Netflix stages Seoul fan festival to mark ten years in Korea

Netflix marked ten years in Korea with a fan festival at Seoul's Oil Tank Culture Park, where the casts of its upcoming Korean originals presented the platform's coming slate on stage. The event was billed as Netflix Janchi — a feast — and it put the slate news in front of an audience of fans.

Song Hye-Kyo, Gong Yoo and Kim Seol-hyun introduced Tantara, also known as Slowly and Intensely, about people chasing stardom inside the Korean entertainment industry, premiering December 11. Song Hye-Kyo plays Min-ja, a woman set on success; Gong Yoo plays Dong-gu, willing to do whatever it takes to protect her and her dream; Kim Seol-hyun plays Min-hui, a talented rival whose relationship with Min-ja is complicated. Byeon Woo-Seok's Solo Leveling received its update alongside Grand Galaxy Hotel, a fantasy from the production team behind Hotel Del Luna, due in 2027, with Lee Do-Hyun as the new owner of a hotel that comforts the souls of the dead — the previous owner vanished without a trace — and Shin Si-a as its only human employee. Beauty in the Beast, whose Korean title is Wolf Girl, is a werewolf story with Kim Min-Ju, Moon Sang-min and Lomon, likewise pointed at 2027. The returning cast of All of Us Are Dead, Park Ji-hu and Cho Yi-hyun among them, previewed the sequel, and Yoon Chan-Young settled one plot question in advance: Lee Cheong-san is alive.

The slate also carried Lee Chang-Dong's Possible Love, a film about relationships, marriage and the complications of love, with Sol Kyung-gu, Jeon Do-yeon, Jo In-sung and Jo Yeo-jeong appearing on stage after the trailer screened. It premiered in select theaters on September 23 and reaches the platform on November 6. For a director long identified with Korean arthouse cinema, the theatrical run now lasts six weeks and functions as a runway.

Korea is the one non-English market where Netflix consistently converts local production into global subscriptions, and the company stages its Korean slate news accordingly — the talent on stage, the subscribers in the seats, the pipeline planned in years rather than seasons.

Ten years in, the arthouse film and the zombie sequel were announced from the same stage.