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Rebecca Souw Korean film and TV story-telling has expanded and adapted under the influence of both COVID and streaming video. As a result, screenwriting today may be more in touch with audience needs, media executives in Busan heard. A panel discussion on Saturday, organized by the Busan Story Market, a new wing of the Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM) sought to define Korean story telling and analyze why it is currently so successful. One explanation offered by Hwang Hyejung, chief content officer at Korean streamer TVing, was that writers have broadened their outlook to include more current and realistic topics. Romantic comedies and melodramas are no longer the defining genres.

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Busan’s Industry Platform ACFM Puts Focus On AI, Co-Production & Streaming

Under new chief Ellen Y.D. Kim, Busan International Film Festival’s industry platform, the Asian Contents and Film Market (ACFM), is increasing its activities related to the new technologies impacting the content industry, as well as encouraging international co-production.

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Busan Story Market Announces 18 International IP Selections

18 international projects have been selected as part of the Busan Story Market, which runs during the Busan International Film Festival.

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Busan Film Festival Unveils Selections for IP and Project Markets

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Some 18 books, manga and webtoons hailing from outside Korea have been added to the Busan International Film Festival’s Busan Story Market. They join 29 previously announced pieces of IP from Korea and 30 Asian film projects selected for the Asian Project Market. The overseas IP selections include ten from Taiwan spanning the drama and romance genres with elements of fantasy, thriller and science fiction, and six from Japan (five books and one comic) covering sci-fi, murder mystery, time travel and stage magic.

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Busan Story Market Unveils 29 Korean IP Selections

The Busan Story Market unveiled 29 original Korean IP selections today, which includes 11 books, eight webtoons, six web novels, and four stories.

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How Busan’s ACFM Is Helping Producers Get An Early Jump On Hot IPs

Busan’s industry platform, Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM), is a marketplace where sales agents set up their stalls to sell projects in development and completed films. But increasingly, it’s also becoming a place where producers can find the stories and other source material they need to bring those films and series to life.

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Busan Film Festival’s Market Chief, Oh Seok-Geun, Announces Resignation In Ongoing Management Turmoil

Oh Seok-geun, director of Busan International Film Festival’s industry platform, Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM), has resigned from his post, the latest in a string of resignations to rock the festival.

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‘A Wild Roomer’, ‘Shivamma’ Win Top Awards At Close Of Busy Busan Festival & Market

Korean filmmaker Lee Jeong-hong’s A Wild Roomer and Shivamma, from India’s Jaishankar Aryar, were the winners of the New Currents Awards at the close of an encouragingly busy Busan International Film Festival (BIFF, October 5-14).

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Busan ACFM Chief Oh Seok Geun Talks Changing Role Of Film Markets And Challenges Facing Korean Film Industry

Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM), the industry platform of Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), is making a return as a fully-fledged in-person event this year, after being mostly held online for two years during the pandemic.

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Busan Market Denies Cancelation Rumors, Commits to In-Person Edition and Unveils Story Market Properties

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefOrganizers of the Asian Contents & Film Market, the industry section operated in parallel with the Busan International Film Festival, have underlined their commitment to hold the market as an in-person event this October.The Asian film industry had recently witnessed rumors that the Busan market would be staying as an online-only event, as it was in 2020 and 2021, during the height of the COVID pandemic.“To clarify, the Asian Contents & Film Market 2022 WILL be held in person, and in full capacity, for the first time in three years,” Busan market organizers said in a statement emailed to Variety. “[We] assume the misunderstanding arose from the news of cancellation of a different event that was scheduled to be held during the same period at the same location.” Last week, it was announced that the Cine Korea convention that was to have run Oct.

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Busan Film Festival Launching In-Person Story Market as Demand for Korean Content Booms

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Asian Contents and Film Market, the industry component of the Busan International Film Festival, is to launch an in-person story market at this year’s event.The ACFM has for ten years operated what it called an Entertainment Intellectual Property Market. But where the E-IP Market has been a one-way pitching event, the new Busan Story Market is conceived as something functionally closer to a conventional rights market, with buyers and sellers meeting at sales booths, but trading books, webtoons, web novels, games, and stories.The Busan Story Market is an outgrowth of the E-IP event and will operate in addition to the continuing pitching sessions.

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