영화기업화 정책의 모범 사례로서의 동아수출공사 연구-이우석의 구술 생애사(2020년)를 바탕으로-

Abstract

This research paper aims to examine the light and shade of the Park Chung-hee administration's policy for forming major film-making companies, focusing on Lee Woo-seok, a filmmaker who has continued his film career since he entered the film industry in the late 1950s, and the Dong-A Export Corporation, a film company he founded. In addition, I would like to reconfirm through the case of the Dong-A Export Corporation what kind of policy ultimately the policy for forming major film-making companies, which was pointed out as one of the causes of the decline of Korean films in the 1970s. Coincidentally, the Park Chung-hee administration's Film Law strongly controlled the Korean film industry from the 1960s to the 1990s, when Lee Woo-seok had a full-fledged film career. After taking power through the May 16 coup in 1961, the Park Chung-hee administration controlled all aspects of society and advocated economic growth first. Through the ‘Film Enterprise Policy’, which can be said to be a film industry version of the elite economic growth first policy of the Park Chung-hee administration, the Dong-A Export Corporation was listed on the list of ‘film companies’ representing Korean films with five other foreign film import companies that had capital but no experience in film production. Lee Woo-seok, who had no experience in film production but did not intend to imitate the existing practices of Korean filmmakers, took on the form of a filmmaker in his own way, and in the process, his unintentionally formed appearance as a ‘cultural influencer’ had a significant impact on the formation of Korean film culture. In that sense, Lee Woo-seok's Dong-A Export Corporation, which is the best example of the ‘Film Enterprise Policy’, is not an example of a universal film company, and also it is not an example of a stable operation of the system