SANTIAGO, Chile--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 10, 2026--
Hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and organized by the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA), 2026 K-CONTENT EXPO CHILE concluded successfully after taking place from November 4 to 7 at Centro Parque in Santiago, Chile.
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Under the theme “From Culture to Connection,” the event was designed to support Korean content companies entering Latin American markets and expand global cultural exchange. It hosted 568 export business meetings involving US$74.61 million in potential business, with approximately US$36.87 million in contracts under negotiation and 49 memoranda of understanding (MOUs). A range of programs, including content and beauty experiences and K-POP performances, also introduced Korean content to local visitors.
One-to-one meetings with TVN and other buyers lead to contracts and MOUs
The export business meetings, held from November 4 to 6, brought together 30 Korean content companies: 12 in broadcasting, 11 in animation and characters, and seven in games. Buyers from 75 companies across Chile and other Latin American markets, including Brazil, Argentina and Mexico, explored potential cooperation in content distribution, intellectual property (IP), licensing and co-production.
Key buyers included Chile’s public broadcaster TVN, game publishing label Blue Ridge Games, and science and educational content producer GVG Producciones. Through one-to-one business meetings with major local buyers, the Korean exhibitors established practical foundations for cooperation to support their expansion into Latin America.
In particular, Korean content company Emotionwave signed an MOU valued at approximately US$500,000 with Box Brazil Media Group, Brazil’s largest independent media group. The companies agreed to pursue cooperation in areas including the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to adapt existing video content into short-form formats, content licensing, co-production and localization.
Showcases and a seminar explore Latin America’s content market
The Korean TV Content Showcase, held on November 4, introduced content from Korean companies to local industry professionals, including CJ ENM’s The Legend of Kitchen Soldier, ELTV’s FoodSong Writer, Emotionwave’s AIMPLE and MUTA, NewUnivers’s The Golden Cage, and Pixel Planet’s Gangchi Island.
The LATAM Content Business Seminar, held on November 5, covered practical requirements for entering Chile and opportunities for cooperation in Latin America’s content industries. Sang Uk Ha, managing attorney of Latin Law Firm and president of the Korean Association in Chile, explained matters Korean companies need to understand when operating locally, including company formation and contracts, work visas, taxation and accounting.
Mikael Larsson, Lead Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), reviewed growth trends and market potential in the creative and cultural industries of Latin America and the Caribbean, and presented possibilities for cooperation with Korea and opportunities for Korean companies to enter local markets.
Bernardo Mallaina, a producer at the Argentine Video Game Foundation (FUNDAV), presented opportunities to share experience, co-create and collaborate, drawing on examples from the game industries of Korea and Argentina.
True Beauty and The Legend of Kitchen Soldier photo walls and K-beauty experiences
The content exhibition and experience zone for the general public featured a True Beauty photo wall, as well as a The Legend of Kitchen Soldier photo wall and merchandise display. Visitors could take photos in spaces featuring imagery from the productions and browse related merchandise. Programs also offered hands-on experiences with participating companies’ content and IP.
The K-beauty exhibition and experience zone featured a substantial presence by KOSMETICOS (Importadora Tetra-C Chile Ltda.), an importer and distributor that brings leading Korean K-beauty brands to Chile. The company presented a range of skincare and makeup products to local visitors, highlighting the quality and competitiveness of K-beauty. AI-powered personal color analysis and PHOTOISM photo booths were also available, allowing visitors to discover colors that suit them and take souvenir photos.
K-POP Dance Challenge winner Reason takes the stage alongside idntt
K-POP Stage with idntt, featuring the boy group idntt, took place on November 7. Six dance teams selected through preliminary rounds competed in the K-POP Dance Challenge finals, and the winning team, Reason, opened idntt’s mini concert. This was followed by idntt’s live performance. Admission to K-POP Stage was free and limited to attendees who had reserved tickets in advance.
Following the event, KOCCA will continue to support follow-up meetings between participating companies and buyers so that business opportunities discussed at the venue, including co-production, distribution and licensing, can translate into export results.
Oh-tae Kwon, Director of the Global Business Division at KOCCA, said, “Through 2026 K-CONTENT EXPO CHILE, we were able to see firsthand the Chilean public’s strong interest in and love for K-content. We will continue to expand business exchanges and opportunities for cooperation across a wide range of content, helping Korean content companies actively enter Chile and other Latin American markets and build lasting partnerships with local counterparts.”
K-Content Export Talks and Contract Progress Mark Successful Chile Expo
K-Content Export Talks and Contract Progress Mark Successful Chile Expo
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S.-mediated talks between Russia and Ukraine opened Tuesday in Abu Dhabi, the head of Kyiv’s delegation said.
“We have moved to a trilateral negotiation format involving Ukraine, the United States and Russia” after initial Ukrainian discussions with NATO and European envoys, Rustem Umerov, the head of Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service, said on social media.
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Three-way talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States are starting Tuesday in the United Arab Emirates, renewing a push to end the war between Moscow and Kyiv after three rounds of negotiations earlier this year.
The two-day session in Abu Dhabi, the first such meeting since February, will focus on security guarantees.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, said on X that he and fellow envoy Steve Witkoff were working on a "negotiated solution that can deliver lasting peace and create the conditions for a sovereign, secure, and prosperous Ukraine within a more stable European security environment.”
