Over the past two decades, they’ve gained immense popularity across Asia, the Americas, Europe, and Africa, thanks in large part to streaming platforms like Netflix, Viki, Amazon Prime and YouTube.

Although K-dramas have been popular in many parts of the world since the 2000s, their global popularity has exploded in recent years, largely thanks to the rise of Netflix. The streamer recently ...

Squid Game—decidedly, not a romance—may be one of the most popular modern TV series of all time, but when it wraps in June 2025, its run will only consist of a few dozen episodes in total. Meanwhile, ...

Nine years after launching in South Korea, Netflix has proven that Korean content overcame what Parasite director Bong Joon-ho once called the subtitle “barrier.” One just needs to look at the ...

When it comes to K-dramas, certain characters stay with me long after the show has ended, like Han Jipyeong (Kim Seon Ho) in Start-Up. Jipyeong, on paper, was the ultimate “seco ...

Southeast Asia’s premium video-on-demand landscape is heating up, with the region adding more than 1.5 million net new subscribers in Q2 2025 — nearly doubling Q1 growth — according to new data from ...

Stars from Squid Game and Weak Hero: Class 2 have joined Korean YA zombie All of Us Are Dead, which has returned to production this week. Squid Game‘s Kim Si-eun and Roh Jae-won, Weak Hero‘s Lee ...