ON THE LINE Connects for 2nd Weekend Win

Korean Theaters Prepare to Welcome NO TIME TO DIEFollowing the Chuseok holidays and without any major news attractions, theater crowds thinned out as admissions slowed 36% with a total of 476,000 sales recorded. Local titles continued to drive the market, capt...

The First Half Report on 2021 Korean Film Industry

Korean Cinema is in the Lowest Slump, Disney is Putting Up a Good FightThe negative effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic have already been expected, but the shock has not easily disappeared. For seven years from 2013 to 2019, the number of moviegoers surpassed 200...

THE PRIESTS Conjures up Impressive Debut

Exorcism thriller The Priests scared up a higher than expected debut over the weekend, boosting overall business during the traditional dumping grounds of the year. 2.28 million viewers were recorded in theaters over the frame, 72% of which for local fare. Wi...

Review of the First Quarter of 2015 Box Office

1. Another Film Draws Over 10 Million ViewersJK YOUN’s Ode to My Father, released on December 17th last year, surpassed ten million viewers in 28 days on January 13. The film was the 11th Korean film to cross the milestone and the 14th including foreign films....

Box Office: December 5-18, 2013

It’s the season of romantic comedies again. Taking the lead at the box office was About Time, produced by Working Title Films of England, which is well-known for its hit movie Love, Actually (2003). A mixture of time travel and romance, About Time rolled out o...

Box Office: May 2-15, 2013

Hollywood blockbuster Iron Man 3 continued to dominate screens in its second and third week on release, as it has in other territories around the world. With another 3.9 million tickets added over the past two weeks, its running total now stands at a massive 7...

Box Office: April 4-17, 2013

Running Man, the first Korean film to be majority financed by Fox International Productions, got off to a decent start at the Korean box office with 1.1 million admissions in its first two weeks on release. Directed by CHO Dong-oh (The Restless), and starri...

Box Office: January 24-February 6, 2013

Two monster sized local hits powered the box office in late January and early February. Leading the pack was the comic drama Miracle in Cell No. 7, which took 4.6 million admissions in two weeks on the back of strong word-of-mouth. This is the equivalent of ...

Box office analysis, Dec. 28 – Jan. 10

  The past two weeks have seen little change at the box office, with comparatively few major releases taking place in the window between Christmas and the Lunar New Year holiday. <Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol> continues to dominate, account...

Box office, Dec. 14 - 27

Late December and early January is peak box office season in South Korea, and in past years major hits such as <Silmido>, <King and the Clown>, <200 Pound Beauty> and <Woochi> (to say nothing of <Avatar>) have been propelled to c...