Netflix and the Korea Tourism Organization are betting on a formula that’s already worked twice before: turn a hit Korean show into a tourism ad. Their latest collaboration, unveiled June …
Netflix
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Travel & K-Content Tourism
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K-Drama & Screen
Bridgerton’s New Female Lead Trained for Acting at a Korean Arts High School. Now She’s the Show’s First East Asian Lead Romance.
by Grace Limby Grace LimWhen Netflix confirmed in August 2024 that Korean-Australian actress Yerin Ha would play Sophie Beckett, the central love interest opposite Benedict Bridgerton in “Bridgerton” Season 4, it was a casting …
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K-Content Filming-Location Tourism
A Netflix Cartoon About Demon-Hunting K-Pop Idols Sent Foreign Tourists to a Seoul Tower in Numbers Nobody Predicted
by Hana Suhby Hana SuhForeign visitors to N Seoul Tower’s YTN Seoul Tower observatory hit 79,200 in September 2025, up 50.6 percent from 52,600 the same month a year earlier — the highest monthly …
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Dramas
A Netflix Drama About Vigilante Teachers Just Became Korea’s 6th Biggest Show Ever. It Almost Didn’t Get Made This Way.
by Mina Choby Mina Cho“Chamgyoyuk” (“True Education”), a 10-episode Netflix Korean original that premiered June 5, has climbed to No. 6 on Netflix’s all-time chart for Korean originals by cumulative views, trailing 5th-place “The …
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Webtoons & Comics
“Teach You a Lesson” Just Knocked “My Name” Out of Netflix Korea’s All-Time Top 6 — In Three Weeks Flat
by Mina Choby Mina ChoNetflix’s “Teach You a Lesson” (참교육) has spent three straight weeks at No. 1 on the platform’s Global Top 10 Non-English TV chart, and its 39.3 million cumulative views are …
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K-Drama & Screen
Netflix Just Won Best Drama at Korea’s Most Prestigious Awards Show, Beating Four Network and Cable Dramas. Is That a Streaming Verdict, or Just a Verdict on This Show?
by Daniel Yoonby Daniel YoonOn May 8, at the 62nd Baeksang Arts Awards in Seoul, Netflix’s “Eun-jung and Sang-yeon” won the night’s top television honor — Best Drama — beating four other nominees from …
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Variety & Reality Shows
Netflix’s Biggest Korean Cooking Show Is Filming Its Next Season. It Still Won’t Say Whether Its Two Most Famous Judges Are In It.
by Daniel Yoonby Daniel Yoon“Culinary Class Wars” is South Korea’s biggest unscripted export of the past two years, and as it heads into a third season, Netflix is being conspicuously quiet about a question …
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Webtoons & Comics
A Webtoon About a Dad Who Used to Be a Black-Ops Agent Just Became a Global Netflix Show. It’s Not Even a Standalone Story.
by Mina Choby Mina Cho“Manager Kim,” a webtoon about a mild-mannered office worker who turns out to be a former special agent, just became “Agent Kim Reactivated” — and it dropped globally on Netflix …
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K-Drama & Screen
A Netflix Drama Just Became an Actual Korean Education Policy Proposal. Whether That’s Encouraging or Alarming Depends Entirely on Who You Ask.
by Daniel Yoonby Daniel YoonIt’s a strange thing when a TV show stops being a TV show. On June 15, 2026, Gyeonggi Provincial Education Superintendent Ahn Min-seok publicly called for a debate on creating …
