Cinema Service () was a South Korean

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and

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company.

History

The company was founded in 1993 by film director

Kang Woo-suk Kang Woo-suk (born November 10, 1960 in Gyeongsan) is a South Korean film producer and director. He has often been called the most powerful man in Korean cinema, topping Cine21 magazine's list of '50 Most Powerful Men in Korean Cinema' for seven ...

as "Kang Woo-suk Productions", before taking the name Cinema Service in 1995. It survived during the

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and was in position to take advantage of the popularity boom of

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, becoming a major player in the East Asian film industry. In 2000, Cinema Service merged with Locus Holdings (later Plenus Entertainment). In 2005, the founder Kang Woo-suk relinquished his position at the company, wanting to concentrate more on his personal film projects.Twitch - Kang Woo-Suk Talks About '한반도' ('The Korean Peninsula') [Film2.0 Interview]
Plenus Entertainment merged with

CJ Entertainment CJ Entertainment (Hangul: CJ 엔터테인먼트) is a South Korean film production and distribution company under CJ ENM. The company operates as a film production company, film publishing house, investment and exhibition. History During early 1 ...

and Cinema Service became independent of the Plenus Entertainment, and later on merged with

. In 2006, Cinema Service was merged with

. In 2008, Cinema Service exited the movie publishing and distribution business to focus on movie production until 2014. Now, all Cinema Service films are distributed by

. In 2016, the company closed down for unknown reasons.

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* Film distributors of South Korea Mass media companies established in 1993 Mass media companies disestablished in 2016 Film production companies of South Korea Companies based in Seoul {{film-company-stub

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