[NewsPoster]

Apple Music may soon become available to people living in South Korea, with a report claiming the music streaming service negotiated a deal with one of the organizations standing in the way of the service's launch. The Federation of Korean Music Performers, a music copyright association, claims it has entered into an agreement with Apple over royalty fees the company would need to pay in order to stream music in the country.

"We formed a contract with Apple Music to begin the streaming service here," an official from the federation declared to the Korea Herald. "We made agreements on how to pay the copyright fees to the artists." The representative added key terms of the contract could not be publicly revealed.

As with other countries, Apple has to make a number of deals with various organizations before it can start streaming to users. Other organizations it needs to make an agreement with include the Korea Music Copyright Association, the Recording Industry Association of Korea, and with major record labels and distributors such as KT Music, CJ E&M, and LOEN Entertainment, which currently operates the popular music streaming and download service Melon.

Despite the new agreement, it is unclear when Apple Music will go live in South Korea.