- 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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- 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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- TUNNEL Threepeats at Korean Box Office
- LIGHTS OUT Opens in 2nd Following the end of the lengthy Korean wave, audiences began to shrink at the Korean box office, down to 2.23 million admissions as Korean film maintained a modest edge of the market share at 54%. Maintaining its top spot for the third time was the disaster drama Tunnel wh...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 30, 2016
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- STAR TREK Can’t Escape TUNNEL
- Business remained brisk during the heat wave but with school back in session and the high summer season coming to an end ticket sales have begun to slow down at the Korean box office. Local hits remained the top draw, accounting for 71% of the weekend’s 3.04 million theater visitors. Staying at number one after its major debut was disaster drama Tunnel, which slid 39% for another 1.12 million viewers (USD 8.37 million), bringing its total 5.09 million viewers (USD 36.73 million). Though the film has been well-received and should continue to post strong numbers, it is unlikely to challenge TRAIN TO BUSAN as the hit of the season.
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 23, 2016
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- TUNNEL Turns Competition to Rubble
- RUN-OFF Fails to Take Off With record temperatures still beating down on the peninsula, attendance remained high at the Korean box office during the Independence Day weekend. Local films were the overwhelming favorite, accounting for 85% of the frame’s 4.59 million admissions. Posting a commanding...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 16, 2016
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- THE LAST PRINCESS Beats SUICIDE SQUAD
- OPERATION CHROMITE Drops to 2nd It was a busy weekend at the Korean box office with four new releases battling with popular holdovers as the summer box office roars on. Despite the presence of a major new Hollywood title which is breaking records stateside, it was once again a local title that scor...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 09, 2016
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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
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- TRAIN TO BUSAN Crashes into Record Books
- 5.3 Million Viewers after Opening Weekend Following its bow at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, YEON Sang-ho’s live action feature debut TRAIN TO BUSAN smashed into the Korean box office, laying waste to the opening day record, when it sold 872,232 tickets, almost 200,000 sales ahead of ...
- by Pierce Conran / Jul 27, 2016