Which Asian Country Has the Biggest Entertainment Industry?

India, by far. It's entertainment industry began during the silent era, and since then, the country's output has been prolific.The Bollywood hindi film industry churns out more than a 1000 films annually. In addition, the regional language industry is equally strong. From gujarati and marathi languages in the west to bangla and assamese in the east;from punjabi and bhojpuri in the north to the southern entertainment industries (tamil, telugu, kannada and malayalam), the reach and popularity of regionally produced films rival bollywood. Constant movement of artistes across different cinematic fora only perpetuates sharing of ideas and know how. 

The biggest bollywood and southern stars are among the highest paid actors and icons in the world. Cinema is religion in the country.

The tv industry is another multi-billion dollar business. Outside the US, the biggest consumer base for american films and tv productions are in india. 

India's huge middle-class of 400 million people, most of whom also speak english, are an imperative for any production house worth the name. 

India is one of only a handful of countries where hollywood hasn't been able to dominate the market simply because the country's domestic industry is based on sound foundations and its output far outnumbers what hollywood produces in a year.

Well, I can't really pick one country, but if I had to pick one I'd say is Korea is currently winning in entertainment industry, Japan used to be the number one, and China presents huge potential.

Korea has shown an amazing growth in pretty much every component of entertainment industry - K-pop, movie, games, K-drama etc. They are not only popular domestically, but also internationally Korean entertainment personnel and products are becoming highly recognized. Many Korean singers/groups have built a huge fan base in East and South Asia, with, of course, Psy leading in North American market. And korean movies have recently won a few international awards and many are being re-maked by Hollywood (Stoker, starring Nicole Kidman, as an example). Also, Korean game industry is multi-billion dollar industry that continues to expand in Asia/North American market. In fact, last year Korean game industry's profit outside of Korea was more than all of Korean media content industry's profit outside of Korea COMBINED. So clearly, South Korean entertainment industry is doing extremely well globally.

But you cannot discount Japan. Purely in terms of marketsize, Japan's ent industry, consisting of J-pop, anime, movie etc, is far bigger than Korea's entertainment industry. But its growth has been somewhat stagnant. 

And China, as is if often the case, also presents a big threat to any industry.. but so far its entertainment industry has been essentially non-existent.. maybe excluding Jackie Chan. But again, its potential is huge. 

Also, you cannot neglect India - its Bollywood market is huge. And considering the fact that its market size the country's population continue to grow, I think India's entertainment industry is comparable to that of China, Japan and Korea.

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