43-567: South Korean film production and distribution company This article is about the South Korean film production and distribution company. For other meanings of Showbox , see Showbox (disambiguation) . [REDACTED] You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Korean . (November 2017) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View
86-596: A system of speech levels and honorifics indicative of the formality of any given situation. Modern Korean is written in the Korean script ( 한글 ; Hangeul in South Korea, 조선글 ; Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea), a system developed during the 15th century for that purpose, although it did not become the primary script until the 20th century. The script uses 24 basic letters ( jamo ) and 27 complex letters formed from
129-484: A Korean influence on Khitan. The hypothesis that Korean could be related to Japanese has had some supporters due to some overlap in vocabulary and similar grammatical features that have been elaborated upon by such researchers as Samuel E. Martin and Roy Andrew Miller . Sergei Starostin (1991) found about 25% of potential cognates in the Japanese–Korean 100-word Swadesh list . Some linguists concerned with
172-5505: A Virgin Ghost August 13, 2004 Around the World in 80 Days United States September 17, 2004 Import Distribution Crying Out Love in the Center of the World Japan October 10, 2004 Distribution The Scarlet Letter South Korea October 29, 2004 Provider The Butterfly Effect United States November 12, 2004 Distribution Blade: Trinity December 15, 2004 Import Distribution Shinsukki Blues South Korea December 30, 2004 Provider Television series [ edit ] Year Title Original title Network Associated production Ref. 2020 Itaewon Class 이태원 클라쓰 JTBC Zium Content Itaewon Class Production Partners TBA Dolled Up 대세녀 TBA Notes [ edit ] ^ Release date in South Korea ^ In South Korea References [ edit ] ^ "ShowBox 회사연혁" [ShowBox History]. www.showbox.co.kr . HOME > COMPANY (in Korean). ^ Byun, hee-won (June 10, 2013). " Secretly Greatly Blazes Trail at Box Office by Tapping Teen Audience" . The Chosun Ilbo . Retrieved June 10, 2013 . ^ Yun, Suh-young (June 10, 2013). " Secretly success shows teen power at box office" . The Korea Times . Retrieved June 19, 2013 . ^ Lee, Hyo-won (November 1, 2013). " The Face Reader Shines at South Korea's Dae Jong Film Awards" . The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved November 5, 2013 . ^ "A Hard Day (2014)" . Korean Film Biz Zone . Retrieved June 12, 2015 . ^ Kim, Hee-eun (June 10, 2014). " Detective K team returns to set" . Korea JoongAng Daily . Retrieved December 15, 2014 . ^ Tae, Sang-joon (June 16, 2014). "DETECTIVE K: LABORER'S DAUGHTER to Crankin in June" . Korean Film Biz Zone . Retrieved December 15, 2014 . ^ Lee, Hyo-won (March 25, 2015). "South Korea's Showbox and China's Huayi Bros. Ink Co-Production Deal" . The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved December 4, 2017 . ^ "Hand In Hand With China - Korea-Chinese Co-production Creates Global Demand" . Business Korea . March 26, 2015 . Retrieved December 4, 2017 . ^ [단독] 쇼박스 첫 드라마 '이태원클라쓰'·'대세녀', JTBC에서 본다 ^ 박서준X김다미X유재명 '이태원클라쓰' 캐스팅 확정(공식) v t e Film distributors of South Korea Cinema Service CJ Entertainment Kidari Ent Isu C&E Lotte Cultureworks Myung Films Next Entertainment World Pancinema Plus M Entertainment SK Telecom SM Entertainment SBS Contents Hub Showbox Sidus Pictures Suta Group [REDACTED] Category v t e Television production companies of South Korea AStory Big Hit Entertainment Blossom Entertainment CJ ENM JS Pictures Studio Dragon Culture Depot Hwa&Dam Pictures C-JeS Studios Celltrion Entertainment Channel A Chorokbaem Media Doremi Entertainment DSP Media ESA Kim Jong-hak Production FNC Entertainment Fantagio Gold Medalist Hidden Sequence Huayi Brothers Korea iHQ IOK Media Imagine Asia iWill Media JTBC SLL JYP Entertainment KBS KBS Media KBS N Monster Union Kakao Entertainment Kross Pictures Logos Film Mega Monster Story & Pictures Media Kim Jong-hak Production Lezhin Entertainment Lotte Cultureworks MBC MBC C&;I MBN Naver PlayList Global Webtoon Studio N Next Entertainment World Pan Entertainment SBS SBS Plus Studio S SM Entertainment SM Studios KeyEast Mystic Story SM Culture & Contents SM Life Design Group Samhwa Networks Shinsegae Showbox Signal Entertainment Group Story TV TV Chosun Urban Works Media Victory Contents YG Entertainment Authority control databases [REDACTED] International VIAF National Israel Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Showbox&oldid=1256038257 " Categories : Orion Group subsidiaries Film distributors of South Korea Film production companies of South Korea Television production companies of South Korea Mass media companies established in 1999 South Korean companies established in 1999 Companies based in Seoul International sales agents Hidden categories: CS1 Korean-language sources (ko) Articles with short description Short description
