A second season of bilingual series “Dramaworld” takes to the airwaves across Asia from this week. The show is a fantasy about an American K-drama fan-girl who is supernaturally transported into the Korean drama scene and there must save her favorite leading man.
In Korea itself “Dramaworld” will play from Friday on A+E Networks’ Lifetime Korea channel and on the Cj Enm-backed streamer TVing. In Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia it will play out on the international service of Chinese streamer iQIYI, while in Japan its home will be the country’s number three streamer U-Next.
In its first iteration, as a web drama with mini episodes, the show played from 2016 on Netflix and the Rakuten-owned streamer Viki.
Now presented as a long-form drama, the series was written by Josh Billig and Chris Martin, with Martin directing all episodes. Production was through Korean-American company Third Culture Content and Raemongraein a.
In Korea itself “Dramaworld” will play from Friday on A+E Networks’ Lifetime Korea channel and on the Cj Enm-backed streamer TVing. In Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia it will play out on the international service of Chinese streamer iQIYI, while in Japan its home will be the country’s number three streamer U-Next.
In its first iteration, as a web drama with mini episodes, the show played from 2016 on Netflix and the Rakuten-owned streamer Viki.
Now presented as a long-form drama, the series was written by Josh Billig and Chris Martin, with Martin directing all episodes. Production was through Korean-American company Third Culture Content and Raemongraein a.
- 3/31/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Four years after the time-travelling love story “Will You Be There?”, director Hong Ji-young is back with her newest project “New Year Blues”, a a feel-good holiday film that will probably mean most to regular watchers of K-Dramas.
Synopsis
“New Year Blues” is based on the romantic one week of four couples who overcome different fears before the new year.
“New Year Blues” stars a plethora of K-Drama stars, including Yoo Yeon-seok, who had a successful 2020 after starring in “Steel Rain 2: Summit” on the big screen and “Hospital Playlist” on tv, Kim Kang-woo, Yoo In-na, Lee Yeon-hee, Lee Dong-hwi, Chinese film and tv actress Chen Duling (“My Left Ear”) and Yum Hye-ran, among others. It is scheduled to be one of the final releases of the year, with a late-December 2020 release anticipated.
Synopsis
“New Year Blues” is based on the romantic one week of four couples who overcome different fears before the new year.
“New Year Blues” stars a plethora of K-Drama stars, including Yoo Yeon-seok, who had a successful 2020 after starring in “Steel Rain 2: Summit” on the big screen and “Hospital Playlist” on tv, Kim Kang-woo, Yoo In-na, Lee Yeon-hee, Lee Dong-hwi, Chinese film and tv actress Chen Duling (“My Left Ear”) and Yum Hye-ran, among others. It is scheduled to be one of the final releases of the year, with a late-December 2020 release anticipated.
- 11/27/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
The subject of domestic violence against children is a very delicate one that has often been interpreted in cinema to various degrees of success. Hirokazu Koreeda’s “Shoplifters” is probably the most famous Asian production to touch on the topic, while in Korea, “Miss Baek” a couple of years back, told a very strong and necessary story on it as well. The K-Drama “Mother”, itself an adaptation of a Japanese tv drama, is also a series worthy of mention on the issue. Seven years after his last work “I am the King”, director Jang Gyu-sung returns to tell yet another story, purportedly based on a true story, on the subject.
Small-town resident Jang-yeob, who has studied to be a lawyer, is having a hard time finding a job in Seoul with a good law firm. To help his sister out, at whose place he’s crashing, and to be active...
Small-town resident Jang-yeob, who has studied to be a lawyer, is having a hard time finding a job in Seoul with a good law firm. To help his sister out, at whose place he’s crashing, and to be active...
- 10/9/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
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