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==Television Stations / Channels==
  
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==Television Stations / Channels==
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The Republic of Korea began its television service on 12 May 1956. The independent station was sold to the [[wikipedia:Korean Broadcasting System|Korean Broadcasting System (KBS)]] in 1961. It transmitted in '''Seoul (on channel 9); Pusan (ch 9); Taegu (ch 8); Taejon (ch 4); Kwangju (ch 7); Ulsan (ch 5)''' and '''Wonju (ch 12)'''.
  
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The Republic of Korea began its television service in 1956. The country has four main publicly owned TV stations.  
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By the mid-1970s, the country had three other TV stations.  
  
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The largest of these is the '''[[wikipedia:Korean Broadcasting System| Korean Broadcasting System (KBS)]]''', transmitting in Seoul (on channel 9); Pusan (ch 9); Taegu (ch 8); Taejon (ch 4); Kwangju (ch 7); Ulsan (ch 5) and Wonju (ch 12). It was apparently on this station that '''Doctor Who''' aired in the late 1970s.
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The KBS underwent a major reorganisation in late 1977. As part of this restructure, the channel acquired more foreign programming - it was under this new policy that '''Doctor Who''' screened.
  
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The series was later available in South Korea on the American [[Armed Forces Network]] in 1986 – see the separate profile for that cable station.  
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In 1986, a run of Tom Baker stories was available on US military bases in South Korea via the American [[Armed Forces Network]] channel AFKN – see the separate profile for that station.  
  
  
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South Korea was about the '''53rd''' country to screen '''Doctor Who''', and the eighth in [[:Category:Australasia/Asia|Australasia/Asia]] (see [[Selling Doctor Who]]).
 
South Korea was about the '''53rd''' country to screen '''Doctor Who''', and the eighth in [[:Category:Australasia/Asia|Australasia/Asia]] (see [[Selling Doctor Who]]).
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[[File:KBSTV.JPG|right|thumb|250px|"후박사의모험" - "Dr Hu's Adventure"]]
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Although the series title becomes <span style="font-size:200%;">'''닥터 후'''</span> in Korean script, for the episodes shown in 1977 and 1978, it was given the new title -
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<span style="font-size:200%;">'''후박사의모험'''</span>
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- which translates as '''"Dr Hu's Adventure"'''.
  
  
 
==[[BBC Records]]==
 
==[[BBC Records]]==
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BBC sales paperwork indicates that the following six stories were sold and invoiced to "Korea" in this order, but also that the first three were subsequently "cancelled":
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* [[Spearhead from Space]] (sold by January 1978, cancelled in April 1978)
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* [[Doctor Who and the Silurians]] (sold by January 1978, cancelled in April 1978)
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* [[The Ambassadors of Death]] (sold by March 1978, cancelled in April 1978)
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* [[The Daemons]] (sold by April 1978)
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* [[The Mind of Evil]] (sold by April 1978)
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* [[Terror of the Autons]] (sold by April 1978)
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<!-- And a BBC memo dated '''2 May 1978''' reports the sale of "AAA, BBB, CCC, EEE, FFF to KBS in Korea". The sale of the latter three was done before the first three were cancelled; the person who wrote the letter wasn't aware of this at the time, or that Colony had been acquired (See photo) -->
  
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In '''DWM''', Korea is identified in the story Archive for {{BBB}}, with a date of '''1977'''.  
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While the selection of episodes does seem a bit random, it can't be a coincidence that the six serials offered to Korea were the very ones that were not purchased by the two [[Canada|Canadian]] stations [[TVO]] and [[CKVU]] in 1976/77; and the sale to Korea would have been the last prior to the seven-year sales right periods on each expiring.  
  
