Korean Streaming Platform Plans Content Featuring LGBTQ Relationships
Streaming companies are more responsive to changing social attitudes towards the LGBTQ community because they are focused on attracting new audiences.
How to Build a Competitive Streaming Platform
Korea’s entertainment industry has to transition to becoming a platform that aggregates data but faces numerous challenges competing against foreign giants.
Who Benefits from Korea’s Creativity?
Experts urge South Korea to level the playing field with multinational streaming platforms by focusing on protecting the rights of Korean content creators.
Korea’s Food Exports Reach New Highs
Driven by pandemic-induced demand, Korea enjoyed the largest-ever increase in food exports (14.6%) despite an overall decrease in sales abroad.
Netflix’s Bet on Korean Content
The dystopian drama epitomizes how partnerships between multinational streaming giants and the local creative industry can become mutually beneficial.
Squid Game: Korea’s Cinematic Tradition of Examining Power Relations
Squid Game – the first Korean show to top Netflix’s charts – follows the country’s long cinematic tradition of examining inequality and power relations.
D.P. Elevates Conversations on Conscript Abuse
Netflix’s new TV show D.P. is jumpstarting widespread discussions about abusive conditions that many conscripts face in South Korea’s military.
The role of Korean utilities in shaping the tech market
Recent court ruling against Netflix demonstrates the key role that public utility providers will play in growing the local userbase of digital platforms.
Growing competition in the streaming market
Although Netflix is currently the most popular streaming provider in Korea, the company faces looming competition from both outside and within Korea.
Netflix’s Korean Premiere Met with Controversy
By riding on the popularity of its original content (House of Cards, Orange is the New Black) and incorporating Korean media into their library, Netflix is now in a prime position gain a market share in the entertainment industry in Korea.