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The woman who single-handedly turned Korea into a global film and TV powerhouse
24.10.2023 - 13:45 / polygon.com / Steven Spielberg
Employing a mix of research, deep reporting, and over 100 full-color data visualizations, Walt Hickey’s new book You Are What You Watch: How Movies and TV Affect Everything explores how movies, TV, and pop culture affect… well, everything, from what we watch to what we buy to how we live. The following is excerpted from the book, which is available now.
Japan and Britain largely invented the contemporary playbook for investment in soft power through cultural exports, finding ways to cement their cultural wants and desires through those exports. Korea followed, and with considerable success.
South Korea has used soft cultural power deftly for years. When South Korean or American films or television shows made their way into North Korea, they were potent motivators for those who found their stories and the degree of affluence and lifestyle so appealing, it inspired them to escape the country.
After the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s, South Korean President Kim Dae-jung loosened the bans on cultural imports from Japan. Later, in 1999, the government allocated $148 million to cultural production after the passage of a law to fund it.
As an industry, Korea’s pop culture business is dominated by one company, CJ Group, operated by founder and de facto queen of all Korean cultural production, Miky Lee, who basically built the film industry in Korea. An heir of the founder of Samsung, Lee has been the longtime patron and champion of Korean film and culture locally and abroad.
CJ, the vehicle that Lee steered to the top of the heap of culture, is an embodiment of Korean industrialization and globalization. CJ Group started out as a sugar- and flour-milling company. Later it moved into food and beverage production, and then Lee Byung-chul founded Samsung, which went on to compose a very substantial chunk of the South Korean economy.
Lee, a granddaughter of Lee Byung-chul, grew up watching American films. By the time she came into her inheritance, she had decided to invest a little money in a company working in the movie business. Around the same time, other Asian companies were already getting their feet wet in Hollywood: Japan’s Sony bought Columbia Pictures, and for a while Matsushita owned Universal, though they eventually sold it to Seagram.
Lee was intrigued by the potential of a company that was being formed by a number of experienced producers attempting something that hadn’t been accomplished since the founding era of film—making a movie studio from scratch. The founders had talent and skill, but needed money. That company ended up being called DreamWorks and, along with David Geffen, Steven Spielberg, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, Miky Lee put up $300 million in exchange for 10.8 percent of the
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