- Box Office Reports
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- ON THE LINE Connects for 2nd Weekend Win
- Korean Theaters Prepare to Welcome NO TIME TO DIEFollowing the Chuseok holidays and without any major news attractions, theater crowds thinned out as admissions slowed 36% with a total of 476,000 sales recorded. Local titles continued to drive the market, capturing almost two out of every three tick...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 28, 2021
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- The First Half Report on 2021 Korean Film Industry
- Korean Cinema is in the Lowest Slump, Disney is Putting Up a Good FightThe negative effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic have already been expected, but the shock has not easily disappeared. For seven years from 2013 to 2019, the number of moviegoers surpassed 200 million every year, and the Korean movi...
- by Jeon Jonghyuk / Aug 24, 2021
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- THE PRIESTS Conjures up Impressive Debut
- Exorcism thriller The Priests scared up a higher than expected debut over the weekend, boosting overall business during the traditional dumping grounds of the year. 2.28 million viewers were recorded in theaters over the frame, 72% of which for local fare. With a 62% market share, The Priests wound...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 10, 2015
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- Review of the First Quarter of 2015 Box Office
- 1. Another Film Draws Over 10 Million ViewersJK YOUN’s Ode to My Father, released on December 17th last year, surpassed ten million viewers in 28 days on January 13. The film was the 11th Korean film to cross the milestone and the 14th including foreign films. In addition, YOUN became the first dire...
- by KIM Hyung-seok (Film Critic) / May 07, 2015
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- Box Office: December 5-18, 2013
- It’s the season of romantic comedies again. Taking the lead at the box office was About Time, produced by Working Title Films of England, which is well-known for its hit movie Love, Actually (2003). A mixture of time travel and romance, About Time rolled out on 568 screens nationwide on the 5th and ...
- by SONG Soon-jin / Dec 23, 2013
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- Box Office: May 2-15, 2013
- Hollywood blockbuster Iron Man 3 continued to dominate screens in its second and third week on release, as it has in other territories around the world. With another 3.9 million tickets added over the past two weeks, its running total now stands at a massive 7.7 million admissions, which is worth ap...
- by Darcy Paquet / May 16, 2013
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- Box Office: April 4-17, 2013
- Running Man, the first Korean film to be majority financed by Fox International Productions, got off to a decent start at the Korean box office with 1.1 million admissions in its first two weeks on release. Directed by CHO Dong-oh (The Restless), and starring the popular SHIN Ha-kyun (The Front L...
- by Darcy Paquet / Apr 18, 2013
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- Box Office: January 24-February 6, 2013
- Two monster sized local hits powered the box office in late January and early February. Leading the pack was the comic drama Miracle in Cell No. 7, which took 4.6 million admissions in two weeks on the back of strong word-of-mouth. This is the equivalent of more than US$30 million, and the film is...
- by Darcy Paquet / Feb 07, 2013
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- 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, accounting for close to a third of overall tick...
- by Darcy PAQUET / Jan 13, 2012
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- 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 commercial success during this lucrative ...
- by Darcy Paquet / Dec 29, 2011