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There was good news this week for fans of K-Pop’s BTS as the South Korean government has decided it is not breaking up the group. This week, the National Assembly in South Korea passed a law that allows male K-Pop stars to defer their mandatory military service up to age 30 if they are deemed “significant contributors…

Sports-starved ESPN has reached a deal with Eclat Media Group to televise six weekly games played by the Korean Baseball Organization. The U.S. rights deal will kick off at 1AM ET on Tuesday with an opening-day telecast on ESPN, with a lead-in from SportsCenter with Scott Van Pelt. Major League Baseball, which…

Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos said the streaming giant’s global content machine is not entirely shut down but currently in production in South Korea and Iceland, and that the company can take what it’s learning there around the world as more areas start to open. The situation is fluid, Sarandos said, but “those…

SAG-AFTRA members work on locations all across the globe, but the union told its members today not to report to work on any production locations subject to CDC Level 3 Travel Health Notices because of the coronavirus outbreak – presently China, Italy, Iran and South Korea. "Should a producer ask you to travel to any…

The dead body of K-pop star Goo Hara was found Sunday at her home in Seoul, South Korea. The discovery comes a few months after a reported suicide attempt, although the cause of death is not immediately clear. Hara was a member of the girl group Hara starting in 2008, then became a solo artist. In March, an…

Mexico beat South Korea 2-1 in Saturday’s FIFA World Cup Russia match, but it could be argued that Telemundo was the real winner as it broke records with the most-watched livestream event in Spanish-language history. The match averaged 7.2 million viewers across Telemundo, TelemundoDeportes.com, and the Telemundo…

A two-part original series is being produced by NBC Olympics to preview the upcoming Winter Games from PyeongChang, South Korea. Go For The Gold and Meet Team USA will be streamed via Netflix starting Jan. 15 and available through Feb. 25, when the games conclude. The coverage will serve as an introduction to…

Donald Trump took to Twitter Tuesday morning to take credit for North Korea’s Monday move to do an end run around the U.S. and initiate talks with South Korea. The tweet was one of a slew the president sent out after a busy few days for Trump, golfing at his Florida course. Recapping the morning’s Fox & Friends…

The United States faces an “abyss of doom” unless it ousts “the lunatic old man” from the White House and withdraws his “hostile policy,” North Korea fired back after President Donald Trump’s aggressive speech from South Korea. "The U.S. had better make a decisive choice … if it does not want a horrible nuclear…

South Korea’s attention understandably is focused elsewhere at the moment, but the country has put up the Oscar meter on A Taxi Driver: The historical drama is its official entry for the 2017 Foreign Language Film race. Well Go USA confirmed the news to Deadline. Set during 1980 Gwangju Uprising, director Jang Hoon’s A…

Amid escalating tensions between North Korea and the United States, it appears to be business as usual in South Korea — one of the keenest, most sophisticated moviegoing hubs worldwide and a major market for Hollywood and local fare. There has been no significant sign of turnstiles slowing in the country over the past…

This is for you, fans of K-pop and other forms of Korean entertainment: You’ll find it, beginning today, on a streaming platform, Kocowa, created by a joint venture of the country’s three largest broadcasters  — KBS, MBC and SBS. Those who want to watch shows ad-free a few hours after they air in South Korea can pay…