Why Korean series is easier to find than Cantonese

The explanation is easy: MONEY.

Lets go back in time before the internet. For a lot of teenagers it must be hard to think about a time without internet. When there wasn't internet there was no easy way for people to watch Asian series. Well there is and that's how the big money was made.

The most watched Cantonese series are from a television broadcast called TVB. They let people all over the world watch their series with a subscription. At the beginning they rented out VHS with their production and that's big money. Afterwards they switched to cable subscription which was also a success but there was something called internet that made its way and cut down the profitable for them.

Around 2002 when a lot of us had access to the web, we searched for our own pleasure and watched things we couldn't. TVB isn't really happy about that, cause less subscription means less money for them.

What about Korea, truth to be told Korean television broadcast has found a different way to make money. They search for sponsors and show their latest product on screen. They also mark away logo's who don't invest in their series. In the ending they show a row logo from companies that invested in the drama every time. Just right before the preview from the next episode and that's something that  America or HongKong could learn from.

Sponsors want the drama to be watched cause their products are used in the series. Korean broadcast company doesn't really mind about their intellectual property cause they make that up by finding sponsors. How that's reflected, you could watch the latest episode of any running Korean series online right after it is broadcast.

With HongKong series it's way more difficult cause they are still trying to make money oversees by selling subscriptions. So they value their intellectual property which they have all the rights to it. Except its way to expansive to apply for their subscription in this digital era.

In short that's why Cantonese series are difficult to find and Korean series not.