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| 제목 | [ NO. 214 Article of Culture ] Covid-19 influence Our culture. |
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Our normal life is far from us because of Covid-19. As of April 31, Korea recorded 10,765 people confirmed, and 247 dead. Due to high degree of social distance and wearing a mask, daily number of confirmed patients has steadily decreased. However, influence of the high degree of social distance, consumption is decreased, and many people avoid using multiple cluster facilities. In this article, talking about the cultural industry. The popular cultural industries in Korea include movies, performances (play, classical, musical, opera, dance), concerts, and exhibitions. And these things are to be seen in multiple cluster facilities, and these things suffer a lot of damage. In the Korea film industry, it has been on a steady growth rise until 2019, the last year market size is 6 trillion won. However, it is expected that the films industry will get big damage due to the Covid19. For example, overseas location and domestic films schedule are being postponed or canceled. Also, many films have been postponed. One of the most popular postponed films is black and white version of Parasite and Mulan which were the scheduled to be released in February.
In the case of multiplex (CGV) 35 multiplexes temporarily closed their operations. The number of visitors to the movie theater dropped to 1.71 million, down from 10 percent a year earlier. The performance market was also hit by the Corona virus. Sales in the 2019 performance industry are estimated at 800 billion won, its growth steadily. However, this year sales volume of the performance industry intake is 8 billion won, decreased from the previous year. It is 1/5(40 billion won) of its sale in January this year. Among them, musical sales were 7.6 billion, and the play were 550 million won, opera were 47 million won, and classical music earned less than 100 million won. In addition, many musical, play, opera performances have been canceled or postponed due to the social distance campaign and recommendation to restrict the use of multiple facilities due to Covid-19. The performances in Korea were canceled due to the virus. In addition, after the performance, the remaining performances were canceled due to the presence of Corona confirmed by the audience. The concerts were also canceled because many people were crowded. Foreign artists are also being canceled or postponed their concerts. And 9 March, 88 exhibitions were confirmed to have been canceled. Like this, many cultural industries are suffering from Covid-19. But several cultures are approaching the public in different way. Various overseas performance is coming to the audience using online. German Philharmonic Orchestra canceled all scheduled abroad performance, but they upload 600 free performance videos on their website. Domestic culture is also coming to the audience in different way. As the Covid-19 situation continues, many films are giving up on the screening in theater and turning to VOD or online streaming service (Netflix, Watcha). Seoul Arts Center and Sejong Center for performing arts met the audiences using online. The Seoul Art Center channel in YouTube is streaming recording of performance. Cheongdae Times Reporter Yoon-Ji Bae Senior Reporter in Division of Culture Affairs |
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| 작성자 | 이민주 (청대언론사) |