30 Korean Content Companies to Gather in Santiago, Chile

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30 Korean Content Companies to Gather in Santiago, Chile

2026-10-30 20:02 Last Updated At：20:20

SANTIAGO, Chile--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 30, 2026--

Hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and organized by the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA), 2026 K-CONTENT EXPO CHILE will take place from November 4 to 7 at Centro Parque in Santiago, Chile. The event will bring together Korean content companies and industry professionals from Chile and Latin America to explore business collaboration opportunities, including content distribution and co-production.

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A total of 30 companies will participate: 7 in games, 12 in broadcasting, and 11 in animation and characters. Companies from diverse sectors, including CJ ENM, ELTV, Emotionwave, Pixel Planet and Aurora World, will showcase their content and intellectual property (IP). K-Content exhibitions and hands-on activities, K-beauty experiences, the K-POP Dance Challenge and performances will also be available to the general public.

B2B export business meetings with buyers from Chile, Argentina, Brazil and other Latin American countries

The B2B export business meetings, scheduled for November 4 to 6, are being prepared with the aim of inviting buyers from at least 80 companies in Latin America. Expected participants include TVN, one of Chile’s major terrestrial television broadcasters; television content production company Cooking Media; and OTT streaming platform Zapping TV, as well as buyers from neighboring countries such as Argentina and Brazil. Participating companies and buyers will discuss potential collaboration across content sales and distribution, co-production, IP licensing and game publishing.

Seminars and IP showcases will also be held. The seminars will share insights into the content market landscape in Chile and Latin America and strategies for entering these markets. The IP showcases will introduce ELTV’s FoodSong Writer, Pixel Planet’s Gangchi Island, CJ ENM’s The Legend of Kitchen Soldier, NewUnivers’s The Golden Cage, and Emotionwave’s AIMPLE and MUTA, exploring opportunities to collaborate with local industry professionals.

In particular, a special screening of the K-drama The Legend of Kitchen Soldier will be held on November 4 for local broadcasting professionals and invited buyers. A version featuring Spanish dubbing and localized on-screen text will be presented in the Araucaria Room at Centro Parque. A question-and-answer session after the screening will deepen understanding of the production and provide an opportunity to discuss its distribution potential in Latin America.

From the K-dramas True Beauty and The Legend of Kitchen Soldier to K-beauty experiences

Exhibitions and hands-on activities will also be available to the general public. Visitors will be able to experience K-Content and Korean lifestyle through photo walls and merchandise displays based on the K-dramas True Beauty and The Legend of Kitchen Soldier, activities featuring participating companies’ IP, K-beauty product displays and trials, AI-powered personal color analysis, and PHOTOISM photo booths.

The beauty experience zone will feature KOSMETICOS (Importadora Tetra-C Chile Ltda.), which presents Korean cosmetics brands in Chile. Visitors will be able to explore and try a variety of Korean skincare and makeup products.

K-POP Dance Challenge and mini concert with idntt

K-POP Stage with idntt will take place on November 7. Six dance teams selected through preliminary rounds will compete in the K-POP Dance Challenge final, and the winning team will perform the opening act for idntt’s mini concert. This will be followed by a live performance by boy group idntt. Admission to the performance will be free and limited to visitors who have secured tickets through advance reservations.

Detailed schedules and participation information are available on the official 2026 K-CONTENT EXPO CHILE website https://kcontentexpochile.com/KEXPOC/59492/index.do and official social media account https://www.instagram.com/kcontent_expo/

As early voting surges, Trump reshuffles his schedule to add back rallies in Iowa and Kansas

WASHINGTON (AP) — As early voting surges across the country, President Donald Trump is reshuffling his weekend schedule to rally Republicans in two states with critical Senate races, underscoring his party’s push to drive turnout ahead of Election Day.

The Republican president will now visit Iowa and Kansas for back-to-back campaign rallies on Sunday. Both rallies had previously been canceled.

The last-minute reversal comes amid a nationwide surge in early voting. Nearly 10 million more Americans had cast ballots five days before Election Day than at the same point in 2022, according to an Associated Press analysis of voting data. The increases have been particularly pronounced in states with competitive Senate races, including Iowa and Kansas, where early voting is up roughly 30%.

