Western Europe has probably been the hardest market for Korean dramas to break into, given the already well established TV production industries, audiences’ preferences for local flavours and/or American crime procedurals and soaps, as well as strong disparities between countries. This is why we have chosen to start with this region to kick off our new […]
On November 24th was born the London Hallyu Society (LHS), a non-profit organization aimed at federating Londoners interested in “Korean dramas, K-pop and all the modern Korean art and entertainment.” That day is also the birthday of London Korean Drama Club’s founder, an unbelievably timely and ironic coincidence! The LHS was founded by two bubbly […]
Besides our main activity of promotion of Korean TV drama series in the UK, we have decided to launch an activity of distribution of Asian co-produced webseries under the umbrella of Daehan Drama. Our decision is based on the international market’s growing acceptance of webseries as professional and qualitative content: Previously ad-funded streaming services […]
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 […]
cool2vu, the new Korean entertainment VOD service from SyQic, previously available only in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, announced on March 9 the expansion of its two year agreement with Viki to cover additional markets. Those include South America, Central America and Europe. In other words, cool2vu is now available to watch in the United Kingdom! […]
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 […]