There doesn’t seem to be room anymore for un-commercial films, perhaps?
Kim Hee-Jeon: That’s true. It is now difficult for the young rookies because, I think I talked about how in 2006 we had more than 110 films made in Korea, which is a lot. It became a kind of a competition to get the next big director, so, all of the financing companies, like us and Showbox, would fight for this new director, so it was relatively easy for the debutant to make a film. But the problem was, since there were so many of these less developed works, they didn’t stay long in theatres, sometimes only 4 days, and then the films just disappear, so this caused a lot of lost money for many companies. This then reduced the number of films that we felt we could finance. So the production companies suffered, but at the same time we cannot just afford to finance independent films (which we had done in the past) like Host and Guest and The Peter Pan Formula, films that would be in the Berlinale, Forum section. But, although we feel the responsibility to nurture young directors, we can no
