Although Netflix hasn’t entered the Chinese market, this didn’t prevent its global hit, a Korean drama Squid Game, from creating a boom in China. Online shopping sites filled with imitation derivative products from the drama. Korean officials are trying to protect their intellectual properties. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has imposed a “Korean restriction order” to retaliate against South Korea over its deployment of the Terminal High-Altitude Air Defense (THAAD) missile system from the United States five years ago. The sanctions are targeted at the importation of South Korea’s pop-cultural which has swept Southeast Asian countries and China. Since then, Chinese TV Stations no longer air Korean TV programs, and most Korean artists’ commercial events had been canceled. Yet those sanctions have failed in preventing Chinese businesses from pirating Korean programs and continuing to broadcast them on the websites, often with Chinese subtitles and only one day after they premiere …
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