Best OTT Video Companies in South Korea
The 59 best OTT Video companies in South Korea in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Viki.
South Korea's OTT Video market is moving fast, and this directory ranks the 59 companies we track there by disclosed equity funding and recent funding momentum. The numbers are still lean — $103M in total disclosed capital, no unicorns yet — but a 30.7% CAGR toward a forecast ~$2.7B market tells you the runway is serious.
Viki leads the disclosed stack at $24M, followed by Watcha at $21M and Catenoid at $20M, with Kakao Ventures and Atinum Investment among the most active backers. What's driving the heat right now? Playback engine and audio renderer tech are getting real attention, and if you want a read on where monetization is heading, live shopping inside OTT streams is the frontier everyone's watching. Meanwhile, Amazon's Premier League rights grab in the UK signals how aggressively global players are bundling premium content into streaming, pressure that Korean platforms feel directly. I'd watch how domestic challengers here respond to that squeeze over the next two quarters.
- business-standard.com
Ranked: Best OTT Video companies in South Korea
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viki Provider of an on-demand video streaming platform | $24M | 176 mo ago | Acquired | Changseong Ho Co-Founder | 2010 | Node.jsEnvoyGoogle Cloud+17 | — | — |
| 2 | Watcha Platform offering movies and series recommendation solutions | $21M | 99 mo ago | Series C | Alexjihyun Won Co-Founder | 2011 | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceNode.js+9 | — | — |
| 3 | Catenoid Digital platform providing video streaming, player, management, analytics, and commerce platforms | $20M | 64 mo ago | Series C | Kim Seok CEO | 2011 | DreamWeaverPHPGSAP+15 | 7 patents Secure adaptive video streaming platform with cloud storage and content certification. | — |
| 4 | PandoraTV Video viewing and sharing website | $16M | 231 mo ago | Public | — | 2004 | WordPress Block EditorwpBakeryWordPress+20 | 36 patents Real-time video streaming with adaptive bitrate and on‑the‑fly format conversion | — |
| 5 | Treasurer Hunter YouTube-based multi-channel network | $14M | 128 mo ago | Series A | — | 2015 | PHPYouTubeApache HTTP Server+9 | — | — |
| 6 | Wavve Online platform for streaming videos | $5M | 38 mo ago | Seed | — | 2012 | Microsoft ASP.NETHandlebarsVue.js+15 | — | — |
| 7 | Minkonet South Korea-based technology solution provider | $2M | 103 mo ago | Deadpooled | Deckerd Lee Co-Founder & CTO | 2014 | — | 40 patents Cloud-based game replay generation, streaming, and analytics for interactive gaming experiences | — |
| 8 | Trineedle Provider of live-streaming platform | $775K | 48 mo ago | Seed | — | 2019 | — | — | — |
Top 9 OTT Video companies in South Korea
#1
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2012 · 112 employees$4.7Mraised▾
Online platform for streaming videos. It provides live and VOD streaming of movies and TV shows. The application is available for Android and iOS users.
- Apr 2023Seed$4.7M
#2
Series C · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2011$20.3Mraised▾
Digital platform providing video streaming, player, management, analytics, and commerce platforms. It delivers solutions for video streaming, including video players with interactive features. It offers service operation consoles, content delivery network management, and service analytics reporting. It provides media asset management platforms, video workflow systems, and video distribution management. It also delivers video commerce platforms, including live commerce, short form commerce, and T-commerce.
- Mar 2021Series C$11.5M
- 2017Series B$5.6M
- Apr 2015Series A—
- Oct 2013Series A$942.1K
#3
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2019 · 12 employees$775.4Kraised▾
Provider of live-streaming platform. It connects creators and viewers, enabling users to engage with each other in real-time through video content.
- Jun 2022Seed$775.4K
#4
Series C · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2011 · 110 employees$21Mraised▾
Platform offering movies and series recommendation solutions. It is an online platform that allows users to search and stream movies, dramas, shows, documentaries, and animations. It provides recommendations based on ratings and reviews. Users can search, stream, rate, create playlists, share reviews, and comments. It is available for Android and iOS devices. It allows to generates revenue through subscriptions and advertisements.
- Apr 2018Series C$12M
- 2016Series B$5.5M
- 2013Series A$2.7M
- 2012Seed$800K
#5
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2015 · 106 employees$13.9Mraised▾
YouTube-based multi-channel network. The company provides content and marketing solutions for creators and brands such as media marketing strategy, content planning, and production, and YouTube channel management for brands.
- Nov 2015Series A$4.3M
- Aug 2015Series A$3.4M
- May 2015Series A$6.1M
#6
Acquired · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2010 · 175 employees$24.3Mraised▾
Viki is a video streaming platform that allows users to discover, watch, and subtitle global primetime shows and movies in multiple languages. The content is offered in multiple languages such as Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese and the same is subtitled via crowd-sourced translation done by subscribers, under a license, using the technology of the company. Apart from the subtitling for language translation, users can also put up timed comments, funny and irreverent real-time subtitles that scroll across the screen, commenting on the action. The platform is compatible with the web, Android, and iOS devices.
- Oct 2011Series B$20M
- Dec 2010Series A$4.3M
#7
Public · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2004 · 28 employees$16Mraised▾
PandoraTV is a multimedia company for people to watch and post original videos, do a video cast or live shows over the Net via personalized TV channels. PandoraTV allows people to upload and share video clips, run a personal TV live shows on pandora.tv and across the Internet through websites, emails and blogs. Claims to have more than 6.7 million daily video views and 52 million page views every day by over 3.6 million visits daily.
- Apr 2007Series B$10M
- Feb 2006Series A$6M
#8
Deadpooled · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2014 · 8 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Minkonets is a South Korea-based technology solution provider for the gaming industry. It has developed 3D replay technology system for gaming. Also provides gaming video content for gamers. Offers solutions for live streaming, esports, and social platforms.
- Dec 2017Seed$1M
#9
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2003 · 145 employees—raised▾
TUBAn is an animation studio based in South Korea. It provides its production service in 3D CGI production. It develops cartoon and animation contents for various TV channels such as KBS, B TV, Daekyo TV, Disney Channel Korea, BBC, TPS STAR, and Disney Japan etc.
- Jun 2016Series A—
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