- Box Office Reports
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- MALEFICENT Casts a Spell over LOVE, AGAIN
- Disney once again scored a top place opening at the box office, but with much less fanfare than usual, during a quiet weekend that saw a 15% decline from the previous session’s holdover-led chart. A total of 1.47 million admissions were collected, with the local share dipping to 31%, though that sho...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 21, 2019
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- JOKER and CRAZY ROMANCE Continue to Laugh It Up
- With a lack of enticing new releases, holdovers claimed most of the top five as overall admissions slid around 35% to 1.68 million. Of those, 41% were snatched up by local titles, mostly in their second or third week in theaters. Remaining in first place was the dark DC Comics origin story Joker, wh...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 15, 2019
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- JOKER Laughs all the Way to the Top
- Business rose by over two thirds this past weekend with the entry of three major titles, adding up to a weekend that saw 2.51 million tickets sold. With a hot new title from Hollywood leading the way, the local market share dipped to 44%. Mirroring its success in several other markets, the Warner Br...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 07, 2019
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- Quiet Victory for BATTLE OF JANGSARI over BY QUANTUM PHYSICS
- A pair of new titles raised the local market share edge to 79% but weren’t enough to keep overall admissions up as business slowed 10% week-on-week with 1.45 million entries recorded over the last weekend of September. The Korean War drama Battle of Jangsari, featuring local star KIM Myung-min and H...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 01, 2019
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- HIT-AND-RUN SQUAD Fails to Catch EXTREME JOB
- The local industry continued to impress in early 2019 as the pre-Lunar New Year holiday weekend welcomed massive audiences to theaters, largely favoring local titles. In all, 3.91 million tickets were shifted, of which 87% were for Korean films. After its stunning debut the previous week, CJ Enterta...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 07, 2019
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- DEFAULT Boosts Local Industry’s Rating
- Business was up marginally as a major new domestic release returned the market share advantage to the local industry. All told, the first weekend of December kicked off with 2.55 million admissions, 56% of those for Korean films. Opening confidently in first place was CJ Entertainment’s first big fi...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 04, 2018
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- 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 seemingly surefire hits stumbled out of the ...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 06, 2018
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- NEW TRIAL Extends Streak of Local Chart-Toppers
- A new Korean film topped the chart in a weekend that was almost level with the previous week, as two thirds of tickets sold once again went to local fare, out of a total 2.22 million sold. Court drama New Trial, with KANG Ha-neul and JUNG Woo, from OPUS Pictures and distributed by CGV ARTHOUSE, was ...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 21, 2017
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- A Good Enough Year, but the Best Year for Korean Films
- Box Office Report of 2016 After five years of consecutive growth, the Korean film industry remained healthy in 2016, though the half-decade streak of gains came to an end as the industry essentially remained flat. Admissions reached 217.02 million, which was down just 0.1% from 2016. A wide range of...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 10, 2017
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- MY ANNOYING BROTHER Rises to First
- Local films led the charge at the Korean box office this past weekend as they took a 57% share of the market. 1.98 million viewers visited theaters over as we began the last month of the year. Rising to first place after a small 26% drop was domestic comedy MY ANNOYING BROTHER. With another 598,000 ...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 07, 2016