Actor Ahn Sung-ki Jung Woo-sung Moon So-ri Gang Dong-Won and other Movies signed the so-called Poster Bong Joon-ho Act, which calls for improvement of the Movie industry structure.
The group conducted the Movies' signatures from 17th to 25th day 12th; as a result, a total of 1325 Movies pArticipated in the signing. Im Kwon-taek Lee Jang-ho, Lee Chang-dong, Jung Young-young Lim Soon-rye, and other Actors such as Gang Dong-Won Ahn Sung-ki Moon Sung-geun Moon So-ri Jung Woo-sung Cho Jin-woong, and others such as producers, writers, unions, critics, professors, policy,
“The three multiplexes of CJ, Lotte and Megabox currently account for 97% of the Korea Theater admission fee sales,” said the Movie Industrial Structural Improvement Legislation Preparatory Meeting. In addition, the three companies are also in the distribution business and are in control of the Korea Movie distribution market. "
“The serious problem is that distributors combined with Theater are taking the lead in unfairly fattening the Theater,” he said, adding, “It is a very different landscape from the early and mid-2000s when director Bong Joon-ho was growing.”
"In 2019, Korea Movie Theater sales reached a record high with three Korean Movies with more than 9 million viewers," he said. "But the average return of 45 commercial Movies calculated only by Theater sales is -21.3%. This is a result of the incompetent investment of distributors and the congestion of the Theater. "
“In the case of a popular Movie last year, it had a whopping 81% of the screen share,” said the group, which was also talking about the screen monopoly issue. On the same day, there were a total of 106 films, and one Movie monopolized 81% of the number of screenings. "
“The top 10 totals of Korea’s Theater sales account for 46 percent of total Theater sales, with only 33 percent in the United States and 36 percent in Japan,” he continued. “We can see how serious screen monopoly is in our country.”
"Through the screen cap, the large Movie should be selected by the audience in proportion to the quality of the Movie, and the equality of opportunity should be guaranteed for the small Movie. “If you cross the barrier of screen monopoly, you can meet a lot more Movie,” he said.
The Movie Industry Structural Improvement Legislation Preparatory Meeting also called for independence and support for Art Movie. “Independence and Art Movie are the mother of Movie,” they said. “The production and screening of Independence and Art Movie should be activated to create a healthy Movie industry ecosystem and expand the audience’s right to enjoy Movie.”
"The opened independence and Art Movie account for 9.5% of the total number of releases, but the audience share is only 0.5%. "If it was the same environment as today, Bong Joon-ho's debut film 'Plandas Dog', which was released in 2000, would not have had the opportunity to produce it, so there may not have been the present Bong Joon-ho." "Through the amendment of the Movie Act, “We need to have it run at least 100 times,” he added.
The meeting will send the wishes of the Movies to each pArty, request the adoption of the pArty, and conduct interviews with representatives, so that these three requirements can be legislated in the 21st National Assembly.