[News Trans]BYJ-PJY, ‘agree to co-produce drama’

It seems a good project. And while reading the article I though of the drama series ‘Fame’.

while reading this article also, i suddenly remember yong joon's dream of putting up a school for performing arts.

Korean to English translation by suehan. much thanks, suehan!

BYJ-PJY, ‘agree to co-produce drama’
Gonews, Reporter, Baek Minjae /2009-01-06 12:34

Hallyu star, Bae Yong Joon and composer, Park Jin Young produce the drama jointly.

On the 6th, Park Jin Young’s management company, JPY Entertainment, officially announced by saying, ‘The joint contract was made with Bae Yong Joon’s Keyeast to produce the drama.’ ‘Dream High (tentative name)’, which JYP Entertainment and Keyeast produce jointly, is the drama about the stories of the students who are growing with incidents and conflicts that happen at the entertainment and art school. It’s a theme that can show the real aspect of local entertainment industries with fun things to watch like singing, dancing and acting.

Especially, PJY and BYJ, who are the major shareholders of both companies, are interested in this project a lot and are planning to participate in it directly and indirectly, and this draws more attention from the industries.

The staff of JYP said, ‘PJY will participate in the project such as writing, composing, and arrangement of the sound, and vocal and dance – training for actors/actresses. BYJ will participate in overall drama planning and scenario, production, and so forth.’, and he added, ‘Both of them are reviewing to appear in the drama positively.’

JYP Entertainment and Keyeast plan to invest jointly and set up the limited liability company within January and they plan to precede all the works which are related to the drama such as casting, audition and production through this company. And both companies will recruit the talented new actors/actresses, singers, and entertainers who will participate in the drama through a big-scale audition.

The staff of JYP Entertainment said, ‘We were interested in the entertainment visual industry and are so happy to work with a good partner for the opportunities to move into it.’, and ‘PJY is much interested in this project and willing to take charge of production and directing music and choreography for the drama. We will put all our strengths into the drama as the main project of JYP in 2009.’

The staff of Keyeast said, ‘Both companies have strengths in the management of actors/actresses (acting) and singers (pop) and experiences moved into the Japanese and American markets. We agreed to combine our know-hows and networks of both companies and make the Korean-style killer contents which can compete worldwide.'

The drama ‘Dream High’, JYP Entertainment and Keyeast produce jointly, is planned to be aired in the first half of 2010.