Race to create original Korean content heats up among OTT players
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Walt Disney Company Korea, the Korean subsidiary of U.S. media giant Walt Disney Co., held a media day on Thursday and announced the launch of “APAC Creative Experience Program,” a first-of-its-kind investment project targeting burgeoning content markets of Korea and elsewhere in Asia-Pacific. The program will connect hundreds of creators from APAC with the company’s filmmakers and creators based in Hollywood, Disney explained.
As part of the project, Disney also premiered about 20 original shows produced in the APAC region including seven Korean shows to be streamed via Disney Plus that will start its service in Korea next month.
Local OTT platform operators are also planning to invest big sums of money to enhance their content assets to stay competitive against its bigger global rivals.
The country’s third-largest streaming service Tving will invest 400 billion won by 2023 to secure 30 original series each year.
KT Seezn, which was separated from the country’s major telecommunications company KT Corp. in August, said it has seen the number of streaming and viewing time of its 180 kinds of original contents nearly doubling in recent months.
Rivalry to heavily invest in Korean contents among OTT platform operators is intensifying on expectations that Korean shows ensure big profits on relatively smaller production budgets. Netflix spent 20 billion won to produce the entire episodes of its original Korean series “Squid Game,” which has become the streamer’s most-watched show ever. It typically costs well above 10 billion won to produce one episode of Hollywood dramas.
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