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LettertoTheArgus
Koreanmoviein2007
I
n the last few years, Korean movies
viewers.Amongthosereleasedinthefirsthalfofthisyear,onlythree
have shown the biggest growth in its
movies,“Voiceofamurderer”,“Miracleon1stStreet,”and“Paradise
development. With the help of Screen
Murdered” were successful by selling more than 200 million tickets
Quotas, they can even thrive when
accordingtothestatisticsoftheKoreanFilmCouncil.
Hollywood blockbusters ambitiously
ComparedtotherecordofSpiderman3,theperformanceofthose
compete in the Korean movie scene for
Korean movies shown this year is unpretentious. Spiderman 3
viewers. In the year 2007, however, the
releasedinMay,2007continuestobreakrecords.
future of the Korean movie industry doesn’t seem so bright. The
Furthermore, while the markets share of Korean to Hollywood
decreasedScreenQuotasandpopularblockbustermoviesthatwaitto
movies was 7:3 between January to April in 2006, but that ratio is
seepintotheKoreanmovieindustrydimtheKoreanmovieindustry’s
now 1:1 in 2007. Korean movies have started losing their strong
chanceofsuccess.
dominanceofitsownmarket.However,itcangetoveritsdifficulties
Korean movies don’t ring a bell in the first half of the year 2007.
and progress for the future. Making diverse kinds of movie and
Decreased Screen Quotas now mean that Korean movies can no
finding its own cultural, the Korean industry can overcome the
longer be assured a place in the Korean cinema market. As for this
difficulty facing decreased Screen Quotas and Hollywood
reason, the amount of money being invested in Korean movies is
blockbusters. Movies that possess a cultural Korean narrative are
getting smaller. Investors see few possibilities to succeed in the
required for Korean films to succeed in an ever-increasingly-
increasingly-competitive movie industry. Hollywood blockbusters
competitiveworldinthemovieindustry.
cast a shadow making Korean movies wither easily in the battle for
YangJung-mo(EIT-06)
Winnerisobvious
M
any people are paying much
cannothelpfacingtheunquestionabledefeat.
specialattentiontohowtoelect
ItisnaturallyprevailedthattheresultofGNPelectionwillbethat
the one candidate of Grand
of the president election. A preliminary match will be a final match
National Party (GNP) the presidential
itself. The government seems not to have the credit from the public
election is drawing close. The coming
due to its poor administration and policies of President. Most of the
president election is growing more popular
people seem to want Roh, who has been leading the government to
becauseofahotissuerelatedtothepossiblecandidates.Thatmustbe
changethegovermentafterthecomingpresidenterection.Itmaybe
becausetherearetwopopularcandidatesinthenon-governmentparty
nowonderthewayofGNPelectionbetweentwopopularcandidates
contrary to the government party which still lacks the unification of
is the most mixed and complicated. The situation in GNP seems to
onecandidate.Agovernmentpartyishavingadifficultyfindingthe
become more interesting than people expected. I just hope that two
propercandidateforthepresidentelection.Therearesomequalified
candidateswillmakeunificationnotwithpersonalattackseachother
candidates for the election in the government party, but all the
butwithwonderfulandcrediblepromises.However,wewillneedto
candidates’popularityisbyfarlowerthanbothcandidatesofthenon-
seeifthepreliminarymatchwillbethefinals.
ShinDong-wook(ELI-02)
government party. If this condition keeps up, the government party
HanGyu-hyun
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