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NEW ID & KBS WORLD – GLOBAL Partnerships : K-POP Original Content publishing
Starting June 19, North American viewers will be able to watch various Korean Wave programs on KBS WORLD through NEW ID’s K-Pop TV channel ‘NEW K.ID.’ NEW ID (CEO June Park), a digital business affiliate of entertainment, media and sports group NEW (Next Entertainment World, Chairman Kim Woo-taek), signed a global content partnership with KBS’ overseas broadcasting TV channel KBS WORLD (Director Park Chun-ki) in late May.
NEW ID launched the ad-supported K-Pop digital TV channel NEW K.ID for North American viewers in February this year, and is currently programming/broadcasting various content across all genres from 24 partners. NEW K.ID is a free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channel that allows viewers to enjoy premium K-Pop entertainment content for free through a TV remote control without having to subscribe or install a separate channel on smart TVs such as LG and VIZIO.
FAST’s flagship North American CTV (Connected TV) advertising market has been growing steeply, with more than 10 billion dollars in North America alone, in line with the recent surge in subscription-based models.
KBS WORLD is KBS’s overseas broadcasting TV channel, which is broadcast to 140 million households in 114 countries around the world. The popular programs of KBS1 and 2 TV are subtitled with seven languages, including English, Japanese, Chinese, and Malay, which deliver Korean Wave content to various parts of the world, and it is a representative Korean Wave content channel where visitors can experience and learn the most diverse Korean culture available at 1,700 hotels in 46 countries.
With the partnership between KBS WORLD and NEW ID, North American viewers will be watching KBS WORLD’s original content “We K-Pop,” “K-Rush” and “K-Pop Festival Live”, and more since the third week of June. In addition, the two companies decided to launch channels ‘KBS WORLD’ and ‘KBS WORLD 24’ on digital TV broadcasting platforms that will be operated by NEW ID in Latin America/Europe in the second half of this year.
KBS WORLD 24 channel provides high-quality KBS content for 7 million Koreans abroad and consists of cultural information programs on news and KBS1 TV channels together with selected past popular entertainment shows and dramas. This is the first time for a KBS foreign broadcasting channel to enter the FAST market.
KBS WORLD Director Park Chun-ki said, “In the rapidly changing digital media environment, KBS WORLD’s original content has been provided on various streaming service platforms, further strengthening the foundation for the spread of the digital Korean Wave. It is expected not only to generate profits from KBS content, but also to increase the recognition of Korean culture and to increase the brand value of Korea.
June Park, CEO of NEW ID, said, “To increase the value of K-Content in the global market, we need to be more familiar with the lives of global viewers. KBS WORLD’s content is a premium content made for overseas viewers from the beginning, and I am confident that it will be loved by viewers who have not experienced the Korean Wave.
Business
CROWN GOOSE LAUNCHES A 6 STAR HOTEL GRAND MERCURE ROOM PACKAGE
Asia’s one of most prominent Hotelplexes, Yongsan Dragon City Hotel Grand Mercure and global luxury goose down bedding brand Crown Goose collaborate to showcase Grand Mercure Crown Goose Suite Room Package from July 20th to August 31st.
Asia’s one of most prominent Hotelplexes, Yongsan Dragon City Hotel Grand Mercure and global luxury goose down bedding brand Crown Goose collaborate to showcase Grand Mercure Crown Goose Suite Room Package from July 20th to August 31st.
Yongsan Dragon City Hotel is a part of Accor Hotel Group from France, and is the largest hotel in Korea with 1,700 rooms, 11 restaurants and bars. The hotel can accommodate up to 4,900 people. Yongsan Dragon City includes four brands: Grand Mercure, Novotel Suites, Novotel Ambassador, and ibis Styles Ambassador.
Crown Goose Suite Room Package is located in Grand Mercure, known as a 6-star hotel from the Accor Hotel Group. Grand Mercure has upto 3 bedrooms, full kitchen facility, and indoor golf course and an access to executive floor lounge.
