CJ ENM Entertainment Division (Korean: 씨제이이엔엠 엔터테인먼트 부문), formerly known as CJ E&M, is a South Korean entertainment and mass media division (formerly company) of CJ ENM. In July 2018, the company merged with the parent company's subsidiary CJ O Shopping, with the latter being the surviving entity.
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History
CJ E&M was established as
O Media Holdings in 2010.
In 2011, the company renamed to CJ E&M (short for CJ Entertainment & Media) following the merger of seven CJ Group company : CJ Media, On-Media, Mnet Media, CJ Entertainment, CJ Games, CJ Internet, and the media division of CJ O Shopping.
In 2016, CJ E&M sets up its South East Asia headquarter in Hong Kong in a bid to expand the group's major development plan in Asia.
In 2018, CJ E&M established an office in Singapore to advance the company's channel distribution and advertising sales support in the region. In May 2018, it was announced that CJ E&M and CJ O Shopping merged into new company CJ ENM (CJ Entertainment and Merchandising), which will be launched on July 1.
Business
Present
Media Content – operating as a media company and television program production.
OCN family of networks
OCN
OCN Movies (formerly Home CGV and Channel CGV)
OCN Movies 2 (formerly OCN Action, Super Action and OCN Thrills)
OCN Studio (content division)
Mnet
M2
Studio Choom
tvN
CATCH ON
Chunghwa TV
Tooniverse
Channel Wide
UXN
Studio Dragon
Culture Depot
GT:st
Gill Pictures
Hwa&Dam Pictures
KPJ Corporation
Studio Dragon Japan (Japan; co-owned with Line Digital Frontier and CJ ENM)
Mega Monster (5.86%)*
Merrycow Creative (19%)*
Next Scene (19.98%)*
CJ ENM Studios
Blaad Studio
Former
Belift Lab (51.5%) – a joint venture with Hybe Corporation – later sold its shares to Hybe in August 2023.
CJ E&M Game Division – publisher and developer of games – spun off in 2014 as an independent company named CJ Netmarble (Korean: 씨제이넷마블; RR: CJ Netmabul, later renamed as Netmarble*).
Eccho Rights – based in Sweden – later bought by Night Train Media.
* denotes a company wherein CJ ENM or any of its subsidiaries has a minority interest.
Controversies
In April 2015, CJ E&M was accused of mobilizing young employees to fill the seats of its annual general meeting (AGM) of shareholders in an attempt to silence shareholders.
In October 2015, CJ E&M and its US-based subsidiary CJ E&M America were sued by Seoul-based music agency DFSB Kollective for copyright infringement and violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in the Central District Court of California, with the latter seeking to get $50 million. Responding to the suit, CJ E&M accused DFSB of being unhappy on the final decision on a similar lawsuit filed in Seoul in 2011. The first trial was set for 1 March 2016 after the court rejected CJ E&M's motion to dismiss the case.