There is an exciting ongoing battle for OTT video subscribers in South East Asia, intensified by the recent entrance of Netflix into the region, but this week PCCW Media has announced strong growth as its Viu OTT video platform has hit 1.2 million downloads in Hong Kong since it launched six months ago. The free iOS and Android app offers content from Korea, Japan, mainland China, and Taiwan, and in Hong Kong it includes traditional Chinese subtitling within around 4 hours after the show was first broadcast. Viu offers around 10,000 hours of premium Asian VoD content with 4,000 of that being Korean drama and variety shows telecast from SBS, KBS, MBC and CJ E&M. PCCW claims that recent Korean…