{"id":14655,"date":"2020-06-11T10:50:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T14:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/smithsonian-channel-expands-south-korea\/"},"modified":"2020-06-11T10:50:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T14:50:48","slug":"smithsonian-channel-expands-into-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/smithsonian-channel-expands-into-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Smithsonian Channel Expands into South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smithsonian Channel has launched in South Korea on the KT Skylife platform.<\/p>\n<p>Per the deal, Smithsonian Channel is now available through Skylife\u2019s Basic and BizOn Package via both linear and video-on-demand services. Skylife viewers can now access documentaries spanning a wide range of genres such as air and space, history, science, nature and pop culture. Among the titles on offer are <em>Sports Detectives<\/em>, <em>Coronavirus: Into the Red Zone<\/em>, <em>Aerial Citie<\/em>s and <em>Air Warriors<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The deal was facilitated by LYD, Blue Ant Media\u2019s exclusive channel distributor in Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Beatrice Lee, CEO of Blue Ant Media Asia Pacific, said: \u201cWe are thrilled to launch the Smithsonian Channel on Skylife. It is a challenging time to expand the brand with a pandemic going on, but we are confident in the quality of content we are offering and very fortunate to have KT Skylife feeling the same. Smithsonian Channel\u2019s content has complex narratives and characters, open-ended questions, and still-unsolved mysteries that resonate with what our modern audience wants from their entertainment experience. We look forward to feed Skylife&#8217;s audience&#8217;s curiosity and enrich their minds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CEO of LYD Joon Lee added: \u201cThe depth, quality and educational positioning of the Smithsonian Channel is something LYD has always recognized as a strong proposition for this market so we are incredibly excited for its very first launch in Korea on Skylife.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smithsonian Channel has launched in South Korea on the KT Skylife platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":14656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[180],"class_list":["post-14655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-smithsonian-channel","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Smithsonian Channel Expands into South Korea - TVREAL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/smithsonian-channel-expands-into-south-korea\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Smithsonian Channel Expands into South Korea - TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Smithsonian Channel has launched in South Korea on the KT Skylife platform.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/smithsonian-channel-expands-into-south-korea\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-11T14:50:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/07\/Smithsonian-620.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"392\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chelsea Regan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chelsea Regan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/smithsonian-channel-expands-into-south-korea\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/smithsonian-channel-expands-into-south-korea\/\",\"name\":\"Smithsonian Channel Expands into South Korea - TVREAL\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-11T14:50:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-06-11T14:50:48+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/2a2c6d8fb3c7c8b4220b8877ecffb79a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/smithsonian-channel-expands-into-south-korea\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/smithsonian-channel-expands-into-south-korea\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/smithsonian-channel-expands-into-south-korea\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Smithsonian Channel Expands into South Korea\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\",\"name\":\"TVREAL\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/2a2c6d8fb3c7c8b4220b8877ecffb79a\",\"name\":\"Chelsea Regan\",\"description\":\"Chelsea Regan is the managing editor of World Screen. 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