Korea’s SVOD subs up to 24.5m; premium markets hits US$1.1 billion in 1H 2025, Netflix at 47%...
Korea’s premium video-on-demand (VOD) market reached US$1.1 billion in 1H 2025, with paid SVOD subscriptions climbing to 24.5 million and 1.5 million net new additions during the period, according to insights released today from Media Partners...
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“Saigon Oppa” builds on lively Korea-Vietnam film partnerships; joint-project billed as...
If Vietnam’s Decree 71 has pretty much decimated the international/regional TV industry’s interest in the country over the past two-and-a-half years, the domestic film industry (whatever its problems) continues to move in the opposite direction. ...
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Asharq picks up NHK’s WWII Kamikaze doc
💰 Japanese public broadcaster NHK and NHK Enterprises have sold the two-part “KAMIKAZE: An Untold History” to Arabic language free-to-air factual channel, Asharq Documentary. The show, which drills down into the suicide missions in which...
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