animation Why did My Little Pony take longer to legally enter South Korea than Pokemon and the Nintendo game consoles?

[FirePuppy 739]

Now, I grew up watching Japanese media, such as Pocket Monsters (the original Pokemon), which I first saw when I was 6 years old (thankfully, I missed out on the Porygon episode that injured most of my old friends and they didn't show up at school the next day), until my family came to America. When I was older and regularly surfed online, I found out that one country (South Korea) once banned our cultural products, and since then, I started tracking that country's way of releasing media, like Mega Sean 45 does to Twitter messages.

The original Pokemon anime and manga both first came out in Japan in 1997, and in South Korea in 1999. That's two years it took for the first Pokemon to legally enter the South Korean market.
The first Pokemon video games released in Korea were Gold and Silver in April 2002, while in Japan, they came out in November 1999, for a difference of nearly 2 1/2 years.
Nintendo of Korea took 3 years after they entirely lifted the ban on Japanese cultural products in 2004, to release the Nintendo DS Lite in January 2007.
But My Little Pony took 3 1/2 years to legally enter the South Korean market (difference between October 10, 2010 and April 30, 2014)!

Honestly, why'd it take that long? I know it wasn't banned (unlike the movie), but why?

[Twilight Karamel 131]

Personally, my idea on that is because My Little Pony and how it teaches values and such could be seen as western propaganda which is a massive no-no in certain sectors of the world and while it's not a big no-no in South Korea, they still likely disallowed it for so long in order to see the direction it would take in order to prevent any values they didn't like to be censored. While game consoles and Pokemon may be against their values at first, the money and popularity stream was way too good to just disallow for so long.

[Libra 11,691]

2 hours ago, FirePuppy said:

Now, I grew up watching Japanese media, such as Pocket Monsters (the original Pokemon), which I first saw when I was 6 years old (thankfully, I missed out on the Porygon episode that injured most of my old friends and they didn't show up at school the next day), until my family came to America. When I was older and regularly surfed online, I found out that one country (South Korea) once banned our cultural products, and since then, I started tracking that country's way of releasing media, like Mega Sean 45 does to Twitter messages.

The original Pokemon anime and manga both first came out in Japan in 1997, and in South Korea in 1999. That's two years it took for the first Pokemon to legally enter the South Korean market.
The first Pokemon video games released in Korea were Gold and Silver in April 2002, while in Japan, they came out in November 1999, for a difference of nearly 2 1/2 years.
Nintendo of Korea took 3 years after they entirely lifted the ban on Japanese cultural products in 2004, to release the Nintendo DS Lite in January 2007.
But My Little Pony took 3 1/2 years to legally enter the South Korean market (difference between October 10, 2010 and April 30, 2014)!

Honestly, why'd it take that long? I know it wasn't banned (unlike the movie), but why?

Okay, im going to call this out right here.

i have searched far and wide, and there are ZERO SOURCES showing south korea has banned my little pony. So, someone is giving you bad information. 

Edited December 2, 2017 by Fennekin

[Gestum 2,493]

Because that's when Hasbro (or whoever bought the rights to mlp from Hasbro) decieded to relese it in South Korea. There's no conspiracy to keep MLP out of South Korea.

Edited December 2, 2017 by Gestum

[FirePuppy 739]

But I know Danganronpa V3 is banned there, yet despite that, there's a whole playlist of gameplay for that game subtitled in that language on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe6Cr7pt_oesBKIum34D9YRNxpyyR9oi5

So, technically, that puts My Little Pony: The Movie closer to the same state as that game.

[FirePuppy 739]

I stand corrected:

https://blog.naver.com/hasbrokorea/221160637751