STEEL RAIN 2 Summits Box Office

Business soared over 40% during the past weekend, as a new local title furthered Korea’s dominant streak in the summer of 2020. Korean films accounted for over 90% of sales, which reached 1.08 million, the second highest weekend total we’ve seen during the COV...

Battle of December, Three-Way Showdown

With a few presumed hits coming up short and lower-than-usual attendance at some points of the year, particularly early summer, a lot was banking on December to pick up the slack and close the year on a high note. The end-of-year period (late December and earl...

STEEL RAIN Pours on THE LAST JEDI’s Parade

The end of year period began with a bang in Korea, but not the way it did in the rest of the world as Disney’s latest Star Wars installment failed to top the market, despite record openings elsewhere. Sales were up over 30% week-on-week to 2.5 million admissio...

Box Office: January 16 - February 5, 2014

2013 was a record year for Korean film but the industry is showing no signs of slowing down in early 2014. YANG Woo-suk’s debut The Attorney opened in December and led the charts through most of January until finally making way for a blockbuster Hollywood anim...

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...