Korean series have been to Berlin, Lake Brienz, Granada, Zakynthos and thirteen towns in Slovenia. For Austria I can find two, the more recent from 2014. A stocktake with sources, and an attempt at an honest answer. I have collected…
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Boos at Cannes, a rewritten villain and a six-month campaign to the Oscars: Bong Joon-ho between Seoul and Hollywood.
How BTS became the first all-South Korean act to top the Billboard Hot 100, and what that teaches film and series producers.
Two Korean negotiations with Netflix, a few years apart, with opposite outcomes — and what European producers can learn from them.
Where the storytelling of Austen and Brontë lives today – in cinemas, on streaming and in Korean series. With figures and a caveat.
Why Korean series run to sixteen episodes, why that is not a philosophy of storytelling, and what it means for a co-production.
Korea buys Suits and Money Heist and sells Good Doctor and The Masked Singer. What remakes reveal about the countries that make them.
What CJ turns over in food is two hundred times Austrian film funding. And both systems measure success differently.
How a sugar refinery became a film conglomerate — and what part the Korean state plays.
A laundromat owner saves the multiverse – and at sixty, Michelle Yeoh writes Oscar history.
Ten K-Dramas about history, the mind and fame – from Mr. Sunshine to Goblin, each with its culture key.
Ten K-Dramas about money, work and power – each with the culture key European viewers need to understand it fully.
