As Kim Min-seok’s Democratic Party TV launches, Kim Eo-jun smiles

The Democratic Party’s new morning YouTube program attracted 55,053 simultaneous viewers on its first live broadcast, but the established show it appeared to target drew an even larger audience.

Party leader Kim Min-seok appeared on the first edition of Democratic Party TV, known as Minti, which began at 7 a.m. He said the party wanted new information and news to start with its own channel, and hoped the broadcast would present at least one carefully selected point reflecting the party’s daily line.

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We believe it is right for new information and news to start with us.

Former MBN and Yonhap News TV anchor Park Young-shik hosted the program. Kim explained the party’s 10 internal special bodies, called Mega 10, which focus on people’s livelihoods and party reform. The show also included discussions with lawmakers Lee Hoon-ki and Jeon Eun-su, along with commentator Kang Soo-young.

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I hope this broadcast becomes a program that presents our party’s policy line.

The party’s publicity committee said the debut audience was more than 10 times the usual 3,000 to 6,000 viewers for livestreams of the party’s 최고위원회의. Kim later wrote on X that the result exceeded expectations that 20,000 viewers would constitute a major success, adding that the channel was only at the beginning.

Minti has been viewed as a challenge to Kim Eo-jun’s weekday morning program, News Factory, which airs at the same time. On the launch day, that program’s usual audience in the 100,000 range rose above 210,000. Super Chat revenue reached about 54.85 million won, 29 times the previous day’s roughly 1.88 million won. Minti will air on Tuesdays and Thursdays during a two-week trial before moving to a five-day schedule on the 14th.

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It is the beginning of the beginning of the beginning, and its prime is still far ahead.