PARASITE Maintains Its Hold on the Charts

As the media frenzy around Korea’s first ever Palme d’Or winner cooled down, so did the box office as business receded about 20% with 3.34 million tickets sold. The local market share also declined but maintained a razor thin 50.1% majority despite the presenc...

PARASITE Scores Record Opening for BONG Joon-ho

A media frenzy and national pride have set the May box office on fire, as admissions almost doubled to 4.04 million over the previous weekend, an unusually high number for this time of year. Moreover, the local share surged to 76%, despite the opening of a new...

Korean Cinema Casts Wide Net Overseas

Korea’s film market may have reached saturation at home but that hasn’t stopped Korea’s top film companies from continuing to find ways to grow. 2016 proved to be a landmark year for Korea’s studios outside of their home country, with several Korean-produced t...

THE REVENANT Remains in First Place

Hollywood survival pic The Revenant remained in first place, though only by a razor-thin 0.4% margin, during a slow mid-January weekend at the Korean box office which shifted 1.58 million tickets, with US films just about claiming a majority with 51%. Local fi...

Record Tide for Korean Box Office in August

Sea Pics ROARING CURRENTS and THE PIRATES Lead the Charge Owing to the smash successes of blockbuster naval hitsRoaring Currents and The Pirates, August proved a record month for Korea’s exhibition sector. Total attendance for the month cracked 30 million for...

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...

Korean Box Office in 2013

Following a stellar 2012, the Korean film industry closed out another record year on New Year’s Eve in 2013 as admissions soared over 200 million viewers for the first time. The final total came in at 213.31 million spectators, a 9.45% increase over the previo...

Box Office: January 2-15, 2014

The Attorney, starring SONG Kang-ho of Snowpiercer and The Face Reader, is counting down the days to become the first movie of 2014 to exceed ten million viewers. According to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC, Chairman: KIM Eui-suk), the film overpowered its com...

Box Office: August 22-September 4, 2013

Following a period a local dominance at the hand of four major Korean thrillers, the balance at the Korean box office has become more even over the last fortnight as a number of US titles found their way into the chart. With the holidays over and schools and c...

Box Office: August 8-August 21, 2013

Korean films are experiencing a record month as four local thrillers went head to head for the top spot over the past two weeks. August is always a fertile time for Korean cinema as the Hollywood summer enters its slow period while locals rush to the multiplex...