Guides to Korean live streaming
Korean live streaming has its own platforms, words and habits. These guides explain them in plain English, with figures from our own tracking of 729 women streamers on SOOP and PandaLive, refreshed every 15 minutes.
PandaLive (팬더티비): how to watch Korean streamers
What PandaLive (팬더티비) is, how its rooms and fan grades work, 19+ rooms, and when its hosts go live.
Read the guide →What does KBJ mean?
Where “BJ” comes from, what KBJ means, and the Korean words you will see in stream titles.
Read the guide →SOOP, formerly AfreecaTV: watching Korean streams from abroad
SOOP (formerly AfreecaTV) from abroad: global site, translated titles, 19+ broadcasts and replays.
Read the guide →How these guides are made
The KBJ Radar team writes each guide from the platforms' own pages, which we check before publishing, and from our tracking data. The figures in the “live data” boxes are recalculated every 15 minutes. A few numbers to start with: 524 women streamers tracked on SOOP and 205 on PandaLive, up to 258 of them live at the same moment, and a typical SOOP broadcast lasting about 3½ hours.
Looking for a specific streamer? Every streamer page shows her platform, category, usual hours in Korea time, the broadcasts we logged and her official links. Start from who is live now or pick a platform: SOOP or PandaLive.