SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The “Campaign to Increase the Awareness of the Disabled through Culture” that the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) jointly conducted with Lotte Cultureworks Co., the retail giant Lotte Group’s cinema affiliate, is drawing attention. Some 70 ordinary citizens who visited Lotte Cinema Cheongnyangni Branch in Seoul participated [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The notorious WannaCry ransomware, which has recently haunted computers around the globe, struck a local movie chain, industry watchers said Monday, causing alarm among South Korean companies. Ransomware refers to malware that infects files in a computer until victims pay a certain amount of money to hackers. The latest [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean box offices pulled in record-high profit despite the falling number of local moviegoers last year, a result of higher film ticket prices, data showed Thursday. The data from the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) showed that the total number of cinemagoers last year was 217.02 million, down 0.1 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The existence of a “black list” censoring South Korean artists has been confirmed. Under the Park Geun-hye administration, thousands of artists, including filmmakers and actors, were blacklisted for supporting agendas that went against the opinions of the central government. Condemning the act of censorship and the suppression of freedom [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Multiplex operator CJ CGV’s four dimensional movie theater, “4DX”, has hit the 10-million global viewer mark in the shortest time period this year, its company said Thursday. The feat was achieved by 187 4DX theaters in 32 countries, including South Korea, China, Japan and the U.S., which exceeded the [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – High school students will have more opportunities to experience theater, starting in 2018. The Ministry of Education has announced a draft proposing new curricula for physical education, the arts, music and health education. To increase students’ knowledge in the liberal arts, ‘theater’ was established as a general subject. Before, [...]