- Box Office Reports
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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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- THE KING’S LETTERS No Match for THE LION KING
- Holdovers continued to power the box office as the first major local film of the high summer season stumbled out of the gate and overall admissions slowed 20% with 2.4 million tickets sold over the last weekend. Of those, just 28% of sales were for Korean titles, a marked improvement over the past f...
- by Pierce Conran / Jul 29, 2019
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- THE LION KING Roars at the Korean Box Office
- With the entry of yet another feverishly anticipated Disney title, the box office rose 10% in mid-July with 2.97 million tickets sold over the past weekend. Hollywood continued to be extremely dominant as the local market share was pushed all the way down to 3%. Notably, Disney accounted for 77% of ...
- by Pierce Conran / Jul 22, 2019
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- ON YOUR WEDDING DAY Off to Fairy Tale Start
- Another local number one debut gave the domestic industry the four top spots on the chart and lifted the Korean market share to 75% for this past weekend. With the summer season continuing to slow down, overall admissions receded to 2.32 million. After topping the charts on its opening day last Wedn...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 28, 2018
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- An Unexpected Jackpot
- Box Office Report of 2017 The Korean film market reached new all-time benchmarks for income and admissions in 2017 after a strong December rally. Yet the real story behind the numbers was which unexpected films got audiences the most excited while several seemingly surefire hits stumbled out of the ...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 06, 2018
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- THE OUTLAWS Stays Tough in 1st Place
- Last week’s top two Chuseok titles switched places but held all newcomers at bay in a solid post-holiday weekend that welcomed 1.91 million viewers. Local titles were once again far ahead with a 78% market share and should remain strong throughout the fall season. Ascending to first place on the bac...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 17, 2017
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- Box Office Monthly Report | October 2014
- Following the hot summer months and the Chuseok holiday, October was a soft month for cinema attendance, with no major success stories and a string a low-performing titles. There were no true breakouts but most successful was the romcom My Love My Bride, a remake of LEE Myung-se’s 1990 original that...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 03, 2014
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- Whistle Blower Trumps Slow Video by Narrow Margin
- Korean films are prevailing at the Korean box office in autumn. Begin Again and The Maze Runner ranked first and second at the box office after Roaring Currents and The Pirates swept it. But the reign of the two Tinseltown films was short-lived. In particular, three much anticipated Korean films pre...
- by LEE Ji-young / Oct 07, 2014
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- The Maze Runner and Begin Again Run Two-Way Race for Second Week
- The Maze Runner and Begin Again ranked first and second at the Korean box office for the second consecutive week. According to the integrated ticket sales network of the Korean Film Council, The Maze Runner ran the box-office race as the front runner by drawing 572,055 audiences for the three days o...
- by LEE Ji-hye / Sep 29, 2014
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- Box Office: May 2-15, 2013
- Hollywood blockbuster Iron Man 3 continued to dominate screens in its second and third week on release, as it has in other territories around the world. With another 3.9 million tickets added over the past two weeks, its running total now stands at a massive 7.7 million admissions, which is worth ap...
- by Darcy Paquet / May 16, 2013