Cleaning up Korea's film history

1:46 AM PDT 10/8/2010 by Park Soo-Mee, AP

Classic films restored as mastering facilities upgraded

SEOUL -- When the World Cinema Foundation offered 80,000 Euros (US$111,456) to the Korean Film Archive to restore Kim Ki-young's 1960s classic “The Housemaid,” one condition was attached: they wanted to remove all the hand-written English subtitles filling one-third of the frame.