SEOUL, 17 March 2017
- After its successful run in webfestivals ending with the Kwebfest in Seoul this past August 2016, hit
Chinese webseries Ex-Model will be released on South Korean VOD
platforms thanks to a partnership with KTH (Korea Telecom Hitel).
Through his company,
YMK Films Korea, the director of the Kwebfest Young Man Kang reached a deal
with the content arm of Korea Telecom, the leading telecom operator in South
Korea, a leader in the digital contents business in Asia.
Ex-Model was
created by Emmanuel Sapolsky and Xin Wang, produced by Paris-based fledging prodco
New Bee Productions, and is distributed by Asian webseries specialist Daehan
Drama.
The webseries follows
Chinese model XinXin in Paris, who struggles to accept not being under the
spotlight as much as before as she reaches her 30s and will attempt almost
anything not to fall back into anonymousness. An intrigue widely inspired from
the life of author and lead actress, Xin Wang.
Ex-Model received
best actress and best art design awards at the Sicily Webfest 2015 and a
special award at the Bilbao Webfest 2016 for its “preservation of the old town of
Paris.” Premiering on Youku Tudou in Mainland China, it has also been airing on
Fashion One in South East Asia and Gong TV in France.
KTH has so far
released mainly homegrown feature films and webdramas. As their first foreign
webseries, Ex-Model will provide them with a first
opportunity to test the market and see how Korean viewers react.
To start, Ex-Model will be released on Naver TVcast, the
leading VOD platform for webseries in South Korea, then to other services. This is the second foreign
webseries being released on Naver TVcast after BananaMana Films’ Perfect Girl last year through a deal with iHQ.
YMK Films’ Young Man
Kang says, “We are very excited to be able to release a first foreign webseries
in the South Korean market and we hope to bring more as to expand the market
for web contents here and beyond.”
