Taking a look at Studio X+U's 2024 K-Content lineup

9 March 26, 2024March 26, 2024

Taking a look at Studio X+U’s 2024 K-Content lineup

by tccolb

Continuing the climb into the K-content big leagues, LG’s production company Studio X+U came out with a new video announcement showcasing their… er… “non-fungible condensed entertainment lineup” (to use their words) for 2024. Although the broadcaster is not yet confirmed for some of the shows, presumably most will be releasing on LG’s own platform, U+ Mobile TV.

Drama: Fragile
Release date: TBA
Need to know: Still in the early stages of production, the youth series will be taking a hard and honest look at the day-to-day struggles faced by teenagers in this generation.

Drama: Tarot
Release date: TBA
Need to know: Entwining an ensemble cast into a dark web of seven tales surrounding the title’s mysterious tarot cards, the omnibus style horror series stars Jo Yeo-jung, Park Ha-sun, Dex (a.k.a. Kim Jin-young), Go Kyu-pil, Seo Ji-hoon, Lee Joo-bin, and Ham Eun-jung among others. With PD Choi Byung-gil (High Class, Angry Mom) at the helm and scripts by Kyung Min-sun, the fantasy has notably been selected for the short form competition at the Cannes International Series Festival this April.

Drama: No Way Out
Release date: TBA
Need to know: After 13 years behind bars as a convicted felon, Yoo Jae-myung’s first taste of freedom is soured when he discovers that someone put out a 200 million won reward for Yoo’s head. The crime-thriller also stars Jo Jin-woong as the police detective on the case, together with Kim Mu-yeol, Yeom Jung-ah, Sung Yoo-bin, Lee Kwang-soo, and Taiwanese actor Greg Hsu. Production is being led by filmmaker Choi Gook-hee (Life is Beautiful) and screenwriter Lee Soo-jin (The Devil’s Deal).

In addition to dramas, Studio X+U has been working on a slew of variety, talk, reality, and documentary shows for this year, including:

Be My Side 3 (April 17), with model Han Hye-jin, Youtuber Pungja, and comedians Park Na-rae and Eom Ji-yoon
Star of Star Girls 2 (TBA), with idols Yuqi, Chuu, and Tsuki
The House You Live In (roughly translated)(TBA)
She Killed (TBA)

Currently airing or completed shows were omitted from the post. But seeing as we’re in the midst of another round of qualifier games for FIFA, football/soccer fans may be interested in checking out Man in Europe, hosted by Park Ji-sung and Patrice Evra. Studio X+U’s full content list can also be seen in the video below.

Via Sports Donga

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1 Seon-ha

March 26, 2024 at 2:22 PM

I would love, love, LOVE for the work coming out of this studio to feel risky. The descriptions above don't have my hopes too high, but wouldn't it be nice to feel like there was still space NOT to do something that will certainly find a pre-existing, pre-identified audience??

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Flix_Crusin

March 26, 2024 at 6:59 PM

Idk, the decription for TAROT and FRAGILE are general enough that you can make an out of the box story within those frameworks. It's I'll judge it when I see it situation for me.

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2 Kurama

March 26, 2024 at 2:28 PM

Branding in Seongsu wasn't really good, so don't have a lot of hopes, but No Way Out has a solid cast.

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3 DancingEmma

March 26, 2024 at 3:10 PM

The use of “non-fungible” in their tagline is a first for me. I wonder why “unique” wouldn’t have sufficed? Or maybe it was important to deduce that these will be “products” like their other ones.

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Dylan [is enjoying Shogun]

March 27, 2024 at 5:10 AM

It's like when kdramas make their chaebol characters use English technobabble to sound impressive. You know, the conversations in kdrama boardrooms where they drop words like blockchain, metaverse, Bitcoin, etc.

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4 Flix_Crusin

March 26, 2024 at 7:04 PM

why... why is it "non-fungible"?

FRAGILE and TAROT are pretty vauge, I'll keep an eye out.

I wonder, will any of these shows be available for international viewers?

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5 bomibeans

March 26, 2024 at 8:09 PM

I really really miss Kakao TV dramas. Not all of them were remarkable but when they were remarkable, they were phenomenal in their realistic exploration of the modern Korean society.

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6 welh

March 27, 2024 at 9:37 AM

I am all in for Jo Yeo Jeong's TAROT episode (the one to be shown at Cannes). The episode was originally slated to be the first one, but now it is slated to air third . . . it is called "Santa's Visit." In the trailer, JYJ plays a single mom who while working as a retail clerk finds out her home alone daughter is not alone.