Grand Mercure’s Crown Goose package room is decorated with royal gold color, which symbolizes success, elegance, and royal authority. This Grand Mercure Suite room displays the top 0.05% of Crown Goose clients’ favorite bedding items. The room package also includes gift box of towel sets.
Crown Goose, a global eiderdown brand has showcased “Crown Goose Room Package” in Hilton hotels before. Hilton’s ocean suite room, the highest room in Hilton accommodated a number of celebrities.
Located in the heart of Beverly Hills, Crown Goose is a goose down brand loved by the world’s top clients and super riches. Crown Goose’s recent clients included New York Manhattan Super Rich’s Residence, 15 Hudson Yards and many Beverly Hills mansions. Thanks to these facts, Crown Goose has established itself as a high-end luxury goose down comforter among the wealthy.
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PENINSULA Unveils World’s First Official 8K Main Trailer!
(PRESSREELS) CONTENTS PANDA(Next Entertainment World), which presents PENINSULA released the world’s first official main trailer of 8K image quality at noon (Korean time) on June 16, 2020.
Four years after ‘TRAIN TO BUSAN’, Connect with the survivors of the ‘PENINSULA’!
(PRESSREELS) CONTENTS PANDA(Next Entertainment World), which presents PENINSULA released the world’s first official main trailer of 8K image quality at noon (Korean time) on June 16, 2020. The trailer of PENINSULA, a 2020 Cannes Film Festival’s official invitation film, depicts the struggles of those who have survived in different ways for four years after TRAIN TO BUSAN.
PENINSULA is an action blockbuster depicting the last battle for survival between the people left behind in the ruins of the Korean peninsula four years after Train to Busan. The upcoming PENINSULA trailer ahead of its worldwide premiere release in the summer of 2020 is full of such big scale action sequences and explosive thrills together with fast-sounding gunfights and car-chasing scenes.
In particular, the official trailer of PENINSULA, which has 8K image quality for the first time in the world, meets the technical specifications of all digital devices and delivers a high level of visual completeness to moviegoers around the world. The 8K trailer, which is 16 times clearer than the FULL HD image quality and 4 times clearer than the 4K image quality, can be enjoyed in 8K, 4K and HD according to the device’s specifications if the 8K main trailer via the NEW’s official channel on YouTube is selected as the highest specification (4320p 8K). Especially, viewers can watch them with a perfect picture quality without an extra setup from the YouTube app on Smart TVs that support either 4K or 8K.
This super high-definition trailer was created through the collaboration of NEW’s digital business corporation NEW ID and SK TELECOM. Among the media-focused core technologies of AI-based Post Production, a joint enterprise between the two companies, the technology called Supernova is a media upscaling solution (up to 8K) to improved quality of image and sound source based on the AI’s deep learning algorithms while maintaining the quality level of the original.
Movie Information
– Title: PENINSULA
– Director: YEON Sangho (Psychokinesis | Seoul Station | Train to Busan)
– Genre: Disaster, Zombie
– Cast: GANG Dongwon (Illang: The Wolf Brigade | A Violent Prosecutor)
LEE Junghyun (Love, Again | The Battleship Island)
– World Sales: CONTENTS PANDA (NEW)
– Production: REDPETER FILMS (Birthday | Psychokinesis | Train to Busan)
– Expected Release Date: Summer 2020
– Logline: 4 years after the inexplicable disaster, they’re returning to the godforsaken land!
– Synopsis
: Jung-seok barely managed to escape from the unprecedented disaster in Korea 4 years ago and lives in exile in Hong Kong by himself. He is given a lucrative chance to return to Korea to retrieve large bags of cash left abandoned in the streets of Seoul. His mission is infiltrated ruined city of Seoul and secure the target truck before the sunrise, then return to Hong Kong unscathed. But he and his team are ambushed by a militia known as Unit 631 and vicious zombie hordes. During his desperate struggle to survive, Jung-seok experiences a moment of deus ex machina as survivor Min-jung and her family save him from brink of death. Together, they formulate one last plan to escape the peninsula for good. The prodigal son, the survivor and the deranged, their bloody battle begins!
