China quietly released a Korean TV series via official channels for the first time in six years this week. The move is the latest “symbolic milestone” that a years-long cultural freeze is moving to…
quietly released a Korean TV series via official channels for the first time in six years this week. The move is the latest “symbolic milestone” that a years-long cultural freeze is moving towards a more lenient “detente,” Chinese local reports said.
Local media dubbed the low-key release a “symbolic milestone” for China in its path towards reopening towards Korean culture, which had hitherto been absent from any satellite TV stations, formal video streaming platforms, or cinemas. The last Korean film to release in China was 2015’s “The Assassination,” co-written and directed by Choi Dong-hoon.in 2017, but its China fate has remained in limbo since. It counts China’s Mango Entertainment and Hong Kong’s Emperor Entertainment Group amongst its backers.
Mango TV had the rights early enough for the show to plan a simultaneous release in South Korea and China, but that fell through as China put a stopper on Korean entertainment products to express its displeasure over Seoul’s installment of the THAAD security system in 2016.
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