was rated reservation rate was Yellow Hair. The fact that it received the restricted rate made people watch this movie more than usual. It was rejected in early 1999 before being rated an 18+ rate on its second application, after a sex scene between two women and one man was partially cut and digitally altered. The movie Lies sued the Movie Rating Board for a restricted rating to the Constitutional Court and the Court ruled that the reservation rate was unconstitutional. They changed from the reservation rate to Restricted Rate. It was not any different than reservation rate because the Board made restricted rate movie theaters afterward; they all went bankrupt or shut down. The movies that received an R-rating lost their place to be shown. The movie “I Saw the Devil (2010)” could be shown at the theater only after the deletion of one and half minutes. The 2014 film, The Interview was banned in South Korea because it depicts of criticizing and killing of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Although it was available in black markets, in 2015, a North Korean defector sent unlicensed copies of the film via a helium balloon into the DMZ. References External links A Study on Japanese Film Censorship in Colonial Korea Elements of MPPC Cinema of Korea South Korea South Korea