- Box Office Reports
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- PAWN Remains Top Draw Post-Chuseok
- Following last week’s massive Chuseok holiday bounce, business fell back to earth over the past weekend as admissions fell about 50% week-on-week. However, with 534,000 tickets sold over the weekend, business was about 30% better than the week before the holidays, as audiences continue to return to ...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 13, 2020
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- PAWN Dominates Chuseok Holiday Weekend
- Thanks to the Chuseok holidays, the Korean box office came roaring back to life in early October. Business shot up 150% from last week’s session, which had already started to show signs of recovery after the late summer COVID spike with a 30% rise from the previous week. With new local titles occupy...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 06, 2020
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- DELIVER US FROM EVIL Stays in 1st as OK! MADAM Opens Well
- With another major local release finding favor with audiences, the Korean box office remained relatively strong in mid-August, with 1.68 million tickets, down just 7% from last week’s COVID-19 Era high. With the top four slots all occupied by local releases, the Korean market share remained overwhel...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 18, 2020
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- STEEL RAIN 2 Summits Box Office
- Business soared over 40% during the past weekend, as a new local title furthered Korea’s dominant streak in the summer of 2020. Korean films accounted for over 90% of sales, which reached 1.08 million, the second highest weekend total we’ve seen during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Replacing Peninsula at t...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 03, 2020
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- PENINSULA Clinches 2nd Weekend Win
- With no major new release and a fading holdover, business slipped just over 40% week-on-week, down to 761,000 admissions. As they have since early June, local films continued to dominate with an 82% share of the market, a trend that is unlikely to change with a steady trickle of homegrown titles and...
- by Pierce Conran / Jul 28, 2020
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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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- STEEL RAIN Pours on THE LAST JEDI’s Parade
- The end of year period began with a bang in Korea, but not the way it did in the rest of the world as Disney’s latest Star Wars installment failed to top the market, despite record openings elsewhere. Sales were up over 30% week-on-week to 2.5 million admissions (a figure that is likely to rise furt...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 19, 2017
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- Korea Goes Crazy for ASURA : THE CITY OF MADNESS
- Business saw a 25% uptick as we eased into October with 2.48 million tickets sold over the weekend. A strong new local release gave Korea the edge once again and put it back over the majority with 51% as new films flooded the chart. Asura : The City of Madness, KIM Sung-soo’s first film since The Fl...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 04, 2016