Music could become harder to hear in South Korean shops.

Music may go off in South Korean shops, coffee stores and streets from 2018.

According to a South Korean new goverment act to toughen protection on intellectual property rights.

Health clubs, pubs and coffee shops in all over the country from August next year would have to pay royalties to play music.

Under the new act that would be declared next week and implemented after a year-long grace period, health clubs, pubs, restaurants, cafes and where background music plays an important role will also have to pay fees for using copyrighted music.

Among large scale commercial sites, shopping malls also would have to pay royalties to play music.

The pricing will differ according to the business scale and type and minimum monthly fee is 4,000 won.

The South Korean new government will come up with an integrated payment option to ease burden on shops.

Copyrighted music has so far imposed royalty payment on karaoke bars and large retailers.

Starbucks Korea announced it will pay fees to keep music on.
But other coffee franchise chain stores will leave the matter up to the shop owners.

Shops in large shopping malls could stop playing music due to the cost.

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