SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s performing arts and film scenes, which have been anticipating the return of fans, are on edge as the toughest social distancing in the greater Seoul area against coronavirus infections may affect the recent mood of recovery. The country has reported more than 1,000 daily coronavirus infections for [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean musical scene is rolling up its sleeves to resume onstage shows that have been suspended for nearly two months, as the health authorities eased the two-seat-apart rule starting Monday. Earlier this week, the authorities decided to extend the second-highest social distancing measures in the country’s five-tier [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Pixar’s latest animated film “Soul” has been jazzing up South Korean movie theaters, which have been nearly empty for months due to the resurgence of the novel coronavirus, data showed Monday. Released last Wednesday, “Soul” attracted 303,000 people over the Friday-Sunday period, raising its total admissions to 400,000, according [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The musical theater industry has called for eased social distancing rules at performance venues, citing the difficulty in continuing shows under the government’s current coronavirus restrictions. A group of workers in the industry on Tuesday pleaded with the government to mitigate the virus restrictions that require all members of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of major state-run cultural facilities in Seoul will reopen later this week, the culture ministry said Monday, amid signs of the third wave of the coronavirus slowing down. The ministry said 17 national cultural facilities in Seoul, including museums, art museums and theaters, will accept visitors starting [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of moviegoers nationwide fell more than 20 percent in November as the third wave of mass coronavirus infections swept across the country, data showed Thursday. A total of 3.6 million people went to theaters last month, down 22 percent from 4.63 million tallied in October, according to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — As the latest Netflix original film, “Hillbilly Elegy,” has hit screens of South Korea’s two biggest multiplex chains of CJ CGV and Lotte Cinema, the yearslong conflict between major theaters and the global streaming giant has apparently come to an end amid the COVID-19 pandemic. CGV and Lotte Cinema [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — CGV, South Korea’s largest multiplex chain, said Friday that it will reopen 36 theaters next week that have been shut down for about a month due to business disruptions stemming from the novel coronavirus pandemic. “We will restart operations in a bid to overcome the crisis by revitalizing the [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — In the future, evacuation guidance videos for the disabled will also be provided in movie theaters before the movie starts. In the wake of the revision of the revised enforcement rules, the National Fire Agency (NFA) said Wednesday that movie theaters that have newly opened or undergone renovations with [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — In the aftermath of a precipitous drop in customers due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, movie theaters are coming up with innovative ways to generate revenue. Some theaters are now allowing customers to rent the whole venue to overcome the fallout from the COVID-19 outbreak. CJ CGV, South Korea’s [...]