A Bill to Adopt IPTV Service Has Been Passed in Korea

Realizing the extent of which IPTV services would benefit the entire country, the Korean National Assembly has passed a bill on to adopt Internet Protocol Television and will pave way for the launch of the new media service in the country. Only a few companies have been providing the video-on-demand services in the country without any
relevant laws and they are, KT, Hanaro Telecom and LG TV services with their respective programs Mega TV, Hana TV, and My LG TV services.
The passage of this bill means that programs from terrestrial broadcasters can be made available on the Internet at the same time they are broadcast. At the moment, these companies offer TV programs several hours or days after terrestrial broadcasters have first relayed them.
Being a recent innovation on the internet, IPTV is a next-generation broadcasting technology that uses Internet protocol instead of radio waves to deliver programs. The service is interactive, so viewers can use it to search for information for items they see on TV and even buyth em without interrupting the program they are catching. However, there are concerns that the service may be crippled by government bureaucracy because both the Ministry of Information and Communication and the Korean Broadcasting Commission are in charge of it.