{
  "id": 13859505,
  "title": "Overseas piracy of K-content nears 500 mil. cases in 2025: lawmaker",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/overseas-piracy-of-k-content-nears-500-mil-cases-in-2025-lawmaker-13859505",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-12T03:22:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times-koreatimes",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/law-crime/20261012/overseas-piracy-of-k-content-nears-500-mil-cases-in-2025-lawmaker"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In 2025, the number of illegal distributions of Korean content overseas surged to nearly 500 million cases, the highest since 2022, according to lawmaker Rep. Jeong Jun-ho. The Korea Copyright Protection Agency reported 493.6 million cases in 2025, a 19.2 percent increase from the previous year. This figure surpassed the previous high of 477.1 million cases in 2022, the year the agency started tracking the data. The majority of the cases, 66.5 percent, involved webtoons, with films and broadcasts accounting for the remaining 33.5 percent. The language breakdown showed 46.6 percent of the cases were in English, followed by 20.4 percent in Chinese and 15.7 percent in languages spoken in Southeast Asian nations. Interestingly, while the number of English-distributed content dropped by 17 percentage points compared to the previous year, the proportion of cases involving languages like Vietnamese, Thai, Spanish, and French increased.",
  "summary": "The number of Korean content that was illegally distributed overseas reached nearly 500 million cases last year, the highest number since 2022, a lawmaker said Monday. The number of reported cases hit 493.6 million in 2025, up 19.2 percent from the previous year, according to the data submitted to Rep. Jeong Jun-ho of the ruling Democratic Party by the Korea Copyright Protection Agency. The…",
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        "outlet": "Yonhap News",
        "title": "Overseas piracy of K-content nears 500 mln cases in 2025: lawmaker",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/overseas-piracy-of-k-content-nears-500-mln-cases-in-2025-lawmaker",
        "published": "2026-10-12T02:33:57.000Z"
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        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "Overseas piracy of K-content nears 500 mil. cases in 2025: lawmaker",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/overseas-piracy-of-k-content-nears-500-mil-cases-in-2025-lawmaker",
        "published": "2026-10-12T03:02:03.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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