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Type of site | Video streaming |
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| Available in | Korean, English, Thai, Spanish, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Indonesian, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Japanese |
| Dissolved | December 31, 2022 |
| Successor(s) | Weverse |
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| URL | Archived official website at the Wayback Machine (archive index) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | August 2015 |
V Live (stylized as VLIVE), sometimes referred to as V App, was a South Korean live video streaming service that allowed celebrities based in the country to broadcast live videos such as live chat sessions with fans, performances, reality shows and award shows on the internet. The service was available for streaming via web browsers on Windows, macOS, and Linux, as well as apps on iOS and Android devices.[1] The company was launched by Naver Corporation in late August 2015,[2] and transferred to Weverse Company on March 2, 2022. It was shut down after merging with Weverse on December 31, 2022.
V Live was a medium in which Korean celebrities could reach a global audience and has allowed non-Korean speaking fans worldwide to intimately interact with their favorite Hallyu idols. There was an online community on V Live for fan translators who created foreign subtitles so that more people could enjoy the content worldwide. Translators were ranked by the number of lines that they have translated.[3] The subtitling process was made user-friendly so that fans did not need any specific technical skills.[4] Contests and events were held to encourage fan-subbing. For example, fan translators in the past had won V coins[5] and video calls with their favorite idols.[6] Because of fan translators, some videos had as many as 17 subtitle options.[7]
V Live had collaborated with RBW Entertainment Vietnam (a subsidiary of the Korean entertainment company) to produce a lot of Vietnamese-based shows. Moreover, V Live launched special mini-concerts called "V Heartbeat" to connect K-pop and V-pop stars. For their opening show they invited Winner to perform in Vietnam.[8]
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- ^ "About V LIVE". Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved March 7, 2018.
- ^ "Naver to launch global streaming app for K-pop". The Korea Herald. July 29, 2015. Archived from the original on July 31, 2015. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
- ^ 홈 :: V LIVE Fansubs. subtitle.vlive.tv (in Korean). Archived from the original on March 26, 2018. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
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- ^ "NOTICE :: V LIVE Fansubs". subtitle.vlive.tv (in Korean). Archived from the original on January 13, 2018. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
- ^ "[V LIVE] Run BTS! 2018 - EP.50". Archived from the original on December 23, 2018. Retrieved April 28, 2018.
- ^ "V Live V Heartbeat Opening Show With WINNER". Archived from the original on October 31, 2018. Retrieved July 8, 2018.