- 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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- Review of the first three quarters for 2016
- After a few years of major growth at the beginning of the decade, the Korean box office has remained flat once again, with this year’s total to date staying at the same level as 2015. However, where gains have been made is in the local industry, which has churned out several major hits and found its...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 01, 2016
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- Korea Spellbound by DOCTOR STRANGE
- Business was up 20% week-on-week as a new Marvel tentpole entered the marketplace while a local holdover proved resilient during its third week of release. Hollywood edged out local fare with a 66% share of the 2.65 million tickets sold over the weekend. Storming into first place with 1.62 million v...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 01, 2016
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- TUNNEL Scores 4th First Place Finish
- Hollywood Claims Edge in Slow Weekend After six weeks of local dominance during Korea’s biggest moviegoing season, local films lost the majority market share for the first time as business cooled off significantly, yet with the Chuseok(Korean Thanksgiving Day) holiday and a pair of homegrown tentpo...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 05, 2016
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- INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE Invades Korea
- Disappointing Start for THE TRUTH BENEATH A 20-year-in-the-making sequel topped the Korean box office to close out the first half of the year. The Hollywood title helped the US maintain their edge as American films accounted for almost 70% of sales, which totalled 2.04 million admissions during the...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 29, 2016
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- THE JUNGLE BOOK Swings onto the Top
- The back and forth tussle between local and foreign fare continues at the Korean box office as a large amount of new Hollywood tentpoles swung the market share back in their favor with US releases accounting for 73% of the marketplace during a very busy frame. Overall business rose more than 60% wee...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 15, 2016
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- PARK Chan-wook Serves Up 1st Place with THE HANDMAIDEN
- PARK Chan-wook’s new film The Handmaiden, his first film in Korea since 2009 and his third Cannes Competition invitee, opened in first place at the Korean box office, affording the Korean cineaste his biggest ever opening. The period thriller boosted the Korean share of the market to 63% during a bu...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 08, 2016
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- 20th Century Fox Posts One-Two Punch with X-MEN: APOCALYPSE, THE WAILING
- Following the dominance of local title THE WAILING, which has had an unusually strong showing for a Korean film in May, a new Hollywood tentpole has reclaimed the top spot at the box office as it continued its massive global rollout. At the end of the hottest May on record, 2.35 million tickets were...
- by Pierce Conran / May 31, 2016
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- THE WAILING Continues to Drown Out the Competition
- After its remarkable debut last week, NA Hong-jin’s latest film THE WAILING, which debuted out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival on May 18th, continued to lord over the charts, largely contributing to a weekend where 2.33 million viewers bought tickets to the theater, 70% of which for local...
- by Pierce Conran / May 24, 2016
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- NA Hong-jin’s THE WAILING Howls in First Place
- Massive Debut for Critically-Acclaimed Thriller A week after it received a rapturous response from Korean critics, NA Hong-jin’s latest film, the Cannes Out of Competition thriller THE WAILING, bowed to huge numbers this past weekend. The thriller helped keep the box office brisk, as 2.85 million s...
- by Pierce Conran / May 18, 2016