Votes for this year’s Soompi awards came to a close and results have now been revealed. Between 21 December 2015 and 7 January 2016, 40 million votes have been submitted by fans from 139 countries, from Finland to Ghana passing by Qatar – a 70% increase on last year. The Soompi awards aim to celebrate […]
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 […]
This is the time of the year where you go back home to your family and loved ones. So why not take this opportunity to enjoy together a selection of feel-good Korean dramas. For this occasion, Viki is launching its own ‘Holiday Feel-Good Dramas’ Collection, which includes a few exclusives such as Birth of […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
It seems Korean talents are ever more numerous to visit London for whatever reason. To study English (Jeon Hye-bin), spend time with family (Han Hye-jin), visit (Jung Il-woo), attend a film festival (Dong-hae) or film a TV show (EXO)… the reasons are plenty, emphasizing the increasing appeal of British culture in South Korea. This time, it’s […]
The trailer for Chinese epic feature film Dragon Blade, starring Jackie Chan as well as Hollywood actors Adrian Brody and John Cusack, has been published on YouTube by online magazine CHECK, on December 25. JoyN’Contents will distribute the film in South Korea, but it is yet to be confirmed if it will be released in […]