- Box Office Reports
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- HANSAN: RISING DRAGON Secured the Box Office Top on the 2nd Week of Its Release
- With the release of new Korean ‘Tentpole’ movies every week in the summer theater, Director Kim Hanmin's HANSAN: RISING DRAGON remained at the top of the box office even in the second week of its release.According to the Korean Box Office Information System (KOBIS) of the Korean Film Council (KO...
- by Hellen Park / Aug 09, 2022
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- Top Gun: Maverick, Surpassing $1 Billion in Global Box Office, Also Topped in Korea
- Top Gun: Maverick, which became a hot topic with Tom Cruise's 10th visit to Korea, topped the box office on the first weekend of its release. According to the Korean Box Office Information System (KOBIS) of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), Top Gun: Maverick reached the top with 1,127,175 moviego...
- by Hellen Park / Jun 28, 2022
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- The Roundup Topped for 4 Consecutive Weeks, While Broker, the Winner at Cannes, Won 2nd Place
- BrokerThe Roundup topped the box office for 4 consecutive weekends, marking the first ’10-million viewer film’ in 3 years among the Korean films released during the Pandemic era. According to the Korean Box Office Information System (KOBIS) of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) on June 13 (Monday), The...
- by Hellen Park / Jun 14, 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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- PARASITE Scores Record Opening for BONG Joon-ho
- A media frenzy and national pride have set the May box office on fire, as admissions almost doubled to 4.04 million over the previous weekend, an unusually high number for this time of year. Moreover, the local share surged to 76%, despite the opening of a new Hollywood blockbuster, which is topping...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 04, 2019
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- AQUAMAN Fights Off THE DRUG KING and SWING KIDS
- The pre-Christmas weekend saw admissions jump a rather timid 40% to 2.95 million, given the four major new offerings in theaters for the holidays. What’s more, despite two of those being among the most expensive and hotly anticipated local titles of the year, Korean films remained behind at 41%, whi...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 26, 2018
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- BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Champion Again in Week 7
- In the absence of major new titles, the chart was largely the same as holdovers performed well. Business was down marginally to 2.12 million sales, while Hollywood took back the market share advantage after clinching 51% of sales. In its seventh weekend, the musical sensation Bohemian Rhapsody has d...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 18, 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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- 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