Box Office, December 20-January 2

With the peak holiday season well underway, two films in particular are racking up impressive totals at the Korean box office: the Hollywood film Les Misérables, adapted from the popular musical, and local blockbuster The Tower. In the two-week period from De...

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...

Box office, November 16 - 29

The comic book adaptation <Punch> has once again topped South Korea's biweekly box office chart. The film, which has shown exceptional box office resilience since its release on Oct. 20, sold another 1.15 million tickets to bring its overall total up to...