215-477: A core vowel. The IPA symbol ⟨ ◌͈ ⟩ ( U+0348 ◌͈ COMBINING DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE BELOW ) is used to denote the tensed consonants /p͈/, /t͈/, /k͈/, /t͡ɕ͈/, /s͈/ . Its official use in the extensions to the IPA is for "strong" articulation, but is used in the literature for faucalized voice . The Korean consonants also have elements of stiff voice , but it is not yet known how typical this
258-459: A few extinct relatives which—along with the Jeju language (Jejuan) of Jeju Island and Korean itself—form the compact Koreanic language family . Even so, Jejuan and Korean are not mutually intelligible . The linguistic homeland of Korean is suggested to be somewhere in contemporary Manchuria . The hierarchy of the society from which the language originates deeply influences the language, leading to
301-479: A machine-translated version of the Korean article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate , is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Misplaced Pages. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify
344-513: A possible relationship.) Hudson & Robbeets (2020) suggested that there are traces of a pre- Nivkh substratum in Korean. According to the hypothesis, ancestral varieties of Nivkh (also known as Amuric ) were once distributed on the Korean Peninsula before the arrival of Koreanic speakers. Korean syllable structure is (C)(G)V(C), consisting of an optional onset consonant, glide /j, w, ɰ/ and final coda /p, t, k, m, n, ŋ, l/ surrounding
387-2000: A step to unify the brand name. March 2019: Showbox entered the drama production industry. It signed a consignment deal with generalist network JTBC , being the second film company to do so (the first being NEW ). Releases [ edit ] Films [ edit ] See also: Category:Showbox films Click on the 'Show' button to view this table Year Title Production Country Release date Production type Notes 2002 Addicted South Korea October 25, 2002 Live action Distribution Sex Is Zero December 12, 2002 2003 Double Agent January 24, 2003 Garden of Heaven April 4, 2003 Adaptation United States May 5, 2003 Oh Brothers South Korea September 5, 2003 Underworld United States September 26, 2003 Import Distribution Silver Knife South Korea October 24, 2003 Distribution North Korean Guys December 31, 2003 2004 Ice Rain January 16, 2004 Spy Girl January 30, 2004 Provider Taegukgi February 5, 2004 The Human Stain United States March 3, 2004 Import Distribution Dance with Solitude South Korea March 19, 2004 Distribution The Last Wolf April 4, 2004 The Big Swindle April 15, 2004 The President's Barber May 5, 2004 Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior Thailand May 26, 2004 Import Distribution Dead Friend South Korea June 17, 2004 Distribution One Missed Call Japan September 7, 2004 Import Distribution Temptation of Wolves South Korea July 22, 2004 Distribution To Catch
430-430: Is a South Korean film distribution and production company. It is one of the largest film distribution companies in South Korea, founded in 1999. Showbox is the film investment, production and distribution branch of Mediaplex, Inc., entertainment arm of Orion Group . Its main competitors for domestic box office are CJ Entertainment , Lotte Entertainment and Next Entertainment World . Despite having very short history in
473-656: Is an agglutinative language . The Korean language is traditionally considered to have nine parts of speech . Modifiers generally precede the modified words, and in the case of verb modifiers, can be serially appended. The sentence structure or basic form of a Korean sentence is subject–object–verb (SOV), but the verb is the only required and immovable element and word order is highly flexible, as in many other agglutinative languages. Question 가게에 gage-e store- LOC 가셨어요? ga-syeo-sseo-yo go- HON . PAST - CONJ - POL 가게에 가셨어요? gage-e ga-syeo-sseo-yo store-LOC go-HON.PAST-CONJ-POL 'Did [you] go to
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#1732852511834516-511: Is closer to a near-open central vowel ( [ɐ] ), though ⟨a⟩ is still used for tradition. Grammatical morphemes may change shape depending on the preceding sounds. Examples include -eun/-neun ( -은/-는 ) and -i/-ga ( -이/-가 ). Sometimes sounds may be inserted instead. Examples include -eul/-reul ( -을/-를 ), -euro/-ro ( -으로/-로 ), -eseo/-seo ( -에서/-서 ), -ideunji/-deunji ( -이든지/-든지 ) and -iya/-ya ( -이야/-야 ). Some verbs may also change shape morphophonemically. Korean
