Lasting just one episode with a run time of 15 minutes, 1956’s The Gates of Heaven was South Korea’s first Korean drama. In the following decades, Korean creatives would produce K-dramas that ...

In April 2023, Netflix announced it would be investing another $2.5 billion in the Korean entertainment industry ... the massively popular K-drama format is at the center of Netflix’s strategy.

Thailand was third only to India and the United States among countries whose media most closely followed Korean pop culture ...