Why Seoul’s biggest Imax screen pulled ‘The Odyssey’ while it was still selling out

For weeks, Kim Hyun-ah had been refreshing the booking page, waiting for a good seat to open up. The 30-year-old Seoul resident had been hoping since summer to catch Christopher Nolan’s box office sensation “The Odyssey” at CGV Yongsan, the flagship of Korea’s largest multiplex chain and home to Asia’s biggest Imax screen. Korea has no theater that can show the film in 70mm Imax format as the director intended. The Imax screen at Yongsan offers the closest thing to the original presentation, as