SOUL Brings Korean Box Office Back to Life

Business Climbs 300% Despite 9pm Closures in Greater Seoul After two consecutive all-time lows at the box office, business in Korea came roaring back thanks to the debut of Disney-Pixar’s latest animation. Business soared 300% to 363,000 admissions, the best ...

WONDER WOMAN 1984 Holds on for 4th Weekend

Business in theaters remains stubbornly low as the Korean economy continues to experience the effects of the 2.5 social distancing level enforced in the greater Seoul region. The weekend box office remains flat, but was ever so slightly down, notching a new re...

WONDER WOMAN Tops Quietest Ever Weekend at Korean Box Office

Continued COVID-19 fears depressed the box office once again resulting in the smallest ever number of sales at the Korean box office since official records began in 2004. 81,00 admissions were recorded over the weekend, about 20% lower than the previous record...

WONDER WOMAN 1984 Repeats over New Year Weekend

With public health concerns still very high over the New Year holiday, business was cut in half following last week’s surge. 150,000 viewers bought tickets over the weekend, with 15% going to domestic products. Following its Christmas weekend launch, Wonder Wo...

WONDER WOMAN 1984 Tops Christmas Weekend

Despite a new daily high of COVID-19 infections reached over the weekend, the local box office saw admissions increase almost 200% as the first Hollywood blockbuster since Tenet hit arrived in time for Christmas. After approaching rock bottom in recent weeks, ...

JOSÉE Repeats Atop Quiet Weekend

With new COVID cases steady around 1,000 per day, audiences largely stayed away from theaters, and distributors followed suit, as they launched no major new content in multiplexes. Amid the COVID-19 spike, it was one of the quietest weekends on record, with 10...

JOSÉE Tops Charts as Korea Enters COVID Crisis

Despite the entry of a major new local film, the exhibition market contracted yet again as Korea grapples with its most serious spike in COVID cases to date, as daily infections rose over 1,000 during the weekend. Weekend admissions were down to 147,000, with ...

BEST FRIEND Hangs on as COVID-19 Drives Viewers Away

Attendance Craters as Infections Cases around the Capital Rise Theaters continue to empty out as Seoul and its surrounding areas experienced their worst rise in COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic. After weeks of hefty drops, the Korean box off...

BEST FRIEND Clinches 1st Place As COVID-19 Throttles Sales

It was a very quiet weekend at the box office as Korea edged up last Thursday into its second highest peak of daily new COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began. Business slowed 40% week-on-week with just 277,000 tickets sold over the Friday to Sunday period. M...

COLLECTORS Unearths 3rd Weekend Win

Business Down as COVID Cases Rise Once More The Korean box office continues its seesaw trajectory in 2020 as rising numbers of COVID cases have once again dampened the fortunes of the exhibition sector. Business over the weekend slowed 25% with 442,000 ticket...