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Latest news and updates on the Walt Disney Company’s online streaming service Disney+ which launched in Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea in November 2021.

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Robert Iger

CEO / Managing Director

Robert Iger

CFO / Finance Director

Christine McCarthy

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Films & Streaming

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disneyplus.com

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500 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, California 91521, USA

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Year founded

2019

last updated:

30 September, 2024

Ju Ji-hoon in a still from Disney+ Korean drama series Light Shop. The actor says he experienced an emotion he’d never felt before in acting during one scene. Photo: Disney+.

K-drama news

Actor Ju Ji-hoon on the message of Disney+ K-drama Light Shop

Ju runs a light shop to which other characters are drawn. He recalls the ‘emotion I was experiencing for the first time’ shooting the series.

21 Dec 2024 - 7:15PM

Korean drama reviews

The 15 best K-dramas of 2024 ranked, from Queen of Tears to Squid Game 2

21 Dec 2024 - 7:12AMvideocam

Korean drama reviews

Review | Light Shop: mawkish supernatural K-drama of two halves

19 Dec 2024 - 8:15PMvideocam

Korean drama reviews

Light Shop: Ju Ji-hoon leads supernatural K-drama from Moving writer

This tale of customers at a mysterious shop that only opens at night is based on a story by webtoon author Kang Full.

6 Dec 2024 - 7:15PMvideocam

Ju Ji-hoon as store owner Jung Won-young in a still from Light Shop, a new Korean drama series on Disney+ by Kang Full, the creator of hit series Moving. Photo: Disney+.

Korean drama reviews

The Fiery Priest 2 midseason recap: Kim Nam-gil in comedy overload

Slapstick humour and ludicrous scenarios take over as Kim Nam-gil fights a drug lord, in a series that has become funnier but less coherent.

4 Dec 2024 - 7:15PMvideocam

K-drama news

Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born role’s special meaning for Moon So-ri

Korean actress was driven to appear in drama by thought of her late musical drama teacher, and practised a year to play lead character’s mum.

1 Dec 2024 - 2:42PMvideocam

Korean drama reviews

Review | Gangnam B-Side: K-drama crime thriller descends into a gore fest

Ji Chang-wook’s Seoul pimp and Bibi’s escort fail to surprise us in this drama with gratuitous violence inflicted on badly-drawn characters.

29 Nov 2024 - 7:45PMvideocam

Jo Woo-jin in a still from Gangnam B-Side. Photo: Disney+

K-drama news

6 new Korean drama series to watch in December 2024, including Squid Game 2

Squid Game returns for season 2 with Lee Jung-jae and Wi Ha-joon, Park Bo-young leads a supernatural mystery on Disney+, and more.

7 Dec 2024 - 8:39AMvideocam

American cinema

Beatles ’64 offers a fly-on-the-wall look as the band breaks the US

Martin Scorsese’s Beatles documentary gets up close and personal with the band and documents their first visit to the United States.

29 Nov 2024 - 4:15PMvideocam

Korean drama reviews

Love Your Enemy, engaging romcom K-drama with Ju Ji-hoon, Jung Yu-mi

A man and woman from two feuding families are reunited after 18 years in this romcom set around a high school.

27 Nov 2024 - 7:15PMvideocam

Ju Ji-hoon (left) and Jung Yu-mi in a still from Love Your Enemy.

Wellness

How Inside Out 2 writers looked to own pasts and kids for inspiration

‘That feeling of not feeling good enough is where a lot of this began,’ says director of starting point for record-grossing animated film.

24 Nov 2024 - 5:15PMvideocam

A still from Inside Out 2. The director and the writers say they found inspiration for the film from their own childhoods and children. Photo: Disney/Pixar

Korean drama reviews

Review | In Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born, soaring performances save the show

Kim Tae-ri shines as a gifted singer who overcomes hardships in a story that has some good ideas but fails to follow through on them.

21 Nov 2024 - 4:15PMvideocam

TV shows and streaming video

Review | Jimmy O. Yang excels in Interior Chinatown, bold detective comedy

Yang is the stand-out star in this ambitious, heartfelt series that sends up police procedural TV shows and addresses racial stereotyping.

21 Nov 2024 - 10:02AMvideocam

TV shows and streaming video

Asian stereotypes in Hollywood get the chop in Interior Chinatown

Jimmy O. Yang plays an actor whose world is turned upside down in Interior Chinatown on Disney+. Ronny Chieng and Chloe Bennet co-star.

17 Nov 2024 - 7:15PMvideocam

Jimmy O. Yang (left) and Ronny Chieng arrive for the premiere of Interior Chinatown in Los Angeles. Yang stars as an Asian actor who finds his world turned upside down in unusual ways. Photo: AFP

Korean drama reviews

The Fiery Priest season 2: Kim Nam-gil beats up sinners in action K-drama

Korea’s most temperamental priest returns for a second outing, this time delivering his unique brand of divine justice to criminals in Busan.

