KOREAN HORROR FILMS

Korean Horror Films

Korean Horror Films

Introduction

South Korea is currently the best movie boom is facing. Cultural industries as an important industry of the future of an emerging culture of keywords that can be called as increased interest in film and box office success is thought to be moving in the right direction. Therefore the development of film industry in South Korea about the current state of the process and look specifically.

The Korean horror films are some of the best horror films ever made, meaning there are quite a few great Korean scary movies to watch with a date. Compelling analysis of the most important films produced in North and South Korea reveals the cultural and ideological motivations underlying the individual works (Vos, 1977).

Discussion and Analysis

South Korean film industry emerged in the late 1990s, as if from nowhere. National blockbuster American films were competing in their home theaters and went to movie theaters around the world. Copyright by Don Chan Lee movies, Hong San-soo and Kim Ki-Doc (we have known as Kim Ki-Duk) were regularly exposed to European film festivals. Where did all this come from a country where dictatorial regimes in the mid-eighties, the film industry is regulated to death, and after the change of power in the democratic stream of Hollywood cinema has washed away all that was left? It was felt that the South Korean film industry was revived because of quotas and protectionist government policies, but it's not entirely true.

The modern history of film distribution quota system in South Korea began with the dictator Park Chung Hee. In 1963 a special law on the film, designed to regulate the film industry, hire and import of foreign films. In 1966, the law added the mention of quotas - every Korean cinema was obliged to show Korean films at least 90 days a year. Then this quota is not made much sense, because the state is completely controlled the import of films, thereby limiting the competition is much stronger.

In 1973, after Park Chung-hee re-elected to bypass the constitution for a third term, the law of the edited movie again. Quota extended to 121 days, but most importantly - in the film industry to tighten the screws. The right to import foreign films was given only film companies with licenses for which it was necessary to have a camera, state, shooting a number of films per year on topics close to the leadership of the country. It is desirable to have had to have a local award (Seoul, 2007). The number of film companies, thus considerably reduced, and import them to give just one film a year, that is competitive with Hollywood almost not there, and each film company to the buffed area could count on a larger market share. But anyway, after the golden age of Korean film industry sixtieth decade of this state "protection" to the mid-eighties came to a complete breakdown. Helped and dictatorial censorship, but to a greater extent in the quotas ...