China Might Be Lifting Ban On Korean Leisure Content material

Whereas the world has been riffing on BTS, “Squid Sport” and “Parasite,” China has been busily holding the Korean content material wave at bay.

Which may be about to alter after Tencent Video this week started streaming “Resort by the River,” a 2018 movie a few poet assembly his estranged sons from art-house director Hong Sang-soo.

The transfer has induced some within the Korea leisure business to hail a “partial lifting” of China’s ban. And the president of Korea, Yoon Suk-yeol has already claimed a few of the credit score. Yoon met with China’s president Xi Jinping final week on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Bali.

“A Korean movie has been aired lately on a Chinese language OTT after the six-year ban,” Kim Eun-hye, senior presidential secretary for press affairs, instructed reporters on Tuesday. “We hope that this small gesture will result in large, significant progress in the way forward for the bilateral relations of the 2 international locations for the reason that latest summit.”

The ban was imposed as a consequence of political-diplomatic considerations, so a government-to-government resolution could certainly have been the breakthrough. China objected strongly to the deployment of U.S. Terminal Excessive Altitude Protection missile methods in South Korea in 2018.

South Korea mentioned the methods was vital to guard itself from its erratic and nuclear armed North Korean neighbor. China mentioned that THAAD’s radar system was able to spying into its territory.

“The [Korean] president additionally harassed the necessity for rising interactions between the youthful generations of the 2 international locations. President Xi concurred with the view,” she mentioned. “China responded favorably to Korea with the Chinese language OTT releasing the Korean film.”

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