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Consumption of major Korean mainstream contents increases amid the COVID-19 crisis

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[ WISDOM AGORA / Seunghoo Jung ] The world is currently facing a global pandemic on a scale which no one could predict. However, during such times of hardship, Korean mainstream tv shows, entertainment, gaming and other contents have seen an unbelievable rise in consumption.

On the 28th of January 2021, the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and tourism published the 2021 Overseas Korean mainstream report which presented the Korean mainstream consumption status.

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Originally, the highest consumption rates of Korean mainstream culture was tv shows (29.7%), Cosmetics (27.5%), Entertainment (26.9%), fashion (24.8%). After the COVID-19 pandemic, the highest consumption rates became Entertainment (48%), tv shows (47.9%), Games (45.8%). The theory is that due to the COVID-19, outdoor actions and entertainment became extremely limited so in turn, the consumption of online entertainment saw a substantial increase.

Amongst the Korean Consumer market, the top tv show consumption rates were: Crash Landing on you (9.5%), Itโ€™s okay to Not be okay (4.1%) and The World of the Married (2.8%). The top film consumption rates were: Parasite (18.4%), Train to Busan (10.2%) and Peninsula (3.5%). Amongst the K-pop artists were BTS (22.0%), Black Pink (13.5%) and Psy (2.9%).

For the past 5 years, online consumption of Korean Mainstream culture has been increasing with Korean tv shows, Entertainment, Film, Music, animation and more. The most popular outlet in 2020 being music with a consumption rate of 82.0%.

In the survey the โ€˜Brand Power Indexโ€™ was introduced as a comprehensive index that considers possible areas for future expansion. The top choices were Food (65.3 points), Cosmetics (62.4 points) and Music (62.0 points). Most of the choices were outlets that did not require the consumer to have a fluency in Korean.

In addition, a pattern that was identified was that with the increase of people experiencing Korean Mainstream culture, the number of new consumers also increased due to word to mouth advertising.

On the other hand, there are always factors that hinder the affinity for a different mainstream media. For Korea, the โ€˜inconvenience of translation, subbing and dubbingโ€™, โ€˜the difficulty and unfamiliarity of koreanโ€™,โ€™the insufficient translation to oneโ€™s languageโ€™ and other issues that related to the language barrier became the top 2 reasons. However, experts should keep in mind the fact that the consumers consider korean as a representation and a unique personality of the culture.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism are raising their investment of 2.9 billion korean won in the quality of subbing and translation from last year to 4 billion korean won this year in order to resolve the language difficulties. Also, with the expansion of the King Sejong Institute, the dispatch of Korena teachers and support of online classes, the ministry is planning on presenting opportunities to learn the language. In addition, they will scientifically analyze the consumption status overseas and identify trend informaiton.


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[ ์œ„์ฆˆ๋ค ์•„๊ณ ๋ผ / ์ •์Šนํ›„ ๊ธฐ์ž ] ์„ธ๊ณ„๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ ์•„๋ฌด๋„ ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์ „์—ผ๋ณ‘์— ์ง๋ฉดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ณ ๋‚œ์˜ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์—, ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฅ˜ TV ์‡ผ, ์˜ค๋ฝ, ๊ฒŒ์ž„, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋Š” ๋ฏฟ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์„ ์ •๋„๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

1์›” 28์ผ, ๋ฌธํ™”์ฒด์œก๊ด€๊ด‘๋ถ€๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ฃผ๋ฅ˜ ์†Œ๋น„ ํ˜„ํ™ฉ์„ ์ œ์‹œํ•œ โ€˜2021๋…„ ํ•ด์™ธ ํ•œ์ธ ์ฃผ๋ฅ˜ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œโ€™๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฐ„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹น์ดˆ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ฃผ๋ฅ˜๋ฌธํ™”์˜ ์†Œ๋น„์œจ์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋†’์•˜๋˜ ๋ถ„์•ผ๋Š” TV ์‡ผ(29.7%), ํ™”์žฅํ’ˆ(27.5%), ์—”ํ„ฐํ…Œ์ธ๋จผํŠธ(26.9%), ํŒจ์…˜(24.8%) ์ˆœ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ COVID-19 ์ „์—ผ๋ณ‘ ํ›„, ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋†’์€ ์†Œ๋น„์œจ์€ ์—”ํ„ฐํ…Œ์ธ๋จผํŠธ(48%), TV ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ(47.9%), ๊ฒŒ์ž„(45.8%)์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. COVID-19๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์•ผ์™ธ ํ™œ๋™ ๋ฐ ์—”ํ„ฐํ…Œ์ธ๋จผํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๊ทน๋„๋กœ ์ œํ•œ๋˜์–ด, ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์—”ํ„ฐํ…Œ์ธ๋จผํŠธ์˜ ์†Œ๋น„๊ฐ€ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

