[HJ][jangki] YT Press Conference on Japan TV

Press conference of Youtube version on Japan TV named Korea Enta! News

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[hj][Jangki] Seung-jo's Diary #7

Seung-jo's Diary 7 @ November 19 (Friday)

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[hj][jangki] YT VER - Making Film II

Making Film 2 @ 18th November 2010 (Thursday)

Final day you will see anything on this channel uploaded (official)...

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[hj][jangki] YT VER - Making Film I

Making Film 1 @ 17th November (Wednesday)

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[hj][article] Most of the audiences of [Playful Kiss] are females?!

2010 11 17

Are most of the audiences of Kim Hyun-joong's special Youtube version drama [Playful Kiss] - females?

Along with the largest online video-sharing platform Youtube and production company Group Eight, the special youtube edition of [Playful Kiss] that's aired through (www.youtube.com/ytkiss) has already recorded a total of 8 million upload views altogether.

This special youtube edition of [Playful Kiss] began its first episode airing on 2nd November (Tuesday) with "The morning on our after-wed day" and lasted till the finale on 16th November with "Happy birthday!"; with a total of these 7 webisodes and 6 episodes of [Seung-jo's Diary], the combination of this spin-off version of [Playful Kiss] has thus been receiving high amount of attention from worldwide at a total of 8.4 million uploaded views in all.

As of now, the 1st episode of this youtube version of [Playful Kiss] remains to be the No.1 amongst the Entertainment category of November, whilst its 4th, 5th, 6th episode remains as the 1st, 2nd and 3rd most watched and popular videos in the Entertainment category of this week.

According to the information shared by its Youtube account, for now, the most number of users (audiences) recorded watching comes from domestically (Korea), but despite so, it still attracts much attention from users all over the world. Right after Korean audiences came Singapore and Hongkong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Japan etc, following one after another, which just proves the high popularity in different regions of Asia. Not just that, in places like Egypt, Mauritius, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and the various central regions of these countries also showed the presence of audiences, which just goes to reaffirm the importance of such a global platform like Youtube. Also, number of comments left on the Youtube channel of this special edition have reached about 20K which are left in various languages like English, Mandarin, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Spanish, French etc etc.

In addition, it has also been revealed that people ranging from 13 years of age to 65 years of age are tuning in to this, and in particular, the most number of audiences come from people aged 13-17, after which, 45-54 years of age - whose popularity amongst such a wide age range could be reiterated. As for the gender differences, a landsliding 91% of audiences come from females.

The special Youtube edition could receive this much of popularity is also due to great help coming from the translation of subtitles in many diverse languages. The Youtube edition channel contacted "Viikii.net" to provide different subtitling service of each individual's preferred language; of course to which such a caring service could thus continuously attract the support of fans. Choices for the subtitles come in a wide variety like Korean, English, Mandarin, Japanese, Spanish etc.

CEO of Group Eight Song Byung-jun has revealed, "For the fact that our special edition are also watched in very unfamiliar countries to us like Africa, middle-east and in Europe continents, we could thus assert that our domestic video contents have maximized its stand in overseas", "The reason why our Youtube special edition could achieve such soaring popularity is due to the high amount of worldwide interest for our actual TV version of [Playful Kiss] which has already been pre-sold to 11 foreign countries, that is why it has introduced this big and positive influence over our Youtube edition".

"This has been a wonderful opportunity where a single platform has been fully utilized across 24 countries in the world", "The success of this special edition has marked itself into the first ever meaningful step we have taken into attempts at introducing our Republic Korea's outstanding video contents to the world through Youtube. It'll be really lovely if future producers would create more opportunities to make positive usage of Youtube channels", as was also revealed by Lee Won-jin - the managing director of Google Asia and CEO of Google Korea.

7 webisodes of [Playful Kiss Special Edition] and 6 episodes of [Seung-jo's Diary] have already been uploaded through its channel (www.youtube.com/user/ytkiss), while NG cuts and Making Coverages are also slated to be uploaded, soon.



From: http://www.egn.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=27888

[hj][jangki] YT #7

Episode 7 is out. @ 16th November (Tuesday)

This is the final episode that took some time before it got published.

Episode 7 - Happy birthday!