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But BBC sales paperwork indicates that the following six stories were sold to "Korea", but with some subsequently "cancelled":
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It's not known why the sale/purchase of the first three stories was "cancelled"; was it KBS or the BBC who did this?
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* [[Spearhead from Space]] (sold by January 1978, cancelled by April 1978)
 
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* [[Doctor Who and the Silurians]] (sold by January 1978, cancelled by April 1978)
 
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* [[The Ambassadors of Death]] (sold by February 1978, cancelled by April 1978)
 
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* [[Terror of the Autons]] (sold by May 1978)
 
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* [[The Mind of Evil]] (sold by May 1978)
 
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* [[The Daemons]] (sold by May 1978)
 
  
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The Korean equivalent of [http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8B%A5%ED%84%B0_%ED%9B%84 WIKIPEDIA] says '''Doctor Who''' aired on KBS from Sunday 6 November 1977 from 6:00pm until 9 April 1978. Third Doctor serials '''"Devil's Cave"''' ([[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]), '''"Secrets of the Androids"''' or '''"The Secret Cyborgs"''' ([[Terror of the Autons]]), '''"Evil Spirits"''' ([[The Mind of Evil]]) and '''"Space Colony"''' ([[Colony in Space]]) aired. (NOTE: These are our own rough translations of the Korean titles.)
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Of note, the same three stories had been purchased by [[Turkey]] in late 1977, but then "cancelled" in January 1978 - the same month that Korea purchased them. Did Korea take up the [[Turkey]] purchase, but cancel the order for the same or different reasons?
  
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These four stories are slightly at odds with what the BBC has recorded (…Silurians was apparently cancelled) and [[Colony in Space]] is named instead of [[The Daemons]] (unless an administration error had the sale of the former written onto the page of the latter?)
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It's not likely to have been an issue with the supply of tapes since NTSC copies of all bar [[Spearhead from Space]] were still circulating around the [[United States]] at the time, or were still held by the TV station in the nearby [[Philippines]].
  
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Although these titles do (sort of) match up with those named in the records, with no direct listings to support these dates, we must treat the Wikipedia information with a degree of caution…
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In '''DWM''', Korea is identified in the story Archive for {{BBB}}, with a sales date of '''1977''', based on music clearances (this date is incorrect; the music clearances were actually paid in January 1978).
  
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In '''The Eighties''' - [http://www.shillpages.com/howe/b-dw80s.htm THE LOST CHAPTERS], records a sale of '''"(4)"''' stories to '''Korea Republic''' by 10 February 1987. Since the [[Tom Baker stories]] were aired on the [[Armed Forces Network]] channel (see separate profile for those screenings), the "sale" to that broadcaster would be recorded as a sale to the [[United States]]. Therefore, these "(4)" probably apply to the four Pertwees.
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In '''The Eighties''' - [http://www.shillpages.com/howe/b-dw80s.htm THE LOST CHAPTERS], records a sale of '''"(4)"''' stories to '''Korea Republic''' by 10 February 1987; these "(4)" are the four Pertwees.
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The Korean equivalent of [http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8B%A5%ED%84%B0_%ED%9B%84 WIKIPEDIA] (from which we had based our earlier version of this profile) says that the serials that aired on KBS were [[Doctor Who and the Silurians]], [[Terror of the Autons]], [[The Mind of Evil]] and [[Colony in Space]]; three of these are correct, but one of these titles is actually wrong, as we shall explain below.  
  
  
 
==Stories bought and broadcast==
 
==Stories bought and broadcast==
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[[File:KBSPreview.JPG|right|thumb|350px|KBS Preview -후박사의모험 ("Dr Hu's Adventure")- "science and history" for children; 31 October 1977]]
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[[File:Choi ChanChan.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Choi Eung Chan, who dubbed for Jon Pertwee]]
  
 
===[[Jon Pertwee stories|JON PERTWEE]]===
 
===[[Jon Pertwee stories|JON PERTWEE]]===
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[[File:Korea 6-11B.JPG|thumb|right|350px|후박사의모험 - the first episode, 6 November 1977]]
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[[File:KBS1977.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Korean Herald only listed the series under the generic heading of "Children's Hours" from 6-7pm; this is the first billing, 6 November 1977]]
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[[File:Korea 13-11 A.JPG|right|thumb|350px|<악마의 동굴> (Cave of the Devil): the synopsis roughly translates as "[Dr Hu] stops the excavation and is caught in an icy cold blast"; 13 November 1977]]
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[[File:Korea25-12A.JPG|right|thumb|250px|<인조인간의 비밀> (2) (Secret of the Synthetic Humans (2), 25 December 1977]]
  
