SPIDER-MAN Tops Charts for 6th Consecutive Week

As no major new releases were available to boost sales, business at the Korean box office slowed again with admissions dipping just over 25% down to 524,000. The local market was also down slightly to 31%. Both figures should see meteoric rises this coming wee...

I CAN SPEAK Resonates in 1st Place

Korean films took the top two spots as they accounted for two thirds of sales during a slow weekend that recorded just 1.3 million admissions. Exhibitors have nothing to fear however, as the stage is merely being set for this year’s extra-long Chuseok holiday,...

INSIDE MEN Claims 4th Weekend Win

Ahead of the lucrative end of year season, which will kick off this week, admissions took another small dive due to an absence of compelling new releases, leaving Inside Men to take its fourth consecutive weekend crown. Overall, 1.6 million admissions were rec...

Box Office : August 4 – August 17 , 2014

A Win-win Hit of ROARING CURRENTS and THE PIRATES Roaring Currents totally dominates. Roaring Currents has been writing new history since its release on July 30th. It is not merely the number of tickets sold, 14,622,611, but the rate that is amazing. It reall...

Sunny Days Ahead in 2013

Review of Korean Film Industry in 2012 The Korean film industry saw an impressive rise in terms of admissions and ticket sales in 2012. The total audience figure stood at 194.89 million, a year-on-year increase of 21.9%. Two Korean movies attracted more than...

Box office, November 15-28

Box office, November 15-28 Local box office hit A Werewolf Boy continued to perform well during its third and fourth weeks on release, earning almost exactly as much as Hollywood film The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 did in its first and second week...

Box office, October 18-31

Three films performed well in an overall weak market during the last two weeks of October. Topping the list once again was Masquerade, the period drama starring LEE Byung-hun that recently took home a record 15 awards at the 2012 Grand Bell Awards. Adding a...

Box office, October 4-17

Overall box office figures declined in the middle part of October, compared to the Chuseok holiday season in late September and early October. Nonetheless, the same film remained at the top of the chart: period drama Masquerade, by director CHOO Chang-min. Wi...

Box office, September 20-October 3

A tremendous performance during the extended Chuseok lunar holiday helped the Korean period drama <Masquerade> to run far ahead of its rivals at the box office. From the two-week period from September 20 to October 3, which represents the film's seco...

Box office, September 1-15

In the first half of September, Korean cinema continued its recent run of strength at the box office, with local features accounting for six of the top eight grossing films. Heading the pack was <Traffickers>, a grisly thriller about organ trafficking th...