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The Political Economics of Patriotism: Korean Cinema, Japan and the Case of Hanbando

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Mark Morris
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For Korea's confident and well-capitalized film industry, summer is a season to pull out the stops and offer the South Korean – and increasingly international – audience the most spectacular products it can produce. In the summer of 2006, one such blockbuster was the film Hanbando (‘The Korean Peninsula‘). It was produced by a syndicate of major companies headed by market leader CJ Entertainment and directed by Kang Woo-suk, well-known for genre action films like the Two Cops franchise and the Public Enemy films, and the nationalistic action thriller Silmido. The film was backed by a huge advertising budget and saturation bookings: it occupied 550 screens during the opening week, roughly one out of every three in South Korea. The film seemed destined to be the phenomenon of the summer releases.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 10 , October 2008 , e22
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