SLL and Mediawan to partner on Korea-Europe remakes and copros

South Korean content studio SLL and France’s Mediawan have forged a strategic partnership to exchange content IP across Korea and Europe and develop coproductions for the global market.

Pierre-Antoine Capton

The agreement was signed this week at the Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, and will see the two firms explore each other’s scripted catalogues to identify titles with remake potential in Europe and Korea.

They will also pursue coproductions that pair their creative and production resources with their respective regional networks.

Working from both original material and existing IP, the aim is to develop stories rooted in Korean and European cultures that can travel between markets.

Scripted series anchor the partnership, while opportunities in unscripted, documentary and animation will also be explored.

“Mediawan is a strategic partner with real European production capability and IP across a wide range of genres,” said SLL CEO Joonsuh Park, who attended the summit.

“This agreement is a starting point. We want to find new possibilities in the content both companies already hold and to build globally competitive IP that brings Korean and European creative talent together.”

Pierre-Antoine Capton, co-founder and CEO of Mediawan, said: “The global content market is being reshaped at great speed, but audiences everywhere continue to respond to stories with a strong identity, local roots and universal emotional resonance as demonstrated by titles produced by Mediawan companies such as Call My Agent!, Miraculous, Adolescence, Backrooms and Slow Horses.”