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 Korean Film Archive is an institute having a duty to collect, preserve, and hand over, to our peoples and descendants, the data related to movies such as scenarios, posters, still photos, bibliography, DVD and online videos as well as all movie films shown in our country.
The force of video is more broadening and strengthening by meeting a digital environment changing as fast as it can be said that all media go with digital. As production and demand of video are gradually increasing, the periodical role and duty of our Korean Film Archive are becoming more precious. Its representative examples are to establish movie database for increasing data availability by servicing digitalization of old films and collection of data away from preservation of films in a better technical environment and to start collection of online films including digital cinema archiving projects.
Besides, you can see 290 or more classical movies through homepages and almost 2,000 classical and independent movies from a video data reading room through computer retrieval. Development of restoration projects using a digital technology will be a new essential duty of Korean Film Archive. It is our hope to operate a model Korean Film Archive in the world in a digital era although it is a little late in the analogue era.
Film data are not only a historical value to look back our past but also an important cultural asset having a cultural and educational value affecting our recognition and sense of value. Therefore, recently video legacies of Korean cultural asset class have been excavated in China, Japan, Russia, etc. as well as in Korea. From now on, we want to excavate Korean movie and image legacies more positively by broadening our region.
These all our projects are to inform our peoples, descendants and world peoples of the excellence of Korean video culture and to establish a foundation for creating new culture. Especially, it is important to notify excellence of Korean movie and video culture to the world.
I think that it is the eventual meaning for existence of Korean Film Archive to make a foundation for real ‘Korean Wave’ to investigate Korean tradition and history sincerely, not ‘Korean Wave’ as a fashion, and to make world video culture as well as Korean video culture rich.
Byung-Hoon Lee, Director of Korean Film Archive
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