Next Entertainment World
Next Entertainment World, better known as NEW, is one of the companies that helped define the modern Korean content business. Founded in 2008 by former Showbox executive Kim Woo-taek, NEW built its reputation through a strong film-investment and distribution engine before expanding into production, drama packaging, and export-facing IP strategy. It is not simply a company that touches hit titles. It is part of the infrastructure that helped scale the market itself.
The film side established the brand through titles such as New World, Miracle in Cell No. 7, and Train to Busan. From there, the company widened into a larger ecosystem that includes Studio N, Studio&NEW, Contents Panda, and CineQ, giving it reach across theatrical releases, scripted series, global sales, and venue operations. That structure is why NEW shows up across so many different parts of the Korean screen economy.
NEW remains important because it can move between commercial scale and industry leverage without acting like a single-format specialist. Its official channels still point back to the company's movie division and broader corporate network, which says a lot about how it sees itself: not just as a studio, but as a long-range content operator with real weight in how Korean stories are financed, distributed, and pushed into the global market.
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