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Apparently these four stories, 23 episodes:
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Four stories, 21 episodes (out of order):
  
 
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|JJJ||[[The Daemons]]||5||악마의 동굴||"Devil Cave" / "Cave of the Devil"
 
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|EEE||[[Terror of the Autons]]||4
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|EEE||[[Terror of the Autons]]||4||인조인간의 비밀||"Secret of the Synthetic Humans"
 
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|FFF||[[The Mind of Evil]]||6
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|FFF||[[The Mind of Evil]]||6||악령||"Evil Spirit" / "Spirit of Evil"
 
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|HHH||[[Colony in Space]]||6
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|HHH||[[Colony in Space]]||6||우주의 식민지||"Space Colony" / "Colony in Space"
 
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The programme was supplied on 16mm black and white film or video tape in the NTSC format, with English soundtracks.  
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(The translations of the Korean titles above are our own using online translation.)
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Although BBC paperwork doesn't record a sale of [[Colony in Space]] to Korea, the serial did screen. With the cancellation of three stories in April, and with the clearances fees already paid for them, rather than issuing KBS with a refund, the BBC would have offered them a replacement; the clearances fees paid out for the cancelled serials therefore likely off-set the full purchase cost for [[Colony in Space]].
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====Origin of the Tapes?====
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The programme was likely supplied on video tape in the NTSC format, with English soundtracks.  
  
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Given that the station had switched to NTSC in 1975, there's a very strong likelihood that the episodes supplied were in colour, and the selection (and the fact that some sales were cancelled) would have been limited to which tapes could still be sourced in 1977 and 1978. (It's known that by 1978, Time Life no longer had a complete set of master tapes of the Pertwees.)
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The tapes were either supplied directly by Time Life, or bicycled in from the [[Philippines]], where the series had concluded its run in September 1976.  
  
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If not supplied from Time Life, the tapes may have been bicycled in from [[Guam]], the [[Philippines]], or [[Saudi Arabia]].
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The series was dubbed, and the Korean actor who provided the voice for the third Doctor was [https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B5%9C%EC%9D%91%EC%B0%AC Choi Eung Chan] (최응찬). Also known as Choi Chan Chan, he died only six years later, aged 43.
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*[https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%B5%9C%EC%9D%91%EC%B0%AC Choi Eung Chan profile]
  
  
 
==Transmission==
 
==Transmission==
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[[File:KBS1977.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Children's Hour, KBS; 6 November 1977]]
 
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[[File:KoreaKBS9.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Children's Hour, KBS channel 9 (Seoul); generic listing 1977 or 1978]]
 
  
 
===[[Jon Pertwee stories|JON PERTWEE]]===
 
===[[Jon Pertwee stories|JON PERTWEE]]===
  
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If the Wikipedia information is correct and accurate, the series commenced on Sunday, '''6 November 1977'''. The episodes aired weekly, with the 23rd and final episode on '''9 April 1978'''. The 6.00pm start time identified in the Wikipedia article actually applies to the "Children's Hour" slot during which '''Doctor Who''' would have aired, rather than to the start-time of the series itself.
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The Monday, '''31 October 1977''' issue of ''Kyunghyang Shinmun'' carried a story about the changes to the television service following the restructure of KBS, and amongst a preview of the forthcoming programmes is a reference to '''"Dr. Hu's Adventure"''' (Sunday 6pm), "a science fiction serial designed to give young children an interest in science and history... [made by the] BBC."
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'''"Dr Hu's Adventure"''' commenced on Sunday, '''6 November 1977''' at 6pm (the time was always 6.00 to 6.25pm, which indicates no commercials). With the exception of two dates, the series always aired in that timeslot.
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The first serial was '''악마의 동굴''' which best translates as "Devil Cave", or "Cave of the Devil". The Korean Wikipedia says this was [[Doctor Who and the Silurians]] -- understandable given the word "cave" in the title -- however the newspaper's synopsis for the second episode refers to the Doctor stopping an "excavation" and mentions an "icy cold blast", both being plot points from [[The Daemons]].
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Also, the numbering given to the next set of episodes, plus the two pre-emptions during the run -- reducing the episode count from 23 to 21 -- means this was a 5-parter, and not a 7-parter. The BBC records are therefore correct - the sale of [[Doctor Who and the Silurians]] had been cancelled and it therefore did not screen. 
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Since this is [[The Daemons]] and not The Silurians, the "cave" of the title must instead refer to the cavern beneath the church. (On reflection, the "devil" part of the title is a bit obvious!)
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The second story was '''인조인간의 비밀'''; which best translates as something along the lines of "Secret of the Synthetic Humans". Although no synopses were given, the BBC Records above says this is [[Terror of the Autons]].  
  
