The trailer for Chinese epic feature film Dragon Blade, starring Jackie Chan as well as Hollywood actors Adrian Brody and John Cusack, has been published on YouTube by online magazine CHECK, on December 25. JoyN’Contents will distribute the film in South Korea, but it is yet to be confirmed if it will be released in […]
Actor Jung Il-woo has published several pictures on his Instagram, indicating he is currently traveling around Europe. After France, where he visited Mont Saint Michel and Paris, his latest stop was London, with a picture of him waiting for the underground at Shoreditch station on Thursday 18 December. Jung Il-woo’s TV drama credits include 49 […]
On November 26, the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) made public the results of a study it conducted in the United States about the consumption of Korean television dramas. Just to put this is context, KOCCA supports the promotion of Korean creative industries in international markets, and as such this study shall serve the companies […]
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 […]
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 […]
We recently announced our partnership with Viki recently and part of it, we will be regularly announcing new Korean dramas available to stream in the UK. There are currently 167 Korean dramas available on the platform. The specificity of Viki is also it’s ability to bring to you several Korean dramas that are still airing […]
After six years of trying, Western markets finally started to open up. Turkey was the first of them. Fox Turkey picked up the format rights for popular drama I’m Sorry, I Love You from KBS and broadcast it in March 2013. Later that year, in October 2013, Turkey’s Show TV repeated the experience with King of Baking, Kim […]
Viki is a video streaming website headquartered in Singapore. It initially came to life in 2007 as a class project, aiming at using YouTube videos as a tool for language learning, between Stanford’s Razmig Hovaghimian and Harvard’s Changseong Ho and Jiwon Moon. Given the nationality of its cofounders but also the fact Razmig had been […]
We are aware that we talked quite a bit (too much?) about My Lover from Another Star in these past few weeks, with our first London Korean Drama Club event, the release of the OST CD at Hmart UK, and the release of the DVD through YesAsia.com… and yet, there is still much to say! […]