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•Flor Maria Torres of RTVECUADORFor Evangeline who is coming from Puerto

Rico, it is the first time to attend BCM and

she is happy to have a chance to make di-

rect contact with Asian content suppliers

since it is hard to do so from overseas and

specially when trying to find productions

with Spanish dubbing for the Latin Ameri-

can market.

Like everyone else who comes here to buy

contents, she praises the high quality of Ko-

rean productions, “We call the Korean

drama market ' the Korean fury', because

it is storming the world market with its amaz-

ing quality” she said, adding that “ not only

the production levels are high but also the

storytelling really delves into deep emo-

tions and relationships between people.

Watching a Korean drama can be very

hypnotizing and captivating”, but another very important point is the fact

that Korean Government has been supporting Korean media, This has

made a big difference and has promoted all these dramas and other pro-

ductions so well across the world.

RTVEcuador's Flor Maria Torres is in

Busan for the first time and she ex-

plains, “it is really interesting how easily

the Asian market has been accepted

by our media.” she praised the BCM

over other conferences of the sort.“ I

like that there is a greater variety of

producers here, from more countries

than in other events of this type.”

She tells us that she has been working

with Korean contents for 4 years now

and that each year, the amount of

Korean and Asian programming in

her country is increasing, in fact there

is more demand than there is con-

tents.

“We have a great deal of demand

every year, Our protfolio of Korean

productions is growing constantly, but our main issue is

that we need to find more Asian contents that is

dubbed to Spanish. I think that once this happens, we

will bring a lot more contents to Latin America.”

At BCMExhibition Floor•Evangeline M. Vazques of Puerto Rico Public Broadcasting Corp.

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•AL JAZEERA_Abdelhai Hammoud

Coming for the 3rd consecutive year Al jazeera Network from Qatar, represented by Mr.

Abdelhai Hammoud, Senior Specialist of Distribution and Licensing of the Commercial Di-

vision, talked with us and commented that Al Jazeera is very happy to attend this event

and it is an important window to make business relations both ways, to offer their programs

and to see what is interesting to buy : “ We are happy to be here and support BCM, it is

nice to come to the event and talk to people from other network companies, specially

Korean companies.” Over the years BCM has been recognized as a must attend event

for the media network companies. Al Jazeera is very much interested on doing connec-

tions with Korean neighbors, Japan and China, since the region has become a very im-

portant market.

One of the newcomers this year is Mr. Federico Vargas, who has come

this year representing Canadian CCI Entertainment.

CCI, he told us that it's a company that focuses mostly on family and

children's contents, with more than 30 years of experience that has

been growing over the years and has recently joined with '9 Story En-

tertainment', another company that specializes in the same areas of

production, creating family friendly

content.

With this merger, they now have

over 1600 hours of programming

available.

Regarding BCM experience, he

said; “for me, it's very exciting to

be able to attend this confer-

ence, I find that if I attend ATF and

then also attend BCM, I have a

great opportunity to meet many

interesting contacts and have

many productive meetings, since

these cover such a big range of

clients.”

He also told us that one of the pri-

orities is doing business with the Ko-

rean market, but he is also making

use of the opportunity to do business with clients from other countries.

•CCI_Federico Vargas

Arjuna TV is an Indonesian channel that specializes in

drama and reality shows

and they are attend-

ing BCM to offer their

productions to other

markets and promote

Indonesian contents.

Their response is posi-

tive, stating : “we

have a full schedule

and we have already

met with some peo-

ple, it's been a really

interesting experience

so far.”

As they explained:

“We actually signed

up last year to attend,

but we weren't well pre-

pared so we decided to pass on it, but this year, we had

time to prepare everything so we are very happy we

made it this time. We really wanted to attend this confer-

ence and we have met a lot of people and everyone has

been really nice to us. Of course we want to come back

in the future.”

•Arjuna TV_Dimas Bramanta & Indra K. Wardana

Coming from the sunny Panama and working for SERTV,

Karen Ching has come to BCM for the first time this

year. She is following the “Korean Wave” and looking

for more contents to bring back to Panama.

She explained that the viewers in Latin America are

demanding for more Korean contents every season

and she is on a mission to satisfy their wish. She also

adds some insight on how Korean media is growing

and the support its receiving from the govern-

ment : “I think that of all the countries I have

worked with, Korea is the one that supports

their media industry the most which is a really

fantastic factor. It is one of the reasons that

people from all over the world are becom-

ing interested in Korean productions.”

Mr. Muhammad Hanif Ravda

from Pakistan's INDUS TV is

here looking for Korean con-

tents, not limiting his cata-

logue to dramas but also

including documentaries and

animation/children's contents.

He is very satisfied with the

great variety of options in ani-

mation and character con-

tents.

Giving us some personal in-

sights about BCM and Asian

productions, he added “I want to definetly come back next

year, but I hope I see more people invited from different re-

gions, and I hope to see more Asian contents dubbed to Eng-

lish, since you do not get the same impact by subtitles as you

would get from dubbed audio.”

•Karen Ching of Panama SERTV•Muhammad Hanif Ravda of Indus TV

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