After spending a few weeks on the backburner, the local business made a recovery this past weekend but was still playing second fiddle with a 32% share of the market as a dominant foreign tentpole kept its hold on the top of the charts. Overall admissions dipped 20% down to 870,000 over the frame.Topping the charts for the fourth straight weekend was the Marvel smash Spider-Man: No Way Home which ...

The Korean box office closed the book on another troubled pandemic year filled with mixed returns as the country grappled with different waves of COVID infections and varying levels of social distancing restrictions. Yet despite COVID cases hitting new peaks toward the end of the year, theaters drummed up a strong business in December, largely thanks to the biggest hit of the pandemic to date.2022...

Sales at the Korean box office remained strong going into the Christmas holiday weekend, following the record pandemic crowds a week earlier. The business was down slightly to 1.77 million sales, but with no major new domestic titles in weeks, the local market share was pushed down to just under 1%.Leading the charts once more after its huge debut was Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home. The comic bo...