Chinese internet TV company Youku Tudou will debut the first foreign TV series approved by State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) under the new 2015 regulations for streaming foreign TV series and movies. The first episode of the Korean romantic comedy entitled "Hyde, Jekyll, and Me," originally airing on SBS, will be made available on 13 July for all Youku Tudou users, with one new episode made available each day after. On 16 July, paid subscribers will be provided with exclusive full season access and regular users will continue to have one new episode made available every subsequent weekday.
Youku Tudou reports it currently has 185 million unique visitors per month and over 11.5 billion cumulative video views of Korean content for 2014 per internal data. Youku Tudou's subscription service currently offers a wide selection of movies from primarily Hollywood and domestic Chinese studios.
Youku Tudou plans to further enhance its subscription services and add exclusive TV series into the subscription package. These new additions will include TV series from the US, Korea and Hong Kong as well as Youku Tudou's in-house productions.
