Box Office Report for the first quarter of 2017

The first quarter of 2017 was one of few surprises at the Korean box office but one which demonstrated the industry’s stability, both as a global exhibition market and a local production industry. Though not quite reaching the highs of 2013 (55.47 million) or ...

A Good Enough Year, but the Best Year for Korean Films

Box Office Report of 2016 After five years of consecutive growth, the Korean film industry remained healthy in 2016, though the half-decade streak of gains came to an end as the industry essentially remained flat. Admissions reached 217.02 million, which was d...

CONFIDENTIAL ASSIGNMENT Knocks Down THE KING

Fortunes changed at the box office as the two major local releases for the Lunar New Year switched places over the holiday. 4.19 million viewers bought tickets over the weekend, with 1.39 million of those selling on Lunar New Year day, which fell on Saturday. ...

A VIOLENT PROSECUTOR Scores Best-Ever Lunar New Year Launch

Star Power Drives Thriller to 2nd All Time Opening Week After a slow January, viewers once again packed into theatres over the 5-day Lunar New Year weekend, purchasing 3.16 million tickets, 77% of which for local titles. While the figure was 50% higher than 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...

Leo Claims First Place in Korea After 6 Years Away

THE REVENANT Gives Hollywood Market Share Edge US films captured 60.5% of the Korean marketplace over the weekend, their first majority share on the chart since mid-October, during a relatively slow January frame that sold 2.01 million tickets. The same week...

THE GOOD DINOSAUR Charms Its Way to First Place

Levelling off substantially, ticket sales dropped to 2.22 million over in the second frame of the year and Korean films also let their dominance of the charts slip away, as the local market share dipped to 48%. Opening in first place with 458,813 viewers (USD...

THE HIMALAYAS Reigns Over New Year

The New Year holiday kept crowds in theaters, with attendance dropping a slight 14% from the Christmas weekend as The Himalayas continued to dominate the charts. 60% of the 3.96 million tickets sold over the frame were bought for local films. For the third ti...

THE HIMALAYAS Rises in Xmas Weekend

Star Wars: The Force Awakens zipped past the USD 1 billion mark in record time as the world’s film markets are transfixed by its unprecedented performance, yet in Korea it remained off the top of the chart in a distant second place. Business was booming over t...

THE HIMALAYAS Climbs All Over STAR WARS in Debut

The hotly anticipated new Star Wars, or Episode VII: The Force Awakens, was a global phenomenon this weekend, setting weekend records in the US, UK, Germany and Russia, among others, and powering to a USD 517 million bow worldwide, which is second all time beh...