Lee meets Netflix, Disney and Universal executives to discuss stronger cooperation on Korean content

President Lee Jae-myung brought together representatives of Netflix, Disney, Sony and NBCUniversal during his state visit to France, seeking stronger cooperation on Korean content and between the South Korean and U.S. video industries.

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The government will actively and fully support making works in South Korea and discovering material.

Lee met members of the Motion Picture Association at the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. The companies represented at the meeting lead major parts of the global box office and streaming markets.

He said the South Korean government would actively and fully support efforts to make productions in the country and find new material. Lee described South Korea as making a new start in the cultural content industry, compared with its past.

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South Korea, unlike in the past, can be said to be making a new start when it comes to the cultural content industry.

Lee said people around the world were asking why South Korea had suddenly emerged as a distinctive force in culture. He pointed to the uniqueness of Korean cultural content and what he called the country’s exceptional skill and delicate craftsmanship as important foundations.

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There is something distinctive about Korean cultural content, and in addition, its highly skilled and delicate craftsmanship may have provided a major foundation.