[hj][Jangki] Seung-jo's Diary #6

#6 Diary - Released: 14th November (sunday)

[hj][Jangki] Seung-jo's Diary #5

Diary 5 @ Nov, 13th

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is it only me or is the timing totally errotic, well not to be blamed

[hj][Jangki] Seung-jo's Diary #4

Diary 4 released @ 12th Nov (fri)

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[hj][jangki] YT #6

Driving is sooo hard!

Episode 6 @ November 11 (Thurs)

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[hj][jangki] YT #5

5th Episode @ November 10

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[hj][jangki] YT #4

Episode 4 @ 11.09 (Tues)

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[hj][Jangki] Seung-jo's Diary #3

Diary 3rd @ 11.07

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[hj][Jangki] Seung-jo's Diary #2

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[hj][Jangki] Seung-jo's Diary #1

Seungjo's diary - episode 1 @ Nov 5th

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[hj][article] CNN will hold interview & talks with Jangki team

America's well-known channel CNN has also now fallen under the frenzy over [Playful Kiss].

Recently, [Playful Kiss Special] has been airing through the Youtube platform and is receiving much feverish responses from viewers all around the globe, to which, even CNN will now be holding a coverage of [Playful Kiss].

On the 7th at 2PM in an area in Seoul Kangnam, CNN will be carrying out interviews with protagonist Kim Hyunjoong, production company Group Eight's Song Byung-jun, as well as Google's chairman Seo Hwang-wook.

On this day, CNN's main anchorperson Anna Core will be expected to pose questions to Kim Hyunjoong like the fame that came with [Playful Kiss], acting chemistry with Jung Somin, and interesting episodes that happened, etc.

After which, Anna Core will also sound out Song Byung-jun about the know-hows of production making, and various talks about the making team behind [Playful Kiss], and also not forgetting about the profits from the Youtube special version which will be inquired from Google's Seo Hwang-wook chairman. It is expected to be a very meaningful and exhaustive chance to be held.

Before Anna Core joined CNN in 2008, she was working for Australia's Nine-Network. She had once hosted informational programmes like [The Seven Network], [Today Tonight] etc, and was also the manager of Nine-Network in LA.

The reason to why CNN is showing such hot interest for [Playful Kiss] could be much credited to the number of viewers of 520K in just two days after releasing its first episode on the net.

As of the 5th afternoon now, 1st episode of [Playful Kiss] has recorded 768, 591 views, 2nd episode with 438,178 views; wherein if to be base it on the number of channel views only, there is already 1756, 175 views altogether.

For number of comments for [Playful Kiss] videos, it has already gone beyond 3,400 number of entries. Not only were they written in Korean, English, Mandarin, Japanese, Spanish, French etc were also seen, which reflects the diversified responses of netizens hailing from many different countries, and this is exactly because this Youtube Special Edition was introduced in languages like English, Mandarin, Japanese, Spanish etc, which was why. Youtube has also collaborated with the ViiKii community to provide translations in each country's language.

Apart from these, the [Playful Kiss Special] has also recorded the highest number of comments been left in the [Entertainment] category amongst all Youtube videos; and it seems like this record will not be broken for the moment.

Song Byung-jun CEO of Group Eight also left his sentiments for the Youtube platform, "After uploading our Youtube special version, we have thus come to know about the potential of this global rivalry that is in store through the number of views and comments left by viewers all around the world", "By overcoming the barrier of different cultures and every thing, we are able to communicate with the fans amongst one another, and thus we could re-confirm the real-time responses in each region around the globe; it's really extremely efficient through a manner like this".

Whilst on the other hand, Lee Won-jin CEO of Google Korea also replied, "This Youtube is the biggest online video-sharing site in the entire world which also release the discographies of famous international singers at first hand. And with our special Youtube version this time round, our domestic video contents businesses have also aroused large interest in taking their developments onto Youtube. Youtube is open 24-7, which is why it is so welcomed by our domestic production people, and we hope it will be further welcomed as well".

[Playful Kiss Special Youtube Edition] will be aired until 18th November on every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday at 7PM through Youtube platform.



Source: NATE NEWS

[hj][jangki] YT #3

Episode 3! on 4th November 2010, Thursday

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[hj][jangki] YT #2

2nd episode! 11.03 Wednesday

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It was a little later than 7PM due to late editing, as it has apologised

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[hj][jangki] YT #1

Episode 1 !