559-477: Is different from Wikidata Articles needing translation from Korean Misplaced Pages Articles containing Korean-language text Showbox (disambiguation) Showbox is a South Korean film production and distribution company. Showbox may also refer to: Korean language Korean ( South Korean : 한국어 , Hanguk-eo ; North Korean : 조선어 , Chosŏnŏ ) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent. It
602-399: Is mainly reserved for specific circumstances such as newspapers, scholarly papers and disambiguation. Today Hanja is largely unused in everyday life but is still important for historical and linguistic studies. The Korean names for the language are based on the names for Korea used in both South Korea and North Korea. The English word "Korean" is derived from Goryeo , which is thought to be
645-399: Is of faucalized consonants. They are produced with a partially constricted glottis and additional subglottal pressure in addition to tense vocal tract walls, laryngeal lowering, or other expansion of the larynx. /s/ is aspirated [sʰ] and becomes an alveolo-palatal [ɕʰ] before [j] or [i] for most speakers (but see North–South differences in the Korean language ). This occurs with
688-565: Is the national language of both North Korea and South Korea . Beyond Korea, the language is recognized as a minority language in parts of China , namely Jilin , and specifically Yanbian Prefecture , and Changbai County . It is also spoken by Sakhalin Koreans in parts of Sakhalin , the Russian island just north of Japan, and by the Koryo-saram in parts of Central Asia . The language has
731-716: Is well attested in Western Old Japanese and Northern Ryukyuan languages , in Eastern Old Japanese it only occurs in compounds, and it is only present in three dialects of the Southern Ryukyuan language group . Also, the doublet wo meaning "hemp" is attested in Western Old Japanese and Southern Ryukyuan languages. It is thus plausible to assume a borrowed term. (See Classification of the Japonic languages or Comparison of Japanese and Korean for further details on
774-524: The Korean dialects , which are still largely mutually intelligible . The Chinese language , written with Chinese characters and read with Sino-Xenic pronunciations , was first introduced to Korea in the 1st century BC, and remained the medium of formal writing and government until the late 19th century. Korean scholars adapted Chinese characters (known in Korean as Hanja ) to write their own language, creating scripts known as idu , hyangchal , gugyeol , and gakpil. These systems were cumbersome, due to
817-557: The Three Kingdoms of Korea (not the ancient confederacies in the southern Korean Peninsula), while " -eo " and " -mal " mean "language" and "speech", respectively. Korean is also simply referred to as guk-eo , literally "national language". This name is based on the same Han characters ( 國語 "nation" + "language") that are also used in Taiwan and Japan to refer to their respective national languages. In North Korea and China ,
860-422: The highest grossing South Korean film of all time ; selling 13 million tickets. July 2007: Megabox is sold to Macquarie Investment Fund. August 2007: D-War premiers and setting a new record of being (at the time) the highest-budgeted South Korean film of all time; selling 8.42 million tickets. February 2008: The Chaser premiers and sells 5 million tickets. July 2009: Take Off premiers and becomes
903-949: The 16th century for all Korean classes, including uneducated peasants and slaves. By the 17th century, the yangban had exchanged Hangul letters with slaves, which suggests a high literacy rate of Hangul during the Joseon era. In the context of growing Korean nationalism in the 19th century, the Gabo Reform of 1894 abolished the Confucian examinations and decreed that government documents would be issued in Hangul instead of literary Chinese. Some newspapers were published entirely in Hangul, but other publications used Korean mixed script , with Hanja for Sino-Korean vocabulary and Hangul for other elements. North Korea abolished Hanja in writing in 1949, but continues to teach them in schools. Their usage in South Korea
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#1732852511834946-477: The 2nd most attended film of the year in South Korea; selling 8.39 million tickets. February 2010: Secret Reunion premiers and becomes one of the highest grossing Korean films of 2010; selling 5.5 million tickets. January 2011: Detective K: Secret of the Virtuous Widow premiers and becomes the 4th best selling Korean film of 2011; selling 4.78 million tickets. February 2012: Nameless Gangster: Rules of
