global fan base of […]
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. […]
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 […]
There were 21 East Asian films at this year’s London BFI Film Festival, a very limited representation within the overall selection of 248 films (8.5%). Leading the selection was China, Japan and South Korea. Several films were entered under both China and Hong-Kong, suggesting how interconnected the two film industries have become. As the Chinese […]