The Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) has launched video-on-demand (VOD) services that provide subtitles in English, Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese for foreign workers and multi-cultural families in Korea.

A total of 29-hundred TV shows, spanning from entertainment to information programs, will have the embedded subtitles.

The multilingual service provided by KBS has two-way functions, as the viewers can select the subtitle language before viewing and also switch languages while running the programs.

KBS will provide devices that enable this service free of charge to the some one-hundred multicultural centers in the nation to allow multicultural families and foreign workers that lack Internet to access the services at all times.