Korea (South)
The REPUBLIC OF KOREA (aka South Korea) is located in Central Asia.
Profile
| Country Number (56?) | 1986 | THIRD WAVE |
| Region | Australasia/Asia | |
| Television commenced | 1956 | |
| Colour System | 1975 | NTSC |
| Population | 1987 | 40.4 million |
| TV Sets | 1987 | 10.1 million (incl 5 million colour) |
| Language/s | Korean | English |
Television Stations / Channels
The Republic of Korea began its television service in 1956. The country has its own publicly owned TV stations
Doctor Who aired on the AMERICAN FORCES KOREA NETWORK (established in South Korea in 1957); the series was part of the line-up on the AFKN Nickelodeon channel, which operated in Seoul (on cable channel 2); Pusan (ch 2); Taegu (ch 12); Taejon (ch 12); Kwangju (ch 13) and Wonju (ch 2).
All programming on AFKN was in English.
DOCTOR WHO IN SOUTH KOREA
South Korea was about the 56th country to screen Doctor Who (see Selling Doctor Who).
BBC Records
In DWM, Korea is identified in the story Archive for BBB, with a date of 1977.
As there were no TV listings found for Doctor Who from 1972 to 1985, we can assume that the 1977 sale was subsequently cancelled.
In The Eighties - THE LOST CHAPTERS, records a sale of "(4)" stories to Korea Republic by 10 February 1987. These sales apply to the (more than four!) Tom Baker stories that aired in 1986.
Stories bought and broadcast
TOM BAKER
37 stories?, equivalent of 156 episodes?:
We can determine that at least these 16 stories did screen:
| 4A | Robot | 4 |
| 4B | The Sontaran Experiment | 2 |
| 4C | The Ark in Space | 4 |
| 4D | Revenge of the Cybermen | 4 |
| 4E | Genesis of the Daleks | 6 |
| 4F | Terror of the Zygons | 4 |
| 4G | Pyramids of Mars | 4 |
| 4H | Planet of Evil | 4 |
| 4J | The Android Invasion | 4 |
| 4K | The Brain of Morbius | 4 |
| 4L | The Seeds of Doom | 6 |
| 4M | The Masque of Mandragora | 4 |
| 4N | The Hand of Fear | 4 |
| 4P | The Deadly Assassin | 4 |
| 4Q | The Face of Evil | 4 |
| 4R | The Robots of Death | 4 |
The following stories are assumed:
| 4S | The Talons of Weng-Chiang | 6 |
| 4V | Horror of Fang Rock | 4 |
| 4T | The Invisible Enemy | 4 |
| 4X | Image of the Fendahl | 4 |
| 4W | The Sun Makers | 4 |
| 4Y | Underworld | 4 |
| 4Z | The Invasion of Time | 6 |
| 5A | The Ribos Operation | 4 |
| 5B | The Pirate Planet | 4 |
| 5C | The Stones of Blood | 4 |
| 5D | The Androids of Tara | 4 |
| 5E | The Power of Kroll | 4 |
| 5F | The Armageddon Factor | 6 |
| 5G | The Creature from the Pit | 4 |
| 5H | City of Death | 4 |
| 5J | Destiny of the Daleks | 4 |
| 5K | Nightmare of Eden | 4 |
| 5L | The Horns of Nimon | 4 |
| 5N | The Leisure Hive | 4 |
| 5Q | Meglos | 4 |
| 5R | Full Circle | 4 |
Transmission
TOM BAKER
Doctor Who screened in omnibus movie format on Saturday mornings, on the Nickelodeon cable channel on AFKN-TV.
The first clear listing for Doctor Who is on 5 April 1986, with a timeslot of 9.45am to 12.00 given for the 6-parter, Genesis of the Daleks. However, all subsequent listings are for 10.20am to 12.00, even for The Seeds of Doom, which is also a 6-parter.
The last clear listing for Doctor Who is on 28 June 1986, with The Robots of Death. All subsequent listings just say Nickelodeon, with the same 10.20 to 12.00 timeslot, so we can only assume that Doctor Who continued airing, and stopped from 29 November, when the billings for "Nickelodeon" stop.
As noted above, The Eighties records a sale of only "(4)" stories, which is clearly inaccurate; there are 37 airdates, which potentially takes the run of stories up to mid-way into Season 18...
Alternatively, some of the 16 identified stories could have been repeated.
There is no clear record that South Korea screened classic Doctor Who again.
TV listings
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We have viewed the English language newspaper Korean Herald for all of 1972 through to all of 1984, and there were no listings for Doctor Who; the Jon Pertwee stories apparently did not air, hence our view that the 1977 sales never proceeded. (Other BBC programmes that did air at that time were I, Claudius and The Goodies.)
The Korea Times, however did contain some listings for the Tom Baker stories in 1986.
The first listing with the 10.20m to 12.00 timeslot headed "Nickelodeon", was on 15 March 1986. Three weeks later, on 5 April, the first billing specifically identifying "Nickelodeon: Dr Who" appears – for Genesis of the Daleks - which supports that the series did indeed start on 15 March.
Listings are inconsistent: they either say "Nickelodeon: Dr Who" with the story title, or they just say "Nickelodeon", albeit with the same timeslot. And for three listings in September and October there are no TV listings for programmes prior to noon.
On 24 May and 31 May 1986, a printing error places both The Android Invasion and The Seeds of Doom in the same listing.
The last "Nickelodeon: Dr Who" listing is on 22 November 1986. Assuming Doctor Who aired on the dates with no listing, then a total of 37 "movies" aired. It is impossible to determine what the other stories to air could have been, but if we assume that there were no repeats, and no stories were skipped, then the final story may have been Full Circle.
