AI Musicians, Parenting, Time Travel, Occult Horror Among Formats Highlighted at Mip London Korea Showcase

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Naman Ramachandran A plethora of formats and production techniques were highlighted during the Korea format showcase at Mip London on Monday.

The Studio Meta-K presentation was heavily AI-focused. CEO Kim Kwang Jibn said that the costs of K-drama has tripled in the past three years and setting up an AI production pipeline has dramatically reduced production costs.

The company is deploying different technologies such as digital doubles, game engine, deepfake and generative AI to create worlds and characters that are entirely AI generated.

Kim highlighted the company’s “Season” project that features AI virtual music artists based on the four seasons. The formats showcased by Studio Meta-K at Mip London include “Competition for Queen’s Throne,” a historical musical romantic comedy, based on a hit web novel; “Grand Master Hani Park,” a dimensional shift fantasy on the lines of “The Witcher”; and thriller “Wave of Fate.” The highlight of Sangsang Band’s presentation was science factual format “Monster Space,” that looks at architectural spaces around the world – like concentration camps, torture chambers and suicide forests – that drain the life out of people with their violent, dangerous and chilling atmospheres.