- Box Office Reports
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- HANSAN: RISING DRAGON Secured the Box Office Top on the 2nd Week of Its Release
- With the release of new Korean ‘Tentpole’ movies every week in the summer theater, Director Kim Hanmin's HANSAN: RISING DRAGON remained at the top of the box office even in the second week of its release.According to the Korean Box Office Information System (KOBIS) of the Korean Film Council (KO...
- by Hellen Park / Aug 09, 2022
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- HANSAN: RISING DRAGON, Topped the Weekend Box Office of Its Release
- The second episode of Director Kim Hanmin's ‘Yi Sunsin Trilogy’, HANSAN: RISING DRAGON, was released on July 27 and topped the box office on its 1st weekend. According to the Korean Box Office Information System (KOBIS) of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), HANSAN: RISING DRAGON attracted 1,632,08...
- by Hellen Park / Aug 02, 2022
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- Korean Theaters Sell 227 Million Tickets in Record Year
- Korea’s film industry ended 2019 with a bang, as local disaster action-drama ASHFALL lorded over the charts at the tail end of a massive 12 months. It was a record-breaking year for the exhibition sector, which sold a record 226.68 million tickets, among several new box office benchmarks, while loca...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 03, 2020
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- AVENGERS Repeats, Cracks 10 Million in Record Time
- Though sales slowed considerably from the previous week, this past weekend remained a highly lucrative window at the Korean box office, with 3.12 million tickets sold. With Marvel’s Phase 3 culmination continuing to lord over the charts as it scaled the records book, local films were kept down to ju...
- by Pierce Conran / May 08, 2019
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- INNOCENT WITNESS Opens in 2nd, THE ODD FAMILY Trails in 5th
- New well-received local content kept the domestic market share high at 67% while the Lunar New Year champion continued its assault on the record books as 2.44 million tickets were sold over the weekend. Finally slowing down in its fourth week, local comedy smash hit Extreme Job was down just under 5...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 19, 2019
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- INFINITY WAR Welcomes All-Time 3rd Largest Audience in Korean Debut
- The largest April weekend in Korean history was fueled by the blistering debut of Marvel’s biggest film yet, as Avengers: Infinity War set records across the planet in the biggest global debut of all time with USD 630 million. In Korea, total ticket sales over the weekend reached 3.37 million while ...
- by Pierce Conran / May 01, 2018
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- DETECTIVE K Unearths Pre-Lunar New Year Win
- Admissions Down Ahead of Holiday Surge A local period film timed for the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday led the chart as Korean films made up 70% of sales at the box office, while the calm before the holiday storm amounted to a quiet weekend with just 1.64 million tickets sold overall. Showbox ente...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 13, 2018
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- THE MAZE RUNNER Finds Way to Top of the Charts
- Last year’s end-of-year titans finally relinquished their hold on the top of the chart to make way for new releases as a Hollywood film topped the rankings for the first time since Justice League in late November. It was also the first time Korea fell short of a majority share since that same weeken...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 23, 2018
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- A TAXI DRIVER Fills Up 3rd Best Korean Opening of All Time
- August kicked off with the biggest weekend of the year at the Korean box office this year, with new local offering A Taxi Driver entering the record books on top of several major holdovers. Korean films made up 79% of the 4.62 million tickets sold. JANG Hun’s period Gwangju drama A Taxi Driver, star...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 08, 2017
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- OPERATION CHROMITE and TRAIN TO BUSAN Battle for Supremacy
- JASON BOURNE Opens Third The biggest weekend of the year to date at the Korean box office featured two local hits vying for supremacy while a major Hollywood franchise opened well but in a distant third place. The high summer season gave local films the edge, with a 67% market share of the staggerin...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 03, 2016