K-drama
Inside Singapore’s new Korean luxury confinement centre that costs S$35,000 for a 2-week stay
DeRama’s facility here is its first overseas outpost
Warner joins race to develop K-drama with South Korea streaming deal
US media giant will host streaming service TVING on its HBO Max platform across 17 Asian markets
K-drama giant CJ to spend one trillion won yearly to fight Hollywood
CJ ENM plans to spend one trillion won (S$972 million) annually on content, as South Korea’s largest entertainment company tries to better compete with Hollywood and pull its business out of a funk.
How Netflix plans total global domination, one Korean drama at a time
THEY met in a 20th-floor conference room in Seoul named for one successful project with Korean talent – “Okja,” a 2017 film of one girl’s devotion to a genetically modified super pig – to discuss what...
Netflix outlines US$2.5 billion South Korean bet as K-drama mania grows
NETFLIX promised to back and cultivate the South Korean showrunners and studios behind viral shows like Squid Game, outlining how it plans to spend some of the US$2.5 billion it’s earmarked for K-dram...
Netflix sensation ‘The Glory’ spurs bullying crackdown in South Korea
FOR two straight weeks last month, a South Korean drama series called The Glory was the most-watched show on Netflix, performing near the top of the charts in more than 90 countries, from India to Ar...
Hedge fund bets next Korean hit will be webtoons
Following the success of K-pop bands such as BTS and dramas including Squid Game, one fund manager is betting that “webtoons” will be the next Korean cultural phenomenon to take the world by storm.
Vietnam requests Netflix remove K-drama over war ‘distortion’
VIETNAM has asked Netflix to stop showing South Korean drama series “Little Women” in the South-east Asian country, alleging the series distorted events of the Vietnam War, state media said on Wednesd...
K-pop names are the biggest bet for US$2.5b Korea fund
VIP Research & Management got into K-pop and drama-related shares even before “Squid Game” sparked a global boom in South Korean entertainment, and it remains bullish on the sector after those bets pa...
