China’s brazen copyright violations of South Korea’s entertainment content have doubled since 2016, says South Korea’s culture ministry. Since 2017, China’s copyright infringements have become a major headache for South Korean content makers. After Beijing cracked down on Korean pop culture in China, in retaliation for South Korea deploying THAAD (a U.S. anti-missile system), South Korea lost its multi-billion dollar entertainment market in China. South Korea’s entertainment content, also known as the “Korean wave” or “Hallyu” in Chinese, refers to the global popularity of South Korea’s cultural exports of pop culture, entertainment, music, TV dramas, and movies. China’s copyright infringements on South Korean pop culture content have reportedly increased from 55,280 cases in 2016 to 107,053 in 2021, nearly doubling in five years, according to South Korean daily newspaper Kukmin Ilbo, citing data from its Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. “I am concerned that the [Moon Jae-in] government’s lukewarm attitude toward …