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 […]
While Viki has certainly experimented simulcast of Korean dramas in North America, this might be one of the first times that it does so in Europe too. Indeed, Tcast, the company behind cable channels DRAMAcube and E has closed a deal that will allow the original romantic comedy series Riders: Catch Tomorrow to become available on the streaming service at the same time as the Korean […]
Earlier this month, fans may have noticed a picture of Super Junior’s Si-won posted on his Instagram, showing the star’s head bleeding. The short-lived upload will have left you wondering whether he had actually been hurt for real or if that was a spoiler for an upcoming episode of his latest Korean drama series, She Was Pretty, […]
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 […]
After DramaFever’s dive into original series with Heirs and Tomorrow Cantabile, we were waiting for competitor Viki to make a move. And it did, as on September 16th it revealed “Dramaworld“, a 10-episode comedy-drama set in Los Angeles and Seoul, to be coproduced with Jetavana Entertainment (China), EnterMedia Contents (the company behind a few of the U.S. […]
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 […]
We are glad to announce that we are now one of very select affiliates of Korean language website 90 Day Korean. 90 Day Korean has come a long way since they first released our 90 Minute Challenge to learn the Korean alphabet in late 2013. Many now use their resources to study Korean in the comfort […]
After the success of last year’s Daehan Drama Awards, we have been working actively towards a regular event at which fresh new Korean dramas would be screened and fans would get together. The initial aim of the London Korean Drama Club since its inception in April 2014 is about to become a reality, thanks to […]
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 […]