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BTOB’s Yook Sung-jae signs with iWill Media after leaving Cube Entertainment

BTOB's Yook Sung-jae signed an exclusive contract with production company iWill Media, it said Friday. Yook's contract with his former agency, Cube Entertainment, ended in November. "We will...

‘Concrete Utopia’ delivers potent message on Korean’s obsession with property

  The movie begins with a TV documentary about a towering apartment complex in Seoul. The newscaster reports on how apartments have transformed Korean society....

‘The Glory’ dominated Netflix in 2023

Korean Netflix original series “The Glory” was the third-most watched content on Netflix during the first half of 2023. Netflix released a list of the...

Interview with actor Lee Byung-hun about Korea’s Oscar entry ‘Concrete Utopia’

  The film "Concrete Utopia" (directed by Um Tae-hwa), featuring Lee Byung-hun, has been selected as the South Korean entry for the Best International Feature...

Park Bo-young aims to break mental illness stigma in Netflix series

Actor Park Bo-young says her new Netflix drama, “Daily Dose of Sunshine,” in which she stars as a nurse in a psychiatric ward, approaches mental...

‘Beyond Utopia’ vividly depicts desperate escapes of North Korean defectors

  The surge in North Korean defectors began in earnest in the mid-1990s. Even after their escape, they face serious human rights violations in their...

Upcoming Korean films in limbo due to Lee Sun-kyun drug allegations

After being summoned by the police a second time over the weekend, actor Lee Sun-kyun admitted that he did take illegal drugs, but said he...

‘Sweet Home’ season 2 to be released on Dec. 1

The second season of "Sweet Home," a Netflix original zombie series, will be released on Dec. 1, three years after its successful debut in...

Cho Jin-woong to replace Lee Sun-kyun in upcoming drama

Actor Cho Jin-woong is set to replace Lee Sun-kyun in the upcoming drama “No Way Out,” after the latter has been implicated in a drug investigation...

Oh Jung-se’s agency apologizes after actor’s manager kills man in car crash

Actor Oh Jung-se's agency issued an apology after a van the actor's manager was driving killed a man in his 60s. According to police reports,...