Its main center has several public facilities, including Cinematheque KOFA,[3] Korean Film Museum,[4] and a reference library.

[7] It was established as a Korean film storage center in 1974 in Namsan-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul, and moved to Seocho-dong in 1990.

It was reorganized into a special corporation based on the Motion Picture Promotion Act in 2002.

The archive provides the following services: To coincide with its upcoming 40th anniversary in 2014, KOFA started releasing restored Korean classic and lesser known films on Blu-ray.

The Housemaid, Aimless Bullet and The March of Fools received equal number of votes and they occupy the first place.