Culture Treaty Couldn't Save Korea from Hollywood

Published February 15, 2006

As a negotiation strategy, it wasn't exactly one for the Korean textbooks.

Before free trade talks were officially launched this month between the United States and South Korea, Asia's third largest economy had already caved to U.S. pressure, agreeing to gut a popular policy which has been credited for nurturing Korea's celebrated film industry.

Since the late 1960s, Korean law dictated...