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...

Review of the first three quarters for 2016

After a few years of major growth at the beginning of the decade, the Korean box office has remained flat once again, with this year’s total to date staying at the same level as 2015. However, where gains have been made is in the local industry, which has chur...

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 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...

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...

INSIDE MEN Steals Third Weekend Crown

Without major new releases to drive in business, attendances slide over the past weekend (1.77 million admissions) as holdovers largely retained control of the charts, while a smattering of new titles placing in the top ten. Though less dominant than last week...

INSIDE MEN Breaks Out in Debut

After a rocky track record at the box office throughout 2015, top Korean star LEE Byung-hun found himself convincingly shuffling back into the top spot with his latest release. Fuelled by strong local films, which accounted for 73% of the marketplace, and major Hollywood franchises, business was brisk in the lead up to winter, with 2.43 million viewers recorded in theaters over the frame.