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More than a dozen shows by BTS and Seventeen are to be uploaded at Korean overseas streamer KOCOWA+.

EXCLUSIVE: The Hallyu march continues this week, as a major Korean content streaming service continues its global rollout. K-entertainment subscription streamer Kocowa+ has launched in Europe and Oceania, offering 30,000 hours — what Kocowa claims is the “largest Korean content library outside of Korea” — and with English, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese subtitles. In total, …

Korean K-entertainment streamer Kocowa+ is continuing its global rollout with launches in Europe and Oceana.

Is the popularity of k-media a temporary phenomenon or will it shape the entertainment industry for decades to come?

Sramana Mitra: How many consumers do you have currently? KunHee Park: Five million. If I counted paid subscription, we have over one million. Sramana Mitra:

Sramana Mitra: You became the CEO of Kocowa? KunHee Park: No, CTO in the beginning. My original plan was to stay in the States for a year. After one year, they

Sramana Mitra: Then what happens? KunHee Park: I could not speak English at all at that time. It was my handicap. NDS is a global company. I could hear Indian

There's quite a bit of white space in the domain of regional language content. KunHee talks about Korean content. It should give you ideas that you can extrapolate into other languages. Sramana Mitra: Let's start from the very beginning. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? KunHee Park: I was born in Busan, South Korea. I majored in industrial engineering. I founded companies when I was still a university student. I dreamed about all the good...