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(The stories were likely broadcast with Korean subtitles.)
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This serial started on '''11 December 1977'''. There was no episode the following week (18 December; there was Boxing until 7.05pm instead) but part two (indicated by a '''(2)''' in the newspaper) aired on Christmas Day at the slightly earlier time of 5.55pm. There was no episode on New Year's Day, 1 January 1978. The final episode of this 4-parter aired on '''15 January 1978''' - indicated by a '''(4)''' in the newspaper.  
  
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Screening [[The Daemons]] before [[Terror of the Autons]] is an odd scheduling decision, since the Master is captured by UNIT in the former, and arrives on Earth for the first time in the latter! Unless the Korean dialogue was radically changed to address this..?
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The following week, '''22 January''', the newspaper said it was episode '''인조인간의 비밀 (5)''', but the next four weeks said '''악령''' parts '''"2"''' (which was listed as having a full half hour timeslot), '''"III", "4" and "5"''', so it's clear that the 22 January billing gave the wrong title, and should have been part one of '''악령''', which translates as "Evil Spirit", or "Spirit of Evil".
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The various synopses that were printed in the next few newspapers contain references to the Keller Machine, Chin Lee, and the Master, so this is [[The Mind of Evil]]. Part 3 on '''5 February''' aired at the later time of 6.55pm.
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The fourth and final serial was '''우주의 식민''', which translates as "Space Colony", "Colony of Space" - or "[[Colony in Space]]". Five of the six episodes had a brief synopsis, and these contain references to the Ultimate Weapon, Dent, the Master and an alien city.
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The 21 episode run (played over a 23 week period) came to an end on '''9 April 1978'''.
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====Fate of the Tapes?====
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Although these four stories were still playing in syndication on various stations around the [[United States]] during 1978, Korea was the last foreign country to screen [[The Mind of Evil]], [[Colony in Space]] and [[The Daemons]] as one-offs. The tapes were likely returned to Time Life or the BBC, or wiped for reuse.
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The original undubbed tapes of [[Terror of the Autons]] were possibly sent to [[Japan]], where the serial screened six months later, in June 1978.
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===[[Paul McGann stories|PAUL McGANN]]?===
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[[File:KoreaMcGann.JPG|right|thumb|300px|"닥터후" - Doctor Who; Kyunghyang Shinmun, 10 Jan 1997]]
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The '''10 January 1997''' issue of the ''Kyunghyang Shinmun'' newspaper had an article about action movies, which included a photograph of Paul McGann (with the caption '''"닥터후"''', which is the correct translation of '''Doctor Who''') and a brief synopsis for the [[TV Movie]], however it did not state that it had screened or was to screen on Korean TV; indeed, there was nothing in the TV listings of that particular issue that appeared to be for the movie.
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If the TV Movie didn't screen, it wasn't until the arrival of the [[NEW SERIES|New Series]] on KBS2 in '''June 2005''' that '''Doctor Who''' was seen again in Korea…
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==Merchandise==
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A long-running monthly comic magazine called "Treasure Island" ([https://namu.wiki/w/%EB%B3%B4%EB%AC%BC%EC%84%AC(%EB%A7%8C%ED%99%94%EC%9E%A1%EC%A7%80) 보물섬]) published by the Yukyoung Foundation, reprinted foreign comics (such as Tintin and film adaptations from Marvel) as well as locally-created series in each 400+ page (!!) issue; the magazine ran from 1982 to 1992. 
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In the '''February and March 1984''' issues there was a short two-part strip based on '''Doctor Who''', written and drawn by the highly-regarded Korean artist, Kim Hyung Bae ([https://namu.wiki/w/%EA%B9%80%ED%98%95%EB%B0%B0 김형배]). It featured a Manga version of the fourth Doctor who travels with a girl called Joy in the TARDIS - which flies like a rocket and has fins!
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Tom Baker's Doctor would have been an unknown entity in South Korea when this comic was published (the short run of Baker "movies" on [[AFRTS]] station '''AFKN''' in South Korea didn't commence until 1986), so it's not clear how Kim Hyung Bae would have known about the series. 
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The first instalment of this unlicensed work was called '''"도망자들"''' '''("Fugitives")''', and sees the Doctor and Joy captured by birdlike aliens who have also time-scooped a Nazi tank and a British pirate ship. The three temporally-displaced groups are forced to battle each other in outer space, with the ultimate winner being allowed to go free.
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Just the idea of Nazi tanks battling pirate ships in space for the entertainment of alien birds is something that could only be in a Manga comic!
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Of note, the small '''Doctor Who''' logo used on the title page of the February 1984 issue was based on the variation that appeared on the Target book range of novelisations. Maybe the books is where Bae got the inspiration from?
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*[http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=mice3nyc&logNo=90029163305&parentCategoryNo=4&viewDate=&currentPage=1&listtype=0 "Fugitives" Part 1]
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|[[File:DW Korea Comic 1.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Title page to part 1 of "Fugitives" by Kim Hyung Bae]]|[[File:DWKoreaComic2.JPG|right|thumb|250px|The Doctor and Joy, and the rocket-like TARDIS]]
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|[[File:DWKoreaComic3.JPG|right|thumb|300px|Nazis vs pirates - in space!]]
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We have no information about the storyline of the second strip that appeared in the March 1984 issue.
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If anyone can shed any more light on these "Treasure Island" comic strips, please drop us a line.
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닥터후+ 보물섬+ 김형배  도 망자들+
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In July 2019, a Korean Role Playing society held an event which included the
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닥터후RPG
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마스터 앤서
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조선왕조실록
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==TV listings==
 
