Thaw process.(South Korea and Japan)(Brief Article)

Television Asia, April, 2001 by Osaki, Tad

With South Korea on the verge of lifting a 50-year-old ban on Japanese television content, local programmers and distributors paint an upbeat picture of a friendly new environment. Tad Osaki looks at what the thaw means The 2002 World Cup soccer games, to be hosted jointly by Japan and Korea in May, is expected to put an official end to the half-century-old Korean ban on things Japanese.

As the chorus of "Japanese-Korean friendship" grows louder in the two countries, there are also high hopes that controls on the broadcast of Japanese programming on South Korean networks -- the last vestige of postwar hostility between the two nations -- will disappear as well. With TV programme limits likely to be liberalised by 2002, Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS)...

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