Korea Television and Radio Writers Association

Korea Television and Radio Writers Association (KTRWA, 한국방송작가협회) is the Seoul-based writers' body representing thousands of South Korean scriptwriters, radio writers, documentary writers, translators, and other broadcasting authors. The association traces its roots to 1957 and was formally established in 1988, the same year it opened its Broadcasting Writers Education Center and expanded its role in copyright administration. In practical terms, KTRWA is one of the clearest institutional voices speaking for Korean screenwriters inside the country's broadcast and streaming economy.

Its importance sharpened again in 2026 when a KTRWA representative publicly challenged the Motion Picture Association over why Korean writers are still pushed into buyout contracts instead of receiving residual-style payments as their work keeps generating value on global platforms such as Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, and Viki. That exchange captured the association's real function: not just professional networking, but labor pressure, rights defense, and a more aggressive push to make Korea's screen boom pay creators more fairly.