==TV listings==
 
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[[File:KoreanDaleks 2-6-77.JPG|right|thumb|250px|"Mechanical robots…"; Donga-A Ilbo, 2 June 1977]]
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Five months prior to the series' debut on KBS, the Korean paper ''Dong-A Ilbo'' had a feature about "fearing the future", and accompanying this was a photo of two Daleks from the [[Peter Cushing]] movie "Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD". The caption doesn't identify them as Daleks, just as "mechanical robots" from the BBC's "Dr. WHO."
  
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We have viewed the English language newspapers ''Korean Herald'' and ''Korean Times'' for all of 1972 through to all of 1984, and there were no direct listings for '''Doctor Who'''.
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The Korean listings came from online issues of the ''Kyunghyang Shinmun'' and ''Dong-A Ilbo''. All but three of the billings for '''"Dr Hu's Adventure"''' gave the story title, some also had the episode's number sometimes in brackets or as Roman numerals, and on occasion the ''Kyunghyang'' also had a brief synopsis.  
  
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The Wikipedia article says the series aired on KBS at 6.00pm. In the ''Times'', the 6.00 to 7.00pm slot simply said '''"Children's Hour"''' (or sometimes '''"Hours"'''). Oddly, that programme was given the earlier slot of 5.00 to 5.50pm in the ''Herald''! The ''Herald'' also had programmes other than "Children's Hour" listed in that slot for '''18 and 25 December 1977''', while the ''Times'' also identified different programmes for '''13 November 1977''' and '''1 January 1978'''.  
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We also viewed the English language newspaper ''Korean Herald'', but the 6.00 to 7.00pm timeslot simply said '''"Children's Hour"''' (or sometimes '''"Hours"''') without specifying that the first half of that hour was '''Doctor Who'''. (Like the Korean newspaper, the 19 December 1977 and 1 January 1978 papers had alternative programmes listed in the 6pm slot.)
  
