From diaspora TV to social media : Korean TV dramas in America by Lee, Sangjoon, Nornes, Abé Markus

“…This well-maintained, two-channel system has, however, considerably frayed in the new millennium as U.S. consumption patterns of Korean dramas expeditiously migrate toward video streaming websites like YouTube, Hulu, and Netflix, and online-based fan communities whose ethnic identity is not necessarily Korean. Since the early 2000s, myriad illegal web services and social media networks have provided, shared, and disseminated Korean TV dramas, along with K-pop, to the mainstream users/viewers in the United States that eventually resulted in the first legitimate video streaming service DramaFever.com. …”
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