우리나라 스크린쿼터제 변천의 법적 고찰

The screen quota system is a legislated policy that enforces a minimum number of domestic films or their screening days in the theater each year to protect the nation’s films. This system is enforced to prevent foreign film markets from making inroads into the domestic film market. This system started in the United Kingdom in 1927. The other countries enforcing screen quotas include Korea, France, Spain, China, Brazil and Pakistan. The screen quota system has been in force in Korea since 1966. Focused on the number of obligatory screening days, the system is : screening more than 6 Korean films each year and more than 90 screening days each year (1966) screening more than 3 Korean films each year and more than 30 screening days each year (1970) more than 1/3 (121 days) of screening days each year (1973) more than 2/5 (146 days) of screening days each year and reciprocal screening of Korean and foreign films in cities of more than three hundred thousand of population (1985) In Korea, the screen quota system has contributed to the rapid increase in the domestic film market. But for the conclusion of KORUS FTA (U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement), the korean government decided to reduce its screen quotas from 146 days to 73 days in 2006. As a result of KORUS FTA, which was agreed on April 2nd, 2007, the screen quotas in Korea will not be subject to change from the current 73 days. In this situation we need to notice the reciprocal screening system, which was enforced from 1985 to 1996, because we have to pursue the cultural sovereignty as well as the order of global economy. “There is a key in history”