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Local Streamer Watcha to Launch New Platform with Music, Webtoons

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 [...]

Netflix’s ‘Okja’ Could Have Attracted 7 Million Viewers if Released on the Big Screen Exclusively

SEOUL, Jun. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix’s newly released South Korean movie “Okja” could have attracted over seven million moviegoers to the cinema if the streaming service hadn’t simultaneously released the movie on its platform, new big data-based statistics say. According to the big data analysis released by movie recommendation service Watcha on Thursday, the [...]