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V Live (stylized as VLIVE), sometimes referred to as V App, was a South Korean live video streaming service that allowed celebrities based in the country to broadcast live videos such as live chat sessions with fans, performances, reality shows and award shows on the internet. The service was available for streaming via web browsers on Windows, macOS, and Linux, as well as apps on iOS and Android devices. The company was launched by Naver Corporation in late August 2015, and transferred to Weverse Company on March 2, 2022. It was shut down after merging with Weverse on December 31, 2022.

V Live was a medium in which Korean celebrities could reach a global audience and has allowed non-Korean speaking fans worldwide to intimately interact with their favorite Hallyu idols. There was an online community on V Live for fan translators who created foreign subtitles so that more people could enjoy the content worldwide. Translators were ranked by the number of lines that they have translated. The subtitling process was made user-friendly so that fans did not need any specific technical skills. Contests and events were held to encourage fan-subbing. For example, fan translators in the past had won V coins and video calls with their favorite idols. Because of fan translators, some videos had as many as 17 subtitle options.

V Live had collaborated with RBW Entertainment Vietnam (a subsidiary of the Korean entertainment company) to produce a lot of Vietnamese-based shows. Moreover, V Live launched special mini-concerts called "V Heartbeat" to connect K-pop and V-pop stars. For their opening show they invited Winner to perform in Vietnam.

In 2007, Naver Corporation launched its video platform channel, but availability was highly restricted and unavailable in many countries.

In early August 2015, Naver Corporation released the live streaming app, V Live. The application was originally available only on the Google Play Store for Android, but later launched on App Store for iOS. The app was aimed at reaching international fan bases, particularly those in Japan, China, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. Therefore, there were no region restrictions and the website had a variety of language options, such as English, Chinese and Japanese.

V Live provided beta service on August 1, 2015, and the official service started on September 1, 2015.

V Live released the full Android version on September 2, 2015, and the full iOS version was released in mid-September 2015.

According to Sensor Tower, the application had 200,000 downloads and earned $600,000 in Aug 2017; by May 2018, the V Live app had over 1 million downloads on the Google Play Store and iTunes.

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