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Therefore, it appears that '''Doctor Who''' aired at some point as part of this Children's Hour schedule.
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We also looked at the English ''Korean Times'', but for some odd reason the listings between 5.50pm (News) and 6.25pm - when '''Doctor Who''' was on - were missing. Is that because the programme wasn't in English? 
  
  

Revision as of 22:46, 16 June 2019

The REPUBLIC OF KOREA (aka South Korea) is located in Central Asia.

Profile

Country Number (53) 1977 SECOND WAVE
Region Australasia/Asia
Television commenced 1956
Colour System 1975 NTSC
Population 1977 34.3 million
TV Sets 1977 3.1 million
Language/s Korean Dubbed and Subtitled

Television Stations / Channels

The Republic of Korea began its television service on 12 May 1956. The independent station was sold to the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) in 1961. It transmitted in Seoul (on channel 9); Pusan (ch 9); Taegu (ch 8); Taejon (ch 4); Kwangju (ch 7); Ulsan (ch 5) and Wonju (ch 12).

By the mid-1970s, the country had three other TV stations.

The KBS underwent a major reorganisation in late 1977. As part of this restructure, the channel acquired more foreign programming - it was under this new policy that Doctor Who screened.

In 1986, a run of Tom Baker stories was available on US military bases in South Korea via the American Armed Forces Network channel AFKN – see the separate profile for that station.


DOCTOR WHO IN SOUTH KOREA

South Korea was about the 53rd country to screen Doctor Who, and the eighth in Australasia/Asia (see Selling Doctor Who).

"후박사의모험" - "Dr Hu's Adventure"

Although the series title becomes 닥터 후 in Korean script, for the episodes shown in 1977 and 1978, it was given the new title -


후박사의모험


- which translates as "Dr Hu's Adventure".


BBC Records

BBC sales paperwork indicates that the following six stories were sold and invoiced to "Korea" in this order, but also that the first three were subsequently "cancelled":

While the selection of episodes does seem a bit random, it can't be a coincidence that the six serials offered to Korea were the very ones that were not purchased by the two Canadian stations TVO and CKVU in 1976/77; and the sale to Korea would have been the last prior to the seven-year sales right periods on each expiring.

It's not known why the sale/purchase of the first three stories was "cancelled"; was it KBS or the BBC who did this?

Of note, the same three stories had been purchased by Turkey in late 1977, but then "cancelled" in January 1978 - the same month that Korea purchased them. Did Korea take up the Turkey purchase, but cancel the order for the same or different reasons?

It's not likely to have been an issue with the supply of tapes since NTSC copies of all bar Spearhead from Space were still circulating around the United States at the time, or were still held by the TV station in the nearby Philippines.

In DWM, Korea is identified in the story Archive for BBB, with a sales date of 1977, based on music clearances (this date is incorrect; the music clearances were actually paid in January 1978).

In The Eighties - THE LOST CHAPTERS, records a sale of "(4)" stories to Korea Republic by 10 February 1987; these "(4)" are the four Pertwees.

The Korean equivalent of WIKIPEDIA (from which we had based our earlier version of this profile) says that the serials that aired on KBS were Doctor Who and the Silurians, Terror of the Autons, The Mind of Evil and Colony in Space; three of these are correct, but one of these titles is actually wrong, as we shall explain below.


Stories bought and broadcast

KBS Preview -후박사의모험 ("Dr Hu's Adventure")- "science and history" for children; 31 October 1977
Choi Eung Chan, who dubbed for Jon Pertwee

JON PERTWEE

후박사의모험 - the first episode, 6 November 1977
Korean Herald only listed the series under the generic heading of "Children's Hours" from 6-7pm; this is the first billing, 6 November 1977
<악마의 동굴> (Cave of the Devil): the synopsis roughly translates as "[Dr Hu] stops the excavation and is caught in an icy cold blast"; 13 November 1977
<인조인간의 비밀> (2) (Secret of the Synthetic Humans (2), 25 December 1977

Four stories, 21 episodes (out of order):

JJJ The Daemons 5 악마의 동굴 "Devil Cave" / "Cave of the Devil"
EEE Terror of the Autons 4 인조인간의 비밀 "Secret of the Synthetic Humans"
FFF The Mind of Evil 6 악령 "Evil Spirit" / "Spirit of Evil"
HHH Colony in Space 6 우주의 식민지 "Space Colony" / "Colony in Space"

(The translations of the Korean titles above are our own using online translation.)

