Watching domestic performances online without going to <anchor> was originally mostly free. However, as the performance itself becomes difficult now, plans to pay for online performances are also being pursued.

Reporter Kim Soo-hyun.

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cost of free online performances, video clips, and transmissions, which have increased dramatically since Corona 19, is more expensive.

Although it has been free for cultural welfare and publicity, it has begun to move towards paying amid the crisis that it cannot continue.

At most, you have to pay more than 100 million won for each video and copyright, but you can't postpone it anymore.

The popular musical field is leading.

[Kim Ji Won/EMK International Representative: Even if it makes little profit by making production costs, it pioneered the paid online performance market to make the audience familiar with it… .] The

musical'Excalibur' is showing online in the US and Europe for $5.99, and the musical'Mozart' and the original musical'Marie Curie' are also being promoted.

National and public organizations with stable finances are also testing the possibility of paying, but voluntary paid viewing was conducted in the form of donations.

However, small-scale private organizations also have a minimal investment in online performances.

[Yoon Bo-mi / CEO of Bom Art Project: In a situation where survival is threatened day by day, it is very inefficient now to make a video by investing huge amounts of money.]

Even within the performance world , there are temperature differences, but Naver and Kakao The move to pay is expected to be faster as we are planning a new online performance platform with a paid payment system.

(Video coverage: Daeyoung Park, Video editing: Seungjin Lee, VJ: Oh Se-gwan)