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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

Wanna One emerges as marketing blue chip

With the soaring popularity of boy band Wanna One, companies and broadcasters are capitalizing on Wanna One marketing strategies. Anything tied to the 11-member project K-pop boy band, formed from of the second season of Mnet survival talent show "Produce 101," enjoys high sales as soon as it hits the market. Some companies market their products by luring customers with oppor...

Dramas & TV shows | 2017-09-06 18:46

EBS, China co-produce program on Chinese industries

Amid a continuously strained relationship between Korea and China over the deployment of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery, an American anti-ballistic missile system, on the Korean peninsula, the Korean Educational Broadcasting System (EBS) TV will air “Big Bang China,” a program on the fourth industrial revolution of China co-produced with China’s Golden Eagle Documentary Channel (GEDC). EBS announced Wednesday that it has produced 10 documentary episodes together with GEDC over the past year. The EBS program will feature a series of episodes on the internet, industrial ...

Dramas & TV shows | 2017-09-06 16:31

Actress trio to take over small screen this fall

Three leading actresses are expected to show a strong presence on the small screen this fall. They are Ha Ji-won in MBC’s medical drama “Hospital Ship,” Chun Woo-hee in tvN’s fact-chasing journalist story “Argon” and Seo Hyun-jin starring in the upcoming SBS romantic comedy “Temperature of Love.” MBC’s new Wednesday-Thursday drama “Hospital Ship” develops around actress Ha, w...

Dramas & TV shows | 2017-09-04 18:40

Gay celebrity still wants to stand for local office governing Itaewon

“I want to become an elected official of Yongsan District and work with my ideas for the neighborhood I love,” Hong was quoted as saying in weekly news magazine Sisa Journal. “I want to show that a homosexual can also live successfully like this in Korean society. I believe that there’s more significance in me running for elective office as a homosexual.”

Dramas & TV shows | 2017-09-03 13:47

'Guardian' writer's new project goes to tvN

“Mr. Sunshine,” an upcoming television show written by writer and producer duo Kim Eun-sook and Lee Eung-bok, whose previous co-projects “Descendants of the Sun” and “Guardian: The Lonely and Great God,” were megahits, will be broadcast on tvN. This was a surprise for many, since it was largely predicted that major local broadcaster SBS, where Kim has worked for most of her p...

Dramas & TV shows | 2017-09-01 19:03

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