Cineport is a film company founded in 2012 by KIM Yeong-wu, editor and publisher of independent online news outlet GO! Bal News, to produce and distribute the documentary films from investigative journalist LEE Sang-ho. Its first release, <The Truth Shall Not Sink with Sewol> (2014) addressed the accumulation of oversights and ill-advised decisions at various levels of the government during the rescue efforts following the 2013 Korean ferry disaster. Controversy erupted...More

Cineport is a film company founded in 2012 by KIM Yeong-wu, editor and publisher of independent online news outlet GO! Bal News, to produce and distribute the documentary films from investigative journalist LEE Sang-ho. Its first release, <The Truth Shall Not Sink with Sewol> (2014) addressed the accumulation of oversights and ill-advised decisions at various levels of the government during the rescue efforts following the 2013 Korean ferry disaster. Controversy erupted even before the premiere at the Busan International Film Festival, as the Busan mayor tried to get the film removed from the selection and later called for the festival director’s resignation, plunging the festival into a crisis from which it has recovered only recently. Cineport and LEE Sang-ho stirred up the nation again in 2017 with the documentary <Suicide Made>, in which LEE makes the case that late folk singer KIM Kwang-seok’s suicide in 1996 was actually a murder committed by his wife, thus giving credit to a popular rumor that had been hanging aroundLess