Illegal distribution of Hallyu content overseas is enjoying a good reputation. It is pointed out that there is an urgent need for foreign public and private organizations to prevent the distribution of illegal foreign content, which is the biggest obstacle to the spread of the hallyu.

According to the Korea Copyright Office on April 6, 400 overseas sites illegally distributing hallyu content for only one month have been detected. It is estimated that only illegal content posting screening sites are available. In fact, it is estimated that Korean content is illegally distributed on more overseas sites.

This is result of surveillance of all foreign online sites that provide Korean-American content to foreigners (written in foreign languages), such as overseas content distribution sites, blogs, on-line cafes, social network services (SNS) and online shopping malls.

The Youth Monitoring Team recruited youths aged 19 to 34 who had previously been a guardian, and began their first activity as a monitoring team for telecommuting on February 1. A total of 16 persons are monitoring online sites operated in Asia, Oceania, Middle East, Europe, Africa, and the Americas (North and Central America, South America). Monitoring results will be used for analysis of overseas copyright infringement types, establishment of countermeasures strategies, and support for self-reliance of right holders by providing infringement information.

According to the results of February monitoring, 232 (58%) English language sites were the most and 53 (13%) Chinese sites were the next. And then, Indonesian (32, 8%), Russian (21, 5%), Multilanguage (20, 5%), French (9, 2%), Turkish (7, 5%) and Vietnamese (5, 1%) were the next. Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Malay, Japanese, and other sites were classified as ``Other``.

There were 292 illegal distribution sites (73%) with servers in the United States. By continent, North America (74%), Western Europe (10.5%), Asia (8.8%) and Eastern Europe (5.3%) were the next.



Especially when we look at by genre, it is the most popular Korean movies that are illegally distributed, followed by broadcasting, webtoons, comics (content distribution by capturing comics) and music.

If we divide 400 detected sites by genre, they are reclassified to 600 sites. Of these, 148 (25%) were the most frequent sites that provided films. 136 (23%) were broadcasting, 106 (18%) were webtoons, 101 (17%) were comic books (capturing comic book content) and 91 were music (15%). The remaining 18 (3%) are the sites that distribute more than three genres.

50% (257) of illegal content distribution was distributed through streaming links, and 22% (112) of direct publishing sites were reached. (Cartoons • Webtoons, Regardless of whether they were classified as ``direct publishing``, 18.4% (95) of the distribution sites were downloaded.

The Korea Copyright Protection Agency plans to provide the illegal distribution site of the hallyu content to the Copyright Overseas Promotion Association so that the association can utilize it for illegal distribution survey. The Korea Foundation for the Promotion of Overseas Promotion, which was launched last month, is composed of major broadcasting companies, copyright organizations and organizations to protect the copyright of hallyu content. Lezhin Entertainment, the company that runs Lezhin Comics, is the president of KBS, MBC, SBS, JTBC, Korea Music Copyright Association, Korea Music Performers Association and Naver.

By Kim Soo Yeon newsnews@


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