China is leveraging AI and state funding to revolutionize its micro drama industry, with companies like South Korea's Vigloo investing heavily in AI-driven workflows. This shift dramatically accelerates production times and reduces costs, enabling more content creation and experimentation.

Vigloo, a South Korean micro drama production company, has gone all-in on artificial intelligence this year, betting that automation can fundamentally reshape how content is made. The company has begun spending roughly 30 per cent of its budget on AI-driven workflows, and the change is already having a dramatic impact. It can now produce a show in just one month rather than three, and at one-fifth of the cost. That is not only allowing Vigloo to release far more shows, but also to experiment...