Rustem Umerov, the head of Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service who is leading Kyiv's delegation, said that the day began with a meeting between the Ukrainian team, the U.S. envoys and representatives from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, NATO and the European Commission.
"Next, we will move to a trilateral format involving Ukraine, the United States and Russia,” Umerov said in a social media post.
Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported Tuesday that the Russian delegation has arrived at the site of the talks.
The Russian and Ukrainian governments remain far apart on key elements of any prospective deal to end the full-scale war, now nearing its five-year mark.
Russian President Vladimir Putin wants Ukraine to pull its troops back from Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson — the four regions that Moscow illegally annexed in September 2022 but never fully captured. He also demands that Ukraine abandon its bid to join NATO, accept strict limits on its military and drop restrictions on the Russian language and the Moscow-affiliated Orthodox Church in Ukraine.
Putin wants a comprehensive peace deal on those conditions and won’t agree to a general halt in hostilities, arguing that it would only allow Ukrainian troops to rest and replenish their weapons stockpiles. He has warned that Russia will achieve its goals by force if Kyiv refuses to meet its conditions for peace.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was visiting Denmark on Tuesday, rejects Putin’s demands to voluntarily cede territory that Russia hasn't been able to take on the battlefield. Zelenskyy also rejects any limits on Ukraine's military or its arrangements with Western partners, which Kyiv sees as essential security guarantees to stop Moscow from invading again.
Ukraine argues that an immediate ceasefire is the necessary first step toward negotiating a wider settlement and says a direct meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy is the only way territorial issues can be settled.
The Russian and Ukrainian delegations include senior officials who have attended previous rounds of talks.
Russia’s chief negotiator is Putin aide Vladimir Medinsky, who has led Moscow’s team since the first direct peace talks with Ukraine in Istanbul in March 2022. The Russian delegation also includes deputy foreign ministers Sergei Ryabkov and Mikhail Galuzin, military intelligence chief Igor Kostyukov and deputy chief of the General Staff’s operational department, Yuri Zhigarlovsky.
Apart from Umerov, the Ukrainian delegation also reportedly includes Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, Kyrylo Budanov, his deputy, Sergiy Kyslytsya, and Davyd Arakhamia, the parliamentary faction leader of Zelenskyy’s Servant of the People party.
Last week, Trump declared that some kind of grand deal about European security was in the works, describing it as “a big agreement” that is “going to involve more than Ukraine.”
Kushner said Monday on X that a “comprehensive and lasting settlement will also require direct engagement between Russia and our European partners on the broader security arrangements that affect them.” The discussions in Abu Dhabi will set the stage for “that engagement to begin in the near future, as part of a broader multilateral process,” he said.
Moscow has praised the broad approach.
“We can only welcome the (U.S.) negotiators on President Donald Trump’s request proposing to put the issue of collective security on top of the agenda of the talks on a Ukrainian settlement,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
Just before Moscow launched the all-out invasion in 2022, it demanded that NATO roll back its deployments in the alliance’s member countries in Central and Eastern Europe, seeing their presence as a security threat. Similar demands will likely be part of any comprehensive peace deal proposed by Russia.
Kushner said that before the start of the three-way talks, he and Witkoff will meet separately with envoys from Ukraine, the European Union, NATO, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Italy to “continue the close consultation and coordination we have undertaken on European security and Ukraine’s postwar future over the past several weeks.”
Some in the EU see Washington's proposals as too accommodating to Moscow.
Russia has objected to the Europeans’ involvement in the three-way talks, but said that EU representatives could join at a later stage.
While the ground battles have morphed into a war of attrition along the 1,200-kilometer (about 750-mile) front line, Russia and Ukraine have ramped up their long-range strikes with drones and missiles.
Russia has intensified its air campaign against Ukraine’s power grid, seeking to weaken the country’s resolve as winter sets in. Moscow has relied on ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones, taking advantage of Ukraine’s shortage of U.S.-made Patriot interceptors.
Ukraine, meanwhile, has escalated its drone strikes on Russian oil refineries.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, right, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attend a press conference in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, chairs the Security Council meeting in Moscow, Friday, Nov. 6, 2026. (Alexei Babushkin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
First lady Melania Trump speaks as Russia's Commissioner for Human Rights Yana Lantratova, from left, Ukraine's human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets, Davyd Arakhamia, lawmaker with President Zelenskyy's Servant of the People's party, and Russian Presidential Envoy Kirill Dmitriev listen during a meeting with Russian and Ukrainian representatives in the Grand Foyer of the White House, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Family members cry beside the coffins of police officers Dmytro Besedin, Mykhailo Buzhenko, Mykola Balanda and Mykhailo Romanov, killed in a Russian airstrike that destroyed an underground school, and Serhii Berezhko and Oleg Dubetskyi, killed in an FPV drone attack in Komyshuvakha, during a farewell ceremony on Khortytsia Island in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Crosses bearing the names of Viktor Fomenko, Natalia Karapetian and Andrii Anikin, killed in a Russian airstrike that destroyed an underground school in Komyshuvakha, lie in a cemetery in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
