Confidential Assignment2: International, Topped the Weekend Box Office for 5 Consecutive Weeks

The comic investigation drama, Confidential Assignment2: International, starring Hyun Bin and Yoo Haijin, enjoys the No. 1 parade without any competitors. Confidential Assignment2: International secured the top at the box office during the 2nd weekend of Octob...

Confidential Assignment2: International Topped the Weekend Box Office for 4 Consecutive Weeks

The comic investigation drama Confidential Assignment2: International, starring Hyun Bin and Yoo Haijin, topped the box office on weekends for 4 consecutive weeks, beating new films. According to the Korean Box Office Information System (KOBIS) of the Korean F...

Confidential Assignment2: International, Topped the Weekend Box Office for 3 Consecutive Weeks

The comedy action film Confidential Assignment2: International, starring Hyun Bin and Yoo Haijin, topped the weekend box office for 3 consecutive weeks. According to the Korean Box Office Information System (KOBIS) of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), Confident...

Confidential Assignment2: International, Topped the Box Office During the 2022 Chuseok Holiday

The film Confidential Assignment2: International ran alone during the Chuseok holiday, attracting 2.83 million viewers. According to the Korean Box Office Information System (KOBIS) of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) on September 13 (Tuesday), Confidential Ass...

RAMPANT Bites Down on First Place

The local industry reclaimed the market advantage as a new big-budget genre film swept away the competition during its opening weekend. Sales jumped up by a third to 1.62 million admissions, with Korean films accounting for 70% of that total. After claiming la...

FIRST MAN Lifts Off in Korea

Despite the entry of a major new Hollywood tentpole, sales dipped about 20% as holdovers continued to power most of the sales in the Korean market. US titles accounted for 57% of sales while homegrown films took up a 40% share of the market. Following its Kore...

Chuseok Holdovers Dominate THE SOUL-MATE

After several busy weekdays that fell over the Chuseok holidays, business was relatively quiet over the weekend with admissions topping out at 1.88 million. With the glut of local releases on offer, Korean films accounted for a massive 86% of all sales. Repeat...

THE SWINDLERS Swipes Another Weekend Win

A slew of new releases couldn’t topple last week’s champion but business remained much the same overall during the first weekend of December, with 1.87 million entries recorded, approximately two thirds of which were snapped up by the wealth of local thrillers...

THE SWINDLERS Makes Away with Box Office Crown

Theaters saw a slight uptick this weekend as students celebrated the end of the college entrance exams which had been delayed a week due to an earthquake in the Pohang region. All told, almost two million tickets were snatched up over the frame as a hot new lo...

JUSTICE LEAGUE Assembles at Top of the Charts

Much as it has elsewhere around the world, one of the year’s biggest blockbusters posted a smaller than expected debut in Korea, during a weekend where admissions were marginally down week-on-week. Nevertheless, the Hollywood tentpole drove the US market share...