Cinema Service (Hangul: 시네마서비스) is a South Korean film production and distribution company. They are one of the two largest film distributors in Korea, along with CJ Entertainment.

The company was founded in 1993 by film director Kang Woo-suk as "Kang Woo-suk productions", before taking the name Cinema Service in 1995. It survived during the Asian financial crisis and was in position to take advantage of the popularity boom of Korean cinema, becoming a major player in the East Asian film industry.

In 2000, Cinema Service was which merged with Locus Holdings (later changed Plenus Entertainment).

In 2003, Cinema Service distributed Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

In 2005, the founder Kang Woo-suk relinquished his position at the company, wanting to concentrate more on his personal film projects.^[1] and Plenus Entertainment merged with CJ Entertainment. and Cinema Service became independent of the Plenus Entertainment.

In 2006, Cinema Service was merged with CJ Entertainment.

In 2008, Cinema Service distributed Sex and the City: The Movie and to exit the movie publishing and distribution business. to concentrate movie produced business. Now, all Cinema Service films will now be distributed by CJ Entertainment.

[edit] See also

• Cinema of Korea
• Contemporary culture of South Korea
• Korean wave

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Cinema Service website (Korean)
• Cinema Service website (English)
• Cinema Service at the Internet Movie Database (English)

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