Just had to pass on and help spread this great news from my compatriots at VCinema:
The Korean Film Archive
(KOFA), a Seoul-based organization dedicated to the preservation and
archiving of its country’s films, has made available seventy classic
films from the ’50s to the ’90s on YouTube for free viewing now. This
news was first reported on Twitter several months ago by Darcy Paquet of
koreanfilm.org (itself a cleearinghouse for Korean film writing in
English) and it’s a pleasant surprise that the project has already come
to fruition.
What’s exciting is that these aren’t umpteenth generation VHS copies
chopped into multiple parts without subtitles; they are well-preserved
and rendered (several are HD) full length films with subtitles optional
with YouTube’s closed captioning and interactive transcript features.
One drawback I’ve found is that KOFA did not allow viewing of these
films on devices of any sort, including handhelds (iPods, iPhones) or
set-top boxes, so you will be confined to your computer desk or will
have to hook your computer to your TV. However, all of that is worth
the chance to see the exciting range of obscure and extremely rare
titles that they’ve put up: Kim Ki-young’s Woman of Fire (1971), Im Kwon-taek’s Sopyeonje (1993), Kang Dae-jin’s A Coachman (1961) and many, many more. Simply put, to paraphrase my friend John, this is Korean film history in a single package.
Head on over to KOFA’s YouTube channel and get started watching!
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