ABOUT THIS BOOK

As shown by the success of Squid Game and Parasite, South Korea’s film industry is producing films and original series for streaming services, film studios, and television stations worldwide. South Korea is now arguably considered one of the few countries outside the United States to have captivated the world’s hearts and minds through pop music, TV dramas, and film. Similarly, the exponential growth in the South Korean film industry has been mirrored by a growing body of industry and film policy forums and academic conferences in both the East and the West.

The South Korean Film Industry is the first detailed scholarly overview of the South Korean film industry. The thirteen chapters discuss topics from short films to popular television series that have engaged global audiences. Contributors explore the major changes in South Korean film making, marketing, and in the international growth and popularity of South Korean films. By bringing together a wide range of academic specialists, The South Korean Film Industry situates the current scholarship on South Korean cinema within the ongoing theoretical debates in contemporary global film studies. This volume will be widely read in undergraduate and graduate classes related to Korean and East Asian studies, cinema and media studies, cultural studies, and communication studies. Moreover, many institutions offer dedicated modules on South Korean cinema, media, and popular culture, for which The South Korean Film Industry will be ideal.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Sangjoon Lee is Associate Professor in the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong.
Dal Yong Jin is Distinguished Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University.
Junhyoung Cho is Senior Researcher of the Korean Film Archive.

REVIEWS

“The book for everyone who wonders how South Korea produced the global entertainment giant that gave us Parasite, Squid Game, and Hellbound: covering policy, political economy, history, infrastructure, labor and global reach, and much more, The South Korean Film Industry is as richly rewarding as the films the industry produces.”— Chris Berry, King’s College London

"The South Korean Film Industry is an insightful and especially timely work that will be of interest to those in Korean film studies, global cinema studies, and media and cultural studies more broadly, as well as to other readers curious about South Korean cinema's rise to global prominence."— Andrea Park, The Journal of Popular Culture

“The South Korean Film Industry is truly an outstanding, much-needed contribution to Korean film studies from an industrial perspective. It brings together diverse views and perspectives on all aspects of the Korean film industry (production, distribution, exhibition) from scholars based in Asia, the United States, and Europe. A must-read for both scholars and fans of South Korean films.”— Hye Seung Chung, author of Cinema under National Reconstruction: State Censorship and South Korea’s Cold War Film Culture

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of Contents

Part 1: History, Policy, and Structure of the Industry

Part 2: Industry Dynamics

The Monkey King

Part 3: Film Cultures

Spring in My Hometown

Part 4: International Territories

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