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Young Joon Cha and the distance between a good show and home
He started ODK Media with a conviction that Korean television deserved a legal route to viewers abroad. The business that followed has taken him from a room in Boston to a growing network of Asian entertainment services.
ODK Media
ODK Media is a Fullerton, California-based media group that brings Asian entertainment to global audiences. Founded in 2011, it began as OnDemandKorea, the first legal Korean streaming service for North America, and has grown into a multi-platform operator running OnDemandKorea, OnDemandChina, OnDemandViet and the pan-Asian FAST service Amasian TV. The company licenses, localizes and distributes Korean, Chinese and Vietnamese dramas, movies, variety shows, news and live sports to viewers across more than 36 countries, blending AVOD, SVOD and free ad-supported TV with its own ODX back-end technology and AI-powered subtitling and dubbing.
Jed Jeong
Jed Jeong runs OnDemandKorea, the first and largest legal Korean streaming service in North America, and is CEO of KOOLi Inc. and Head of OTT at ODK Media. He turned a single legal Korean OTT service into a multinational Asian media hub spanning OnDemandKorea, OnDemandChina, OnDemandViet and OnDemandLatino, plus digital magazines, e-commerce, content metadata production and international content IP distribution across 36+ countries. A Daum veteran from Korea's early internet era, he now builds streaming for diaspora audiences who want their stories in their language, wherever they live.