WONDER WOMAN 1984 Holds on for 4th Weekend

Business in theaters remains stubbornly low as the Korean economy continues to experience the effects of the 2.5 social distancing level enforced in the greater Seoul region. The weekend box office remains flat, but was ever so slightly down, notching a new re...

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...

TUNNEL Scores 4th First Place Finish

Hollywood Claims Edge in Slow Weekend After six weeks of local dominance during Korea’s biggest moviegoing season, local films lost the majority market share for the first time as business cooled off significantly, yet with the Chuseok(Korean Thanksgiving Day...

TUNNEL Turns Competition to Rubble

RUN-OFF Fails to Take Off With record temperatures still beating down on the peninsula, attendance remained high at the Korean box office during the Independence Day weekend. Local films were the overwhelming favorite, accounting for 85% of the frame’s 4.59 m...

Box Office: May 15-28, 2014

X-Men: Days of Future Past, a blockbuster from 20th Century Fox, just hit the Korean box office. This new X-Men, released on April 22nd, set a new mark for 2014 for quickest to one million admissions. X-Men topped the chart, drawing 1.45 million admissions n...