Cinema of South Korea

Koreans tend to enjoy fictional and cinematic depictions of normal everyday group life. They want to see a mirror and they will sit back and nod at that and I just have to say it doesn't do very much for me. ~ Brian Reynolds Myers

South Korean films have been heavily influenced by such events and forces as the Korea under Japanese rule, the Korean War, government censorship, the business sector, globalization, and the democratization of South Korea. The golden age of South Korean cinema in the mid-20th century produced what are considered two of the best South Korean films of all time.

Quotes

• I just don't particularly enjoy movies about people, in which people are sitting around drinking soju, saying- saying things that you hear every [day]. I mean, when I approach a novel I expect to be brought into contact with somebody special in some way and I find that [South] Koreans tend to enjoy fictional and cinematic depictions of normal everyday group life. They want to see a mirror and they will sit back and nod at that and I just have to say it doesn't do very much for me.
  • Brian Reynolds Myers, as quoted in "North Korea analyst B.R. Myers in Busan" (5 February 2015), by Colin Marshall, Notebook on Cities and Culture

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Cinema of South Korea on Wikipedia