PORORO THE LITTLE PENGUIN Launches Daily TV Broadcasts in Brazil

The Korean animated series Pororo the Little Penguin has made his way to Brazilian broadcast TV airwaves. Contents 360, which handles the license for the Pororo brand in Brazil, announced the computer-animated series began airing on Brazilian terrestrial broad...

Jikji in Drama

A new TV series will be made about Jikjisimcheyojeol (Jikji), the oldest movable metal print book in the world. Jikji (working title) will be produced by IMTV, the company behind SBS drama series Reunited Worlds and KBS drama series Spy (2015). The production ...

PARK Ki-yong’s OLD LOVE Goes to Berlin

PARK Ki-yong’s latest film Old Love has been invited to the 68th Berlin International Film Festival which will be held next February. Old Love will be an official selection in the festival’s Forum section, which introduces independent, experimental and documen...

Based on a Korean Series, THE GOOD DOCTOR Gets Full-Season Order From ABC

first two episodes result revealced rate 2.2%, increase the number of times being broadcasted The Good Doctor, an American remake of the Korean TV series of the same name which aired on KBS, has received a full-season order from ABC. Foreign news outlets, incl...

Comfort Woman Court Drama Subpoenas KIM Hae-sook and KIM Hee-ae

Following 2015’s The Treacherous, Director MIN Kyu-dong is getting ready to return with his seventh film, Her Story (working title). Based on real court testimonies from the 1990s about the ordeals suffered by comfort women, the drama will feature KIM Hae-sook...

LKFF Stages BAEK Yoon-sik Retrospective

Veteran character actor BAEK Yoon-sik will be the focus of a retrospective at the London Korean Film Festival, which kicked off its 11th edition on Thursday the 3rd of November. The program will feature five of his films, ranging from 2003’s cult classic Save ...

BAEK Yoon-sik and SUNG Dong-il Dive into ARIDONG

Save the Green Planet (2003) star BAEK Yoon-sik is teaming up with fellow Korean film industry veteran SUNG Dong-il for Aridong, a new investigative thriller from director KIM Hong-sun of The Con Artists (2014). The film is based on a popular webtoon called Ar...

N.E.W, Jackpot with DESCENDANTS OF THE SUN, a TV Drama

Breaking Even, Even Before Being on Air Next Entertainment World (N.E.W,), a content distribution company, is making great news with the performance of Descendants of the Sun, a KBS TV drama. It is a N.E.W. product, written by KIM Eun-suk of The Heirs, featur...

January Bows for THE HIMALAYAS and THE TIGER in North America

Korea’s End-of-Year Hits Invade the States Currently charting in Korea, blockbusters The Himalayas and The Tiger are both currently on re-lease in North America. CJ Entertainment America debuted LEE Seok-hoon’s mountaineering drama The Himalayas on January 1s...

Yoon-a Joins Hyun-bin on COOPERATION

Girls' Generation Singer Boards New Action Film Popular K-pop star Yoon-a, a member of the group Girls' Generation, has landed a leading role in the North Korea-themed action-thriller Cooperation opposite Hyun-bin. From director KIM Sung-hoon, who pre...