EBS (Educational Broadcasting System), Korea's public education broadcaster, premiered EBS AI Literature Theatre on 16 October1. The series remakes 11 Korean literary classics with generative AI, among them Kim Yu-jeong's "Bombom" and "Dongbaekkkot". EBS announced the series as Korean literature "reborn" through AI. In Europe, Eurovision Sport launched labelled AI commentary with Camb.AI in July.
22OCT
Korea's EBS remakes 11 classics with AI
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EBS, Korea's public education broadcaster, premiered a series that remakes 11 Korean literary classics with generative AI.
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Key takeaway
Korea's public education broadcaster now airs a drama series remade with generative AI.
Deep Analysis
In plain English
EBS is a public TV channel in South Korea that makes educational programmes. It has started a new series that retells 11 well-known Korean stories, made with generative artificial intelligence (AI), computer tools that create pictures, voices and video from written instructions. Some people in the Korean TV industry are asking whether shows like this could put production staff out of work.
Root Causes
EBS built the method before it built the series. Its 2025 AI short dramas cost about 7 million won an episode and needed one person each, according to Kyunghyang citing an industry report, which turned AI drama from an experiment into a working production line at the broadcaster.
Literary adaptation suits that line because the stories are fixed and well known, so the AI tools render scenes from an existing text rather than develop a new script.
What could happen next?
- Precedent
A public broadcaster's AI-made literary series gives other education channels a model for adapting classic texts with generative AI.
Sources:EBS (via Newswire)
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