Chuseok, one of South Korea's most important national holidays, is right around the corner. Often called Korean Thanksgiving, this four-day celebration is traditionally spent celebrating abundance and honoring ancestors. Yet behind the idyllic images of warm family reunions and delicious shared meals lies a more complex reality often marked by underlying family tensions and heavy domestic burdens placed on women. For those unfamiliar with these cultural layers, here are some K-dramas that captur

The massively popular British spy dramedy “Killing Eve” is slated to be remade for Korean TV. Korean film and series production company Anthology Studio has secured the remake rights to the hit series. The company previously co-produced the 2023 film “Cobweb,” starring Song Kang-ho and Lim Soo-jung, as well as the recent Korean remake of Hollywood's “The Intern,” co-produced with Warner Bros. Korea and starring Han So-hee and Choi Min-sik. Unlike the European backdrop of the original show, the u

Police have booked a woman in her 50s for allegedly eavesdropping on actor Cha Eun-woo’s private conversations. Yongsan Police Station in Seoul is investigating the woman on suspicion of violating the Protection of Communications Secrets Act. The woman is accused of secretly listening to Cha’s conversations on two occasions in August by attaching a listening device under a table at a cafe in Yongsan-gu, Seoul. According to reports, the woman visited the cafe twice, on Aug. 23 and 29, to install

We live in an era when high-quality video no longer surprises anyone. With a single prompt sent to a free AI video generator, almost anyone can become a content creator and churn out content in seconds. In such an age, then, what is left for motion graphic designers to do? According to award-winning motion graphic designer Kim Gryun, today's practitioners have a responsibility to build truly original content — such as a video that audiences can actively influence, almost like living, interactive

Will Cha Eun-woo and Mun Ka-young — the legendary couple who built a massive global following as Soo-ho and Joo-kyung in the 2020 hit "True Beauty" — share the screen once again? Fantagio, the agency representing Cha Eun-woo and Mun Ka-young, confirmed to The Korea Herald on Thursday that both stars are currently reviewing offers for "Seorabeol Knife" — a new series set in the same fictional universe as the 2025's global phenomenon “Bon Appetit, Your Majesty." The culinary romance centers on a p

How long can the fallout from a controversy continue to follow a public figure? For Ahn Ha-young, her troubles show no signs of slowing. The actor's advertisement for Japanese electronics brand Panasonic was confirmed Thursday to have been made private. This was just the latest difficulty she has faced across the advertising and broadcasting industries after a controversy over her great-grandfather’s activities during Japan’s colonial rule of Korea broke in August. The advertisement, which featu

Korea knows how to make a drama. Just not, it seems, a very short one. While bite-sized series are winning audiences around the world, short-form dramas in Korea have struggled to move beyond their niche following. The format faces competition from the dominance of long-form K-dramas, and many titles remain rooted in niche genres and provocative storylines that can limit their appeal to mainstream viewers. But can the industry afford to ignore younger viewers increasingly turning to shorter, fas

At 57, Shin Hyun-joon is making headlines for his K-pop idol-like following in South America, drawing huge crowds at airports while touring the region for meet-and-greets. Nowhere has the excitement been more intense than in Peru. When Shin arrived at Jorge Chavez Airport Saturday, scores of fans carrying gifts and letters rushed to greet him. With the crowd swelling around the actor, security personnel were deployed to keep the scene under control, according to local news reports Tuesday. "Than

Actor Kim Soo-hyun has secured a final victory in a lawsuit filed by Swiss watchmaker Mido seeking the return of more than 570 million won ($424,000) in advertising contract fees. The Seoul Eastern District Court on Aug. 27 dismissed Mido’s lawsuit against Kim’s agency, Gold Medalist, which sought the return of advertising fees. Mido did not appeal the ruling by the Sept. 10 deadline, making the first-instance decision in favor of Kim and the other defendants final. Mido filed the lawsuit last y

The Italian version of Netflix Korea’s hit "Physical: 100" is set to premiere Friday, marking the franchise’s first fully overseas-produced adaptation. "Physical: 100" pits 100 contestants against one another in a series of demanding physical challenges to determine the top all-around athlete. The Korean original launched in 2023 and quickly became a global hit, making history as the first Korean unscripted series to top Netflix’s global top 10 TV chart for non-English titles. The franchise has

A healing music drama starring Cha Tae-hyun — a staple of K-dramas and Korean entertainment — will reach global audiences in October through Netflix and Japan’s popular streaming service FOD. "Your Personal Taxi" is a feel-good series set inside a mysterious taxi that operates exclusively by reservation. The series unfolds the extraordinary stories of its passengers, soundtracked by their personal song requests. The cast is anchored by Cha, known for his roles in hit K-dramas like "Moving" and "

Veteran South Korean actor Youn Yuh-jung has exited this year's Emmy race for outstanding supporting actress in a limited or anthology series or movie. Youn — an acclaimed actor who made history in 2021 as the first Korean actor to win an Academy Award, taking home Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film "Minari" — earned the Emmy nomination in July for her portrayal of Chairwoman Park in Netflix’s "Beef" Season 2. However, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, which presents the E

In South Korean media in the early 2000s, the Joseon era (1392-1910) was typically rendered as a paragon of strict moral virtue and female chastity. Then came 2003 erotic film "Untold Scandal," which directly challenged that notion. Starring top-tier A-listers of the era, including Lee Mi-sook, Bae Yong-joon and Jeon Do-yeon, the feature daringly adapted Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' 18th-century French novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons)" into a Joseon setting, laying bare explic

What if winning the lottery didn't mean you could walk away from the office? That is the question at the heart of Tving's new drama series, "The Ordinary Jackpot," starring Lee Joon-hyuk, who has only recently emerged as a rom-com favorite. Its premise is both simple and strangely poignant: A man wins a life-changing lottery jackpot, yet still turns up at work the next morning. Lee plays Eun-tae, a weary office worker whose fortunes change overnight when he discovers he has won 1.3 billion won (

Public broadcaster EBS is bringing back its star-studded educational series “Great Minds” for a sixth season, with a lineup that includes former United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Nobel Prize-winning economist Philippe Aghion and former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Launched in 2021, “Great Minds” features roughly 20-minute lectures from leading scholars, thinkers and figures across politics, economics, science, the humanities and other fields. Through its first five seasons,