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The term "Cinema of Korea" (or "Korean cinema") encompasses the motion picture industries of North and South Korea. As with all aspects of Korean life during the past century, the film industry has often been at the mercy of political events, from the late Joseon dynasty to the Korean War to domestic governmental interference. While both countries have relatively robust film industries today, only South Korean films have achieved wide international acclaim. North Korean films tend to portray their communist or revolutionary themes. South Korean films enjoyed a "Golden age" during the late 1950s, and 1960s, but by the 1970s had become generally considered to be of low quality. Nonetheless, by 2005 South Korea had become one of few nations to watch more domestic than imported films in theatres〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=7747 )〕 due largely to laws placing limits on the number of foreign films able to be shown per theatre per year. In the theaters, Korean films must be played for 73 days per year since 2006. On cable TV 25% domestic film quota will be reduced to 20% after KOR-US FTA.〔(한미FTA 체결, 영화산업 타격은? ), MBC (Korean)〕 == Early period (until 1926) == According to the October 19, 1897 issue of ''The Times'', "Motion pictures have finally been introduced into Joseon, a country located in the Far East. At the beginning of October 1897, motion pictures were screened for the public in Jingogae, Bukchon, in a shabby barrack that was borrowed from its Chinese owner for three days. The works screened included short films and actuality films produced by France's Pathe Pictures". There are reports of another showing of a film to the public in 1898 near Namdaemun in Seoul. American traveler and lecturer Burton Holmes was the first to film in Korea as part of his travelogue programs. In addition to displaying his films abroad, he showed them to the Korean royal family in 1899. An announcement in the contemporary newspaper, ''Hwangseong sinmun'' (''The Imperial''), names another early public screening on June 23, 1903. Advertised by the Dongdaemun Electric Company, the price for admission to the viewing of scenic photography was 10 ''jeon'' (coin).〔 Korea's first movie theater, Dongdaemun Motion Picture Studio, was opened in 1903.〔 The Dansung-sa Theater opened in Seoul in November 1907. Before the creation of a domestic film industry, films imported from Europe and the United States were shown in Korean theaters. Some of the imported films of the era most popular with Korean audiences were D. W. Griffith's ''Broken Blossoms'' (1919) and ''Way Down East'' (1920), Douglas Fairbanks in ''Robin Hood'' (1922), and Fritz Lang's ''Nibelungen'' films, ''Siegfried'' and ''Kriemhilds Rache'' (both 1924). Not merely a theater-operator, as the first film producer in Korea, Dansung-sa's owner, Pak Sung-pil, took an active part in supporting early Korean cinema. He financed the first Korean domestic film, ''Loyal Revenge'' ((朝鮮語:의리적 구투); ''Uirijeok Gutu''), as well as the first Korean documentary film, ''Scenes of Kyongsong City'' and showed both at his theater on October 27, 1919. ''Uirijeok Guto'' was used as a kino drama, a live theatrical production against the backdrop of film projected on stage. For the next few years, film production in Korea consisted of the kino dramas and documentaries. As with the first showing of a film in Korea, the first feature film produced in Korea also appears to be unclear. Some name a filming of ''Chunhyang-Jeon'' () in 1921 (released in 1922) as the first Korean feature film. The traditional story, ''Chunhyang'', was to become Korea's most-filmed story later. It was possibly the first Korean feature film, and was certainly the first Korean sound film, color film and widescreen film. Im Kwon-taek's 2000 pansori version of Chunhyang brought the number of films based on ''Chunyang'' to 14. Other sources, however, name Yun Baek-nam's ''Ulha ui Mengse'' ("Plighted Love Under the Moon"), released in April, 1923, as the first Korean feature film. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cinema of Korea」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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