Box Office Monthly Report | October 2014

Following the hot summer months and the Chuseok holiday, October was a soft month for cinema attendance, with no major success stories and a string a low-performing titles. There were no true breakouts but most successful was the romcom My Love My Bride, a rem...

Box Office: February 6-19, 2014

Frozen and Miss Granny are still dominating Korean cinemas in February. The Korean Film Council (KOFIC – Chairman, KIM Eui-suk) announced on the 16th that Disney’s animation Frozen and the family comedy Miss Granny by HWANG Dong-hyuk (Silenced, 2011), are stil...

Box office, November 22-December 5

The past two weeks have seen a comparatively balanced division of revenues at the Korean box office, with no one film dominating the market. Sitting at the top of the chart is local box office hit A Werewolf Boy, which took 1,212,471 admissions in its fourth a...

Box office analysis, Jan. 18 - 31

Two Korean films emerged as major hits in 2012's Lunar New Year holiday season - <Dancing Queen> and <Unbowed>. The success of <Dancing Queen>, which sold 2.26 million tickets in its first two weeks on release, was not entirely unexpecte...

Korean box office had record year in 2011

The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has put out a report for 2011 stating South Korea had a record year at the box office. Total box office receipts came to a record KW1.23 trillion (US$1.1 billion) last year, up 7.4% from 2010. Admissions also rose to 159 millio...

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...

South Korean Box Office, Oct. 4 - 18

With close to 4.5 million admissions recorded since its Sept. 22 release, the hard-hitting drama <Silenced> continues to make its presence felt at the local box office. In the two weeks from October 4-18, the film sold close to 1.4 million tickets, as l...

Box office, Sept. 22 – Oct. 4

  - Silenced tops the charts and raises voices of protest The two weeks lasting from Sept. 22 to Oct. 4 were witness to a remarkable box office phenomenon in the form of the film Silenced. Based on a shocking real-life incident in which young students at...