“I started watching it, and as soon as I saw the subtitles, I thought about turning it off. But then I thought, well, I’ll watch it for a few minutes, and within 10 minutes I was hooked,” she says.
The show? “City Hunter,” a hit thriller about a man who’s hunting down his father’s killer. “I watched the whole 20 hours. Marathon-ed it!”
She’s been hooked since, and it's thanks to video streaming companies like DramaFever, the largest distributor of Asian TV content in North America. It attracts millions of viewers in the United States, and most of them are non-Asian.
“I think what we tapped into was the demand for foreign content regardless of your ethnic background," says Suk Park, co-founder of DramaFever. "A demand for foreign content that was something different, something exciting, something interesting that wasn’t available.”
Park stumbled on the idea for his company when he began searching for Korean television dramas to improve his own Korean language skills. Park is Korean-born but was raised in Spain and studied in the United States — and he quickly learned that finding those Korean shows was a challenge.
“I started watching it, and as soon as I saw the subtitles, I thought about turning it off. But then I thought, well, I’ll watch it for a few minutes, and within 10 minutes I was hooked,” she says.
The show? “City Hunter,” a hit thriller about a man who’s hunting down his father’s killer. “I watched the whole 20 hours. Marathon-ed it!”
She’s been hooked since, and it's thanks to video streaming companies like DramaFever, the largest distributor of Asian TV content in North America. It attracts millions of viewers in the United States, and most of them are non-Asian.
“I think what we tapped into was the demand for foreign content regardless of your ethnic background," says Suk Park, co-founder of DramaFever. "A demand for foreign content that was something different, something exciting, something interesting that wasn’t available.”
Park stumbled on the idea for his company when he began searching for Korean television dramas to improve his own Korean language skills. Park is Korean-born but was raised in Spain and studied in the United States — and he quickly learned that finding those Korean shows was a challenge.
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