Busan City has established its status as a global hub city of visual culture with its successful hosting of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), which has now become a very significant annual event and the most influential film festival in Asia. The city has fostered the film and media industry, attempting to make it a major industry of Busan in the future and to give a boost to the local economy.

In particular, Busan Cinema Center, which opened in September 2011, is not only the main venue of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) but also a landmark building of South Korea which is already becoming one of Busan’s tourist attractions.

In addition, Busan has been successfully hosting film related events including the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), Busan International Advertising Festival (BIAF), Busan International Short Film Festival (BISFF), Busan International Kids Film Festival (BlKi), and GSTAR International Gaming Exhibition, and opened marketplaces for international film business like the Asian Film Market (AFM) and Busan Contents Market (BCM) to expand its talent base. Busan is growing into the leading one-stop film industry center in Korea for the investment, planning, production and distribution of films.

With the Busan Cinema Center, various film-related facilities - like the Busan Post-production Facility, Busan Cinema Venture Center, and Busan Culture Contents Complex - are located in the Centum Innovation district. A Film industry complex for film and media public agencies, including the Korean Film Council, and a cinema museum in Nampo-dong, Jung-gu, the historical cradle of Busan’s film-making heritage, are also being built. Therefore, it is expected that Busan’s city brand value as ‘a hub of the Asian film industry’ and as ‘the most prominent cultural city in Korea’ will soon reach its zenith.

Media and film related organizations and facilities

organizations /facilities	Overview	note
Busan Film Commission	- Location : 1392 U1-dong, Haeundae-Gu (inside the yachting center) - Established : Dec. 1999 - Organization : chairman, director, managing director, 5 divisions - Main business : encourage domestic or overseas movies, TV dramas, music videos and commercials to be filmed in Busan, support film-making in Busan - Tel. : 051-720-0301 - Homepage : http://www.bfc.or.kr/eng/
BIFF Organizing Committee	- Location : 1467, U-dong, Haeundae-gu (Busan Cinema Center) - Organization - Committee : Organizing committee, executive committee, etc. - Executives : committee chair, executive members, auditor -Festival office : programmer, secretary-general, director, manager, staff - Tel. : 1688-3010 Homepage : http://www.biff.kr
Busan Cinema Studio	- Location : 1392, U1-dong, Haeundae-gu (Metro line 2 'Busan Museum of Art' station, exit 1) - Facilities : single largest sound stage in the country - Studio A : Opened Nov. 2001, 837㎡ - Studio B : Opened Feb. 2004, 1650㎡ - Tel. : 051-731-6527~8 - Homepage : http://www.bfc.or.kr/eng/sub01/05.php
Busan Cinema Venture Center	- Location : DMZ block 13-4 , Centum City, U 2-dong, Haeundae-gu - Main business : Filming equipment rental, support post-production of independent films, cultivate local professionals of the movie industry, etc. - Tel. : 051-742-6951 - Homepage : http://www.bfc.or.kr/sub02/05_01.php
Busan IT Industry Promotion Agency	- Location : Centum Venture Town, block 13-4, Centum City, U 2-dong, Haeundae-gu - Opening : June 27, 1997 - Main business : Support and foster IT & CT industries, support the foundation of new business in IT & CT industries, run Busan Game Academy, etc. - Tel. : 051-731-6660 - Homepage : http://www.busanit.or.kr
Busan Cinema Center	- Location : 1467, U-dong, Haeundae-gu (inside Centum City) - Size : site area 32,137㎡, total floor space 54,335㎡ (nine stories and one underground level) - Major facilities : theaters (3), convention hall, offices, outdoor theater, auxiliary facilities, etc. - Tel. : 051-780-6010~6 (Fax: 051-780-6019) - Homepage : http://www.dureraum.org/english/Main.html
Busan Post-production Facility	- Location : 1466, U-dong, Haeundae-gu (inside Centum City) - project period : 2005 ~ 2011 - Size : four stories and one underground level, site area 6,611㎡, total floor space 8,236㎡ - Main facilities : Editing, DI, VFX, restoration, offices, auxiliary facilities, etc.	completed construction in Dec. 2008
Busan Cultural Contents Complex	- Location : 1466, U-dong, Haeundae-gu (inside Centum City) - project period : 2008 ~ 2011 - Size : site area 9,918㎡, total floor space 19,809㎡ (9 stories and one underground level) - Major facilities : Corporate Leasing Information Center, co-production center, Human resource development center, etc.	started design of the complex in Dec. 2009
other	- Film studio, Cinema experience museum, etc.