Copyright Overseas Promotion Association
Copyright Overseas Promotion Association is the Korean rights-holder coalition better known as COA, built to protect exported entertainment IP once it leaves the domestic market. The group brings together companies across TV, music, film, animation, and digital publishing, then turns that shared leverage into anti-piracy monitoring, international networking, and enforcement strategy.
Its role matters more now that Korean story IP moves globally at scale. In the TuMangaOnline case, COA sat alongside Kakao Entertainment and Naver Webtoon in a coordinated overseas push that ended with Spanish authorities shutting down one of the biggest Spanish-language piracy networks for manga and webtoons.
On HITKULTR, COA is less a consumer-facing media brand than a structural one. It is the kind of industry body that becomes visible when Korean entertainment companies decide piracy, licensing, and copyright enforcement are core export infrastructure instead of back-office cleanup.
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