Despite the popularity of Latin American telenovelas and more recently Turkish dramas in Eastern Europe, Korean dramas have somehow managed to carve some space on local television. Not much, but more opportunities await. Hungary was the first country to bring Korean dramas, with negotiations between Hungarian national broadcaster Magyar Televízió (MTVA) with KBS and MBC […]
On Monday 9 March, international Korean news, culture and entertainment channel, Arirang TV, announced agreements with the UK’s leading pay TV satellite operator, BSkyB, and the UK’s leading free-to-air satellite operator, Freesat (a JV between BBC and ITV). It is the first time the channel will be available on local satellite platforms. Although it could […]
Every year, increasing volumes of high quality TV productions come out of South Korea. Those include of course television series, also called “dramas”. Until recently, their international distribution had been on local specialized cable channels (KBS World, Arirang TV, Mnet, TKC, MBC America), sometimes on national broadcast channels (notably in South East Asia) and of […]