- Box Office Reports
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- Avatar: The Way of Water, Topped the Weekend Box Office for 2 Weeks with 5.57 Million Viewers in Total
- James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water also maintained its overwhelming No. 1 spot at the box office on the 2nd weekend of its release. Avatar: The Way of Water, which was released on December 14, has topped the box office for 12 consecutive days.According to the Korean Box Office Information ...
- by Hellen Park / Dec 27, 2022
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- ALONG WITH THE GODS Threepeats as It Rises Through All Time Chart
- Business remained brisk during the first weekend of the year as two homegrown hits continued to draw big crowds, with one of those rising on the all-time box office list. All told, 3.64 million tickets were sold with local releases accounting for 69% of sales. Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds cli...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 09, 2018
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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
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- THE HIMALAYAS Climbs All Over STAR WARS in Debut
- The hotly anticipated new Star Wars, or Episode VII: The Force Awakens, was a global phenomenon this weekend, setting weekend records in the US, UK, Germany and Russia, among others, and powering to a USD 517 million bow worldwide, which is second all time behind Jurassic World. However, there was o...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 21, 2015
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- Review of the First Quarter of 2015 Box Office
- 1. Another Film Draws Over 10 Million ViewersJK YOUN’s Ode to My Father, released on December 17th last year, surpassed ten million viewers in 28 days on January 13. The film was the 11th Korean film to cross the milestone and the 14th including foreign films. In addition, YOUN became the first dire...
- by KIM Hyung-seok (Film Critic) / May 07, 2015
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- ODE TO MY FATHER Becomes 2015‘s First 10 Million Admissions Film
- JK YOUN Will Be First Director with Two 10 Million Films Ode to My Father is about to become the first 10 million admissions film of the New Year. According to the Korean Film Council’s Integrated Ticket Sales network, the film has sold 9.69 million tickets as of January 11th. It needs 300,000 more...
- by LEE Ji-hye / Jan 12, 2015
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- Hollywood Blockbusters Continue Dominance
- Hollywood blockbuster flicks continue to dominate the Korean box office by taking the top spot. After five weeks of Interstellar in the spot, a new Hollywood title took over the throne. Upon its release on November 6th, Interstellar hardly had competition until the release of Exodus: Gods and Kings....
- by LEE Ji-hye / Dec 08, 2014
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- Box Office: February 6-19, 2014
- Frozen and Miss Granny are still dominating Korean cinemas in February. The Korean Film Council (KOFIC – Chairman, KIM Eui-suk) announced on the 16th that Disney’s animation Frozen and the family comedy Miss Granny by HWANG Dong-hyuk (Silenced, 2011), are still the top two draws at the box office, b...
- by TAE Sang-joon / Feb 24, 2014
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- Box office, August 1-15
- The first half of August was witness to a record-breaking performance by CHOI Dong-hoon’s The Thieves, which became the sixth Korean film in history to pass the 10 million admissions mark. Originally released on July 25, the film sold more than 6 million tickets from August 1~15, recording its 10 mi...
- by Darcy Paquet / Aug 27, 2012