Sohee Kim
Media and Entertainment Reporter at Bloomberg News
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1 week ago |
bloomberg.com | Sohee Kim |Shery Ahn
(Bloomberg) -- South Korea’s leading cosmetics maker Amorepacific Corp. is accelerating efforts to bring manufacturing to the US as Donald Trump’s tariff blitz threatens to upend the company’s reliance on its major manufacturing hubs in Asia. The urgency comes as the South Korean cosmetic giant currently relies heavily on China and South Korea for production, making it vulnerable to Trump’s reciprocal duties on major trading partners.
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1 week ago |
bloomberg.com | Sohee Kim
An installation to promote the Oscar-winning film “Godzilla Minus One” in Tokyo. (Bloomberg) -- Toho Co., the Japanese studio behind and the anime , has allocated ¥120 billion ($830 million) over the next three years to fuel its global expansion, betting on the rising international demand for Japanese films and anime. The Tokyo-based company said it will look for deals in content and intellectual property rights and other initiatives.
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1 week ago |
bloomberg.com | Sohee Kim |Haslinda Amin
(Bloomberg) -- JioHotstar, India’s largest streaming platform, has increased its paying subscriber base to over 200 million, driven by multi-language live broadcasts of the hugely popular Indian Premier League cricket matches, a senior executive said. “That makes us one of the biggest streaming services anywhere in the world,” said Uday Shankar, vice chairman of JioStar, the joint venture between Reliance Industries Ltd. and Walt Disney Co., which runs the JioHotstar platform.
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3 weeks ago |
news.bloombergtax.com | Thomas Buckley |Sohee Kim
South Korean cinema chain CJ CGV Co. is considering an initial public offering of its CJ 4DPlex theater-technology affiliate. The discussions are at an early stage and CJ CGV hasn’t yet committed to a timeframe, nor the amount of capital it would seek to raise in a listing. “This may be a strategic option that we may consider in the mid-to-long term, but we are not pursuing anything specific at this time,” the company said in a statement. CJ 4DPlex licenses its technology to theaters.
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3 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Thomas Buckley |Sohee Kim
South Korean cinema chain CJ CGV Co. is considering an initial public offering of its CJ 4DPlex theater-technology affiliate. The discussions are at an early stage and CJ CGV hasn’t yet committed to a timeframe, nor the amount of capital it would seek to raise in a listing.
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