EXCLUSIVE: K-content venture Utopai East has acquired Alquimista Media, the Seoul-based production house led by former Warner Bros. Korea boss and DramaFever co-founder Hyun Park. The deal for 100% of Alquimista hands Utopai a slate of 15 scripted television and feature film projects in active…

K-content remains the most-watched genre on Netflix bar English-language film and TV, and a showcase of the streamer’s new Korea content points to a busy 2026. With billions of dollars already ploughed into Korean originals, all of the 34 series or films on the slate revealed yesterday have been…

Ahn Sung-ki, star of more than 100 Korean movies who was dubbed “the nation’s actor,” died January 5 in Seoul. He was 74. After suffering from blood cancer for years, he died at Seoul's Soonchunhyang University Hospital, his agency, the Artist Company, said in a social media post. “Sung-gi Ahn…

Lee Soo-man’s career has soared through what seems like three different chapters: First, he was a singer-songwriter in the 1970s, and then he founded Korean music giant SM Entertainment in the 1990s, launching some of the country’s most influential music groups such as H.O.T., Girls’ Generation, Exo…

EXCLUSIVE: Manta, the subscription webcomics platform, has since its launch five years ago been at the forefront of the Hallyu wave that has spread Korean culture around the world. Based out of Seoul and owned by the giant RIDI Corporation, the company has focused on bringing K-comics to readers…

Korean audiences will soon get an opportunity to sniff out traitors. Korean actor Cha Seung-won is hosting a local version of the global phenomenon from Luyworks Media and Something Special. More than 30 territories have now commissioned local versions of The Traitors, which sees a group of…

EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Dae Kim and CNN are getting under the skin of the global Korean pop culture movement. The actor-producer will front K-Everything, a four-part CNN travel series in which he will go on a quest to discover how South Korea has sparked a global pop culture movement, driving trends…

Disney+ and South Korea’s TVING are launching a landmark bundle. The streamers will collaborate to provide integrated subscriptions that will allow consumers to access Disney+, TVING and Wavve at lower costs than individual deal pricing. The offer kicks off today. Disney claims this is the…

Disney+ has renewed Korean crime series Made In Korea for a second season, with Season 1 debuting on the platform on December 24 this year. Season 1 stars Hyun Bin (Crash Landing On You, Confidential Assignment), Jung Woosung (12.12: The Day, Hunt) and Woo Dohwan (My Puppy, Bloodhounds), who all…

Disney+ unveiled Korea-Japan series Merry Berry Love (working title), starring Ji Changwook (The Manipulated) and Mio Imada (Tokyo Revengers). The romantic comedy follows a down-on-luck Korean spatial designer Lee Yubin (played by Ji) and a strawberry farmer Karin Shirahama (played by Imada)…

Netflix’s nation-on-nation battle in Physical: Asia is heating up, with half the season’s episodes now released. Future U.S. and Italian spinoffs are also on the horizon. Physical Asia has already soared to the third spot on the platform’s Top 10 Global Non-English series list, with two new…

EXCLUSIVE: L.A.’s Utopai Studios and global tech firm Stock Farm Road are looking for the next KPop Demon Hunters. The pair are planning a joint venture, Utopai Studios East, which will bring more K-content into the U.S and build connections between Korea and Hollywood, using AI expert Utopai’s…