Young Koreans lash out at heavy-handed China koreatimes.co.kr - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from koreatimes.co.kr Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Posted : 2021-04-07 09:00
Updated : 2021-04-07 09:00
Shin Hye-sun, left, and Kim Jung-hyun, the lead actors of tvN drama, Mr. Queen. Courtesy of tvN
By Dong Sun-hwa
When it was revealed that the tvN drama, The Golden Hairpin, and JTBC s Until the Morning Comes were in the pipeline for later this year, numerous people in Korea raised their eyebrows rather than welcoming them with high anticipation. The reason was simple ― the Chinese backgrounds of the productions ruffled people s feathers.
The two upcoming TV shows are Korean renditions of popular Chinese novels, which are expected to have star-studded casts. Although remakes are nothing new to drama production companies, a growing number of viewers here these days are venting their discontent over the works originally from China, largely due to the ongoing cultural clash between Seoul and Beijing over the origins of Korean traditional assets, including kimchi and hanbok.
Concerns rise over Chinese investors
Posted : 2021-04-05 16:37
By Kim Jae-heun
Concerns are growing over TV series produced by local entertainment companies whose large shareholders are Chinese firms, after the YG Entertainment-produced Joseon Exorcist went off the air for distorting Korean history.
The supernatural history-based drama, Joseon Exorcist, was co-produced by YG Studioplex, Crave Works and Lotte Cultureworks. YG Studioplex is a TV production company jointly established by YG Entertainment and Barami Bunda in April 2017, though the entertainment agency owns 99.09 percent of the production firm s shares.
What is causing the controversy is that two Chinese firms, Shanghai Fengying Business Consultant Partnership and Tencent Mobility, are the two largest shareholders in YG Entertainment after its founder Yang Hyun-suk, and they could have played an influence in the direction of the drama to favor a Chinese perspective of history.
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