The book provides an overview of the history of Korean cinema from the first film screenings, the creation of the first film dramas and the organization of the first film studios up to the period of the emergence of an independent national film industry after the liberation of the entire peninsula in 1945. The main stages in the development of Korean cinema as an organic part of the national liberation movement are covered and modern national culture during the tragic period of Japanese occupation for Koreans (1910-1945).

Contents: IntroductionKorea and the powers at the end of the 19th - 20th centuries. Annexation of Korea and the “military rule” of Japan. Guerrilla war of the Justice Army. First March movement of 1919. .Youth and the national liberation movementKorean literature at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century.Korean literature of modern timesEnlightenment in KoreaEducation in KoreaI. The early period of the history of Korean cinema (1903-1922) The first film shows in Korea New Korean theater The first cinemas The first producer and owner of a cinema in Seoul Park Seung-pil Byungsa is more than a performer Film distribution and the film industry in Korea Mastering the cinematic professions The first film director Kim Dosan The emergence of film censorship in Korea II. Silent film period (1923-1934) The first silent film "Wolh's Promise" The first film actress Lee Wolhwa Korean-Japanese cinema The first film production The first professional cinematographer Lee Pil-u Kisaeng - the patroness of the new art The first film studios in Korea Classic film of the silent period "Arirang" Na Ungyu (1926) ) On Ungyu and Yoon Bonchun “Tendentious” and commercial cinema Lee Gyu-hwan and his film “The Masterless Boat” III. Sound film period (1935-1949)First National Film FestivalForcible JapaneseizationOrder No. 1 on Korean cinemaLiberation of Korea in 1945"Long live freedom!"First films of liberated KoreaFirst films of the Republic of Korea