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[hj][article] 11.01's Press Conf

Actor Kim Hyun-joong has left his thoughts on the shooting for Youtube Special Edition of [Playful Kiss].

On the 1st at 2PM in Seoul, Samsung-dong's Mega-box COAX Hall, the press conference for the Youtube Special Edition of [Playful Kiss] was held.

Pertaining to the question if "this is your first after-wed life experienced through this drama?", he has chosen to reply wittingly to that, "Through the previous 'We got married' variety programme, I had already wed once, so because of that reason, it's my second wed-life that I'm experiencing here", "For youtube's case, there is no limitations and rules like that on the television, so I think we'll be able to show stronger affection scenes", as he laughed it off with that sentence.

"This time's Youtube special edition will be the finale of Playful Kiss", "It will collate the episodes of after-marriage lives of them both which audiences have been curious about. It'll be the summarization version of all 16 episodes shown of Playful Kiss".

This Youtube special edition of [Playful Kiss] consisting of a total of 7 episodes will portray the sweet after marriage life of Baek Seung-jo (Kim Hyun-joong) and Oh Ha-ni (Jung So-min) that will vary from the drama.

It will be revealed to the entire world through its official youtube channel (http://youtube.com/ytkiss) at 7PM on 2nd November.

http://sstv.freechal.com/index.html?page=news/flypage&nid=93446&cid=24

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On the 1st afternoon in Seoul, Kangnam-gu's Samsung-dong Mega-box M-center, [Playful Kiss] held its press conference for the special youtube edition.

On this day, CEO of Group Eight who hails from the production company Song Byung-jun, executive of Youtube channel Jung-Kim Kyung-suk, as well as pratagonists Kim Hyun-joong, Jung So-min attended to this press conference.


Ever since the opening of its official channel in just 3 weeks time, it has already reached 650,000 views for its channel; this special youtube edition of [Playful Kiss] will begin to air at 7PM starting from November 2 onwards till November 18 on every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. It is expected to release its 7 episodes through its official youtube channel as it anticipates to attract the attention and concern of users from all over the world.

On this day's press conference, Song Byung-jun CEO has had expressed, "This is a very meaningful opportunity for our dramas to aim for the 'world drama' status throughout the world", "And thus so, we will give all our best wholeheartedly for this time so as not to dampen the high anticipation fans have on this work". After which, Jung-Kim Kyung-suk executive also added, "This places a significance to us where the entire world will be placing their huge amount of attention on our works that will go on video-sharing platforms, and with this, it is expected in future that it will largely magnify our superior Hanryu contents business towards our Korea cultural development plans that we will hold", as he pours confidence.

The protagonist of this drama Kim Hyun-joong also adds, "Not only Korea, but the entire world where every body comes to congregate at one single video. This world where people will come together to share just a sole video, it's really nothing but amazing", "If only our Playful Kiss Special youtube version will be added on with such titles and becomes yet another hit, it will be lovely".

"This is my second after marriage life after the previous 'We got married', unlike that on tv broadcasting, with this time's special youtube edition, there will be no rules and regulations observed, so I think we'll be able to do it well with stronger affectionate scenes", "And hence we'll be able to unreservedly show you the more natural sides to this couple than before".

Jung So-min who stars as the counterpart of Kim Hyun-joong expresses, "I was very extremely sad when the television broadcast ended, and that is why I'm very happy to placate my sadness from before with this time's youtube special", "The storyline of this youtube special will revolve around Hyunjoong sunbae and me, it's a brand new feeling altogether".

Song Byung-jun CEO also did not stop in his words, "In the future 7 episodes that's 10 minutes long per ep will consist of sweet after-wed lives of them both, and if all of these were to be uninteresting right from the start, it will be very difficult to keep our audiences and subscribers with us, and we're well aware of that. There's only shooting left until 5th November (Friday), which's this week. We'll finish off the anticipated finale well, so therefore we ask for your much support", as he pleaded.

On the other hand, [Playful Kiss] that ended its television telecast run not long ago is produced by Group Eight that was in charge of producing [Fantasy Couple], [Boys over Flowers] etc, hit works that striked syndromes. It is adapted from Tada Kaoru's original Japanese manga, and is popular amongst the youngsters age level.

http://thestar.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/11/01/2010110101650.html