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 […]
Today is a big day for UK-based Korean drama fans. It has indeed come to our attention, as well to our friends at UnitedKpop, that Korean dramas have been made available on Netflix UK. The selection is definitely female-skewing with mostly romance and romantic comedy dramas (likely released on Valentine’s Day!): Falling for Innocence aka Beating […]
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 […]
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 […]