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Korean food Korean food makers set sights on Europe with vegan, sugar-free offerings

PARIS – South Korean food companies such as Pulmuone Corp., Lotte Wellfood Co., Ottogi Corp. and Maeil Dairies Co. are gearing up for their ex...

Korean stock market Mobility firms, banks replace battery, K-culture stocks in KEDI 30 Index

Mobility, financial services and biotech companies have elbowed out battery and entertainment stocks in the KEDI Innovator ESG 30 Index in an annual...

Entertainment LG Uplus to produce live-action robot drama

South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. announced plans to partner with SAMG Entertainment and HighZium Studio Co. to create Korean-style robot content, aimi...

Private equity Q Capital named K-drama maker Chorokbaem's preferred bidder

Seoul-based private equity firm Q Capital Partners seeks to buy a 39.3% stake with management rights in South Korean drama series producer Chorokbae...

Korean food Lotte Wellfood, Studio Dragon to collaborate on K-contents

South Korea's Lotte Wellfood Co. announced on Friday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with K-drama producer Studio Dragon to col...

K-pop Blackpink label YG to sell drama production unit

K-pop sensation Blackpink’s label YG Entertainment Inc. is slated to sell 60% of its drama production subsidiary Studioplex later this year, t...

Artificial intelligence S.Korea’s KT to innovate media, content businesses with AI

South Korea’s telecom giant KT Corp. is set to innovate its media and content businesses with artificial intelligence as it seeks new growth d...

Travel & Leisure Foreign visitors to S.Korea on course to top 10 mn milestone

The number of foreign visitors to South Korea spiked 158.3% to 1.23 million in October from the month previous, the Korea Tourism Organization said ...

Entertainment Disney Plus movin’ on up in Korea with hit K-drama series 'Moving'

Disney Plus, a global over-the-top (OTT) streaming service provider, is rapidly enhancing its presence in South Korea, with its latest original seri...

Entertainment K-drama hitmaker Studio Dragon in crisis as content head resigns

Studio Dragon Corp., a South Korean production company of Netflix hits such as "The Glory" and "Crash Landing on You," said on Monday its co-Chief E...

Travel & Leisure Yanolja looks to triple foreign visitors to Korea with K-culture tours

South Korea’s top travel and accommodation platform Yanolja Co. aims to nearly treble the number of foreign tourists to the country through it...

Korean startups S.Korean startup Drama & Company introduces AI talent recruiter

Drama & Company, the developer of South Korea’s popular cloud-based business card management app Remember, is readying its next business w...

Perspectives US default drama is last thing South Korea needs

At a White House dinner last month, Yoon Suk Yeol turned heads singing Don McLean’s “American Pie.” It was a uniquely lighthearted m...

Content platforms Netflix to inject $2.5 bn in Korean drama series, movies over next 4 years

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  US streaming giant Netflix is slated to invest $2.5 billion in South Korea over the next four years to boost its cont...

Culture & Trends 'Extraordinary Attorney Woo' maker to create webtoon-based K-drama series

KT Skylife Co., a broadcasting unit within South Korean telecom behemoth KT Corp., is slated to boost its investment in intellectual property conten...

Metaverse Caliverse, KT Alpha join hands to add K-pop to metaverse

Caliverse, a subsidiary of Lotte Data Communication, said on Thursday that it has signed an agreement to expand the range of immersive metaverse con...

Culture & Trends Extraordinary Attorney Woo is most popular content on KT's Genie TV

The drama with the most purchases this year on Genie TV, internet protocol TV (IPTV) service of KT Corp., is the hit legal drama "Extraordinary Atto...

Venture capital VC firms rake in profit of up to 6 times principal from Raemongraein

Venture capital firms that invested in media production company Raemongraein Co. raked in significant profit from the surge in popularity of the TV ...

Entertainment CJ ENM’s TVing looks beyond Korea with Yonder, other K-drama series

South Korean entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM Co.’s over-the-top streaming platform TVing is taking its original sci-fi drama series Beyond the...

Entertainment Squid Game makes Rolling Stone's 100 greatest TV shows list

Netflix original South Korean drama "Squid Game" has been selected as one of the 100 greatest TV shows of all time by US music and pop culture magaz...

Entertainment Squid Game wins Emmy awards for best actor, director

LOS ANGELES, California -- Netflix mega-hit Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk each bagged an Emmy trophy Monday night in Los ...

Entertainment China's high entry barriers for Korean films, dramas

“Oh! My Gran” was the only South Korean movie to hit the big screen in China in the past year. It was also the first Korean film to be p...

Content platforms KT spurs content creation with hot Netflix drama Attorney Woo

On the heels of South Korea's successful Netflix drama "Squid Game" comes drama series “Extraordinary Attorney Woo." It has topped the streami...

Entertainment CJ ENM, Naver to launch drama studio joint venture in Japan

South Korean entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM Co. and online platform giant Naver Corp. are launching a drama production studio in Japan to tap into ...

Tech, Media & Telecom KT to build media value chain with $4.1 bn content sales by 2025

KT Corp., a major South Korean telecommunications company, on Thursday unveiled an ambitious goal to become the country’s leading media and co...

Food & Beverage Daesang’s first Korean kimchi plant in US up and running

South Korean food maker Daesang Corp. has completed the construction of a kimchi plant in the US, its first factory outside Asia, which the company ...

Entertainment Costa Rican president: His family K-drama fans, seeks joint production

Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado Quesada has praised South Korean movies such as the Oscar-winning Parasite and drama series such as Squid Game...

Entertainment Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ Is the Dystopian Hit No One Wanted—Until Everyone Did

SEOUL—South Korea’s dystopian drama “Squid Game” might become Netflix Inc.’s biggest hit ever. But for a dec...

Tech crackdown bites Korea Inc.

Investors are selling technology stocks in a major Asian economy on regulatory worries just as one of the country’s biggest online payment com...

Mergers & Acquisitions TikTok owner ByteDance in talks to invest $43 mn in Korea’s KidariStudio

South Korea’s online content platform KidariStudio Inc. will likely attract 50 billion won ($43 million) from China’s ByteDance Ltd., th...