Narrative & Documentary Editing

Here is how this works in practice. Korea's feature and documentary editing community has matured around productions ranging from Bong Joon-ho's Parasite through to the long-form streaming dramas commissioned by Studio Dragon, Tving, Wavve, and Coupang Play. Our edit coordination pairs global productions with narrative editors who have worked inside that environment. Drama experts who know Korean pacing conventions for tvN, JTBC.

Here is the short of it. MBC, with documentary editors with credits across KBS, MBC. The festival-circuit independent scene that has built Korea's reputation in observational and historical filmmaking. We brief editors on script structure, character arcs, and the thematic intent of the project before any footage is touched. We make sure suite-time at facilities in The DMC hub, Mokdong, or Yeouido lines up with the director's shooting schedule.

Here is the breakdown. Narrative editing on scripted features and series is built around defined milestones. Assembly, director's cut, producer's cut, fine cut, picture lock. With structured review sessions that give directors and producers clear points to shape the story. Documentary editing is approached with respect for the source material, careful selection of interview testimony. Seamless integration of archive photography, period footage, and today's location material.

Period documentary projects gain from Korea's deep archive resources at KOFA and KBS. Our editors handle format conversion, restoration coordination, and Ken-Burns photo animation where fitting. Across both narrative and documentary work, editors deliver picture-locked timelines with clean conform handoffs to sound and colour, including ordered EDLs, AAFs. XMLs for downstream teams anywhere in the world.