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Although this Sunday is Christmas, it is not easy to hear carols on the street.
This is because copyright regulations have been strengthened, but recently, carols without worrying about copyright are appearing one after another.
This is reporter Park Jae-hyun.
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is a Christmas carol distributed by the portal site Naver for free use.
Eight teams, including Akmu Lee Soo-hyun, Le Seraphim Heo Yun-jin, and Seonwoo Jung-a, presented 8 colorful reinterpretations of carols.
A carol sound source created by artificial intelligence AI also appeared.
Music platform Genie Music has decided to provide these music sources for free to shopping malls in Gyeonggi-do.
Even with Christmas right around the corner, it's not easy to listen to carols on the streets or in stores.
[Kim Jeong-hyun/Yangcheon-gu, Seoul: It seems that the atmosphere has definitely been stagnant since the corona, so it's less (heard) than before, and the Christmas atmosphere on the street (I can't hear it well.)]
With the strengthening of copyright regulations in 2018, music at cafes and gyms In order to play, you have to pay according to the area, but there was not enough guidance on how to pay copyright fees, and shops that played carols disappeared as energy regulations and noise issues became entangled.
[Hong So-rang/Cafe owner: It seems that there are no interesting carols, and it seems trite.
I heard that going outside is problematic.
We (didn't hear) the exact details.]
The Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra replayed and released a carol whose copyright has expired to revive the stagnant social atmosphere due to the corona, and it is steadily gaining popularity.
It is time to think about the true meaning of Christmas, to feel the warmth of family while listening to Christmas carols, and to look back on the underprivileged.
(Video editing: Kim Byeong-jik, VJ: Shin So-young)