SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – When Disney+, a content streaming service from Walt Disney Co., starts its service in South Korea in November, this will likely bring seismic change to the landscape of the local streaming service market. Disney+ is currently offering its service in 61 countries in 21 languages, including Asian Pacific countries [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Disney+, a content streaming service from Walt Disney Co., will be launched in South Korea in November, heating up the competition in the local over-the-top (OTT) market, the U.S. entertainment titan has said in a conference call. Disney+ on Thursday (U.S. time) said it will begin its service in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. on Tuesday said it will expand its streaming service on smart TVs as the tech giant tries to increase its presence amid the pandemic-driven stay-at-home trend. The South Korean company said LG Channels will be launched in an additional 11 European countries, including Switzerland and the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The fast-growing South Korean video streaming service market has entered a new phase as local over-the-top (OTT) service operator Tving pulled off a sharp increase in its users last year, data showed Wednesday. Tving gained two notches to finish third in the latest ranking of OTT service providers released [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — With Walt Disney Co.’s flagship streaming service Disney+ soon to hit the South Korean market, telecom operators are speeding up to compete over partnership. The country’s three major mobile carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — have all been reported to be engaged in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Global streaming giant Spotify said Friday it plans to launch a music streaming service in South Korea, home to the booming K-pop industry, in the first half of 2021. It would give listeners here access to around 60 million tracks and over 4 billion playlists, according to the Swedish [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The landscape of the South Korean streaming service market is facing seismic change as new players have been jumping into the booming sector in diversified forms. As the protracted novel coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the trend toward mobile-based binge-watching of content, e-commerce firms, like Coupang and online portal operators, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Thursday that more content on the Korean Wave of popular culture can be watched on its smart TVs via its streaming service as the company tries to attract more consumers in major markets amid the pandemic-driven stay-at-home trend. LG Channels will now have more content [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A leaked document is making the rounds in the streaming community in South Korea after it exposed what could possibly be the subscription pricing for the Disney Plus, a major competitor against Netflix. A recent post on Twitter and other social media revealed that a Disney Plus mobile subscription [...]
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 [...]