989-547: The Lost Island premiers and the 9th highest-grossing film of 2015; selling 3.87 million tickets. March 2015: entered into an exclusive partnership with one of the biggest Chinese entertainment companies, Huayi Brothers , and expanding its way to China and a co-produced partnership with the Hollywood genre movie studio Blumhouse . June 2015: Changed the company names from Showbox Mediaplex Co., Inc. to Showbox Co., Ltd. , in
1032-511: The Time premiers and sells 4.71 million thousand tickets. July 2012: The Thieves premiers and becomes (at the time) as the fifth highest-grossing movie in Korean film history; selling 12.9 million tickets. May 2013: Secretly, Greatly premiers and breaks several box office records in South Korea: the highest single day opening for a domestic film, most tickets sold in one day for a domestic film,
1075-469: The basic ones. When first recorded in historical texts, Korean was only a spoken language . Since the turn of the 21st century, aspects of Korean culture have spread to other countries through globalization and cultural exports . As such, interest in Korean language acquisition (as a foreign language ) is also generated by longstanding alliances, military involvement, and diplomacy, such as between South Korea–United States and China–North Korea since
1118-455: The beginnings of words. /l/ becomes alveolar flap [ɾ] between vowels, and [l] or [ɭ] at the end of a syllable or next to another /l/ . A written syllable-final ' ㄹ ', when followed by a vowel or a glide ( i.e. , when the next character starts with ' ㅇ '), migrates to the next syllable and thus becomes [ɾ] . Traditionally, /l/ was disallowed at the beginning of a word. It disappeared before [j] , and otherwise became /n/ . However,
1161-467: The biggest opening weekend, the highest-grossing webtoon-based film, and the fastest movie to reach the million, two million, three million, and four million marks in audience number; selling 4.71 million tickets. September 2013: The Face Reader premiers and became one of the highest-grossing films in South Korea in 2013; selling 9.1 million tickets. May 2014: A Hard Day premiers and sells 3.44 million tickets. February 2015: Detective K: Secret of
1204-705: The end of World War II and the Korean War . Along with other languages such as Chinese and Arabic , Korean is ranked at the top difficulty level for English speakers by the United States Department of Defense . Modern Korean descends from Middle Korean , which in turn descends from Old Korean , which descends from the Proto-Koreanic language , which is generally suggested to have its linguistic homeland somewhere in Manchuria . Whitman (2012) suggests that
1247-400: The fifth most popular film of 2002; selling 4 million tickets. February 2004: Taegukgi premiers and hits a new record of 11.74 million tickets sold. August 2005: Welcome to Dongmakgol premiers and becomes (at the time) as the fourth highest grossing South Korean film of all time; selling 8 million tickets. July 2006: The Host premiers and setting a new record of being (at the time)
1290-399: The first Korean dynasty known to Western nations. Korean people in the former USSR refer to themselves as Koryo-saram or Koryo-in (literally, " Koryo/Goryeo persons"), and call the language Koryo-mal' . Some older English sources also use the spelling "Corea" to refer to the nation, and its inflected form for the language, culture and people, "Korea" becoming more popular in
1333-452: The fundamental disparities between the Korean and Chinese languages, and accessible only to those educated in classical Chinese. Most of the population was illiterate. In the 15th century King Sejong the Great personally developed an alphabetic featural writing system , known today as Hangul , to promote literacy among the common people. Introduced in the document Hunminjeongeum , it
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1376-487: The industry, they managed to have top 6 of 10 blockbusters in Korean box office history, number 1 being 2012's The Thieves . History [ edit ] June 1996: Establishment of Media Flex Co., Ltd. to enter the movie business. November 1999: Establishment of Megabox to enter the movie theater business. January 2002: Establishment of ShowBox brand and start of movie distribution investment. December 2002: Their first film Sex Is Zero premiers and becomes
1419-479: The inflow of western loanwords changed the trend, and now word-initial /l/ (mostly from English loanwords) are pronounced as a free variation of either [ɾ] or [l] . All obstruents (plosives, affricates, fricatives) at the end of a word are pronounced with no audible release , [p̚, t̚, k̚] . Plosive sounds /p, t, k/ become nasals [m, n, ŋ] before nasal sounds. Hangul spelling does not reflect these assimilatory pronunciation rules, but rather maintains
