KOREA Film Industry:
For more than ten years Korea has been producing distinctive and original movies in great number. A combination of changing laws regarding domestic production and critical shifts in government in the 1980s led to great new opportunities for creative expression, including an extraordinary independent film movement. The arrival of directors such as Hong Sang Soo, Jang Sun Woo, Kim Young Bin and Park Cheol Soo make Korea's place among the world's great national cinemas difficult to deny.
The first Korean made film was exhibited in 1919. …
