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Mon, September 25, 2017 | 13:28

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Foreigners' travel shows gaining popularity

“Welcome, First Time in Korea?” a travel show about foreigners visiting Korea for the first time, has been receiving strong responses from viewers, reviving the genre that has become a cliche on the small screen. The Thursday show airs on MBC Every1, MBC’s cable network, featuring foreign expats living in Korea who invite and show around their friends and relatives from their...

Dramas & TV shows | 2017-09-20 16:52

'Produce 101' producer plans for boys-vs-girls survival audition

Star producer Han Dong-chul, who has created a series of hit music shows including “Produce 101,” “Show Me the Money” and “Unpretty Rapstar” for Mnet, has revealed his next show “Mix Nine” will be a mixed gender reality singing competition. After joining YG as his new home, Han said “Mix Nine” will be a mixed gender reality singing competition show, where in the end the top n...

Dramas & TV shows | 2017-09-19 21:17

TV dramas diversified in format to fit changing market

Local dramas have been getting away from the previous norm that they should be 16- to 20-episode-long miniseries. Starting with cable networks, more major television dramas are now experimenting with various lengths. There are dramas with four, eight and 12 episodes, and the length of each episode varies from 10 to 70 minutes.

Dramas & TV shows | 2017-09-18 16:54

Journalists gaining popularity in screens

SBS drama “Falsify,” telling the story of media colluding with politicians and the prosecution to manipulate public opinion recently ended, topping the TV ratings. But, the live version of the drama is ongoing in Korea. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) revealed last Monday that the former president Lee Myung-bak administration created a blacklist of 82 artists to cut t...

Dramas & TV shows | 2017-09-17 18:25

Overdue wages top unfair practice for artists

More artists are reporting cases of unfair practices, according to a recent report revealed by a lawmaker. A paper analyzing a Korean Artists Welfare Foundation report on the culture industry's unfair practices, disclosed by the office of lawmaker Lee Eun-jae of the National Assembly Education, Culture, Sports, and Tourism Committee, Sunday, stated the number of reports on unfair practices is increasing annually. There were 150 reported cases last year which was an increase of 57.9 percent from the previous year with 95 cases. This year, the reported cases are numbered at 130 as of August an...

Dramas & TV shows | 2017-09-17 16:57

Viewers turning away from major broadcasters to cable networks

KBS, MBC and SBS, the three major broadcasters, are losing viewers. Their media credibility has hit rock bottom, as seen in the ongoing general strike of the unions of KBS and MBC, calling for autonomy in news coverage and the resignation of its top management, who allegedly meddled in news reporting to pander to the previous two governments. As the public broadcasters start ...

Dramas & TV shows | 2017-09-13 20:18

SBS chairman's resignation raises questions

Yoon Se-young, founder and chairman of SBS TV, has offered to step down, raising questions over the motive behind his sudden resignation. He has been accused of having given pro-government directions to employees under the previous Lee Myung-bak and Park Gyun-hye administrations. The largest shareholder of the main broadcaster, Yoon said Monday that he will step down as chair...

Dramas & TV shows | 2017-09-12 18:26

'Infinite Challenge' off air after 5 years as broadcasters' strike continues

As the union members of the two major public broadcasters KBS and MBC are on strike at the same time, both union and management have shown no signs of dialogue in the past week. The broadcasters’ all-out strike and production boycott are expected to continue. With no apparent party to mediate between both sides, the unions uphold their claim that they will come to the dialogu...

Dramas & TV shows | 2017-09-11 18:59

[INTERVIEW] 'Korea is having good moment because its culture has flowered'

“I was pretty convinced the moment I saw God’s Gift. That was North American television series. I didn’t have to think hard about it,” said Joe Broido, executive vice president of Canadian media production company Thunderbird Entertainment, who attended the Broadcast Worldwide 2017 (BCWW 2017), a broadcasting and media content festival, during the interview with The Korea Tim...

Dramas & TV shows | 2017-09-07 21:17

[INTERVIEW] 'What I like most of Korean drama is depth of emotion'

Hawaii Five-0 star Daniel Dae Kim, who is now a founder and director of a film and television production company 3AD, came to Seoul for 2017 BroadCast WorldWide (BCWW). The 49-year-old Korean American, after a successful 13 years on American TV, is producing the television series “The Good Doctor,” a reboot of the same name Korean 2013 KBS hit drama. “It will be the first Kor...

Dramas & TV shows | 2017-09-07 18:55

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