Democrats and Republicans each hope that rise favors them as they fight for control of Congress in an election that has turned largely on affordability issues and the president's unpopularity. At the start of the month, Trump promised a marathon sprint of his signature rallies to shore up Republican candidates, and he has headlined 25 of them so far in October.

The president on Thursday furiously pushed back at the notion that the initial cancellation of his Kansas rally, which became public as he was returning to Washington from another campaign event in South Carolina, was tied to fatigue or his health. He lashed out at a reporter who asked about the change in his plans for Kansas, where Republican Sen. Roger Marshall is seeking reelection.

“I’m not going to Kansas because he’s doing very well,” Trump said, seeming to refer to Marshall. The president added that “I feel perfect” and that “I don’t feel I have to go to Kansas.”

The Republican National Committee initially said in canceling the rallies that Trump would do telerallies instead to reach more voters.

Trump’s original plans had him in Salina, Kansas, on Saturday and in Dubuque, Iowa, on Sunday. Then the plans shifted so he would instead do a “72-hour sprint” of phone rallies, meant so the president could reach more voters nationwide, according to the RNC.

The president’s schedule remained in flux on Friday. His Iowa appearance was moved from Dubuque to Cedar Rapids, only for plans to shift back to Dubuque hours later, according to a person familiar with the planning who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The Republican National Committee later confirmed that Trump would campaign in Dubuque, Iowa, and Salina, Kansas.

Both Kansas and Iowa are home to battleground Senate races that will help determine whether Republicans hold onto their narrow majority in the chamber in the midterm elections.

Trump has already traveled to both states this month to boost Marshall in Kansas and Republican Iowa Senate candidate Ashley Hinson, who currently serves in the House.

In an interview with a Kansas City radio station on Friday, Trump called Marshall “fantastic” and credited the senator for pushing his administration on policies benefiting Kansas farmers such as expanding tax-free use of red-dyed diesel.

Trump criticized Marshall's Democratic challenger, Methodist pastor Adam Hamilton, as a "radical” who has “caused turmoil with the church because he’s so liberal.” Hamilton has said that if Jesus were standing before them now, “Roger Marshall would call him ‘woke.’”

Early voting is significantly outpacing the last midterm election, with millions more Americans casting ballots in advance.

In Texas, where voters are deciding closely watched Senate, House and governor’s races, more than 6.3 million Texans had voted early as of Wednesday, compared with 4.2 million at the same point four years ago, a 50% increase.

Advance voting has also increased more than 30% from the same point four years ago in Maine, Michigan, North Carolina and Kansas, states with competitive Senate races. In South Carolina, where voters are choosing a successor to the late Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, early voting is up 83%.

Historic amounts of money have flowed into this year's midterm elections. Republicans have expressed concerns about their voters not turning out amid voter dissatisfaction with Trump and high costs, issues Democrats have focused on in their campaigns.

Michigan Democrats hoped to put a bruising Senate primary behind them after progressive Abdul El-Sayed narrowly defeated Rep. Haley Stevens in August.

They've had no such luck as Election Day approaches.

Stevens reemerged in the final week before the general election, appearing on CNN to reaffirm that she would vote for El-Sayed while calling on him to repair relations with Jewish and Black voters. Her appearance came hours after her fiance said he would vote for El-Sayed’s Republican opponent, Mike Rogers.

Then on Friday, after agreeing to campaign alongside El-Sayed and Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina in Detroit on Sunday, Stevens released a lengthy statement on social media criticizing her former rival once again. She called on him to condemn an advertisement linking U.S. support for Israel to rising grocery prices and address concerns about his past rhetoric.

“Abdul promises to get money out of politics,” Stevens wrote. “He can begin by getting Israel out of his explanation for everything Michigan cannot afford.”

El-Sayed has apologized for some of his past comments while attempting to unify Democrats.

Associated Press writer Meg Kinnard contributed to this report. Follow the AP’s coverage of the 2026 midterm elections at https://apnews.com/hub/elections.