Following its soft launch last year with a weekend-long 0th edition, the London East Asian Film Festival held its first official edition this year, which ran from October 20th to 30th. Korean films made up a majority of the program, with some of the highlights including KIM Jee-woon’s The Age of Shadows as the opening gala screening and a full retrospective on the works of PARK Chan-wook. Both fil...

The number of viewers and the ticket sales both decreased in September 2016. According to the September 2016 report on Korean film industry by Korean Film Council (KOFIC), the total number of audiences and the total sales were 16.21 million and USD 141 million, which have fallen 2.52 million moviegoers (13.5%) and USD 16.3 million (12.5%) respectively from the same period of last year. However, th...

Following the Chuseok festivities business cooled off significantly at the box office and with no new wide releases on deck, a new diversity release landed in the top five. Though falling just shy of a majority, Korean releases still led the country market share, accounting for 46% of the 1.96 million sales tracked over the weekend. After dominating the charts for two weeks, KIM Jee-woon’s The Age...

Big Chuseok Weekend for KIM Jee-woon's Action-Thriller With Chuseok falling on a Thursday this year, Korean exhibitors welcomed a busy five-day holiday weekend which saw 3.91 million tickets sold. 63% of that total was reserved for local releases and despite a number of new titles the charts were commanded by one film. KIM Jee-woon’s critically-acclaimed Colonial Era action-thriller The Age ...

Several new releases invaded the charts in the weekend before the Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving Day) holiday, which will give us a five-day weekend this week, but there was only one real contender despite newcomers taking up the top five spots. Business rose over 50% after last week’s dip, reaching 2.34 million admissions, with 84% of that total coming from homegrown releases. Topping the chart in...