South Korea’s leading enjoyment team CJ ENM has actually designated Steve W. Chung as its own worldwide main development policeman. He will certainly be actually located in Los Angeles.
Recently, Chung worked as primary development policeman at Fox Organization. Before that Chung was actually the owner and also chief executive officer of Frankly, a publicly-traded media technician business located in San Francisco. He was actually likewise an investor in Silicon Lowland and also an exec manufacturer in China.
Chung presently acts as a panel participant of the charitable National Asia Pacific Fixate Getting Older (NAPCA) and also acquired his B.A coming from Harvard University and also an M.B.A. coming from Stanford College.
Chung will certainly be actually interacting along with all (similar) branches to make harmony for worldwide development — based upon our business’s sight to set up ENM as a worldwide overall enjoyment business,” a CJ resource said to Selection. “Simultaneously, development in the Americas are going to be among a lot of top priorities that are going to be actually [Chung’s] concentration, as a result of [CJ’s] market reveal and also the range of the marketplace.”
The Oriental enterprise possesses long possessed a visibility in the U.S. along with movie development and also circulation functions in the nation. Sibling business CJ-CGV, which is just one of the globe’s biggest movie house drivers, likewise possesses a little collection of mini-multiplexes in the U.S.
Recently, driven through Oriental modern lifestyle coming to be an international sensation, CJ ENM has actually taken measures in the direction of an even more worldwide period of functions. These have actually consisted of taking an adolescence risk in David Ellison’s Skydance Media, getting a large number command of Effort Information’s scripted branch and also friending on its own along with Viacom CBS.
In various other current stateside steps, CJ ENM has actually just recently acquired U.S.-based Hyperreal, a steward of electronic people, restored the in-person K-pop event KCON LOS ANGELES, and also evolved growth on attribute motion picture “K-Pop: Shed in The United States,” which is actually being actually generated through JK Youn, Lynda Obst (“Interstellar”) and also CJ ENM’s personal California-based bad habit seat Miky Lee.
