THE REVENANT Remains in First Place

Hollywood survival pic The Revenant remained in first place, though only by a razor-thin 0.4% margin, during a slow mid-January weekend at the Korean box office which shifted 1.58 million tickets, with US films just about claiming a majority with 51%. Local fi...

Box Office: April 3-16, 2014

Foreign movies continue to top over Korean movies. According to the integrated ticket sales network of Korean Film Council (KOFIC) on April 17th, the Marvel Comics Studio’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier has topped in the box office chart even with the ne...

Box Office: February 7-20, 2013

The runaway hit film Miracle in Cell No. 7 by director LEE Hwan-kyung continued to dominate the Korean box office in its third and fourth weeks on release. After briefly ceding the #1 slot to action blockbuster The Berlin File, the sentimental drama soon recla...

Box office, July 16-31

The month of July has been highly dramatic at the Korean box office, capped by the record-breaking opening of Korean heist film <The Thieves>. The star-studded work has even managed to outperform the hugely anticipated <The Dark Knight Rises>, alt...

Korean box office had record year in 2011

The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has put out a report for 2011 stating South Korea had a record year at the box office. Total box office receipts came to a record KW1.23 trillion (US$1.1 billion) last year, up 7.4% from 2010. Admissions also rose to 159 millio...

Box office, Nov. 30 – Dec. 13

Despite the release of Hollywood blockbusters <The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part One> and Steven Spielberg's <The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn>, a new Korean film has found its way to the top of the biweekly box office ch...

Box office, November 16 - 29

The comic book adaptation <Punch> has once again topped South Korea's biweekly box office chart. The film, which has shown exceptional box office resilience since its release on Oct. 20, sold another 1.15 million tickets to bring its overall total up to...

Box office, November 2 - 15

Local hit <Punch> continued to dominate the box office in the first two weeks of November. A character-centered drama about a high school boy and his teacher who lives next door, director LEE Han’s film has been enjoying buoyant word of mouth, thanks la...

Box office, Oct. 18 – Nov. 1

<Punch>, based on a local novel, is the movie of the moment in Korea, having earned roughly US$11 million over the past two weeks. A character-centered drama about a high school boy and his eccentric teacher who lives next door, <Punch> has enjoye...