K-Drama All columns · 13Latest →01The promised $2.5 billion has come to an end. After the capital has left, the drama will be divided into two parts.2026-W2702Talent in Korea, Money at Netflix The Economics of “Glorious Subcontracting”2026.0603The production cost has increased 27-fold, and success has become just as much more difficult to achieve.2026.0604A Country That Created the World’s No. 1—Yet Leaves Empty-Handed In May 2026, an invoice for “glittering subcontracting” arrived.2026.0505Box office success goes global, while production stays domestic The spring of reckoning for K-dramas2026.0406The film was a global box-office smash— but where did the money go?2026.0307A piece the world watched, an empty granary within2026.0208The invoice has arrived K-dramas: The first month after the bubble2026.0109Make Less, Use More Korean Dramas: Withering Amidst Abundance2025 4Q10Who Sets the Price for a Meeting? Performance Fee Caps and the Shift of Power2025 3Q11A Splendid Spring, an Empty Factory The Two Faces of K-Dramas in Q2 20252025 2Q12The Paradox of a Single Tangerine —A Bountiful Screen, a Withering Field2025 1Q13The glory of **Squid Game**, the dark underbelly of its subcontracted base