On September 24, The Hospital Club welcomed a number of important personalities from the Korean drama industry, as producers and executives from the major broadcasters came to attend a K-Drama Showcase – part of the KCCUK’s K-Drama Week. After a first session dedicated to explore collaboration opportunities between South Korea and the UK, which the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Today, Monday 13 October, DramaFever will premiere its second coproduction project, Tomorrow’s Cantabile, based on the popular Japanese manga, on its VOD service in North America and Latin America. Its first venture was with Hwa & Dam Pictures for The Heirs, a 20-episode romantic drama series starring Lee Min-ho (Boys Over Flowers, City Hunter) and […]
In February 2014, Crunchyroll followed the lead of Viki and DramaFever and entered the competition for streaming of Korean TV dramas in the U.S. and Canada, with a service called “KDrama”. After the service has likely struggled to find its audience, Crunchyroll and Soompi have concluded a partnership to launch SoompiTV. Soompi is the longest […]
London, 6 October, 2014: The London Korean Drama Club is pleased to announce that the 1st Daehan Drama Awards will take place on Friday 10 October 6.30pm at the Bulgari Hotel in Knightsbridge, London. The event will be attended by actresses Tiana Kim, Kunjue Li and kayagum-acoustic guitar duo KAYA. The ceremony will see 11 […]
We have been relatively silent over the past two weeks, both because of vacation time and as we were thinking about exciting events to organize for you. But now we are back and can reveal more about the Running Man events we are planning. Let’s start with our first event and further posts will detail […]
Running Man is without doubt the most internationally popular Korean TV show, having gathered a massive following not only in South Korea, but also in other parts of Asia, and beyond. As such some episodes could be shot in foreign locations such as Thailand, China, Indonesia and even Australia. Many UK-based fans have also displayed […]
While already a few feature films were present on the DramaFever VOD platform, they were mostly independent catalogue Korean films and unfortunately are only viewable in the United States at the moment. Beyond the classic Death Bell (2008) and The Man from Nowhere (2010), only one recent movie was there: The Heaven is Open to […]
The second London Korean Drama Club MeetUp took place exactly one week ago, and we did even better than the first time. Indeed, we were lucky to have the full restaurant of Yijo Korean BBQ only for us. In total, 12 people attended, including almost all those who had confirmed. We welcomed a few new […]