Although BBC paperwork doesn't record a sale of Colony in Space to Korea, the serial did screen. With the cancellation of three stories in April, and with the clearances fees already paid for them, rather than issuing KBS with a refund, the BBC would have offered them a replacement; the clearances fees paid out for the cancelled serials therefore likely off-set the full purchase cost for Colony in Space.

Origin of the Tapes?

The programme was likely supplied on video tape in the NTSC format, with English soundtracks.

The tapes were either supplied directly by Time Life, or bicycled in from the Philippines, where the series had concluded its run in September 1976.

The series was dubbed, and the Korean actor who provided the voice for the third Doctor was Choi Eung Chan (최응찬). Also known as Choi Chan Chan, he died only six years later, aged 43.


Transmission

JON PERTWEE

The Monday, 31 October 1977 issue of Kyunghyang Shinmun carried a story about the changes to the television service following the restructure of KBS, and amongst a preview of the forthcoming programmes is a reference to "Dr. Hu's Adventure" (Sunday 6pm), "a science fiction serial designed to give young children an interest in science and history... [made by the] BBC."

"Dr Hu's Adventure" commenced on Sunday, 6 November 1977 at 6pm (the time was always 6.00 to 6.25pm, which indicates no commercials). With the exception of two dates, the series always aired in that timeslot.

The first serial was 악마의 동굴 which best translates as "Devil Cave", or "Cave of the Devil". The Korean Wikipedia says this was Doctor Who and the Silurians -- understandable given the word "cave" in the title -- however the newspaper's synopsis for the second episode refers to the Doctor stopping an "excavation" and mentions an "icy cold blast", both being plot points from The Daemons.

Also, the numbering given to the next set of episodes, plus the two pre-emptions during the run -- reducing the episode count from 23 to 21 -- means this was a 5-parter, and not a 7-parter. The BBC records are therefore correct - the sale of Doctor Who and the Silurians had been cancelled and it therefore did not screen.

Since this is The Daemons and not The Silurians, the "cave" of the title must instead refer to the cavern beneath the church. (On reflection, the "devil" part of the title is a bit obvious!)

The second story was 인조인간의 비밀; which best translates as something along the lines of "Secret of the Synthetic Humans". Although no synopses were given, the BBC Records above says this is Terror of the Autons.

This serial started on 11 December 1977. There was no episode the following week (18 December; there was Boxing until 7.05pm instead) but part two (indicated by a (2) in the newspaper) aired on Christmas Day at the slightly earlier time of 5.55pm. There was no episode on New Year's Day, 1 January 1978. The final episode of this 4-parter aired on 15 January 1978 - indicated by a (4) in the newspaper.

Screening The Daemons before Terror of the Autons is an odd scheduling decision, since the Master is captured by UNIT in the former, and arrives on Earth for the first time in the latter! Unless the Korean dialogue was radically changed to address this..?

The following week, 22 January, the newspaper said it was episode 인조인간의 비밀 (5), but the next four weeks said 악령 parts "2" (which was listed as having a full half hour timeslot), "III", "4" and "5", so it's clear that the 22 January billing gave the wrong title, and should have been part one of 악령, which translates as "Evil Spirit", or "Spirit of Evil".

The various synopses that were printed in the next few newspapers contain references to the Keller Machine, Chin Lee, and the Master, so this is The Mind of Evil. Part 3 on 5 February aired at the later time of 6.55pm.

The fourth and final serial was 우주의 식민, which translates as "Space Colony", "Colony of Space" - or "Colony in Space". Five of the six episodes had a brief synopsis, and these contain references to the Ultimate Weapon, Dent, the Master and an alien city.

The 21 episode run (played over a 23 week period) came to an end on 9 April 1978.

악령 2 (Spirit of Evil 2); part of the synopsis roughly translates as "Dr Hu investigates the Keller machine"; 29 January 1978
In the second 'box', 우주의 식민지 I (Colony in Space I); synopsis roughly translates as "the files on the ultimate judgement weapon are missing", 5 March 1978


Fate of the Tapes?

