As news of the SAG-AFTRA strike broke in mid-July, Song Chang-gon, a 51-year-old actor and current president of the Korea Broadcasting Actors Union, was still waiting to hear back from Netflix, a company that was proving to be difficult to get ahold of.The phone number for its South Korea office was unlisted on the usual websites, but several months earlier, Song had asked around until he finally managed to obtain the personal number of a Netflix Korea executive. Unhappy with the fact that the company didn’t pay its South Korean actors residuals — a form of royalty paid to credited talent when a show is reused after the first airing — he had left several calls and text messages.The situation struck him as absurd.Netflix has a vast presence in South Korea. Yet at times it felt to him as though the company, which outsources all of its production to local studios, wielded its influence from behind a curtain.“One of their first priorities when entering the local market should be to establish some channel of communication with groups like us,” Song said. “But there’s no answer at all.”https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-08-07/south-korea-actors-netflix-pay-dispute-union?utm_id=107185&sfmc_id=2423239&skey_id=2eebe6736d82108e0e2dfe97c6fe9505f8ab76c35444083605954814f11d8c73 (ICE LOS ANGELES)

Fonte notizia: Los Angeles Times