SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean football league announced on Tuesday it will launch a new media platform to provide content in English for international markets. The Korea Professional Football League (K League), in partnership with the global sports services provider Sportsradar, has developed the new over-the-top (OTT) platform called “K League [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three major telecom operators are strengthening video streaming services, industry officials said Friday, as online media consumption grows amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The telecom firms — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — have focused on boosting their over-the-top (OTT) media services or expanding [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s homegrown streaming media service platforms seem to be losing their competitive edge to global media giant Netflix, which has been rapidly expanding its influence in the country. Last week, the U.S. over-the-top (OTT) service firm partnered with local telecom operator KT to offer its streaming service on [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Korean broadcasters and IT firms scurry to reorganize and launch new over-the-top (OTT) services, the question of how to create bankable content is determining survival in the Netflix-led market. The country’s three terrestrial broadcasters — KBS, MBC and SBS — opened a new over-the-top (OTT) platform service, [...]