diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/karaoketv.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/karaoketv.py
index e3b43ff8d..06daf5a89 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/karaoketv.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/karaoketv.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 from .common import InfoExtractor
-from ..compat import compat_urllib_parse
+from ..compat import compat_urllib_parse_unquote_plus
 from ..utils import (
     js_to_json,
 )
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ def _real_extract(self, url):
         webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
 
         page_video_url = self._og_search_video_url(webpage, video_id)
-        config_json = compat_urllib_parse.unquote_plus(self._search_regex(
+        config_json = compat_urllib_parse_unquote_plus(self._search_regex(
             r'config=(.*)', page_video_url, 'configuration'))
 
         urls_info_json = self._download_json(