CJ America News

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.

CJ Logistics America leaders will be attending CSCMP EDGE 2022, September 18-21, at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, Nashville, TN. CSCMP EDGE features the supply chain industry’s latest innovations, new strategies and best practices, increasingly important in a shifting global landscape, accelerating the need for supply chains to broaden their mission and deliver competitive advantage.

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.

Bibigo held various events to promote K-food at KCON 2022 LA, a Korean pop culture festival held in Los Angeles for three days from Aug. 19 to 21. This year, a sample tasting event was held at Bibigo Food Street to present Korea’s trendy street foods such as Bibigo dumplings, chicken and hot sauce Bibigo Gotchu,

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.

South Korean retailer Olive Young data has revealed that facial guasha sales have increased over six times in the first half of the year, signalling the growing importance of self-care among beauty consumers.

CJ Cheiljedang will integrate two U.S. subsidies including Schwan’s Company, a major food processing company, into a unified entity as part of efforts to become a top ready-to-eat Asian food provider in the American market.

South Korean entertainment giant CJ ENM announced that it has expanded into the US as a free-to-view addition to Peacock, US media and entertainment company NBC Universal’s streaming platform. CJ ENM will offer Korean content which includes dramas, movies and K-pop programs via Peacock’s CJ ENM branded channel “CJ ENM Picks.”

Targeting the opening of its 100th location, plus the debut of a new corporate flagship store in 2023, TOUS les JOURS continues to ramp up development activities in 2022 and expand its footprint in states where it has not previously operated.