DELIVER US FROM EVIL Stays in 1st as OK! MADAM Opens Well

With another major local release finding favor with audiences, the Korean box office remained relatively strong in mid-August, with 1.68 million tickets, down just 7% from last week’s COVID-19 Era high. With the top four slots all occupied by local releases, t...

DELIVER US FROM EVIL Scores New Opening Record in COVID-19 Era

This past weekend delivered with it the most promising box office news yet during the COVID-19 Pandemic, as business shot up over 68% week-on-week. Overall, 1.81 million tickets were snatched up during the Friday to Sunday period, which represented a 36% incre...

PENINSULA Dominates Box Office with 2nd Best Opening of 2020

The summer box office season in Korea opened with the debut of the year’s most significant tentpole to date, with weekend admissions soaring over 300% week-on-week and topping the one million mark for the first time in the COVID-19 era. The local industry acco...

#ALIVE Takes 3rd Weekend Crown

With no major new releases, tickets sales dropped over 20% compared to last week, with 346,000 admissions counted over the past weekend. The local industry managed to hold on to a slim majority with a 52% share of sales. Both of those figures are expected to r...

#ALIVE Draws a Second Breath in First Place

Without a compelling new release, the chart was largely dominated by holdovers this past weekend and consequently admissions took a hit, falling 55% week-on-week to 452,000 sales. Local films continued to be out in force, scoring a 76% market share, as Hollywo...

A Triumph for Diversity Films

The Korean box office ended on a bang last year when December delivered by far the best results for Korean and overall sales for the month since records began. Some of that momentum carried through into the early weeks of 2018, but the first quarter of the yea...

INFINITY WAR Welcomes All-Time 3rd Largest Audience in Korean Debut

The largest April weekend in Korean history was fueled by the blistering debut of Marvel’s biggest film yet, as Avengers: Infinity War set records across the planet in the biggest global debut of all time with USD 630 million. In Korea, total ticket sales over...

PSYCHOKINESIS Falls to Earth in Rocky Launch

Weekend sales took a 15% dip as a major new release fell short of expectations, bringing admissions down to 1.96 million admissions. Despite a slow start for a local tentpole, the Korean market share remained healthy at 57%, though there was little in the way ...

ALONG WITH THE GODS Threatens to Rewrite Record Books

Admissions shot up almost 80% in the weekend before Christmas, which welcomed a new local blockbuster attempting to rewrite the record books. Out of the gargantuan 4.42 million tickets sold (a figure generally only seen in late July or early August), 81% were ...

A TAXI DRIVER Fills Up 3rd Best Korean Opening of All Time

August kicked off with the biggest weekend of the year at the Korean box office this year, with new local offering A Taxi Driver entering the record books on top of several major holdovers. Korean films made up 79% of the 4.62 million tickets sold. JANG Hun’s ...