The Roundup Topped the Box Office for 3 Consecutive Weeks, the First 10 million-viewer Film in 2022?

Jurassic World: DominionThe Roundup topped the box office for 3 consecutive weeks, accelerating the birth of a ‘10 million-viewer movie.’ According to the Korean Box Office Information System (KOBIS) of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) on June 6 (Monday), The R...

The Roundup Topped for 2 Weeks in a Row, Continuing the Hottest Hit in 2022

As expected, The Roundup topped the box office hit in the second week of its release. The number of weekend viewers of The Roundup is 1,792,942 with sales of 84.1%, showing no decline compared to the first week of its release. Also, The Roundup is the first fi...

SPECIAL DELIVERY Debuts in 2nd Place

Week-to-week sales were down 20% in the Korean market, the fourth straight week of declines, as Omicron concerns and social distancing restrictions continued to impact theatrical admissions. 712,000 tickets were sold over the weekend, with the local market sha...

LA LA LAND Tops Charts for Second Time Amid Covid-19 Rerelease

Business was flat with last week at the Korean box office but up just over 15% from its record low two weeks ago as exhibitors begin to hope viewers are gradually returning to cinemas. Only 116,000 tickets were sold, a large percentage of that going to reperto...

Korean Theaters Sell 227 Million Tickets in Record Year

Korea’s film industry ended 2019 with a bang, as local disaster action-drama ASHFALL lorded over the charts at the tail end of a massive 12 months. It was a record-breaking year for the exhibition sector, which sold a record 226.68 million tickets, among sever...

THE KING’S LETTERS No Match for THE LION KING

Holdovers continued to power the box office as the first major local film of the high summer season stumbled out of the gate and overall admissions slowed 20% with 2.4 million tickets sold over the last weekend. Of those, just 28% of sales were for Korean titl...

THE LION KING Roars at the Korean Box Office

With the entry of yet another feverishly anticipated Disney title, the box office rose 10% in mid-July with 2.97 million tickets sold over the past weekend. Hollywood continued to be extremely dominant as the local market share was pushed all the way down to 3...

SPIDER-MAN Swings In With Huge Opening

Thanks to the first post-Endgame Marvel title, business shot up 40% week-on-week in Korea in midsummer to 4.11 million ticket sales. In the absence of fresh local fare, Hollywood gobbled up a sizeable 97% portion of the market. Spider-Man: Far From Home debute...

ALADDIN Returns to 1st Place in Week 6

New entries were unable to unseat the powerful Disney tentpoles at the box office during a weekend that saw a slight 10% decline in viewers, as 2.76 million tickets were snatched up over the three-day period. The local industry in particular was unable to comp...

TOY STORY and ALADDIN Give Disney 1-2 Punch at Korean Box Office

As the heat began to turn up with the Korean summer kicking into gear, theatres saw an almost 30% rise in admissions, with just over three million tickets sold over the past weekend. Despite a new local entry, the Korean market share was held down to just 28% ...