"The South Korea Film Renaissance" has recently been published by Wesleyan University Press, in conjunction with the Publication Subsidy Program of the Korea Foundation.

This book, written by Dr. Jinhee Choi, provides both an industrial and an aesthetic account of how the Korean film industry managed into a cultural boom. The author examines the ways in which Korean film production companies, backed by affluent corporations and venture capitalists, concocted a variety of winning production trends, revealing details how a small local cinema became a global powerhouse.

Through close analyses of key films, Choi demonstrates how contemporary Korean cinema portrays issues immediate to its own Korean audiences while incorporating the transnational aesthetics of Hollywood and other national cinemas. ixes include data on box office rankings, numbers of films produced and released, market shares, and film festival showings. 

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