SEOUL, Nov 22 (Reuters) – A Chinese language streaming platform has resumed distributing South Korean content material after suspending it for practically six years, South Korean officers mentioned on Tuesday, in what Seoul known as an indication of Beijing’s readiness to enhance ties.
China’s streaming web site Tencent started distributing a movie by South Korean director Hong Sang-soo, “Lodge by the River,” earlier this month, they mentioned, within the first such transfer after Beijing successfully banned Okay-pop imports amid pressure over the THAAD U.S. missile defence system stationed in South Korea.
A South Korean presidential official linked the timing of the gesture to a current summit between South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Chinese language President Xi Jinping.
Yoon and Xi held their first face-to-face talks in Bali final week throughout which either side agreed to spice up cooperation. It marked the primary assembly between leaders of the 2 international locations since 2019.
Kim Eun-hye, Yoon’s press secretary, mentioned the South Korean president has pressured the necessity to promote cultural and people-to-people exchanges on the assembly, and the change at TenCent seemed to be a “response” from Beijing.
Relations between South Korea and China have been frayed lately following the set up in South Korea of the THAAD system in 2017 to higher counter North Korea’s evolving missile threats.
China had argued that THAAD’s highly effective radar might peer into its airspace, and reactd by sharply chopping commerce and cultural imports with South Korea, in a serious blow to bilateral ties.
Reporting by Soo-hyang Choi; Enhancing by Simon Cameron-Moore
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