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The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) will bring its Seoul stay to an end and move into its new office in Centum City in Busan on October 25th. Its move to Busan has been prepared in accordance with the Special Act on Balanced Development of the Nation of the Korean Government since 2005.

KOFIC will temporally use the 13th and 14th floors in the Centum Industry-Academy Campus. Its new headquarters building will be built in Centum City by 2015. The building will be located near the Busan Cinema Center in Haeundae-gu of Busan. Its building site will be spread over 6,235 square meters and its total floor space will reach 21,668 square meters. The 12-story building with two basement floors is currently on the drawing boards. The building will be home to KOFIC and the Korean Film Academy. Accordingly, Centum City will cement its position as the mecca of Korea’s film industry.

Moreover, KOFIC will build the Busan Cinema Studio, a global base for Korean films in Gijang-gun in Busan. A need for a 6,700 square-meter studio and a post-production base has been emerging as the size of Korean film projects expands and many foreign filmmakers sound out locations in Korea. The Global Studio, to be built in the Busan Cinema Studio, will be Korea’s biggest with state-of–the-art filming facilities. Six Global Studio buildings, outdoor sets and production support facilities such as a dressing room, an art room, a prop room and cinema experience facilities will be completed by 2015 while a theme park and culture and sports facilities will be built through the inducement of private capital after 2016.

To this end, KOFIC and Busan City have agreed to secure project funds through close deliberations for the construction of the Busan Cinema Studio and advanced Global Studio. Both have also seen eye to eye to pull together in mapping out a master plan for designing, purchasing of the building site and construction work in order to complete them on schedule.

 

“Three visual organizations including KOFIC will move into the Centum District in Busan according to the government’s plan to move public organizations to non-Seoul areas for the balanced growth of the country,” said KIM Eui-suk, chairman of the Korean Film Council. “We will steadfastly play our role in creating a new visual culture space in the city and transforming Busan into the central movie destination of the world by closely cooperating with the Busan International Film Festival, the Busan Film Commission and the Busan Cinema Center.”

 

By Woody KIM