11 Nov 2024 - 5:05PMvideocam

Kim Nam-gil as unorthodox priest Kim Hae-il in a still from The Fiery Priest season two, a Korean drama on Disney+.

Korean drama reviews

Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born midseason recap – Kim Tae-ri’s musical triumph

Kim Tae-ri’s troubled stage singer outshines her rival, played by Shin Ye-eun, in stunning performances. There is the odd far-fetched moment.

8 Nov 2024 - 7:15PMvideocam

Korean drama reviews

Review | The Judge from Hell: Park Shin-hye can’t save demonic K-drama

Park Shin-hye’s spirited turn as a demon who develops human feelings is failed by unconvincing characters and inconsequential twists.

6 Nov 2024 - 7:45PMvideocam

K-drama news

11 of the best new Korean drama series to watch in November 2024

Crime series Gangnam B-Side, road trip drama Mr Plankton, comedy crime drama Face Me and romcom Marry You are among our Korean drama picks.

16 Nov 2024 - 1:54PMvideocam

Lee You-mi (left) and Woo Do-hwan in a still from Mr Plankton, one of our top Korean drama picks for November 2024. Photo: Jiyeon Kim/Netflix

TV shows and streaming video

Discovery of explorer Shackleton’s ship Endurance in Nat Geo documentary

Film tells 2 remarkable stories, of how wreck was found 3km underwater in the Antarctic and Shackleton’s 1916 escape from the icebound ship.

21 Oct 2024 - 7:57AMvideocam

K-drama news

Profile | Meet Kim Tae-ri, beloved Korean actress of Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born

Kim Tae-ri burst onto the scene in acclaimed 2016 erotic thriller The Handmaiden, and she has only gone from strength to strength since.

8 Nov 2024 - 8:01AM

Korean drama reviews

Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born – Kim Tae-ri shines in period music K-drama

Kim Tae-ri stars as talented young singer Yoon Jeong-nyeon whose mother (Moon So-ri) tries to stop her singing, in this Disney+ period drama.

15 Oct 2024 - 5:15PMvideocam

Kim Tae-ri in a still from Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born.

Korean drama reviews

The Judge from Hell midseason recap: Park Shin-hye’s demonic resolve wavers

As demon Kang Bit-na, Park Shin-hye struggles to control her body and emotions in The Judge from Hell as she sends murderers’ souls to hell.

14 Oct 2024 - 7:15PMvideocam

Park Shin-hye as demon Kang Bit-na in a still from The Judge from Hell.

Korean drama reviews

Gangnam B-Side: Ji Chang-wook in gritty thriller K-drama on Disney+

The seedy underbelly of Seoul’s most glam neighbourhood is laid bare in this stylish thriller starring Ji Chang-wook as a pimp on the run.

11 Oct 2024 - 5:15PMvideocam

K-drama news

Im Yoon-ah eyed for A Tyrant’s Chef and more K-drama casting news

Ji Chang-wook and Exo’s D.O. are set to lead Sculpture City, while Girls’ Generation’s Im Yoon-ah has been offered a time-travelling role.

5 Oct 2024 - 7:15PM

K-drama news

8 of the best new Korean drama series to watch in October 2024

Lee Sang-yi and Han Ji-hyun spice things up in a spin-off show, four women sell adult products door-to-door in A Virtuous Business, and more.

24 Oct 2024 - 1:36PMvideocam

Kim Tae-ri in a still from Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born, one of eight new Korean dramas coming to our screens in October 2024. Photo: Disney+

What to do in Hong Kong

5 movies and TV shows to watch in Hong Kong this weekend, September 27-29

Inside Out 2, Wolfs and The Judge from Hell all hit streaming services while Stuntman and I, the Executioner open in Hong Kong cinemas today.

26 Sep 2024 - 11:12AMvideocam

Hwang Jung-min in a still from I, the Executioner, one of our five movies and TV show picks to watch in Hong Kong this weekend together with Inside Out 2, Wolfs, Stuntman and The Judge from Hell.

TV shows and streaming video

Disney+ show Agatha All Along’s Kathryn Hahn on her ‘juicy’ role as a witch

The actress talks about her ‘journey as a woman’ and singing with a ‘dream’ cast in this show referencing Nicole Kidman to The Wizard of Oz.

25 Sep 2024 - 4:15AMvideocam

Korean drama reviews

The Judge from Hell: Park Shin-hye lords over court in Disney+ K-drama

Park is formidable as a judge from hell sent to Earth in the body of a slain judge on a quest to kill 10 murderers and return to Hades.

23 Sep 2024 - 8:00PMvideocam

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