- Box Office Reports
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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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- 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: January 16 - February 5, 2014
- 2013 was a record year for Korean film but the industry is showing no signs of slowing down in early 2014. YANG Woo-suk’s debut The Attorney opened in December and led the charts through most of January until finally making way for a blockbuster Hollywood animation and four major local releases time...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 10, 2014
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- Box Office: December 19, 2013 - January 1, 2014
- Two Korean productions, The Attorney and The Suspect, have brought the country’s box office to a triumphant close. According to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), The Attorney, with actor SONG Kang-ho of Snowpiercer and The Face Reader, and The Suspect, directed by WON Shin-yun of 7 Days (2007), score...
- by TAE Sang-joon / Jan 06, 2014