“Chinese film Tiny Times has little difference from Korean popular drama My Love from the Star, and both of them have its own distinctive style. However, some Chinese people highly appreciate the Korean drama while criticizing the Chinese movie, which is a bad attitude to degrade our own culture.”
“The value of Tiny Times is beyond compare. The Korean Wave from Korean dramas will lead to the culture invasion, throwing the Chinese culture into disorder.”
Zhang Yi Wu, professor of Beijing University
My Love from the Star
SEOUL, Sep. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Professor Zhang Yi Wu in Beijing University warned on his Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblogging website, and in an interview that Chinese people should be cautious about the popularity of My Love from the Star, a Korean drama, as he considers Korean dramas as a threat to the integrity of Chinese culture.
As his opinion gains public support, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, the Chinese regulator for entertainment, tightened control over the broadcasting of foreign content on the Internet. Video streaming websites, therefore, must obtain a license to stream foreign visual content online.
According to the regulator, video websites must register information about their overseas dramas and television shows by March 31, 2014. If they have not registered the information, the websites will not be able to make available their content after the date.
In the past few years, Chinese streaming website users have enjoyed hundreds of Korean dramas and shows including My Love from the Star as those websites have operated freely compared with traditional cable TV channels. The regulation, however, seems to deal a blow to the China’s blooming video websites, thereby preventing website users from appreciating various foreign dramas and shows freely.
By Veronica Huh (veronicah@koreabizwire.co.kr)
