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Arirang is a Korean folk song old enough that nobody knows who wrote it, and familiar enough that Koreans on both sides of the border treat it as an unofficial anthem. South Korea handed that name to the channel it built for everyone else.
Arirang TV is the country’s English-language broadcaster to the world — music, news, food and travel, all aimed outward rather than at a home audience. It streams free on Malaysia-TV.net.
Built as an Introduction to Korea
The channel is run by the Korea International Broadcasting Foundation, which set it up in the mid-1990s and put it on air in 1997.
Its motto, “Korea for the World, the World for Korea”, is a fair summary of the job. The brief is to carry Korean news, politics, business and culture to viewers abroad, told from a Korean point of view rather than through a visiting correspondent’s notebook.
From its base in Seoul, Arirang now reaches 134 countries and produces content across eight languages, though the channel most people outside Korea watch is the English one.
Where the K-Pop Shows Live
For a good share of the audience, the music programming is the reason the channel goes on at all.
Simply K-Pop is the flagship — a studio performance show that has hosted a long list of groups on the way up, and plenty more after they arrived. Pops in Seoul covers the industry around it: new releases, comebacks, interviews and the chart movement behind them.
If you follow K-pop mainly through short clips online, these shows are a useful correction. Full performances, in order, without an algorithm picking for you.
News from the Peninsula
Arirang’s news output covers South Korean politics and the economy, and it pays close attention to relations with the North — a story that rarely leaves the agenda for long.
The perspective is the whole point. Events on the peninsula get reported at length here, with background that international bulletins usually squeeze into a sentence.
There is solid business coverage too, which matters more than it may sound. Korean shipbuilding, semiconductors, carmakers and entertainment exports all move numbers across Asia, Malaysia included.
Food, Travel and Everyday Korea
Between the music and the news sits a wide run of culture programming — markets and street food, regional travel, traditional crafts, film and drama, and the ordinary business of life in Korean cities.
These are the shows that reward simply leaving the channel on. You pick up a surprising amount of the language, the manners and the food vocabulary without ever sitting down to study any of it.
Always On, Nothing to Pay
The live channel runs on this page around the clock, free, with no account to create and nothing to install.
It plays in a browser on a phone, tablet, laptop or smart TV. There is no schedule to memorise either — open the page, and whatever is going out from Seoul at that moment starts playing.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does “Arirang” actually mean?
It is the name of a traditional Korean folk song, widely treated as an unofficial national anthem. The channel borrowed it.
Is the channel in Korean or English?
English is the language of the channel streaming here. Arirang produces content in eight languages altogether.
Does watching cost anything?
Not a thing. There is no subscription and no sign-up on Malaysia-TV.net.
Who runs Arirang?
The Korea International Broadcasting Foundation, based in Seoul.
Is it all K-pop?
No, although the music shows pull the biggest crowds. News, business, food, travel and culture fill out most of the schedule.
How widely is it available?
The channel reaches 134 countries, and its live stream runs worldwide.
Will it work on a smart TV?
It will. The stream behaves the same on a television as it does on a phone or laptop.
Conclusion
Korea exports a great deal these days — music, drama, food, phones — but most of it reaches us with little context attached. Arirang supplies the context, in English, at no cost.
Leave Malaysia-TV.net open and let it run. Whether you came for the K-pop or stayed for the street food, it is an easy way in.
