Shopping

I’m posting a new blog in hopes that most of the members will do what I’m doing by revealing their sources for Korean films that are cheap and legal. I usually by my films over the Internet, with e-bay being the cheapest source for films. But most of the films were bootlegs from fake licensing companies like BANZAI. Most of the DVD’s I got were Chinese version of the Korean Disk. Doing a research paper for a history class I learned that 90% of DVD’s sold in Hong Kong (where most of the DVDs were coming from or people who bought from there), were illegal copies. Which is part of the reason that Hong Kong’s Film Industry is technically bankrupt right now. Later I did another report and found out the film quota in Korea and how the M.P.A.A. (Motion Picture Association of America) forced them to cut their films so now I mainly buy Korean Made disks. Now, I mainly buy form two Internet sources yeasasia.com and asiandb.com. Of the two I would have to say that “yesasia” is the best. Their films are a lot cheaper than “asiandb” and delivery is a lot faster as well.

They also offer deals like buy 3 get one free.The only thing is after some time finding a Korean version of a film can be hard. If you do a search you’re most likely to get the VCD version first and then the Chinese disk. Meaning if you don’t buy it when it’s popular you might not be able to find it later on. That’s where asiandb comes in; they usually have lots of Korean films be them old or new. Rarely they offer versions that even yesasia wouldn’t have like collector editions.

The best example I can give are “The Host” and “200 Pound Beauty” where they offer special collector versions that come with more than one disk and the soundtrack together, yesasia doesn’t. Also they rarely have a display saying films are out of print. Another good aspect is they carry more than just films they have posters and a better selection of music from Korea. The good thing about both is that they also carry Korean versions of films from other countries like Japan but the selection is limited. Check each of them out for yourself, when both fail then I look to e-bay. The only other place I look for films online is cjapan.co.jp.com but only for Japanese products.