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Yessi Pratiwi — March 26, 2008 / 11:22 pm
Korea is the country where the cinema is at the heart and soul of its nation’s culture. Korean film industry has often been at the mercy of political events, from Japanese occupation to civil war to domestic governmental interference.
There are a number of current film journals published including the monthly, Kino, which regularly runs over 200 pages in which can be found a wealth of information about Korean cinema (obviously) and film news from around the world, as well as scholarly articles and close analyses of films.
Historically, Korean cinema has been virtually invisible to the rest of the world, and, to some extent, to its own people. A great many Korean film critics would consider their own cinema of this period to be dominated by Japanese aesthetics.
But, thematically, the filmmakers of Korean cinema’s specialty in representing the national instinct to recover from adverse conditions, and its cinematic specialty of expressing real human emotion deeply and strongly.
Many Korean films reflect how much the Korean people long for reunification and suffer from the division of the peninsula. Many of the films underline feelings, which causes Korean films to be likened to French films. The Korean film industry, however, now produces all genres with widely varying themes.
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