After
Ode to My Father crossed the ten million admissions point in January of this year, there are now eleven domestic films that have reached the milestone. This number carries great importance in the Korean film industry as it represents 20% of the nation’s population. By being identified as a ten million admissions film, it proves that the film was a great hit. Beginning with
Silmido in 2003 which set the first record, there has been at least one film per year since 2012 that reached the ten million admissions benchmark. In 2014,
Roaring Currents surprised many with an outstanding 17 million in ticket sales. In the ten million group, Hollywood films such as
Avatar (2009),
Frozen and
Interstellar are also included to bring the total to 14 titles. Let’s take a look at the blockbuster films that have run the race and reached the ten million point (data based on Korean Film Council’s Integrated Ticket Sales Network as of January 26th, 2015).