First Korean movie📸

Chunhyang-Jeon is the first Korean movie.

Some name a filming of Chunhyang-Jeon (Korean: 춘향전) in 1921 (released in 1922) as the first Korean feature film. The traditional story, Chunhyang, was to become Korea’s most-filmed story later. It was possibly the first Korean feature film, and was certainly the first Korean sound film, color film and widescreen film.

Cinema came into Korea in the early 20th century under Japanese colonialism. “The Righteous Vengeance,” a mix of film and theater, was widely seen as the very first Korean movie when it came out in 1919. After the Korean War in the 1950s, cinema continued to grow despite the challenges of poverty and state censorship.

According to various stats, Korea has one of the most robust film industries in the world (Film industry ), and when you consider that the other nations that rank among the top of these lists have much bigger populations (revenue potential), budget and longer film history, only thing that’s keeping Korean film industry …

South Korean films enjoyed a “Golden age” during the late 1950s, and 1960s, but by the 1970s had become generally considered to be of low quality. Nonetheless, by 2005 South Korea became a nation that watched more domestic than imported films in theatres due somewhat to laws placing limits on the number of foreign films able to be shown per theatre per year,  but mostly due to the growth of the Korean entertainment industry which quadrupled in size during this period.

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