kdrama1-4, Exercise 3: Television and attendance

Model answer:

The Korean-cinema article says attendance fell "over 60 percent" from 1969 to 1979 and cites television as a factor. The television article says the number of sets grew from four million in 1979 to nearly six million over the following decade and stations from 12 to 78; MBC debuted in 1969, TBC in 1964, and KBS in 1961. So the decline in cinema-going and the growth of television overlap in time.

What the articles claim: television was cited as "a factor" in the fall, and the unpopular propaganda "policy films" are also mentioned. What they do not claim: that television alone, or any single cause, explains the fall, and neither article gives a figure linking the two. The connection is a reasonable thing to think about, not a finding in these sources.

Sources: Wikipedia, Cinema of South Korea; Television in South Korea (which carries a "needs more citations" banner).