[2] During these two periods, filmmakers were barred from freely expressing their creativity, thoughts, and ideas, some believe these restrictions led to the decline of the film industry in South Korea.
During this period, film censorship was strongly enforced under the military regime by Park Chung Hee and Chun Doo Hwan.
President Park Chung Hee established the Motion Picture Promotion Corporation (MPPC) to support the film industry.
The filmmakers continuously pushed the government to amend their censorship laws in order to promote freedom of expression, but the attempts were futile due to unyielding political influence.
In 1907, the inspector general created the security law, which stated that anything that is performed in public can be regulated and controlled by the government.
After the amendment, Aimless Bullet was pulled from theaters because the state interpreted one line in the movie, "Let's go," to mean "Let's go to the north."
They released him under the condition that he make a film that exposed anti-communist ideals, which is why he made Soldier Without Service Number.
After South Korea opened the Olympics in 1988, it became viable to import the movies about communism and the censorship policies for eroticism were reduced, but not many things did not change.
In September 1996, 10 minutes of the movie Crash directed by David Cronenberg were deleted, which led to great shame at the Busan International Film Festival.
In recent years, sexual scenes have been a major issue that sets filmmakers against the Media Rating Board.
The 2014 film The Interview was banned in South Korea because it depicts criticizing and killing the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
[citation needed] Although it was available in black markets, in 2015, a North Korean defector sent unlicensed copies of the film via a helium balloon into the DMZ.