Stranger Than Fiction: Politics & History Inspire Cinema

The Korean box office has had a rocky ride through the first two trimesters of 2017, but this period was not without its success stories. Though controversies and an uneven slate of films presented some obstacles, Korean history remained a strong driver for pr...

Box office, August 1-15

The first half of August was witness to a record-breaking performance by CHOI Dong-hoon’s The Thieves, which became the sixth Korean film in history to pass the 10 million admissions mark. Originally released on July 25, the film sold more than 6 million ticke...

Box office analysis, Dec. 28 – Jan. 10

  The past two weeks have seen little change at the box office, with comparatively few major releases taking place in the window between Christmas and the Lunar New Year holiday. <Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol> continues to dominate, account...

Box office, Dec. 14 - 27

Late December and early January is peak box office season in South Korea, and in past years major hits such as <Silmido>, <King and the Clown>, <200 Pound Beauty> and <Woochi> (to say nothing of <Avatar>) have been propelled to c...

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...