- Box Office Reports
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- FROZEN 2 Snows in BRING ME HOME Debut
- Business slowed 25% after last week’s massive boost but the latest Disney behemoth remained a potent threat on the charts as a major new local title was unable to break through as counter-programming. Sales remained strong with 3.34 million tickets sold while the domestic industry was once again on ...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 03, 2019
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- BLACK MONEY Buys Up First Place
- Local films continued to drum up solid business, as a new champion and holdovers gave the Korean industry a 74% edge. All told, 1.82 million tickets were sold over the past frame, a figure that will rise significantly this coming weekend as one of the biggest films of the year opens in a few days. V...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 19, 2019
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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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- Box office, December 6-19
- Controversial local hit 26 Years, which has demonstrated considerable staying power since its November 29 release, sits at the top of the Korean box office for the December 6-19 period. The film, based on a famous webcomic by KANG Full, details the efforts of five citizens to assassinate the man res...
- by Darcy Paquet / Dec 21, 2012
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- Box office, November 22-December 5
- The past two weeks have seen a comparatively balanced division of revenues at the Korean box office, with no one film dominating the market. Sitting at the top of the chart is local box office hit A Werewolf Boy, which took 1,212,471 admissions in its fourth and fifth weeks on release. The film star...
- by Darcy Paquet / Dec 07, 2012
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- Box office, November 15-28
- Box office, November 15-28 Local box office hit A Werewolf Boy continued to perform well during its third and fourth weeks on release, earning almost exactly as much as Hollywood film The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 did in its first and second weeks. With another 2,142,392 tickets added ...
- by Darcy Paquet / Nov 30, 2012
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- Box office analysis, Jan. 18 - 31
- Two Korean films emerged as major hits in 2012's Lunar New Year holiday season - <Dancing Queen> and <Unbowed>. The success of <Dancing Queen>, which sold 2.26 million tickets in its first two weeks on release, was not entirely unexpected. The comic drama by director LEE Seok...
- by Darcy PAQUET / Feb 03, 2012