SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — One in 3 South Koreans users of online streaming services prefer subscription plans without advertisements, a survey showed Tuesday. Local pollster Open Survey conducted a survey of 3,000 adults, with 32 percent of respondents expressing a preference against watching advertisements on streaming platforms, even if the subscription fee was [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Tving, the South Korean online streaming service provider run by entertainment giant CJ ENM, saw its mobile users rebound last month on the back of the launch of a new service with U.S. streamer Paramount+, industry data showed Monday. The number of its monthly mobile users reached 4.02 million [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Paramount +, a U.S. streaming service owned by Paramount Global, will begin its service in South Korea through local streamer Tving on June 16, Tving said Tuesday. It said the new American service will become available on its platform to all its subscribers without extra charge. South Korea will [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Disney+, a content streaming service from Walt Disney Co., is struggling in South Korea, betraying the initial hype when it launched. Disney+’s monthly active users (MAU) stood at 2.01 million people in January, way behind Netflix’s 12.41 million and fewer active users than 3 other South Korean streaming platforms [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Watcha, a homegrown over-the-top service, said Tuesday it plans to kick off a new platform that provides music and webtoon contents in addition to its current video streaming service. The latest move comes amid growing competition in the local video streaming market led by global streaming giant Netflix, followed [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Disney+, the flagship streaming service of U.S. media giant Walt Disney Co., unveiled its first Korean series “Grid” last Wednesday. Still, however, there are only a few reactions or reviews of the series throughout online portal sites and communities. This 10-episode series talks about a ‘ghost’ that created the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of users for Disney+, the flagship streaming service of U.S. media giant Walt Disney Co., is showing a downward trend after its launch in South Korea, due primarily to criticism over the quality of its captions and a lower user convenience compared to its competitors. Disney+’s daily [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple TV+, the subscription-based streaming service of tech titan Apple Inc., will be launched in South Korea next week, the company said Monday, heating up the competition in the local streaming market. Apple announced on its website that it will launch Apple TV+ and its set-top box Apple TV [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — While the market presence of Netflix in South Korea has recently been buoyed by the worldwide success of “Squid Game,” other big-name global and homegrown streamers, like Disney+ and Tving, have been rolling up their sleeves to shake up the landscape of the local streaming service market. Since its [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Disney+, the flagship streaming service of Walt Disney Co., will land in South Korea on Nov. 12, the company said Wednesday, heating up competition in the local video streaming market. Walt Disney Company Korea said the highly awaited service will give South Koreans access to the media giant’s trove [...]