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Title Exchange Meeting for the Promotion of Legal Distribution held in Busan
Date 2014-05-19

Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism (MCST) and Korea Copyright Commission (KCC) held an“Exchange Meeting for the Promotion of Legal Distribution", which is a gathering spot of overseas distribution channels, Korean broadcasters, and video works copyright holders' association, at BEXCO, Busan, on May the 15~16th.

This event has been held since 2013 in order to promote legal utilisation and distribution as well as protection of Korean cultural content abroad, through customised meetings between video works copyright holders' association and overseas distribution channels.

The overseas distribution channels that participated in this year's exchange meeting are Baidu, the biggest portal in China, Copyright Protection Center of China, Confederation of Video Copyright Industry, KN Global Media Public Company (Thiland's digital TV company), Workpoint Entertainment, Golden Town Film, etc.

Recently in China, with the growing popularity of Korean TV dramas such as <My Love from the Star>, there has been an active movement to secure distribution channels through which copyrighted works of not only dramas but also documentaries and education programmes can be acquired.

"There is a limit to one-sided restrictions on the illegal utilisation of Korean cultural content abroad. By inducing legal copyright license through events such as this exchange meeting, not only the continuous diffusion of Korean cultural content but also the raise of overseas copyright awareness can be expected". Said Yu Byong-han, the chairman of KCC.