2002 9

TaiwanA Radical Quarterly in Social Studies

NO.47September 2002.

1958200l*

Anti-domination: South Koreans' Struggle Against

the Global Hollywood

by
Chien-san FENG

Keywords: screen quota, South Korea, film policy, film capital, film workers,

( NSC892412

H004009K9)2001 9 )
:2002 4 8 ;:2002 8 12 .
Received :April 82002in revised formAugust 122002.
:

emailjsfeng@nccu.edu.tw

Hollywood, Taiwan

1960
1990

1980

Abstract
Screen quota was initially put into force by South Korean government in1965
but had not been effective until the mid-1990s, during which time an increasing portion
of the box office goes to films made by Koreans, the latest figure being 49% achieved
in 2001. The success story of this quota policy, moving against the escalating power of
rhetoric of liberalisation and globalisation, awaits an explanation. Hence this paper
analyses mutual constitutive relationship of film worker, film policy and film capital in
South Korea, with a view to providing heuristic experiences to people committed
themselves to destabilizing domination of this global Hollywood.

(screen quota)
(J. Kim1999)

1990
2001 49(< 1>)

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