Just because it’s legal in another country, doesn’t make it right.
Netflix has been capitalizing on content from South Korea since even before Squid Game was a massive hit. K-dramas are all the rage across the world and Netflix saw this early and ushered in many of these TV shows that helped the streamer quickly build their global brand and expand to audiences outside of the United States.
According to The Los Angeles Times, Netflix estimated that 60% of its 230 million subscribers watch titles from Korea.
With this level of popularity, Netflix has heavily invested in making these projects in Korea. But as we mentioned with Squid Game, they’ve seemed to have found legal loopholes to avoid paying residuals to the creators of shows and also many exploited crews are speaking out against working conditions and substandard pay.
Shooting internationally can be attractive to streamers because they can work without unions in the United States and many countries have laws that allow them to circumvent certain rates they would have to pay U.S. workers.
Author: Jason Hellerman
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
