Korean Film Council
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| Position of the authority | Film funding | ||
| Consist | since 1973 | ||
| Arose from | Motion Picture Promotion Corporation ( 영화 진흥 공사 ) | ||
| Headquarters | Haeundae-gu , Busan , South Korea | ||
| Coordinates | 35 ° 10 '23.4 " N , 129 ° 7' 39.6" E | ||
| Website | www.kofic.or.kr | ||
The Korean Film Council ( KOFIC ) is the South Korean film funding agency and is under the authority of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism .
The KOFIC manages the South Korean film support fund. While almost half of the fund is financed by the government, 3% of the income from cinema tickets sold also flows into the fund. Originally, the surcharge on cinema tickets was only temporary from 2007 to 2014, but was extended by seven years. KOFIC financially supports independent films , short films and documentaries . In 2014, the conversion amounted to around 52.6 million US dollars . Furthermore, KOFIC supports the international marketing of South Korean film productions and promotes co-productions with foreign film industries. In addition, KOFIC offers incentives for foreign production companies to shoot film scenes in South Korea.
It is comparable to France's Center national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC). One difference is that the CNC also supports the television industry, while KOFIC only supports the film industry.
history
On April 3, 1973 the Motion Picture Promotion Corporation (MPPC) was founded, which was supposed to officially support South Korean films, but was an extended arm of the regime to control the film industry and to operate censorship along the ideals of the government. In 1984 the MPPC founded the KAFA film school . After the democratization of South Korea in the late 1980s, the role of the MPPC also changed. In 1999, under Kim Dae-jung's government, the organization was restructured, which was essentially a re-establishment, and renamed the Korean Film Commission. In 2004 it was renamed the Korean Film Council again to avoid confusion with local film commissions. In 2013 KOFIC relocated to Busan as part of a government program to decentralize public authorities.
Web links
- Official Korean website
- Korean Film Biz Zone - English website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Dal Yong Jin: Transnational Korean Cinema. Cultural Politics, Film Genres, and Digital Technologies . Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick 2020, ISBN 978-1-978807-88-4 , pp. 47 .
- ^ Dal Yong Jin: Transnational Korean Cinema. Cultural Politics, Film Genres, and Digital Technologies . Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick 2020, ISBN 978-1-978807-88-4 , pp. 82 .
- ^ Dal Yong Jin: Transnational Korean Cinema. Cultural Politics, Film Genres, and Digital Technologies . Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick 2020, ISBN 978-1-978807-88-4 , pp. 160 .
- ^ Seung Hyun Park: Korean Cinema after Liberation: Production, Industry, and Regulatory Trend . In: Frances Gateward (Ed.): Seoul Searching: Culture and Identity in Contemporary Korean Cinema . SUNY Press, New York City 2007, ISBN 978-0-7914-7933-9 , pp. 18 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Jinhee Choi: The South Korean Film Renaissance: Local Hitmakers, Global Provocateurs . 1st edition. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown 2010, ISBN 978-0-8195-6986-8 , pp. 30 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Dal Yong Jin: Transnational Korean Cinema. Cultural Politics, Film Genres, and Digital Technologies . Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick 2020, ISBN 978-1-978807-88-4 , pp. 79 .
- ↑ Korean film-related links. In: koreanfilm.org. Retrieved May 14, 2020 (English).
- ↑ About KOFIC. In: Korean Film Biz Zone. KOFIC, accessed on May 14, 2020 .