Chapter 417 It Turns Out that Going Out to Sea Is Such an Easy Thing

The stricter the copyright protection of movies and TV shows is, the more satisfied the country will be with this online video-on-demand platform.

In countries with strict copyright laws, if you want to watch a TV show again after it is broadcast on TV, the cost is not small.

Either buy a genuine DVD disc or wait for the late-night replay.

Of course, most families in Japan and South Korea will also buy a DVD player that can record and play DVDs when buying a TV.

When encountering a more important or expected TV show or variety show, you must turn on the recording function in advance and record while watching.

You can watch it repeatedly afterwards.

This tradition has probably been done in Japan and South Korea since the 1980s. Every year, every family will have a large number of TV shows and TV tapes recorded by themselves.

Of course, this can only be watched repeatedly at home, and it is not allowed to be sold outside. Selling is illegal.

It is also because of this "tradition" that even in 2020, there are still many people in Japan and South Korea who are accustomed to recording while watching TV.

Especially in Japan, some otakus who follow anime still choose to record while watching anime every time it starts, and replay it at any time.

So when DVD equipment has been eliminated in China, the number of DVD equipment in Japan and South Korea is still at the forefront of the world.

The main reason is that Japan and South Korea are very strict in protecting copyrights, so strict that once you finish watching the "free" broadcast on TV, you basically need to pay for the next time you want to watch it.

There is no such habit of recording with a DVD player in China, because domestic film and television pirated resources have long been rotting on the streets. If you want to watch pirated movies, you can find a lot of them at will. Why do you need to worry about missing them?

It is very difficult for Guangying Kuaibo to develop the market in China, because there are too many pirated resources and other video platforms on the Internet. If you want to break out of them, you need to spend a lot of money.

Wu Yuan has also been whispering to his superiors, hoping that the superiors will issue some white papers to severely crack down on piracy, but unfortunately the effect is minimal.

But it is different in South Korea.

The copyright protection law in South Korea has long been perfected, and everyone abides by the rules honestly.

In this situation, Wu Yuan created a platform for watching TV series online for free, which was really cool.

Although he had to spend money to do this, he had to spend money to buy the copyright, but he had to provide it to users for free, and he also had to maintain the server, which cost a lot of money this year.

But there was no competition of the same kind!

Internet companies in South Korea are not as wild as those in China.

Or, because they live in such a well-protected market, they have never thought of using such tricks.

Isn't it good for everyone to do paid on-demand and make money together?

Why do you want to do such a thing that loses money but makes a lot of noise?

Internet companies that have not been in the Chinese region really don't know how fierce the tricks in the Chinese region are.

As soon as Guangying Kuaibo was launched in South Korea, it immediately rushed to the top of the Korean software download rankings.

There are millions of downloads every day, and a large number of Korean netizens flock to Guangying Kuaibo, register accounts, and experience the pleasure of watching TV series online for free anytime and anywhere.

Although you need to watch 30-60 seconds of ads before watching each episode, Korean netizens don't mind at all.

Do you not need to watch ads when watching TV?

You only need to watch one minute of ads to watch one episode, and they have to thank Guangying Kuaibo!

In this way, with the broadcast of "Goblin", Guangying Kuaibo immediately became popular in Korea, and even its rapid development is far more rapid than that in China!

"In just one week, our Guangying Kuaibo Korean site has already attracted 10 million registered users, and the number of daily active users has exceeded 2 million!"

"The population of South Korea is less than 50 million, which is equivalent to one-fifth of Koreans becoming our users!"

"Just considering the proportion, this is much more powerful than our domestic site!"

"Director Wu, your strategy of choosing to expand the Korean market is really correct!"

The person in charge of Guangying Kuaibo's Korean site, who came to Korea with Wu Yuan, reported to Wu Yuan with a happy face and flattered him.

Everyone is used to the Shura field in China, and only cares about internal competition. They really didn't notice that the overseas market is so delicious!

Compared with the tit-for-tat with Youku, Tudou, Ku6 and other platforms in China, and the crazy money-spending battle, Guangying Kuaibo, which came to South Korea, is like falling from the King's Bureau to the Bronze Bureau.

The official websites of the three major Korean TV stations, KBS, SBS, and MBC, have the same operating level as the official website of CCTV.

Don't be too relaxed to seize the market with such opponents.

If you knew that there was such a good market for development overseas, who would stay in China and fight with those jackals?

"The Korean market is so easy, I guess the Japanese market should be so easy to take." The person in charge said excitedly.

He is now imagining in his mind that Guangying Kuaibo will take over the Asian market and dominate the Asian online video platform.

Don't say it, at this time when China has not yet produced a multinational Internet company, such a picture is really beautiful.

"Don't think so beautifully." Wu Yuan shook his head and poured a basin of cold water on him: "It's easy to enter the Korean market, because the TV drama market here is relatively international."

"The Japanese market is relatively closed. After the glory of the 1980s and 1990s, it has gradually become a closed-door market. It is still difficult for us as outsiders to enter."

In the previous life, Netflix, like Guangying Kuaibo, almost effortlessly entered the Korean market by cooperating with local Koreans and became the video platform with the largest market share in Korea.

But in Japan, Netflix's operation does not work well.

Japanese anime has its own overseas channels and its own old partners.

Japanese TV dramas are basically made by themselves, and are more conservative. In 2020, TV broadcasts + DVD sales are still the main market.

Online on demand?

The vast majority of Japanese people really don't have this habit.

Is home DVD no longer popular, or has the audio-visual company closed down?

Netflix was full of confidence in entering the Japanese market, but in the end it could only achieve mediocre results. Although it is also the video platform with the largest market share in Japan, not many people really use it.

It is not wrong to say that Japan is the Germans of Asia.

The words "old-fashioned" and "outdated" are tailor-made for them.

It is not easy to break their old-fashioned habits and let them accept online TV dramas on demand and web dramas.

"Let's take care of the present first and gain a firm foothold in the Korean station of "Goblin" and Guangying Kuaibo!" Wu Yuan nodded. (End of this chapter)