Korean TV — Korean Culture

Paramount+ And TVING End Partnership—What This Means For Korean Shows On Paramount+

Over the past couple of years, Paramount+ subscribers have enjoyed access to bold and innovative Korean content thanks to the streamer’s partnership with TVING, a Korean streaming service that’s majority owned by entertainment juggernaut CJ ENM. Unfortunately, that partnership is now coming to an end.

Korean Shows On Paramount+: ‘Pyramid Game,’ ‘Voice,’ ‘Signal’ And More

From the unhinged survival series Bargain to the recently released psychological thriller Pyramid Game, here’s a look at the underrated yet absolutely bingeworthy K-dramas on Paramount+.

Paramount+’s ‘A Bloody Lucky Day’ Is The Best Korean Thriller Of 2024 So Far

While the premise will likely remind viewers of the action thriller Collateral starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx, A Bloody Lucky Day is definitively darker and much more twisted, with plot elements and visuals that might draw closer comparisons to Park Chan-wook’s The Vengeance Trilogy or Kim Jee-woon’s I Saw the Devil.

Inside The Radical Transformation Of The Korean Drama

While streaming has democratized access to K-dramas worldwide, it’s also brought about significant changes to their content, structure and even production process, resulting in a radical transformation of the K-drama landscape and a merging of K-cinema with Korean TV.