kdrama1-5, Exercise 3: The quota and Chungmuro

Model answer:

The screen quota required cinemas to show domestic films for a minimum number of days. It was first enacted in 1967, and the article says at least 146 days a year was re-enforced; it was later cut "from 146 days to 73" as "a prerequisite for negotiations" with the United States for a free-trade agreement (undated in the article). In February 2006 movie workers held mass rallies in protest. The article says domestic box-office success in the late 1990s was "largely due to screen quota laws". "Largely due to" is a hedge: it says the quota is a big part of the cause, not that it has been proved, and the article gives no evidence for the split between the quota and the quality of the films.

Chungmuro is a 1.75 km avenue in Seoul's Jung District. Since the 1960s it has been known as a street of film people, and although many studios have moved elsewhere, the article says it still symbolises the South Korean film industry and is used as a metonym (a name used for a bigger thing it is associated with) for it.

Sources: Wikipedia, Cinema of South Korea; Chungmuro.