CJ America News

KCON:TACT3 wrapped up the 9-day event with over 4 million K-Culture fans from 147 countries tuning in to the festival. Fans all over the world tuned in via YouTube, AIS, gigafest, etc. to watch more than 21 hours of the best K-pop stages.

Along with many others across the country, we are heartbroken by the devastating massacres that have recently taken place in Atlanta, GA and Boulder, CO. With our deep ties to Korea, the killings in Atlanta had a profound impact on the entire CJ community.

CJ OliveNetworks is going to establish Smart Factory and Smart HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) at a manufacturing plant in Korea Yakult. Korea Yakult is a food and beverage company that produces lactobacillus fermentation oil and health functional foods. Based on its experience in food manufacturing business, CJ OliveNetworks is planning to integrate MES of FactoryONE, its own smart factory solution, and FactoryONE HACCP to implement process automation, smart HACCP and GMP at the same time.

CJ Cheil Jedang will go full throttle with the production of ready-to-eat grilled fish packages to cope with the growing popularity of home meal replacements, which are a convenient meal package requiring no comprehensive cooking processes. CJ Cheil Jedang said in a statement on March 11 that it would expand the production of “Bibigo Grilled Fish,” an HMR grilled fish product line, to increase output by more than 200 percent.

Studio Dragon, a subsidiary of CJ Group’s media business unit CJ ENM, has been the undisputed leader of the domestic content industry with massive human and material resources invested over the past ten plus years driving economies of scale in an industry where success is measured by popularity. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the gap between Studio Dragon and its competitors was seen “uncrossable.”

‘Parasite’ producer CJ Enm is behind the feature that stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers and was directed by Joel David Moore. The film is an English-language remake of a 2013 Korean social horror-thriller of the same name by Huh Jung. CJ’s Miky Lee, Jinnie Choi, and Jerry Kyoungboum Ko executive produced.

Leading Korean entertainment conglomerate CJ ENM is to break the theatrical window in the world’s fourth largest movie market with a simultaneous cinema and streaming release for “Seobok,” one of the year’s hottest Korean movies. The group said that it will distribute the sci-fi actioner in theaters on April 15 and also make it available on its own streaming service, Tving.

Navillera is an upcoming licensed Netflix Original K-Drama series created and produced by Studio Dragon and based on the webtoon of the same name by authors Hun and Ji-min. Starring in his third Netflix Original is the extremely popular actor Song Kang. After starring in Sweet Home and Love Alarm, Song Kang has become the heartthrob that many K-Dramas fans are currently in love with.

We are pleased to announce that DSC has officially rebranded as CJ Logistics! With this exciting step in our integration journey, we have launched a new website, cjlogisticsamerica.com. Serving customers as one united company and brand reflects our commitment to providing expanded capabilities, creating sustainable customer value, driving continuous improvement and designing a fully integrated customer experience.

CJCJ Food, Americas is announcing its commitment to leading growth in the frozen Asian food category, which represents an estimated $3.2 billion opportunity for food retailers in the United States. Among its U.S.-based affiliates, recent activities include launching a new merchandising model in the frozen aisle, establishing one portfolio of leading Asian food brands for retailers, introducing new products, and investing in long-term manufacturing capacity and capabilities.