They are pursuing a mediocre strategy bringing a more mediocre result. Maybe that is the reason why the South Korean movie industry is not flourishing.
The same phenomenon appears in the music and entertainment industry in general where the middle-aged talents are kept away from prime time TV shows. I have lived in France, Spain, and USA and I can assure you that in those countries middle aged talented people are always running the show.
South Korean entertainment industry needs to redirect it focus to more mature audience and not to try to satisfy an ever changing taste of their ghost target market: primary, middle or high school students.
By judging from the success, even in Korea, of the following middle aged world famous actors, the problem facing the South Korean cinema industry (including the TV industry) may then be a lack of good scenarios appropriate to middle-aged South Korean actors.
| actor | age | recent or upcoming movie | |||||
| angelina jolie | 47 | the tourist (2010) | |||||
| antonio banderas | 52 | haywire (2012) | |||||
| ben affleck | 40 | argo (2012) | |||||
| brad pitt | 49 | world war z (2012) | |||||
| bruce willis | 57 | gi joe: retaliation (2012) | |||||
| clive owen | 48 | shadow dancer (2012) | |||||
| daniel craig | 44 | james bond: skyfall (2012) | |||||
| david caruso | 57 | csi miami | |||||
| demi moore | 51 | lol (2012) | |||||
| denzel washington | 58 | safehouse (2012) | |||||
| dustin hoffman | 75 | luck (tv series) | |||||
| gary sinise | 57 | csi ny | |||||
| georges clooney | 51 | gravity (2012) | |||||
| harrison ford | 70 | fender's game (2013) | |||||
| hugh jackman | 44 | real steel (2011) | |||||
| jason statham | 45 | the expendables 2 (2012) | |||||
| jessika parker | 47 | I don't know how she does it (2012) | |||||
| jim carrey | 50 | burt wonderstone (2012) | |||||
| john travolta | 58 | the expendables 2 (2012) | |||||
| johnny depp | 49 | dark shadows (2012) | |||||
| julia roberts | 45 | mirror mirror (2012) | |||||
| keanu reeves | 48 | 47 ronin (2012) | |||||
| kevin spacey | 53 | inseparable (2012) | |||||
| leonardo di caprio | 38 | the great gatsby (2012) | |||||
| liam neeson | 60 | the grey (2012) | |||||
| matt damon | 42 | elysium (2013) | |||||
| meryl streep | 63 | the iron lady (2012) | |||||
| michael douglas | 68 | haywire (2012) | |||||
| morgan freeman | 75 | the true confession of charlotte doyle (2012) | |||||
| nicolas cage | 48 | the frozen ground (20120 | |||||
| nicole kidman | 45 | stoker (2012) | |||||
| paul walker | 39 | fast five (2011) | |||||
| richard gere | 63 | arbitrage (2012) | |||||
| robert de niro | 69 | freelancers (2012) | |||||
| robert downer jr. | 47 | the avengers (2012) | |||||
| robert redford | 76 | the company you keep (2012) | |||||
| russell crowe | 48 | man of steel (2013) | |||||
| samuel jackson | 64 | lie down with darkness (2012) | |||||
| shia labeouf | 26 | the wettest county (2012) | |||||
| sylvester stallone | 66 | the expendables 2 (2012) | |||||
| tom cruise | 50 | mission impossible: the ghost protocol (2011) | |||||
| tom hanks | 56 | cloud atlas (2012) | |||||
| william petersen | 61 | csi las vegas | |||||
| willy smith | 44 | after earth (2013) | |||||
| average age | 53 | ||||||
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