Kim Gyeong-Hyeong (김경형)

2006/10/23 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

By Kim Hyun

SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea unveiled a US$670 million project for domestic films on Monday, aiming to have one of the world's top five cinema industries by 2011 and resolve issues behind the ongoing renaissance at home.

The five-year plan, designed by the ruling Uri Party and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, came amid growing concern over the polarization of the Korean movie industry, officials said. The success of blockbusters has edged out low-budget art movies in theaters, narrowing the spectrum of movie production.

"Korean movies have been developing to a dazzling stage in recent years, but on the other side of the coin there have been many unaddressed problems", Culture and Tourism Minister Kim Myung-gon said at a press conference in Seoul's Press Center.

South Korea is host of Asia's largest film event, the annual Pusan International Film Festival, the 11th edition of which closed last week. Domestic movies are strong in theaters, with an au...

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There are many movies being produced based on popular comics. Old Boy, which received the Grand Jury Prize at the recent the Cannes International Film Festival, has heated this trend. There are some teen number of movies based on comics in production or in preparation for production.

Daeweon CI recently announced that the company finalized the contract for the movie production of Island by Yang Gyeong-il and Yoon In-wan with Lee's Film.


`Island`
'Island' is staged in a beautiful vacation spot Jeju Island where various native monsters appear the moment of a sunset. In this mystery action comic, a beautiful teacher Weon Mi-ho and a cold-blooded man Bin work together to solve the mysteries.

The comic was originally published serially in the biweekly comic magazine Young Champ, and then was made into a 7-volume paperback. The new concept of combining different genres of action, horror and mystery was welcomed enthusiastically in Korea.

It was exported to 10 foreig...

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