Although these four stories were still playing in syndication on various stations around the United States during 1978, Korea was the last foreign country to screen The Mind of Evil, Colony in Space and The Daemons as one-offs. The tapes were likely returned to Time Life or the BBC, or wiped for reuse.

The original undubbed tapes of Terror of the Autons were possibly sent to Japan, where the serial screened six months later, in June 1978.


PAUL McGANN?

"닥터후" - Doctor Who; Kyunghyang Shinmun, 10 Jan 1997

The 10 January 1997 issue of the Kyunghyang Shinmun newspaper had an article about action movies, which included a photograph of Paul McGann (with the caption "닥터후", which is the correct translation of Doctor Who) and a brief synopsis for the TV Movie, however it did not state that it had screened or was to screen on Korean TV; indeed, there was nothing in the TV listings of that particular issue that appeared to be for the movie.

If the TV Movie didn't screen, it wasn't until the arrival of the New Series on KBS2 in June 2005 that Doctor Who was seen again in Korea…


Merchandise

A long-running monthly comic magazine called "Treasure Island" (보물섬) published by the Yukyoung Foundation, reprinted foreign comics (such as Tintin and film adaptations from Marvel) as well as locally-created series in each 400+ page (!!) issue; the magazine ran from 1982 to 1992.

In the February and March 1984 issues there was a short two-part strip based on Doctor Who, written and drawn by the highly-regarded Korean artist, Kim Hyung Bae (김형배). It featured a Manga version of the fourth Doctor who travels with a girl called Joy in the TARDIS - which flies like a rocket and has fins!

Tom Baker's Doctor would have been an unknown entity in South Korea when this comic was published (the short run of Baker "movies" on AFRTS station AFKN in South Korea didn't commence until 1986), so it's not clear how Kim Hyung Bae would have known about the series.

The first instalment of this unlicensed work was called "도망자들" ("Fugitives"), and sees the Doctor and Joy captured by birdlike aliens who have also time-scooped a Nazi tank and a British pirate ship. The three temporally-displaced groups are forced to battle each other in outer space, with the ultimate winner being allowed to go free.

Just the idea of Nazi tanks battling pirate ships in space for the entertainment of alien birds is something that could only be in a Manga comic!

Of note, the small Doctor Who logo used on the title page of the February 1984 issue was based on the variation that appeared on the Target book range of novelisations. Maybe the books is where Bae got the inspiration from?

Title page to part 1 of "Fugitives" by Kim Hyung Bae
The Doctor and Joy, and the rocket-like TARDIS
Nazis vs pirates - in space!


We have no information about the storyline of the second strip that appeared in the March 1984 issue.

If anyone can shed any more light on these "Treasure Island" comic strips, please drop us a line.


TV listings

Airdates in Korea (South)
 ← AIRDATES ...... (CLICK ICON TO GO TO TABLE SHOWING EPISODE BREAKDOWN AND AIRDATES - N/S = story title is Not Stated)
"Mechanical robots…"; Donga-A Ilbo, 2 June 1977

Five months prior to the series' debut on KBS, the Korean paper Dong-A Ilbo had a feature about "fearing the future", and accompanying this was a photo of two Daleks from the Peter Cushing movie "Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD". The caption doesn't identify them as Daleks, just as "mechanical robots" from the BBC's "Dr. WHO."

The Korean listings came from online issues of the Kyunghyang Shinmun and Dong-A Ilbo. All but three of the billings for "Dr Hu's Adventure" gave the story title, some also had the episode's number sometimes in brackets or as Roman numerals, and on occasion the Kyunghyang also had a brief synopsis.

We also viewed the English language newspaper Korean Herald, but the 6.00 to 7.00pm timeslot simply said "Children's Hour" (or sometimes "Hours") without specifying that the first half of that hour was Doctor Who. (Like the Korean newspaper, the 19 December 1977 and 1 January 1978 papers had alternative programmes listed in the 6pm slot.)

We also looked at the English Korean Times, but for some odd reason the listings between 5.50pm (News) and 6.25pm - when Doctor Who was on - were missing. Is that because the programme wasn't in English?


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