DVD selling by illegal download explosion, finally all Hollywood movie companies withdrew from Korea

Finally, in Korea where illegal downloading of pictures and pirated copies are becoming more serious, it became clear that all Hollywood movie companies finally withdraw from selling their own DVDs.

According to illegal downloads and rampant piracy, sales have halved.

Details are as follows.
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According to this article, "Warner Home Video Korea" handling sales of video and DVDs in South Korea under the umbrella of Hollywood major movie company Warner Bros. is December 31, and from sales of video and DVD in Korea He said that he announced it would withdraw.

Warner Home Video Korea has started a direct deal with a discount store to open up a new distribution structure, and has developed a low-priced policy to popularize DVD, etc., and has been developing 1 in the Korean video / DVD market for the past 10 years. Although it has kept monopolizing the rank, it is decided to withdraw the business with the profit decline due to serious illegal downloading.

According to the following article, in 2006 the home entertainment division of Universal, Paramount, Buena Vista and 20th Century Fox withdrew from the Korean DVD industry, and since Sony Pictures also withdrew from the end of September, Warner Home It seems that only Video Korea remained in Korea.

By the way, as a background to the withdrawal of each company, it is mentioned that the anticipated sales of the DVD market in 2008 was only half that of 2002 due to the influence of piracy.

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