Cinema of Korea
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The South Korean film has after an initial heyday in the late 50s and 60s from 1990 retrieved in importance and this time drawn worldwide attention. This is known as the New Wave of South Korean film. It originated as a result of competition in the film industry, the training of directors abroad, and novel scripts, younger writers and lesser use of Hollywood clichés.
The influence of the Busan International Film Festival ( BIFF ) and the Jeonju film festivals may in this case be as little underestimated as the awarding of the South Korean Blue Dragon and Grand Bell Awards, which are now considered as the most important awards.
History
After the Korean War, the film industry flourished briefly. After all, Lee Kyu- hwan had in 1955 a very successful remake of Chunhyang - jon.
Under dictator Park Chung -hee government control / censorship was systematically expanded in the sixties, especially with the Film Act of 1963, which put a stop to any trace of putative pro- communism and all obscenities. Only exceptional phenomena such as Im Kwon- taek and Kim Ki -young could be reasonably productive work in this era.
Commercial boom in the nineties
It was only in the nineties it went uphill. The mode of production had changed dramatically and by strong Benchmarketing South Korean films have been increasingly popular. A major contribution provided the chaebols.
1992 was sponsored by Marriage Story by Samsung for the first time by a company from the private sector a movie. This new source of capital elaborate productions could now be financed. There has been much attention used on the scripts, potential target groups were interviewed, etc. In the course of the 90 production was always planned, so that as little risk as possible had to be made and so that they could be aware of the interest of the spectators safe.
With the drama A Star in my Heart 1997, the phenomenon of the Korean wave in China began to be visible. It is considered the starting point of verzeichenbaren phenomenon.
In 1999, with Kang Je - gyus Shiri a commercially successful action film on the market, which was also marketed in the United States.
The comedy My Sassy Girl by Kwak Jae- yong 's 2001 was very successful exported abroad. Also in 2001, bought the American company Miramax the rights to a remake of the successful Korean action comedy My Wife Is a Gangster, reproductive rights for other successful films like Il Mare of Lee Hyun- seung, Oldboy, My Sassy Girl, JSA and the horror film A Tale of Two Sisters by Kim Ji- woon 's 2003 were also bought by Americans.
Artistic success
In addition to the commercial boom in South Korea Korean productions have been awarded at the most important international film festivals. Lee Chang- dong's Oasis movie won the 2002, for example, the Silver Lion in Venice, Oldboy director Park Chan -wook won second place in Cannes, called the Grand Jury Prize.
In February 2004, the not very popular in South Korea, Kim Ki -duk won the award for Best Director at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival for his film Samaria. In 2012, he became the first Korean filmmaker the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for Pieta.
Hong Sang- soo, Lee Myung- se and Jang Sun-woo are also internationally renowned directors of the non-commercial auteur cinema.
Attendances
(As of April, 2013, ordered by number of visitors; sources: Korean Film Council )
In the cinema in 2013 there was in South Korea for the first time more than 200 million moviegoers. The share of domestic film production was 59.1 percent, the second highest share by 63 percent in 2006. Ten films surpassed the 5 - million - viewer mark.