- Box Office Reports
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- Confidential Assignment2: International, Topped the Weekend Box Office for 5 Consecutive Weeks
- The comic investigation drama, Confidential Assignment2: International, starring Hyun Bin and Yoo Haijin, enjoys the No. 1 parade without any competitors. Confidential Assignment2: International secured the top at the box office during the 2nd weekend of October with the holiday period, ranking firs...
- by Hellen Park / Oct 11, 2022
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- Confidential Assignment2: International Topped the Weekend Box Office for 4 Consecutive Weeks
- The comic investigation drama Confidential Assignment2: International, starring Hyun Bin and Yoo Haijin, topped the box office on weekends for 4 consecutive weeks, beating new films. According to the Korean Box Office Information System (KOBIS) of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) on October 4, Confid...
- by Hellen Park / Oct 04, 2022
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- Confidential Assignment2: International, Topped the Weekend Box Office for 3 Consecutive Weeks
- The comedy action film Confidential Assignment2: International, starring Hyun Bin and Yoo Haijin, topped the weekend box office for 3 consecutive weeks. According to the Korean Box Office Information System (KOBIS) of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), Confidential Assignment2: International recorded ...
- by Hellen Park / Sep 27, 2022
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- Confidential Assignment2: International, Topped the Box Office During the 2022 Chuseok Holiday
- The film Confidential Assignment2: International ran alone during the Chuseok holiday, attracting 2.83 million viewers. According to the Korean Box Office Information System (KOBIS) of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) on September 13 (Tuesday), Confidential Assignment2: International won the overwhel...
- by Hellen Park / Sep 13, 2022
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- RAMPANT Bites Down on First Place
- The local industry reclaimed the market advantage as a new big-budget genre film swept away the competition during its opening weekend. Sales jumped up by a third to 1.62 million admissions, with Korean films accounting for 70% of that total. After claiming last year the Lunar New Year box office cr...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 31, 2018
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- FIRST MAN Lifts Off in Korea
- Despite the entry of a major new Hollywood tentpole, sales dipped about 20% as holdovers continued to power most of the sales in the Korean market. US titles accounted for 57% of sales while homegrown films took up a 40% share of the market. Following its Korean premiere at the Busan International F...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 23, 2018
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- Chuseok Holdovers Dominate THE SOUL-MATE
- After several busy weekdays that fell over the Chuseok holidays, business was relatively quiet over the weekend with admissions topping out at 1.88 million. With the glut of local releases on offer, Korean films accounted for a massive 86% of all sales. Repeating at number one was the Chuseok champ,...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 02, 2018
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- THE SWINDLERS Swipes Another Weekend Win
- A slew of new releases couldn’t topple last week’s champion but business remained much the same overall during the first weekend of December, with 1.87 million entries recorded, approximately two thirds of which were snapped up by the wealth of local thrillers in theaters. Con artist thriller The Sw...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 05, 2017
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- THE SWINDLERS Makes Away with Box Office Crown
- Theaters saw a slight uptick this weekend as students celebrated the end of the college entrance exams which had been delayed a week due to an earthquake in the Pohang region. All told, almost two million tickets were snatched up over the frame as a hot new local title boosted the local share to 66%...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 28, 2017
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- JUSTICE LEAGUE Assembles at Top of the Charts
- Much as it has elsewhere around the world, one of the year’s biggest blockbusters posted a smaller than expected debut in Korea, during a weekend where admissions were marginally down week-on-week. Nevertheless, the Hollywood tentpole drove the US market share up to 75% while domestic entries langui...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 21, 2017