CJ Entertainment is the largest entertainment company in South Korea. They are a branch of CJ Corporation (formerly Cheil Jedang), traditionally a food company. They are perhaps best known for their film distribution and production business. CJ Corporation (KSE: 001041) is a South Korean corporation. ... A Film distributor is an independent company, a subsidiary company or occasionally an individual, which acts as the final agent between a film production company or some intermediary agent, and a film exhibitor, to the end of securing placement of the producers film on the exhibitors screen. ...

During early 1995 Cheil Jedang invested in the upstart film company DreamWorks SKG and in June of the same year, Cheil Jedang established its own entertainment division. The division's title was changed to CJ Entertainment by September the next year, in time for their first film distribution deal with the movie Secrets and Lies. To aid their position in the film distribution industry CJ Entertainment built the first multiplexes of Korea with the first one, CGV KangByun 11, opening in April of 1998. The DreamWorks Boy on the Moon Logo DreamWorks SKG (Spielberg, Katzenberg, Geffen) is a Big Ten studio in the United States of America which develops, produces, and distributes films, music, and television programming. ... Multiplex may mean: Multiplex (comics), a DC Comics character. ...

CJ Entertainment's importance in the Korean film industry grew in 1997-1998 when the nation was caught in the wave of the Asian financial crisis. Many smaller film companies had to close up, leaving the road open for CJ Entertainment to capitalize on the new-found popularity of Korean cinema brought on by the success of Shiri in 1999. The Asian financial crisis was a financial crisis that started in July 1997 in Thailand, and affected currencies, stock markets, and other asset prices of several Asian countries, many part of the East Asian Tigers. ... Since Koreas division into two separate states, South Korea has developed a distinct contemporary culture. ... Shiri (Swiri) is a 1999 Korean film written and directed by Kang Je-gyu. ...

The success of their own films, most notably Joint Security Area that broke the Korean box-office records previously set by Shiri, helped the company grow into one of the two largest film companies in the country along with Kang Woo-suk's Cinema Service. Lately CJ Entertainment has expanded into other fields of entertainment industry, including Internet and Cable TV businesses. Joint Security Area is a South Korean film directed by Park Chan-wook. ... Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (and often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio waves transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional...

External links and references

• CJ Entertainment at 10 by Mark Russell, hollywoodreporter.com, October 3, 2005, retrieved December 15, 2005
• The official website of CJ Entertainment cjent.co.kr (in English)
• The official website of CJ Entertainment cjent.co.kr (in Korean)
• Listing of the films produced or distributed by CJ Entertainment at imdb.com