In the United States, we mostly get our foreign films through a filter: the filter of art. The movies of Philippe Garrel, for instance, are far outside the mainstream of contemporary French cinema, but festivals and the efforts of boutique distributors are likely to make you more conscious of his (very excellent) oeuvre than you will be about the “Astérix and Obélix” movies many French families eat up.

Streaming video services are beginning to change that. I spent some time recently looking into the sites DramaFever, Kocowa and Viki, all of which specialize in entertainment from Asia, notably South Korea, and got a hefty sampling of movies, TV dramas and variety shows. (DramaFever and Viki have content from China as well.)

All three sites offer some of their content free with commercials; premium plans, which yield ad-free content, go for $49.99 a year or $4.99 a month on DramaFever and Viki; and 99 cents a day, $6.99 a month, or $69.99 a year for Kocowa, which includes fresh shows a few hours after they are broadcast in South Korea. The movies you can find at these sites are for the most part genuine pop, as in popular, products that aren’t often exported here.

The main draw of DramaFever and Kocowa is South Korean television fare. DramaFever, as its name implies, concentrates on serial dramas, many of them romances that are often like high-end soap operas with eccentric (by Western standards) plots and vivaciously slick production values. They’re strangely addictive. I have more than one acquaintance who has dived into binge-inspiring series like “Boys Over Flowers,” about a female scholarship student at an elite Korean high school who is taken under the wings, sort of, of the academy’s four most privileged male students. (“Boys Over Flowers” is approaching its 10th anniversary, so there are a lot of episodes for the watching.)