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Tom Brady has more time on his hands now that he’s retired from football, and he might have the perfect gig lined up. It just may require him to learn Korean and start practicing his dance moves.The 46-year-old recently attended BLACKPINK’s Aug. 11 concert at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium with his daughter Vivian.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Production begins next month on “Black Tide Island,” a historical drama series that presents a Taiwanese insight into the Korean War. Production is headed by Hakka TV and Go Inside. Halla TV is the local Hakka-language linear satellite television channel operated by Taiwan Broadcasting System.

FIFTY FIFTY have spoken out for the first time since the start of the lawsuit against their label Attrakt.On August 17, handwritten statements in both English and Korean allegedly from FIFTY FIFTY were posted on a brand-new Instagram account without a profile picture. A representative of the girl group have since confirmed that the letters were indeed written by the members, per Herald Pop.In their letter, FIFTY FIFTY said they decided to “put our hesitation aside and [step] up to share our position” due to the “[confusing] current media and press coverage”.“Misunderstandings and accusations have been snowballing.

Korea has selected the disaster thriller Concrete Utopia starring Lee Byung-hun and Park Seo-jun as its entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 2024 Oscars.

This weekend, Warehouse Project and Parklife boss Sacha Lord will foot the entire bill for customers at one Manchester business.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief South Korean police said on Wednesday that they had found evidence that the box office performance of 323 films over the past five years had been inflated. Seoul Metropolitan Police said that, as a result, they had referred 69 people from major exhibition chains and 24 film distribution companies to prosecutors.

Police in South Korea today said that 69 officials from theater chains including CGV, Lotte and Megabox, and from 24 film distributors, have been referred without detention to the prosecutor on charges of obstruction of business, local media reports. This follows an investigation that began in June into suspicious box office numbers. Police claim the accused were involved in fabricating figures to boost film rankings over the past five years.

Prime Video has acquired Korean drama The Kidnapping Day, starring Yoon Kye-sang and Park Sung-hoon, for all global territories excluding Korea and mainland China. 

EXCLUSIVE: M88 on Tuesday announced its signing of Andrew Lopez, a fast-rising multi-hyphenate who, with appearances on Apple TV+’s Platonic and FX’s The Bear, has made his mark on two of the most buzzy series in recent memory.

KCon aka “the world’s largest fan celebration of Korean culture and music” will drop into the City of Angels’ Crypto.com Arena and the Los Angeles Convention Center.Over the course of the long weekend, huge artists like Stray Kids, (G)I-Dle, Itzy, Ateez and NMIXX are all set to headline.They’ll be joined by iconic acts like Monsta X, Everglow, Gravity, The Boyz and Zerobaseone.Plus, Taemin and Taeyong are both set to make their KCon debuts.That’s not to mention all the fun K-beauty, K-food and meet and greets.Want to take part in the action?Thankfully, last-minute tickets are still available.Some are fairly cheap too.At the time of publication, we found passes going for as low as $22 before fees on Vivid Seats.All other passes start in the $60 to $200 range.Hoping to find out how much tickets are to see your favorite K-artists live?Keep reading.We’ve got all the information you need and more below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete breakdown of all KCon event dates, venues and links to the cheapest tickets available can. be found below.(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time.

Gavin Bridge Senior Media Analyst South Korean media company Next Entertainment World (NEW) subsidiary NEW ID’s launch of ‘BINGE Korea’ signifies a pivotal shift in the consumption of Korean content for American audiences. As the leading provider of curated non-English and non-Spanish language FAST channels in the U.S., NEW ID is leveraging its experience within FAST to create the first FAST service dedicated to Korean content. ‘BINGE Korea’ is accessible via a wide range of platforms, including Samsung, LG Smart TVs, Amazon Fire TV, and plans to expand to Roku, iOS, and Android TV.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta has made an unusual inroad into Vietnam with reality show “Let’s Feast Vietnam,” which launched on Netflix this week in parts of Asia. The 10-episode “Let’s Feast Vietnam” (aka “Hành Trình K? Thú”) is part cooking competition and part-way travelogue. It also borrows something of the ‘reels’ short video feature that makes social media apps so addictive, in that contestants are required to produce video clips along their journey.

TIFF continues to build out its speaker lineup despite the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes barring a number of participants from this year’s 48th edition.

The Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled its Primetime programme for 2023 which includes the world premieres of Bad Boy and All the Light We Cannot See.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Lee Byung-hun-starring disaster movie “Concrete Utopia” topped the South Korean box office over the latest weekend, replacing female led crime caper “Smugglers.” Directed by Um Tae-hwa, “Concrete Utopia” is set in a Seoul that has been largely destroyed by a massive earthquake. One building stands tall among the wreckage and becomes a refuge for those already inside, but the inhabitants must fend of the unwanted attentions of outsiders. It opened on Wednesday, earning $8.40 million between Friday and Sunday and fully $11.3 million over its full opening five days, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic).

A Korean street food restaurant wants to transform a corner of Piccadilly Gardens into an al fresco dining area.

Michaela Zee Tom Jones, who wrote the book and lyrics for the longest-running musical “The Fantasticks,” died Friday at his home in Sharon, Conn. He was 95. Jones’ son Michael told The New York Times the cause was cancer.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Back in the 1970s, when Korea was closed to the outside world, locals relied on black market dealers to get their hands on everything from American cigarettes to Ritz crackers. Though this illicit import racket was run mostly by men, it wouldn’t have been possible without half a dozen uniquely talented women — skilled divers known as haenyeo who fished the loot from the sea.

TIFF has begun announcing their Conversation With… (ICW) series for this year’s fest with Oscar winner Pedro Almodóvar, Hong Kong actor Andy Lau and Concrete Utopia Korean stars Lee Byung-hun and ParkSeo-jun set to sit down for chats.

Good afternoon Insiders, it’s been another sleepy yet somehow simultaneously eventful August week here at Deadline International Towers. Read on for investigations, headlines, scoops and anaylsis, as Max Goldbart steers you through the past few days.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Amazon-owned Prime Video has launched “The Killing Vote,” a hardboiled crime drama series from Korea. The 12-part show uses the premise that a text message is sent to ordinary citizens who get to vote for or against the application of the death penalty in individual criminal cases. If more than 50% vote in favor, the criminal is killed by a mysterious character called Dog Mask.