Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Paramount+ has unveiled three new Korean TV shows which it will launch in selected international territories including North America, the U.K.
and parts of continental Europe. The announcement was made on Wednesday at the APOS convention in Indonesia, operated by Media Partners Asia, by Catherine Park, Paramount’s senior VP and head of streaming & regional lead, Asia, and Yang Si-kwon, head of content at TVing.
The three new titles “Dongjae, The Good Or The Bastard,” “Dreaming Of Cinde Fxxxing Rella” and “Pyramid Game” bring to seven the total number committed by Paramount+ and Korean streaming service TVing as part of Paramount’s global partnership with leading entertainment company CJ ENM. “Dongjae, The Good or the Bastard,” produced by Studio Dragon and Ace Factory, is a spin-off of the renowned thriller series “Stranger.” Its story will revolve around one of the popular characters in “Stranger,” Seo Dongjae, whose future is bleak due to the stigma of his past corruption as a sponsor prosecutor.
In the spin-off series, Dongjae is troubled by a redevelopment case. When he takes on the murder case of a high school girl, he begins to walk a dangerous tightrope between his intuition as a prosecutor and his instinct as an opportunist.
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