what are stats for hfc TV in south korea or japan in 2026

I’m not able to give a reliable 2026 stat dump for “HFC TV” in South Korea or Japan from the information available here, because the search results point to broad cable/HFC market pages rather than a clear, country-level TV statistic set. The closest usable signals are that South Korea’s cable-TV subscriptions kept declining in 2025 and that Japan has a government dataset tracking CATV internet over coaxial/HFC, but neither is a clean 2026 “HFC TV” metric by itself.

What I can say

• In South Korea, paid TV subscriptions were down to 36.22 million at end-June 2025, with cable and satellite falling while IPTV rose slightly.

• A South Korea cable-network market report says the installed base is roughly 8–9 million cable broadband subscribers, reflecting a mature HFC-heavy ecosystem.

• For Japan, the available public source here is a government dataset on CATV internet over coaxial/HFC, but the snippet shown does not expose the 2026 figures directly.

Best interpretation

If by “HFC TV” you mean hybrid fiber-coaxial cable TV or cable broadband tied to TV delivery , the practical takeaway is:

• South Korea: still large in absolute terms, but shrinking on the TV side and shifting toward IPTV.

• Japan: public data exists, but the retrieved snippet is too limited to quote a 2026 stat confidently.

What’s missing

To answer this properly, I’d need one of these:

• total HFC/CATV subscribers.
• cable TV household penetration.
• HFC network coverage or broadband subscriptions.
• a specific operator or market report for South Korea or Japan.

Bottom line

Right now, the safest answer is that South Korea’s HFC/cable TV footprint is declining in 2026 context, while Japan’s public HFC TV stat wasn’t recoverable from the available source snippet.

SORRY, FAILED