- Box Office Reports
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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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- ALONG WITH THE GODS Threatens to Rewrite Record Books
- Admissions shot up almost 80% in the weekend before Christmas, which welcomed a new local blockbuster attempting to rewrite the record books. Out of the gargantuan 4.42 million tickets sold (a figure generally only seen in late July or early August), 81% were for local films. Opening with 2.73 milli...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 26, 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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- Box office, September 1-15
- In the first half of September, Korean cinema continued its recent run of strength at the box office, with local features accounting for six of the top eight grossing films. Heading the pack was <Traffickers>, a grisly thriller about organ trafficking that took 1.15 million admissions over the...
- by Darcy Paquet / Sep 21, 2012