Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefCompared with the U.S. or European countries, South Korea’s infection and death toll from COVID-19 was small.
But the disease has had an outsize impact transforming the entertainment industry.Film producers and distributors are currently seeing some light at the end of the tunnel, and are busily repopulating the late summer distribution calendar.
But the virus has hastened the systemic shift to a more digital future.In pre-COVID times, film-mad fans meant Korea had one of the world’s highest per-capita cinema attendance rates and the mid-sized country the world’s fourth-largest box office.
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