- Box Office Reports
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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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- Korean Cinema Casts Wide Net Overseas
- Korea’s film market may have reached saturation at home but that hasn’t stopped Korea’s top film companies from continuing to find ways to grow. 2016 proved to be a landmark year for Korea’s studios outside of their home country, with several Korean-produced titles for other markets achieving signif...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 01, 2016
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- Trends and Review of 2014 Box Office
- The year 2014 saw four films reach the ten million admission milestones in Korea. Among them, Roaring Currents ran fastest to the milestone, becoming Korea’s new all-time top-grossing film. Some foreign films enjoyed strong popularity in Korea although they failed to do so overseas. Interstellar and...
- by KIM Hyung-seok / Jan 29, 2015
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- Box Office: February 20 - March 5, 2014
- Following the busy holiday season earlier this year, the frenzy at the box office abated somewhat in late February and early March. However, the top five spots were still very crowded, with three foreign and two local productions hovering around the one million admissions mark for the fortnight. Ear...
- by Pierce Conran / Mar 10, 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: 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: January 2-15, 2014
- The Attorney, starring SONG Kang-ho of Snowpiercer and The Face Reader, is counting down the days to become the first movie of 2014 to exceed ten million viewers. According to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC, Chairman: KIM Eui-suk), the film overpowered its competitors on screens and maintained its p...
- by TAE Sang-joon / Jan 20, 2014