ํ•œ๊ตญ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ์‹œ์žฅ ์ค‘ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋†’์€ TV ์‡ผ๋Š”: “๋‹น์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ ์ถ”๋ฝํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ” (9.5%), “๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์ง€์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒƒ” (4.1%), “๊ฒฐํ˜ผํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„” (2.8%)์˜€๋‹ค. ์˜ํ™” ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ƒ์ถฉ(18.4%), ๋ถ€์‚ฐํ–‰ (10.2%), ๋ฐ˜๋„(3.5%) ์ˆœ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ€์ดํŒ ์Šคํƒ€๋กœ๋Š” ๋ฐฉํƒ„์†Œ๋…„๋‹จ(22.0%), ๋ธ”๋ž™ํ•‘ํฌ(13.5%), ์‹ธ์ด(2.9%) ๋“ฑ์ด ๊ผฝํ˜”๋‹ค.

์ง€๋‚œ 5๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ, ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ TV ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ, ์—”ํ„ฐํ…Œ์ธ๋จผํŠธ, ์˜ํ™”, ์Œ์•…, ์• ๋‹ˆ๋ฉ”์ด์…˜ ๋“ฑ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ์†Œ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. 2020๋…„์— ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ธ๊ธฐ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ„์•ผ๋Š” ์Œ์•…์œผ๋กœ 82.0%๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. 

์ด๋ฒˆ ์กฐ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ‘๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ํŒŒ์›Œ ์ง€์ˆ˜’๋Š” ํ–ฅํ›„ ํ™•์žฅ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๋ถ„์•ผ๋ฅผ ์ข…ํ•ฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜์—ฌ ์„ ์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.  1์œ„๋Š” ์‹ํ’ˆ(65.3์ ), ํ™”์žฅํ’ˆ(62.4์ ), ์Œ์•…(62.0์ ) ์ˆœ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์„ ํƒ์€ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๊ฐ€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋ฅผ ์œ ์ฐฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•  ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ์—†๋Š” ๋ถ„์•ผ์˜€๋‹ค.

๋˜ํ•œ ํ•œ๋ฅ˜ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ์ฒดํ—˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋Š˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ž…์†Œ๋ฌธ ๊ด‘๊ณ ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์‹ ๊ทœ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋„ ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์ธ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•œ๋ฅ˜ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ์˜ ํ˜ธ๊ฐ๋„ ์ €ํ•ด ์š”์ธ์œผ๋กœ โ€˜๋ฒˆ์—ญยท์ž๋ง‰ยท๋”๋น™ ๋“ฑ ์‹œ์ฒญ ๋ถˆํŽธโ€™, โ€˜์–ด๋ ต๊ณ  ์ƒ์†Œํ•œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ดโ€™, โ€˜์ž๊ตญ์–ด ๋ฒˆ์—ญ ๋ฏธํกโ€™ ๋“ฑ ์–ธ์–ด์  ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ 1~2์œ„๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ํ•œ๋ฅ˜ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์ด ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋ฅผ ํ•œ๋ฅ˜ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์  ์ƒ์ง•์ด์ž ๋…์ž์ ์ธ ๊ฐœ์„ฑ์œผ๋กœ ์ธ์‹ํ•˜๋Š” ์  ๋˜ํ•œ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.

๋ฌธํ™” ์ฒด์œก๊ด€๊ด‘๋ถ€๋Š” ์–ธ์–ด์  ์–ด๋ ค์›€์„ ํ•ด์†Œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์–‘์งˆ์˜ ์ž๋ง‰๊ณผ ๋ฒˆ์—ญ, ๋”๋น™ ๋“ฑ์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ด€๋ จ ์‚ฌ์—… ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ์ž‘๋…„ ์•ฝ 29์–ต ์›์—์„œ ์˜ฌํ•ด ์•ฝ 40์–ต ์›์œผ๋กœ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋™์‹œ์— ์„ธ์ข…ํ•™๋‹น ํ™•๋Œ€์™€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๊ต์› ํŒŒ๊ฒฌ ๋“ฑ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์šธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ , ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ํ•™์Šต ์ง€์›๋„ ๋ณ‘ํ–‰ํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ด๋‹ค.ย  ๋”๋ถˆ์–ด ํ•ด์™ธ ํ•œ๋ฅ˜ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์˜ ์†Œ๋น„ ํ˜„ํ™ฉ์„ ๊ณผํ•™์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ„์„ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋™ํ–ฅ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ๋„ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋‹ค.

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