With a shrinking market, the funds available for the production of each episode of a series have also shrunk, from NT $ 1 million ten years ago to only NT $ 600,000 today. When one compares this with the production costs of at least NT $ 2 to 3 million per episode for Korean and mainland dramas, it is hardly surprising that the quality of Taiwan's drama serials has continued to go downhill.
市場縮小，連帶每集的製作成本跟著縮水，從十年前的一百萬元新台幣壓縮到了目前的六十萬，和韓劇、大陸劇動輒兩、三百萬元一集的製作費相比，無怪乎台灣連續劇的品質日益低落。