- 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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- PAWN Dominates Chuseok Holiday Weekend
- Thanks to the Chuseok holidays, the Korean box office came roaring back to life in early October. Business shot up 150% from last week’s session, which had already started to show signs of recovery after the late summer COVID spike with a 30% rise from the previous week. With new local titles occupy...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 06, 2020
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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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- Battle of December, Three-Way Showdown
- With a few presumed hits coming up short and lower-than-usual attendance at some points of the year, particularly early summer, a lot was banking on December to pick up the slack and close the year on a high note. The end-of-year period (late December and early January) is one of the four busiest re...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 06, 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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- 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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- A VIOLENT PROSECUTOR Scores Best-Ever Lunar New Year Launch
- Star Power Drives Thriller to 2nd All Time Opening Week After a slow January, viewers once again packed into theatres over the 5-day Lunar New Year weekend, purchasing 3.16 million tickets, 77% of which for local titles. While the figure was 50% higher than the previous time Lunar New Year fell on ...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 11, 2016
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- THE HIMALAYAS Reigns Over New Year
- The New Year holiday kept crowds in theaters, with attendance dropping a slight 14% from the Christmas weekend as The Himalayas continued to dominate the charts. 60% of the 3.96 million tickets sold over the frame were bought for local films. For the third time, LEE Seok-hoon’s The Himalayas was th...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 05, 2016
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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