KunHee Park | Source | CEO at KOCOWA

KunHee Park is the Chairman of the Board, CEO, and CPO (Chief Product Officer) of KOCOWA, a joint venture between the top three Korean broadcasters - KBS, MBC, and SBS, plus SK Telecom. KOCOWA is well-known in the international OTT streaming space and was instrumental in bringing Korean Entertainment to mainstream audiences across the Americas.

wavve Americas launched KOCOWA, a subscription video streaming platform in the Americas in 2017, with primary audiences in the United States, Canada, and Brazil. KOCOWA provides a robust lineup of over 17,000 hours of Korean Dramas, Reality, and K-Pop content in multi-languages on its direct platform.

“Korean content has become so much more mainstream recently, and we are excited to offer Korea’s fresh storytelling with our diverse programming package to the Americas,” said Park. “As a niche streaming service with broad reach, KOCOWA is well-positioned to be competitive in the battle among streaming services by super-serving fans of Korean-produced content. It is easy for viewers to watch new shows coming from Korea at home, fully subtitled in English. I am happy that viewers will be able to discover us and enjoy Korea’s world-renown brand of entertainment.”

On KOCOWA, customers can watch select shows the same day they air in Korea and dig into thousands of high-quality library titles. Discovery is easy, as audiences can immerse themselves in award-winning relatable comedies, dramas, and hilarious reality competitions. For fans of K-pop, there are more than enough idols’ moments to binge on.

As the service provider in the Americas with the largest library of Korean content, KOCOWA has quickly risen as an international platform since 2017. KOCOWA’s millions of viewers are diverse, with 90% of non-Korean ancestry viewers in the prime under 44 age demographic and female. Programming is available in real-time after broadcast airtime in Korean, making KOCOWA the preferred destination for fans to watch new series and award-winning library titles or to discover new and exciting Korean content only available on KOCOWA.

Mr. Park was an inaugural member of wavve Americas, Inc. serving as the Chief Technical Officer in charge of distributing the Korean Entertainment streaming brand KOCOWA to North and South America. Through his leadership and ingenuity in establishing KOCOWA as a premiere streaming site, he was later appointed CEO of wavve Americas while still holding the cross-functional role of Chief Product Officer.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Park worked in computer programming for over ten years at Cisco Systems in Seoul. He also spent six years at NDS Limited (now, Synamedia), an international IT consulting firm, and over three years at Kolon Global Corp, a construction concern in Seoul.

Mr. Park earned his degree in engineering at Inha University in 2002 and served in the Republic of Korea army.