Top Gun: Maverick, Surpassing $1 Billion in Global Box Office, Also Topped in Korea

Top Gun: Maverick, which became a hot topic with Tom Cruise's 10th visit to Korea, topped the box office on the first weekend of its release. According to the Korean Box Office Information System (KOBIS) of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), Top Gun: Maveric...

MULAN Fails to Top 4-Week Old TENET

Admissions remained flat over the past weekend as viewers were once again wary of returning to multiplexes following last month’s local surge in cases. The first Disney tentpole in several months failed to reignite the market, but things should start to look u...

TENET and OH! MY GRAN Repeat Atop Slow Weekend

After bleeding out for the last few weeks owing to the recent COVID-19 surge, the Korean box office appears to be levelling out. Business over the past weekend was down just over 10%, with a pair of holdovers leading the way. 339,000 tickets were sold over the...

TENET Fends Off OH! MY GRAN

As Seoul and surrounding regions remained in the midst of a Level 2.5 social distancing lockdown, business was down once again as COVID-19 worries continued to clear out theaters. Admissions were down around a fifth week-on-week, with 385,000 tickets sold, whi...

FROZEN 2 Enters 10 Million Club During 3rd Weekend Win

Despite a wide array of new titles invading the marketplace, a Disney holdover once again held on to the top spot while business overall slowed by around a third. 2.35 million tickets were sold, with only 13% being snatched up by local productions, though the ...

An Unexpected Jackpot

Box Office Report of 2017 The Korean film market reached new all-time benchmarks for income and admissions in 2017 after a strong December rally. Yet the real story behind the numbers was which unexpected films got audiences the most excited while several seem...

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,...