- Box Office Reports
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- A Good Enough Year, but the Best Year for Korean Films
- Box Office Report of 2016 After five years of consecutive growth, the Korean film industry remained healthy in 2016, though the half-decade streak of gains came to an end as the industry essentially remained flat. Admissions reached 217.02 million, which was down just 0.1% from 2016. A wide range of...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 10, 2017
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- Box Office Monthly Report | October 2014
- Following the hot summer months and the Chuseok holiday, October was a soft month for cinema attendance, with no major success stories and a string a low-performing titles. There were no true breakouts but most successful was the romcom My Love My Bride, a remake of LEE Myung-se’s 1990 original that...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 03, 2014
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- Box Office: April 17-30, 2013
- Iron Man 3, the first Hollywood blockbuster of the summer season, burst onto screens with the biggest four-day opening in Korean box office history. From April 25-28 the film recorded 2,625,743 admissions, which is well ahead of the previous record holder The Dark Knight Rises which took 2.43 millio...
- by Darcy Paquet / May 02, 2013
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- Box Office: April 4-17, 2013
- Running Man, the first Korean film to be majority financed by Fox International Productions, got off to a decent start at the Korean box office with 1.1 million admissions in its first two weeks on release. Directed by CHO Dong-oh (The Restless), and starring the popular SHIN Ha-kyun (The Front L...
- by Darcy Paquet / Apr 18, 2013