Communication Systems

Production communication in South Korea moves through dense, layered settings, from the steel-and-glass canyons of Yeouido and Gangnam to the thick masonry of Joseon-era palaces and the long granite ridgelines of Seoraksan and Jirisan. Our packages start with Motorola digital handsets and a Clear-Com or Riedel intercom backbone, set up for the channel plan your assistant directors actually need.

That setup includes surveillance earpieces for first ADs, director headsets for video village, and IFB feeds for talent, all rolled out as one package. We licence the radio range through MSIT for the length of your shoot and brief the production manager on the channel map. The handsets ship pre-programmed, so they work the moment the first call sheet is read.

Coverage planning matters more in Korea than producers often expect. Repeaters placed around Namsan, Bukhansan, and the broadcast towers of Sangam DMC keep multi-unit teams talking across central Seoul. Long-range units and remote repeaters then carry the signal across the open coast at Yangyang or the volcanic terrain on Jeju.

We survey locations before prep and pre-test antenna spots for historic-site shoots, where venue rules limit permanent fixings. Our crew arrives with charged spares, a runner for battery swaps, and an on-call technician for the whole shoot. The same package scales from a six-person commercial unit in Seongsu-dong to a feature crew of two hundred working across Busan, Daegu, and Jeju on a single frequency map.

Our rental desk stocks the kit deep enough to cover large Korean drama and feature units. Motorola digital handsets, surveillance earpieces, and noise-cancelling headsets sit alongside Clear-Com and Riedel beltpacks, base stations, and IFB transmitters for talent. We carry waterproof units for Han River and Jeju coast work, repeaters for mountain and tunnel coverage, and multi-zone gear for stunt and crowd control. Channel counts and spare ratios are sized to the call sheet, so each department holds the units it needs with backups on the cart.

Korean mains run at 220V and 60Hz, so every charger and base station we ship is set for local power, with adapters for visiting kit. We quote comms packages in Korean Won with the 10 percent VAT itemised, and weekly rates that suit the long schedules drama series run. The MSIT spectrum licence and frequency planning are folded into the booking, and qualifying foreign productions can route comms rental through a KOFIC incentive claim with our team keeping the records in order.