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1910?1982 movie theater in South Korea
Umigwan
(
Korean
:
우미관
;
Hanja
:
優美館
) was a historic movie theater in
Gwancheol-dong
,
Jongno District
, Seoul, South Korea. It was established in 1910 or 1911 by a Japanese person, initially under the name
Golden Entertainment Hall
(
高等演藝館
;
黃金演藝館
).
[1]
It received the Umigwan name in December 1912. It was a large two-story brick building with a seating capacity of 1,000.
[1]
The theater saw its heyday in the 1910s, before its competitors the
Chos?n Theater
[
ko
]
and
Dansungsa
became more established. It showed a significant number of silent short films in its first decade.
[1]
It showed the first sound film in Korea in 1928.
[2]
Its influence waned over time, although it remained in operation for even after the end of the
Japanese colonial period
in 1945. It was eventually destroyed during the 1950?1953
Korean War
.
[1]
The theater was reconstructed in 1959, next to the
Whashin Department Store
[
ko
]
. The theater never regained its prestige, and eventually went out of business in 1982.
[1]
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