INNOCENT WITNESS Opens in 2nd, THE ODD FAMILY Trails in 5th

New well-received local content kept the domestic market share high at 67% while the Lunar New Year champion continued its assault on the record books as 2.44 million tickets were sold over the weekend. Finally slowing down in its fourth week, local comedy sma...

Box Office: May 1-14, 2014

There has been a deep silence in the Korean movie industry for the last two weeks. In order to express sympathy for the tragic incident of the Sewol ferry, new films were quietly released without any press conferences, VIP previews or relevant interviews. The...

Box Office: April 17-30, 2014

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 soars at the box office in spite of nation’s grief over the victims of the sunken Sewol ferry. According to the integrated ticket sales network of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) on April 27th, the film had a stellar debut at the top o...

Box Office: January 2-15, 2014

The Attorney, starring SONG Kang-ho of Snowpiercer and The Face Reader, is counting down the days to become the first movie of 2014 to exceed ten million viewers. According to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC, Chairman: KIM Eui-suk), the film overpowered its com...

Box Office: December 19, 2013 - January 1, 2014

Two Korean productions, The Attorney and The Suspect, have brought the country’s box office to a triumphant close. According to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), The Attorney, with actor SONG Kang-ho of Snowpiercer and The Face Reader, and The Suspect, directed...

Box office, November 22-December 5

The past two weeks have seen a comparatively balanced division of revenues at the Korean box office, with no one film dominating the market. Sitting at the top of the chart is local box office hit A Werewolf Boy, which took 1,212,471 admissions in its fourth a...

Box office, Sept. 22 – Oct. 4

  - Silenced tops the charts and raises voices of protest The two weeks lasting from Sept. 22 to Oct. 4 were witness to a remarkable box office phenomenon in the form of the film Silenced. Based on a shocking real-life incident in which young students at...