On February 7, 2006, my friend and I were on our way to Kyobo Bookstore in Gwanghwamun. We saw a group of people with cameras and our curiosity led us to this scene. Choi Min Sik was on a one-man protest on the issue of screen quota. We learned from the reporters that Jang Dong Gun would do it the next day. However, so many people went and they had to move the protest to the National Assembly.
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Screen quota? I think you should explain what that is
I’ll say screen quota made a bit of sense all the way back in 2006 – available capital and expertise was just nowhere near what it is now.
These days though… I think it’s time to retire it. Korean movie industry is dying in what should be it’s golden age, and it’s ALL quality issue.
It’s possible we’re getting so many crap movies since people involved think there will be some guaranteed level of return on investment no matter how bad they are. I think we’ve seen stuff like this happen before with countries that had ‘state movie’ industries.
Everyone knows CGV bought up all the small theatres to kill small business, invested abroad, failed, raised prices until everyone got sick of paying more for no reason. Add on top of that OTTs like Netflix making a killing and yea, film industry dying is a given. No one goes to the theatres except to watch anime movies once a while. Any actor or director worth a damn works with Netflix. Korean film industry doesn’t need a helping hand it needs to wake up. Lower prices, make actual good movies, work with otts otherwise. All they do is complain when the fault is with CGV and the industry’s own ineptitude.