Thor: Love and Thunder, Topped on the 1st Week of Its Release

Marvel's superhero film, Thor: Love and Thunder, was released on July 6 and topped the box office on its 1st weekend. According to the Korean Box Office Information System (KOBIS) of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), Thor: Love and Thunder attracted 1,184,5...

Top Gun: Maverick, Keeping No. 1 in the 2nd Week of Its Release

Even in the 1st week of July, when the 2022 summer season began, Tom Cruise's Top Gun: Maverick maintained the top at the box office over the weekend. According to the Korean Box Office Information System (KOBIS) of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), Top Gun...

SPIDER-MAN Tops Charts for 6th Consecutive Week

As no major new releases were available to boost sales, business at the Korean box office slowed again with admissions dipping just over 25% down to 524,000. The local market was also down slightly to 31%. Both figures should see meteoric rises this coming wee...

I CAN SPEAK Resonates in 1st Place

Korean films took the top two spots as they accounted for two thirds of sales during a slow weekend that recorded just 1.3 million admissions. Exhibitors have nothing to fear however, as the stage is merely being set for this year’s extra-long Chuseok holiday,...

INSIDE MEN Claims 4th Weekend Win

Ahead of the lucrative end of year season, which will kick off this week, admissions took another small dive due to an absence of compelling new releases, leaving Inside Men to take its fourth consecutive weekend crown. Overall, 1.6 million admissions were rec...

Box Office : August 4 – August 17 , 2014

A Win-win Hit of ROARING CURRENTS and THE PIRATES Roaring Currents totally dominates. Roaring Currents has been writing new history since its release on July 30th. It is not merely the number of tickets sold, 14,622,611, but the rate that is amazing. It reall...

Sunny Days Ahead in 2013

Review of Korean Film Industry in 2012 The Korean film industry saw an impressive rise in terms of admissions and ticket sales in 2012. The total audience figure stood at 194.89 million, a year-on-year increase of 21.9%. Two Korean movies attracted more than...

Box office, November 15-28

Box office, November 15-28 Local box office hit A Werewolf Boy continued to perform well during its third and fourth weeks on release, earning almost exactly as much as Hollywood film The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 did in its first and second week...

Box office, October 18-31

Three films performed well in an overall weak market during the last two weeks of October. Topping the list once again was Masquerade, the period drama starring LEE Byung-hun that recently took home a record 15 awards at the 2012 Grand Bell Awards. Adding a...

Box office, October 4-17

Overall box office figures declined in the middle part of October, compared to the Chuseok holiday season in late September and early October. Nonetheless, the same film remained at the top of the chart: period drama Masquerade, by director CHOO Chang-min. Wi...