Editing Television licence (section)

==Television licences in Asia==
=== Japan ===
In Japan, the annual licence fee ({{langx|ja|受信料}}, ''jushin-ryo'') for terrestrial television broadcasts is [[Japanese yen|¥]]14,205 (about €88.34), and ¥24,740 (about €153.85) for those receiving [[satellite]] broadcasts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pid.nhk.or.jp/jushinryo/multilingual/english/|title=Receiving Fee System|publisher=Nhk.or.jp|access-date=22 December 2016}}</ref> The fee is slightly less if paid by [[direct debit]]. There is a separate licence for monochrome TV, and fees are slightly less in [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]].

The Japanese licence fee pays for the national broadcaster, [[NHK|Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK)]].
Every household in Japan with a television set is required to have a licence, but in 2006 non-payment was described as "epidemic" following a series of scandals involving NHK.<ref name="ryall">Julian Ryall, [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/japan-cracking-down-nhk-license-143223 "Japan Cracking Down On NHK License Fee Nonpayment"], ''The Hollywood Reporter'', 15 November 2006. Retrieved 22 December 2016.</ref> In 2005, it was reported that "there is no fine or any other form of sanction for non-payment".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110611204732/http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article510291.ece "Respect! BBC the role model as NHK tries to beat scandal"], ''The Times'', 4 February 2005</ref> The [[NHK Party]], often called the Anti-NHK Party, was founded in 2013 as a [[Single-issue politics|single-issue political party]] to oppose the license fee, with its only policy being to [[Television encryption|encrypt]] NHK's broadcast signal, meaning [[Conditional access|only those who watch NHK pay for it]].<ref name=":0a">{{Cite web|url=http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201907250055.html|title=After stunning election win, anti-NHK party sets higher goal|newspaper=The Asahi Shimbun|language=en|access-date=2019-07-30|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725162045/http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201907250055.html|archive-date=2019-07-25}}</ref>

=== Pakistan ===
The television licence in [[Pakistan]] is [[Pakistani rupee|Rs]] 420 (about €1.45) per year, collected as a monthly charge on all electricity bills.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=12056|title=AsiaMedia:: PAKISTAN: PTV to earn Rs4bn through licence fee: New collection system|date=15 June 2004|publisher=Asiamedia.ucla.edu|access-date=13 January 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917234340/http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=12056|archive-date=17 September 2011}}</ref> The fee plus advertising revenue fund the [[Pakistan Television Corporation]] (PTV).

=== South Korea ===
In [[South Korea]], the television licence fee ({{langx|ko|수신료 징수제}}) is collected for the [[Korean Broadcasting System]] and the [[Educational Broadcasting System]]. The fee is [[South Korean won|₩]]30,000 per year<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kbs.co.kr/susin/license/license_02.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050414013740/http://www.kbs.co.kr/susin/license/license_02.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 April 2005|title=TV수신료와 수신서비스|publisher=Kbs.co.kr|access-date=13 January 2011}}</ref> (about €20.67), and is bundled with electricity bills. It has stood at this level since 1981, and now makes up less than 40 per cent of KBS's income and less than 8 per cent of EBS's income.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.kbs.co.kr/news/newsview_sub.php?menu=5&key=1004121101|title=Kbs Global|publisher=English.kbs.co.kr|access-date=13 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080629022346/http://english.kbs.co.kr/news/newsview_sub.php?menu=5&key=1004121101|archive-date=29 June 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> Its purpose is to maintain public broadcasting in South Korea, and give public broadcasters the resources to do their best to produce and broadcast public interest programs.