23 Jun
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While web content has been celebrated in the U.S. since 2010 with LA Webfest, only in 2015 a durable webfestival emerged in Asia: the KWebFest (there was a webfestival in Hong-Kong in 2013 but it didn’t live beyond its first edition).  Following its success, the Korean government is now launching an even more ambitious event, […]

17 Oct
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The buying spree started last year, when Japanese ecommerce giant, Rakuten, founded by Hiroshi Mikitani in 1997, announced in September 2013, that it would acquire Viki for $200 million. Although Viki streams a wide diversity of foreign-language series, its strongest programming has been Korean dramas. The move came up as Rakuten are investing heavily in […]