Tubi has signed a content deal with entertainment company CJ ENM, the streamer announced on Monday. The partnership will launch with over 75 Korean films, dramas and K-POP series, totaling 500 hours of content, and will be added as a branded curation to Tubi’s non-English content offering. The move comes as Tubi’s Korean programming viewership has grown over 25% year-over-year on the platform.

Banijay Group has optioned survival strategy format “The Genius Game” from Korean powerhouse studio CJ ENM. “The Genius Game” tests players’ intelligence and social savviness. Players are chosen based on their social IQ, charisma, charm and intelligence to participate in a unique battle of intelligence and manipulation.

In what it says is an attestation to the growing demand for K-content around the world, Korean entertainment company CJ ENM Worldwide has announced that an array of its hits from film and television can now be accessed in the US and Canada through Apple TV.

Actor Song Joong-ki presented the International Emmy Directorate Award to Miky Lee, vice chairwoman, CJ Group, at the 50th International Emmy Awards. Lee (Mie Kyung Lee) is responsible for the overall strategic direction and management of CJ Group’s entertainment and media division.

The World’s No.1 K-Pop awards show, MAMA will soon be making its debut in the United States. The announcement was made by CJ E&M, the makers of the show, at the annual MAMA press conference held on November 16, 2022. MAMA’s U.S. debut comes amid the rising appeal of K-Pop and other Korean artists on the world stage.

CJ 4DPLEX, the world’s leading producer of premium film formats and cinema technologies, and Cinemark, one of the world’s largest and most influential movie theatre companies, announced today they have signed an agreement to bring the expanded immersive ScreenX technology to select Cinemark locations in the U.S. Together, they will convert auditoriums in six Cinemark theatres in Texas and California by the end of the year, with plans for a potential expansion.

Make no mistake: CJ ENM is on the move. The South Korean conglomerate that has done as much as any company to build out the nation’s entertainment ecosystem is actively looking to expand its “production capability and competency.”

Endeavor Content is undergoing a rebrand in a move to distinguish itself from its former parent company that shares its Endeavor moniker. The name Fifth Season comes from Eastern medicine, which recognizes a fifth season, a celebratory time of harvest in late summer. The company’s new logo is a mosaic of glyphs, with each glyph embodying a unique quality or facet of the company’s ecosystem and its beliefs and ideals.

When Angela Killoren, CEO of CJ ENM America, first proposed a K-pop festival in the United States, people told her she was “reckless.” That was in 2012. Flash forward to 2022, and CJ ENM’s KCON, an annual get-together for K-pop and K-culture fans from all over the United States, is an unqualified hit.

Korean pop-culture fest KCON LA wrapped up an in-person edition on Sunday with a second multi-act concert that largely filled Los Angeles’ Crypto.com arena. The seamless flow between fandom’s online and offline iterations was a dominant feature of the convention, held in person for the first time since 2019. And organizers Monday confirmed that the three-day event at the Los Angeles Convention Center attracted more than 90,000 real world visitors, plus a further 7.17 million worldwide via video streaming.