Tubi Inks Korean Content Deal With CJ ENM
December 12, 2022
Tubi Dec. 12 announced it has entered a content deal with South Korean distributor CJ ENM. The partnership will launch with more than 75 Korean films, dramas and K-Pop series, totaling 500 hours of content, to be added as a branded curation to Tubi’s robust non-English content offering beginning this month. Titles include “Squad 38,” “Reply 1994,” “Hogu’s Love,” “The Chronicles of Evil,” “A Werewolf Boy,” “Hindsight” and eight seasons of “M Countdown,” with additional titles to be added in 2023.
As one of Tubi’s fastest-growing categories for non-English content, Korean programming viewership has grown over 25% year-over-year on the platform, according to Fox Entertainment.
“Our partnership with CJ ENM comes at an optimal time for Tubi as we scale and enhance our focus on foreign language content,” Adam Lewinson, chief content officer for Tubi, said in a statement. “Korean-language titles have been an increasingly popular destination for Tubi viewers and we’re excited to kick off this collaboration with a leader in the Korean content space.”
Additional movies from CJ ENM to be made available beginning this month include Hwang Jin Yi, The Accidental Detective, Murder, Take One, Parallel Life, Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River, Howling, Deranged, Perfect Number, Blood and Ties, Killer Toon, Tough as Iron, Helpless, Time Renegades, Heart Blackened, The Advocate: A Missing Body, Finding Mr. Destiny, Glove, Penny Pinchers, The Servant, Over My Dead Body, The Map Against the World, Remember You, Good Morning President, Castaway on the Moon, Arahan, Going by the Book, Salut D’Amour, The Sound of a Flower, White, Spellbound, Sunny and Ode to My Father.
“We plan to continue to seek opportunities to increase the accessibility of our content to global audiences to meet the growing demand of K-content,” said Sebastian Kim, director of content sales and acquisitions at CJ ENM.
Additional series to be made available beginning this month include “Cheese in the Trap,” “The K2,” “Squad 38,” “Marriage, Not Dating,” “Hidden Identity,” “The Three Musketeers,” “Ten 1,” “Emergency Couple,” “Shut Up and Let’s Go,” “Bring It On, Ghost,” “Misaeng-Incomplete Life,” “Voice1,” “Another Miss Oh,” “Second 20’s,” “Gabdong,” “High School King of Savvy,” “The Liar His Lover,” “My Shy Boss,” “Let’s Eat!” 1 and 2, “Oh My Ghost,” “Plus Nine Boys,” “Memory,” “Nine,” “In Need of Romance,” “My First Time,” “Signal,” “Monstar,” “Reply 1997” and “Super Daddy Yeol.”