China’s first K-drama approvals in years come under cloud of Yoon’s foreign policy

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[unable to retrieve full-text content]When a major Chinese video-streaming platform added a hit Korean romantic drama to its programming slate this month, South Korean content producers were elated and perhaps a bit cautiously optimistic. Something in the Rain is the first Korean TV series to obtain approval from Beijing’s broadcast regulator in five years, after Korean content was blocked in mainland China following Seoul’s 2017 deployment of an American-made missile-defence system. China’s iQiyi started offering the show –…

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