- Box Office Reports
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- Hunt, Still Topped at the 2nd Week of Its Release, Surpassing 3 Million Viewers in Total
- Hunt, Director Lee Jungjae's directorial debut, has accelerated its box office success. Hunt, released on August 10, recorded 714,746 viewers with 27% of sales in the 2nd week of its release. The audience share rose slightly from the previous week in the 2nd week, giving a green light to long-te...
- by Hellen Park / Aug 23, 2022
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- 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 COVID-19 Pandemic. Replacing Peninsula at t...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 03, 2020
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- PENINSULA Clinches 2nd Weekend Win
- With no major new release and a fading holdover, business slipped just over 40% week-on-week, down to 761,000 admissions. As they have since early June, local films continued to dominate with an 82% share of the market, a trend that is unlikely to change with a steady trickle of homegrown titles and...
- by Pierce Conran / Jul 28, 2020
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- THE DIVINE MOVE 2 Posts Strong Debut
- As we edge closer to winter, admissions were down marginally to 2.04 million but with a strong new local title in the mix the Korean market share shot back up to a healthy 61%. Opening over five years after the original and with KWON Sang-woo replacing JUNG Woo-sung as the lead actor (but as a diffe...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 12, 2019
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- 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 smash hit Extreme Job was down just under 5...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 19, 2019
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- EXTREME JOB Defeats ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL Debut
- The smash success of Extreme Job continued for a third week, which kept overall business roaring after the Lunar New Year holidays. Korean films claimed a strong 71% market share as over 3.07 million tickets were sold. Local comedy smash Extreme Job commandingly clinched the top spot for a third con...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 12, 2019
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- 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 early January) is one of the four busiest re...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 06, 2018
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- 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 admissions (a figure that is likely to rise furt...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 19, 2017
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- Box Office Report for the first quarter of 2017
- The first quarter of 2017 was one of few surprises at the Korean box office but one which demonstrated the industry’s stability, both as a global exhibition market and a local production industry. Though not quite reaching the highs of 2013 (55.47 million) or 2015 (54.56 million), Q1 this year handi...
- by Pierce Conran / May 08, 2017
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- CONFIDENTIAL ASSIGNMENT Knocks Down THE KING
- Fortunes changed at the box office as the two major local releases for the Lunar New Year switched places over the holiday. 4.19 million viewers bought tickets over the weekend, with 1.39 million of those selling on Lunar New Year day, which fell on Saturday. It was the biggest LNY day at the box of...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 31, 2017