According to the October 19, 1897 issue of The Times, "Motion pictures have finally been introduced into Joseon, a country located in the Far East. At the beginning of October 1897, motion pictures were screened for the public in Jingogae, Bukcheon, in a shabby barrack that was borrowed from its Chinese owner for three days. The works screened included short films and actuality films produced by France's Pathe Pictures".[2] There are reports of another showing of a film to the public in 1898 near Namdaemun in Seoul. American traveler and lecturer Burton Holmes was the first to film in Korea as part of his innovative travelogue programs.[3] In addition to displaying his films abroad, he showed them to the Korean royal family in 1899.[4] An announcement in the contemporary newspaper, Hwangseong sinmun, names another early public screening on June 23, 1903. [+]