HANSAN: RISING DRAGON Secured the Box Office Top on the 2nd Week of Its Release

With the release of new Korean ‘Tentpole’ movies every week in the summer theater, Director Kim Hanmin's HANSAN: RISING DRAGON remained at the top of the box office even in the second week of its release.According to the Korean Box Office Information Syste...

Top Gun: Maverick, Surpassing $1 Billion in Global Box Office, Also Topped in Korea

Top Gun: Maverick, which became a hot topic with Tom Cruise's 10th visit to Korea, topped the box office on the first weekend of its release. According to the Korean Box Office Information System (KOBIS) of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), Top Gun: Maveric...

The Roundup Topped for 4 Consecutive Weeks, While Broker, the Winner at Cannes, Won 2nd Place

BrokerThe Roundup topped the box office for 4 consecutive weekends, marking the first ’10-million viewer film’ in 3 years among the Korean films released during the Pandemic era. According to the Korean Box Office Information System (KOBIS) of the Korean Film ...

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...

PARASITE Scores Record Opening for BONG Joon-ho

A media frenzy and national pride have set the May box office on fire, as admissions almost doubled to 4.04 million over the previous weekend, an unusually high number for this time of year. Moreover, the local share surged to 76%, despite the opening of a new...

AQUAMAN Fights Off THE DRUG KING and SWING KIDS

The pre-Christmas weekend saw admissions jump a rather timid 40% to 2.95 million, given the four major new offerings in theaters for the holidays. What’s more, despite two of those being among the most expensive and hotly anticipated local titles of the year, ...

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Champion Again in Week 7

In the absence of major new titles, the chart was largely the same as holdovers performed well. Business was down marginally to 2.12 million sales, while Hollywood took back the market share advantage after clinching 51% of sales. In its seventh weekend, the m...

Battle of December, Three-Way Showdown

With a few presumed hits coming up short and lower-than-usual attendance at some points of the year, particularly early summer, a lot was banking on December to pick up the slack and close the year on a high note. The end-of-year period (late December and earl...

An Unexpected Jackpot

Box Office Report of 2017 The Korean film market reached new all-time benchmarks for income and admissions in 2017 after a strong December rally. Yet the real story behind the numbers was which unexpected films got audiences the most excited while several seem...