Disney+ has secured a landmark multi-year content material partnership with CJ ENM to carry South Korean streaming service Tving’s premium content material to Japan for the primary time.
The deal positions Disney+ as a key SVOD companion for Tving within the vital Japanese market, with as much as 60 of the Korean streamer’s top-performing originals and CJ ENM drama sequence set to launch on the platform. Content material begins rolling out Nov. 5, that includes fan-favorite titles together with “Guardian: The Lonely and Nice God” and “Reply 1988.”
Main the cost is “Expensive X,” starring Kim Yoo-jung, Kim Younger-dae and Kim Do-hoon, which can stream solely on Disney+ Japan beginning Nov. 6 in a day-and-date launch with its Korean debut.
To showcase the expanded Korean content material library, Disney+ Japan will introduce “Tving Highlights” as a devoted characteristic on its homepage, positioned alongside the streamer’s franchise tentpoles and authentic programming. Subscribers will even acquire entry to “Tving Assortment,” a curated hub aggregating TVING’s numerous slate of emotionally pushed and genre-defining sequence.
“As we have fun 5 years of Disney+ in Japan, we stay dedicated to increasing our content material choices to mirror the varied preferences of audiences,” mentioned Tamotsu Hiiro, managing director of The Walt Disney Firm (Japan) Ltd. “This collaboration with CJ ENM and Tving is a major step ahead in that journey.”
Julie Choi, CEO of Tving, framed the partnership as a strategic transfer to increase the service’s world footprint. “Our partnership with Disney, which has a powerful presence and deep historical past in Japan, is a chance to most successfully current Tving content material to native viewers,” Choi mentioned. “By means of this partnership with Disney, we intention to develop past Korea’s No. 1 OTT [streamer] into a very world Okay-OTT platform.”
Tony Zameczkowski, senior VP and GM of DTC for Asia Pacific at The Walt Disney Firm, known as the collaboration “a pivotal second in our regional content material and partnership technique.”
“As Korean storytelling continues to captivate world audiences, we’re proud to carry CJ ENM and Tving’s most compelling sequence to Disney+ viewers in Japan,” Zameczkowski mentioned. “This partnership not solely strengthens our Korean content material providing however is the start of a broader alternative to deepen our reference to audiences in one of many world’s most dynamic streaming markets.”
The deal builds on Disney+’s current Korean content material slate, which incorporates originals “Shifting,” “The Worst of Evil” and “Tempest,” alongside Japanese originals reminiscent of “Gannibal” and “Disney Twisted-Wonderland: The Animation.“
