- Box Office Reports
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- SHANG-CHI Claims 2nd Weekend Win, MOGADISHU Rises to 2nd
- Korean Box Office Awaits Launch of Chuseok TitlesWith no major new releases, business slowed, and holdovers led the charts over the past weekend as distributors and theaters await the coming Chuseok holiday. Business was down 30% week-on-week to 608,000 admissions, with local titles claiming 36% of ...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 14, 2021
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- SHANG-CHI Claims Yet Another First Place Finish for Marvel
- Local Films Await Chuseok Holidays in Mid-SeptemberAfter dominating the summer holiday season, local films are taking a brief break in early September, as they await the Chuseok holidays later in the month. This opened the door for Hollywood to rule the roost, and the latest film from Marvel claimed...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 07, 2021
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- HOSTAGE: MISSING CELEBRITY Holds on to Top Spot, GUIMOON Debuts at No. 4
- ESCAPE FROM MOGADISHU Becomes Top-Grossing Film of the YearWith no hot new release driving sales, business slowed about 30% over the past weekend, with 768,000 admissions recorded over the last weekend in August. Local holdovers led the way and kept the local market share high at 87%.The Hwang Jungm...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 31, 2021
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- Hwang Jungmin Returns to the Top of the Charts
- HOSTAGE: MISSING CELEBRITY Leads the Way as Local Films Command the MarketMajor local releases continued to lead the way at the summer box office as the Korean industry claimed 87% of sales over the past weekend. Admissions also remained high relative to the rest of the year, down a fraction from la...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 23, 2021
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- SINKHOLE Digs Up First Place Debut
- Local Films Command 80% of SalesFor the first time in 2021, the Korean box office was led by two domestic titles, who helped raise the local market share to 82%, the highest it’s been all year. Sales jumped up 30% week-on-week, with admissions reaching 1.22 million, just shy of the annual sales reco...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 17, 2021
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- DELIVER US FROM EVIL Stays in 1st as OK! MADAM Opens Well
- With another major local release finding favor with audiences, the Korean box office remained relatively strong in mid-August, with 1.68 million tickets, down just 7% from last week’s COVID-19 Era high. With the top four slots all occupied by local releases, the Korean market share remained overwhel...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 18, 2020
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- DELIVER US FROM EVIL Scores New Opening Record in COVID-19 Era
- This past weekend delivered with it the most promising box office news yet during the COVID-19 Pandemic, as business shot up over 68% week-on-week. Overall, 1.81 million tickets were snatched up during the Friday to Sunday period, which represented a 36% increase over the previous record of the heal...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 10, 2020
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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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- THE SPY GONE NORTH Can’t Quite Catch ALONG WITH THE GODS 2
- Business remained booming in the busy high summer season during an unprecedented heatwave, even as admissions slipped from last week’s record peak. All told, with two Korean blockbusters leading the marketplace, admissions reached 4.39 million, 70% of which went to local titles. Following its histor...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 14, 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