1462-408: The issue between Japanese and Korean, including Alexander Vovin, have argued that the indicated similarities are not due to any genetic relationship , but rather to a sprachbund effect and heavy borrowing, especially from Ancient Korean into Western Old Japanese . A good example might be Middle Korean sàm and Japanese asá , meaning " hemp ". This word seems to be a cognate, but although it
1505-618: The language is most often called Joseon-mal , or more formally, Joseon-o . This is taken from the North Korean name for Korea (Joseon), a name retained from the Joseon dynasty until the proclamation of the Korean Empire , which in turn was annexed by the Empire of Japan . In mainland China , following the establishment of diplomatic relations with South Korea in 1992, the term Cháoxiǎnyǔ or
1548-451: The late 1800s. In South Korea the Korean language is referred to by many names including hanguk-eo ("Korean language"), hanguk-mal ("Korean speech") and uri-mal ("our language"); " hanguk " is taken from the name of the Korean Empire ( 대한제국 ; 大韓帝國 ; Daehan Jeguk ). The " han " ( 韓 ) in Hanguk and Daehan Jeguk is derived from Samhan , in reference to
1591-631: The proto-Koreans, already present in northern Korea, expanded into the southern part of the Korean Peninsula at around 300 BC and coexisted with the descendants of the Japonic Mumun cultivators (or assimilated them). Both had influence on each other and a later founder effect diminished the internal variety of both language families. Since the establishment of two independent governments, North–South differences have developed in standard Korean, including variations in pronunciation and vocabulary chosen. However, these minor differences can be found in any of
1634-660: The short form Cháoyǔ has normally been used to refer to the standard language of North Korea and Yanbian , whereas Hánguóyǔ or the short form Hányǔ is used to refer to the standard language of South Korea. Korean is a member of the Koreanic family along with the Jeju language . Some linguists have included it in the Altaic family, but the core Altaic proposal itself has lost most of its prior support. The Khitan language has several vocabulary items similar to Korean that are not found in other Mongolian or Tungusic languages, suggesting
1677-1416: The template {{Translated|ko|쇼박스}} to the talk page . For more guidance, see Misplaced Pages:Translation . Showbox Entertainment [REDACTED] Showbox logo Native name Korean name Hangul 쇼박스 Revised Romanization Syobakseu McCune–Reischauer Syobaksŭ Formerly Showbox Mediaplex Co., Inc. (쇼박스㈜미디어플렉스) Company type Joint-stock Traded as KRX : 086980 (July 7, 2006) Industry Entertainment, media Predecessor Media Flex Co., Ltd. Founded June 10, 1999 ; 25 years ago ( 1999-06-10 ) in Seoul , South Korea Founder Yoo Jung-hoon Successor Showbox Co., Ltd. Headquarters Nambusunhwan , Gangnam , Seoul , South Korea Area served Worldwide Key people Yoo Jung-hoon (CEO & founder) Services Film distribution Revenue 12,327,000,000 won (2014) Operating income 2,086,000,000 won Net income 20000,000 won Total equity 105,272,000,000 won (2014) Owner Orion Holdings : 57.50% Lee Hwa-kyung: 0.3% Nintendo Group : 4.00% China Media Capital : 25.00% Website www .showbox .co .kr Showbox Co., Ltd. ( Korean : 쇼박스 )
1720-441: The tense fricative and all the affricates as well. At the end of a syllable, /s/ changes to /t/ (example: beoseot ( 버섯 ) 'mushroom'). /h/ may become a bilabial [ɸ] before [o] or [u] , a palatal [ç] before [j] or [i] , a velar [x] before [ɯ] , a voiced [ɦ] between voiced sounds, and a [h] elsewhere. /p, t, t͡ɕ, k/ become voiced [b, d, d͡ʑ, ɡ] between voiced sounds. /m, n/ frequently denasalize at
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1806-464: The underlying, partly historical morphology . Given this, it is sometimes hard to tell which actual phonemes are present in a certain word. The traditional prohibition of word-initial /ɾ/ became a morphological rule called "initial law" ( 두음법칙 ) in the pronunciation standards of South Korea, which pertains to Sino-Korean vocabulary. Such words retain their word-initial /ɾ/ in the pronunciation standards of North Korea. For example, ^NOTE ㅏ
1849-581: Was called eonmun ('colloquial script') and quickly spread nationwide to increase literacy in Korea. The Korean alphabet was denounced by the yangban aristocracy, who looked down upon it too easy to learn. However, it gained widespread use among the common class and was widely used to print popular novels which were enjoyed by the common class. Since few people could understand official documents written in classical Chinese, Korean kings sometimes released public notices entirely written in Hangul as early as
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