A K-series costs 200,000+ USD (12 million PHP) per episode. Mind you, PER EPISODE. In the Philippines, 10 million PHP is the budget for 1 week (5 episodes) already. Obviously there's a huge quality difference! MCAI costs higher than the usual Philippine series (so sorry for the ads, we need to make up for it) haha.- Suzette Doctolero
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A Kseries cost 200k+ usd (12M php) per ep. PER EP ha. Sa Pinas, ang 1OM Php ay for 1 week (5 eps) budget na. O e di syempre ang layo talaga ng quality! Ang mcai ay higher ang cost than the usual PHIl series (kaya psensya sa ads, we need makabawi) haha.Source: Suzette Doctolero's Twitter
Note: This was Doctolero's response to Sen. Jinggoy Estrada's proposal to ban K-dramas in the Philippines. Around this time, MCI was getting attention because its production was getting compared to Korean dramas.