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KT offers Genie TV prize events and special content for Family Month

KT said on April 28 it has prepared content and promotions for Genie TV IPTV customers to mark May, designated as Family Month. It will offer a 3,000 won VOD coupon to all customers who buy the ownership VOD of the film \"The Man Who Lives with the King\" and will award 60 travel prizes by lottery. It will also run prize draws tied to Disney-Pixar animation \"Hoppers\" and the drama \"Scarecrow\", plus family programming and subscription discounts.

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SK Broadband\'s B tv+ cumulative viewing tops 100 million hours

SK Broadband said on Tuesday that its IPTV subscription VOD service B tv+ has surpassed 100 million hours of cumulative viewing 21 months after launch. It said B tv+ subscribers use 2.6 times more content than non-subscribers and that B tv churn fell 26 percent from a year earlier, reflecting a lock-in effect. The service offers about 200,000 titles with offline benefits and multi-device viewing.

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Samsung, LG smart TVs seen as global distribution route for K-content as FAST emerges as alternative

A proposal has emerged to use Samsung and LG smart TVs already deployed worldwide as infrastructure to distribute Korean content globally. As plans to combine domestic streaming services into a single platform stall, free ad-supported streaming TV, or FAST, is gaining prominence. Speakers at a policy forum cited rapid growth forecasts for the global and domestic FAST markets and highlighted Korean TV makers\' large installed base. They also called for policy support, content localization funding and a unified control tower across ministries.