In this 2016 edition, the UK was featured with great honor as BBC’s The Night Manager, produced by The Ink Factory, and starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie, won the GRAND PRIZE at the awards ceremony. Susanne Bier also won the Best Director award in the individual categories. Meanwhile, Viki’s first original TV series DRAMAWORLD was […]
Jason Bechervaise is a British journalist and Korean film critic who took part in the SDA 2016 preliminary selection as a mini-series juror. As a huge fan of Korean movies, he comments for various media such as EBS, Arirang TV, TBS and has experience participating as juror in various film festivals. We met with Jason, […]
The official call for entries for the Seoul International Drama Awards 2016 ended on May 6. 265 TV entries from 51 countries around the world have been submitted, the highest number since the festival’s inception in 2006 (that’s 2,042 TV entries in 11 years). This total breaks down as follow: 62 TV movies; 120 mini-series; […]
The submissions for the Seoul Drama Awards 2016 have been open for a little more than a month now. The 11th edition of the festival will be telecast on KBS on September 8, and as usual, TV creatives can submit their TV movies, mini-series and TV series for consideration Deadline is Friday May 6th at 11:59PM […]
French Kdrama lovers are really spoiled. To kick off 2016, France’s leading media group has selected four emblematic Korean dramas for its fledging streaming service, MyTF1 Xtra, thanks to a partnership with DramaPassion, leading distributor of Korean drama TV series in Europe. Here is the selection they are proposing for free (with advertising): My Love […]
We were very privileged to attend the 10th edition of the Seoul Drama Awards. Not only the ceremony was skilfully and meticulously organized, but the number of high profile talents both hosting and receiving prizes on stage was unprecedented. We will provide further details on the events in a further post, but in the meantime, […]
The Seoul Drama Awards published their 8th web magazine today, which will be the last before the event. Both the detailed schedule and information about titles to air on Korean TV were announced. Most importantly, the Seoul Drama Awards ceremony will take place at 11:15PM at Sang-nam MBC Culture Plaza and will be broadcast on […]
We are glad to bring to you the list of nominees for this year’s SDA, fresh from their webmagazine 7. “With a total of 212 entries from 48 different countries, 24 titles have been selected, with 8 per category: TV movie, mini-series and TV series. Nominees for the TV Movies category are: My Home, My […]
Today, the Seoul Drama Awards organizers published their 6th Web Magazine, revealing exciting news about their 10th edition. A press conference was confirmed on August 11, at which both jurors and hosts of the Seoul Drama Awards 2015 will be announced. We look forward to see who will be choosing the winners this year, especially […]
Thanks to our partnership with the Seoul Drama Awards, as their only foreign-based online supporters (yes!), we have been invited to attend the events of South Korea’s most prestigious TV drama awards ceremony on September 8, 9 and 10. We still have to buy our flight tickets and find accommodation though. The UK has historically been the […]